The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-02-11
TEXAS STATE CAPITAL.
EDITOR LEADER

State Capital, has population OF
about $1,000, The capital build
ing, now in process of construc-
ton, will be the tncst and largest
structure of the kind in the Union.
1t is largely composed Of granite
and marble, quarried 60 miles dis
tant, in Burnett County. Cover
nor Ross has sent invitations to a
number of prominent menln Texas,
to visit the capital in the coming
May also, to prominent men in
Mexico. The completion of the
capital will take place, some time
il May. We were there in '82,
when they had just finished the
excavation for the foundation
again.in '83, when they had Just
completed the railroad to the build
ing grounds, in order to ship stone
at less expense; again IN 81, when
the wall of the immense structure
was about five feet high. The
building has now been in process
OF construction 6 years, though
the work was suspended quite
while, at one time, on account of
a howl raised in the Legislature, IN
regard to the granite quarried in
Burnet County being defecrive.
Some proposed shipping the stone
from Illinois, but it was the final
decision to use the Texas stone.
The Capital building is situated
on high knoll, at the east end of
Congress Avenue, from which you
have birds eyesvlew OF the sur
rounding country. The Colorado
River borders the cltyf Oh the
west, and long, high and beau
tiful chain of mountains trend with
the river on the west bank, as far
as the eye can see up and down
the river. Looking to the east,
can be had fine view of the beau
titul towering insane and blind
Asylums, and the wide extended
black-land prairie country, 0loping
up gradually towards the east. A
fine costly bridge spans the river at
the west end of Congress Avenue,
at the west end of which is the
deaf and dumb Asylum, in pleas
ant location--the mountains tow
ering above.
The Texas State University was
organized in 1881. The literary
department is located at Austin,
aid medical department is to be
opened in Galveston. The agri-
cultural and mechanical College
near Bryan, is a branch of the
State University.
In 1S45, the government re-
moved from New Washington to
Austin, but 1t was not until 1872,
that Austin was declared by vote
of the people to be the permanent
Capital of the State.
Under Spanish rule, Texas was
a province, the Governor residing
at San Antonio, but when, IN 1924,
Texas was attached to Coahuila,
Saltillo, in the latter state, became
the capital. The convention which
declared the independence of Texas
in 1886, met at New Washington,
though, through the eXigencies of
the following war, Harrisburg,
Galveston, Lynchburg, and Val
asco, became successively the tenn
porary abode of the Executive.
The first Congress of the Repub-
lie OF Texas, met at Columbia, the
second at Houston, and, in 1889,
the village OF Waterloo was Sc
lected as the site OF the capital, and
called Austin, but three years later,
Congress assembled at New WASH
ington.
Now, the ancient site of Water
loo has become thriving city,
with brisk trade. Among the
manufactures, is a flour mill, at an
excellent water-power afforded by
the Colorado River, artificial ice
II factories. IRON tonndr;os and sav