The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-03
STORY OF A BIG CITY.
Houston aud Its Remarkable Prog
rcss in Every Line.
WHAT IS TOLD BY It's SMoKESTACKs.
--
Advantages Of This City in Con.
trolling Jobbiua Trade.
OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTORS
What Deep water win Mean for
Houston, Harris County and
the Coast Country.
OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTORS


M and stability is afforded than by this
Y smokestatks. Tho snlokestack is a
monument that tells TO the student the story
of city's life. He gauges the citys growth,
its progress or its retrogresson by the num-
Der OF the stacks and the volume Of the smoke
TIL. tale the smokestacks tell is understood
by all who conc TO Houston,
OF the great centers OF population In tina
Southwest no place offers better study OF
sicckestacks than does Houston, Whichever
way you enter tho city. smokcstack grcets
your eye. whichever way you leave the city.
the smokestack attends your Journey til you
pass the cnvrons.
| II is strange that this fact does not impress
the Houstonian ms II does the newcomer II
Is only when the magnitude OF Houston's In
dustrial enterprise is pointed out In detail
that the average citizen appreciates the cor
ditionr so patent to visitor
! you have q great number OF manufac-
turing plants here" remarked a visitor to n
| reasonably we'll informed Houston man.
| "oh. we have some, but not many" was
tho nonchalant reply
why, thought, from the view have had
OF the city, said the stranger, that YOU had
| moro than any other city In the Southwest"
We'll let's sec" said tho Houston man.
We've got lot of foundrles: we've got the
| Dickson car wheel works--thats n big plant;
we've got the railroad shops OF three sy stems
tho Southern Pacific, the Houston and Texas
| Central end the Houston East and West
| Texas; we've got sash door ana blind fac
! tories: wo've got four cotton seed oil mills
| they are enormous afairs; we've got soap fac
tories: we've got crsosotns works; we've got
n largo number Of oooperage establishments;
we've got -four MILLS We We got brewsries:
we've got great packing house; we've got
carriage and wagon works; we've got turni-
turc and box factory; we've got two electric
light plants; we've so. gas works: we've
got immense mattress factories; we've got tho
finest cotton congresses In tho world we've
gct--well say; I'm getting tired Of talking so
much. had no idea, until ] got into this
thing. what an immense amount OF manufac
turing we do here In Houston. It's really as
tonishlng when you go over the list"
Then the gentlemen Just to satisfy their
curiosity, made an investigation and learned
thar there are eighty nine manufacturing IN
dustries in Houston. When you consider that
In this total is not included the railroad shops
tthe pay roll OF the Southern Pacific shops ia
s'!0. 900 a year, can you Wonder that Houston
Offers better study OF smokcs,acks than docs
any other city of the Southwest
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WITHIN tne corporate limits HOuld, III Joined
together, reach from here to Louisiana Rail-
roads seek the natural centers OF trade. Their
courses are guided by the unorring laws OF
ION merce. as true In regard TO commerce 40
n regard to gravitatIon. In making Houston