The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-01
Annual Review!
WAGON 1878.
A Large Increase in Cotton
Production and Shipments.
Statistics of Shipments and
Receipts for the Year.
STATEMENT OF THE FIEAN-
CIAL CONDITION OF THE
CITY AND COUNTY.
McLennan County Free From Debt
With 500, 900 in The Treasury
and Unprecedentedly Low
Rates Of Taxation.
PROGRESS ARD PROSPERITY
ON EVERY HAND.
Fall City Directory of Business
Firms, Giving q Birds Eye View
Of Industries Represented
in the City OF Waco.
A. Attractive Exhibit for These
Seeking Homes in the West.
List OF Churches, Schools and the
Various Societies.
INTRODUCTORY.

INTRODUCTORY.
The picture We present to our
readers to-day comprising retros-
pect Of the last years business of our
city, its present status, the growth
and condition of McLennaI county,
is highly gratifying. 1t presents I'M
mingled prosperity and fiattering
prospects and must thrill every one
with pride and graduation.
In this retrospect we have aimed
to eschew all exaggerated and highly
colored statements and 10 give with
all the accuracy attainable plain I'M
vanished facts and figures. Errors
will creep into the most carefully
prepared articles, but we have espec-
tally aimed TO preserve the utmost
freedom therefrOm.
In the light however ofall facts and
figures, and the information incident
to the opportunities of newspaper
men necessarily cOnversant with the
details of business and events, we can
claim in all honesty for our county
and city unexampled growth and
prosperity, the most economical ad-
ministration of finances and great
individual success. McLennan c0un-
ty may Justly claim TO be the banner
county. and waa's.s5 IT, s-ornirIr
Texas.
The transformations and dramati-
cal features which marks the aggres-
siye American character, realizes q
most wonderful exemplification in
the case of this beautiful city and
county of which we are writing. But
a few wears have elapsed since il
merged on the extreme frontier, with
1850 miles of terra iRcOgRitd stretch
ing therefrom to the shores of the
Pacific Ocean. Now settlements and
civilization stretch two hundred
piies further west. and il is the CEN
tire Of vast scope of country sub
ieetad to culture and teeming with
the rich and varied products of the
soil. Still not many years further
back, all this vast expanse was avid
land, whose hills were dotted with
the wigwams of the red man, whose
rivers quenched the thirst of count
less wild beasts of forest and plain,
in whose woods bears and panthers
lurked, land untrodden by the
Caucasian. since it first grew cool
enough to stand upon. Now, fields
of grain blush in the sun, luxuriant
corn bows to the breeze, intermina-
BILE cotton fields spread like snow
drifts far and wide, and II city, a city
of vast trade, of civilization, of ele-
gance and refinement, crowns the
summit of the hills overlapping the
meandering current of this, loveliest
of all Texas rivers, the Safiron-hued
Brazos. Banks, Churches, Seminar
les and thousands of lovely homes
have taken the place of miserable
wigwams, and prancing horses, gaily
caparisoned, gallop lightly over fine
streets and roads, beneath whose ma
cadami the prints of innumerable
buffalo are hardly yet old. The mu-
sic in the air has changed from the
uncouth cultural songs of the red
man to the music Of the piano. The
screaming of engines, the incessant
rafting of vehicles, the ubiquitous
street car. the whir and roar and
hum of trade are everywhere. The
wilderness, the morass, the savage,
wds, the city, the people, and civili-
zation, are. So much for the poetic
side of the picture. We present for
the use of the citizens of our city and
county, and for the information of
those looking Texasward, detailed
statement of the condition and affairs
of Mel ennan county and the city of
Waco in as many salient points of
view as possible. We design to make
this our second annual review most
useful adjunct and worthy of place
as standard authority on county and
city matters, for both present use
and future reference. 1t is a yearly
statement to our citizens and to the
stranger, a birds eye view of the bus
mess and condition of a Texas city.
We prefer to deal in figures rather
than in fancy and leave our readers
to make their own deductions.
Our county and city present to
those seeking homes in the Weat adj
vantages Of no ordinary character in
good society, church and educational
privileges in combination with those
of material and business character.
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