Ornate Barr Building Promises Cornerstone for Avenue C
A two story brick and concrete Barr building rises on Avenue C near Houston Street in San Antonio. Architect Leo M. J. Dielmann designs a concrete upper studio for D. P. Barr with three first floor shops featuring large show windows and tile entrances. The Texas fire brick front will have white limestone sills and a matching cornice. Completion is due in a few weeks as work progresses.
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San Antonio
Barr
Avenue C
Houston Street
Leo M. J. Dielmann
Botaing
D.P. Barr
Texas
Massive Medina irrigation project advances in Texas
About 10 000 acres of Medina Irrigation lands near San Antonio are grubbed and cleared as a 25 000 dollar English steam plow works to transform the tract into a productive farming region. The dam nears completion and water will feed irrigation canals with diversions ready within forty days.
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Medina Irrigation Company
Texas
England
Medina Company
Medina
International & Great Northern
Southern Pacific
San Antonio
W. S. Ayres
Chicago
Medina Lands
Natalia
Congress of Farmers to Open Tuesday in College Station
The fifteenth annual Texas Farmers congress opens Tuesday at the Agricultural and Mechanical college College Station for a three day session with about a thousand farmers. Twenty one associations will be represented including the Texas Horticultural society Texas Nurserymen's association and others. The program features general sessions lectures on farming management cotton marketing and educational matters with separate meetings for each division. An attempt may be made to move the congress to San Antonio in 1913.
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Texas Farmers’ Congress
Agricultural and Mechanical College
College Station
Congress
Texas Horticultural Society
Texas Nurserymen’s Association
Texas Dairymen’s Association
Texas Swine Breeders’ Association
Texas Corn Growers’ Association
Texas Woman's Educational and Industrial Association
Texas Citrus Growers Association
Texas Federation of Fairs
Texas Boys and Girls’ Agricultural Association
Texas Bee Keepers’ Association
Texas Hay and Forage Growers’ Association
Texas Cotton Growers’ Association
Texas School Trustees’ Association
Texas Orange Growers’ Association
Texas State Poultry Association
Texas Truck Growers’ Association
Texas Sheep and Goat Breeders’ Association
Texas
National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
Texas Experiment Stations’ Association
Texas Farm Management Conference
Gulf Coast Nurserymen’s Association
General Congress
E. W. Kirkpatrick
McKinney
E. W. Knox
San Antonio
T. W. Larkin
Beaumont
R. T. Milner
A. and M. College
J. S. Kerr
Sherman
Sr. Zeferino Dominguez
Mexico
United States
Sr. Dominguez
Nile
Torke Cathman
Costly seed waste cripples US corn output claims
Jerrino Dominguez, a noted agrarian, presents estimates of annual corn losses to bad seed across the United States. He cites 682,875 bushels lost yearly and 108,771,000 planted acres, with state by state figures showing high defective-seed percentages and urging immediate grower testing to curb waste.
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I Seed
United States
Hampshire
Eenee
Island
York
Jersey
Asylvania Ever
Atlantic
Ware
Carolina
Erm Nceeraees
Co. W. Miss. R
Brazoria County Voters Set August 5 Bond Election
Brazoria County property owners will vote August 5 on a drainage bond issue. Houston bonds totaling 100000 with 4 and 3.4 percent interest have been approved. Longview voters approved 20000 district bonds at five percent for forty years with a twenty year option. Alma Independent School District in Ellis County approved 12000 bonds. Kilgore Independent School District bonds of 10000 at five percent for forty years approved. Joplin Missouri firm reportedly secured contract to build Bonham Texas post office at a cost of 50000.
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Brazoria County
Houston
Longview
Independent School District
Alma Independent
Ellis County
Kilgore Independent
Joplin
Bonham
Tex
Hall Ranch Sold Near Alpine
The F. C. Hall ranch near Alpine has been sold for about 90000 dollars. The 1500 acre property is stocked with 2000 cattle including thirteen full blooded Herefords. The land will be divided into farm tracts for sale.
Work on Interurban Line Near Dallas Progress Report
The monthly report of the Southern Trac tion company notes over thirty six miles of roadbed completed on the Dallas Corsicana Waco interurban line. Trestle material placement will begin next week.
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Dallas
Tex
Southern Traction Company
Corsicana
Waco
Millet harvest yields 160 bales off one acre near McKinney
A Texas farmer near McKinney reports harvesting 160 bales of millet weighing 10,280 pounds from a single acre. One bushel of millet seed was planted and at 12 dollars per ton the crop brought in over 60 dollars.
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Mckinney
Tex
Taxable Value Increases in Galveston County for 1912
Galveston Texas July 27 The tax assessor reports 1912 taxable value for Galveston county rising by 966020 over 1911. The 1912 tax rolls total 39847350 compared with 38881330 for 1911.
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Galveston
Tex
Galveston County
Texas Gulf & Northern Railway Project Expands West Texas
West Texas growth drives rail expansion as the Texas Gulf & Northern Railway plans a Tu cumcari to San Antonio line. Midland to be division point with shops and headquarters, surveying begun June 22. Chicago financiers back bonds. route claims vast territory and coal traffic in New Mexico.
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Midland
Tex
West Texas
Southwest
Tucumcari
N. M
San Antonio
Texas & Pacific
Texas
Texas Gulf & Northern Railway Company
North Texas
A. Underwood
W. N. Sadler
Amarillo
M. C. le
Panama Canal
Stability of Farm Mortgages in Texas Real Estate
An article discusses Texas farm mortgage stability and investment potential. It notes rising real estate, growing farm homesteads, irrigation projects, and a push to reform land laws. It highlights that first mortgages at 6 to 8 percent are popular and calls for a Texas land commission and better finance mechanisms to attract eastern and foreign capital.
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Texas
Charles EB. Trimble
America
San Antonio
Chicago
United States
Southwest
Land Commission
Benes
Mighty Panama Canal Works Described in August World's Work
William Bayard Hale reports from Central America on the Panama Canal bed and its wonders. Gatun Dam Culebra Cut and giant locks with twin 1000 foot chambers amaze as trains ride bottom tunnels and steel gates rise and fall with the ships. The article evokes a vast system of culverts and valves shaping a monumental engineering feat.
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William Bayard Hale
Central America
Panama
Gatun
Culebra
Darien
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Wele
Jerrino Dominguez
Zeferino Doez
Dominguez
Iowa
Rails 10
Tag City
New Mexico
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Texas Gulf and Northern
Texans
Leo
Die
Mann
Avenue
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