The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-19
LUMBER EXCHANGE IN HOUSTON
THE CITY Is the Lumber Center for th
Time Has Arrived for Organization. ~
From the Southern Industrial and Lumber

From the Southern Industrial anu bunuei
Review (Austln).
the growth of Houston has been unex-
anpled In the history of the cities oil the
state of Texas. It has forged SO far to the
front in the way of railroads and manu-
features that 1t has outdistanced every
competitor in these lines
The Review does not claim that the city
of Houston outranks every other city OF
the state in every respect; on the con-
trary, ii recognizes that each and every
city has it's own peculiar character ana
each outshines the others in some import
ant way. In the building up Of this State
all petty jealousies as between cities
should be dispensed with, for in this great
empire there is room for all ana prosp srlty
Tor all IL each will follow out the lines
marked by surroundings and natural gray
itatlon, and not attempt to manufacture
silk purses out of sows ears"
It would be out of place hero to en-
large upon the many advantages of san
Antonio, with its magnificent climate,
ability to entertain guests, and Its wide
open Western country; of Austin, as the
seat of education and government, with It's
great dam, charming climate and SUR
roundings; of Waco, the center of the cot
ton belt, and with great advantages arising
therefrom; of Fort Worth, the home of the
stockman and a RAILROAD center OF i'm
portance; of Dallas, with its great railroad,
manufacturing and commercial interests;
of Corsicana, with its oil Beaumont, with
its lumber and the many growing cities of
lesser population. Nor will we here refer
to Galveston, with it's admitted prestige on
the gulf and it's wonderful prospects as
sea port All this has nothing to do with
the rise or fall OF the city with which This
article has to deal-Houston.
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This journal is in entire sympathy with
| the aspirations of each city. 1t believes
that the cities of Fort Worth and Dallas
will inevitably grow together, and that
with the wonderful growth in store for the
| two great Southern cities, their interests
will gradually interminglo until they Will
some day become one city with two names.
! Past experience has shown to investors
OF every portion of this State the folly of
| trying to impose impossible conditions
upon their respective municipalities In
stead OF following the direction pointed
out by natural surroundings and the tastes
and habits of the people involved, efforts
/ have been made to build up cities, one
just like the other, to emulate successes
where other conditions prevailed, and
! these sometimes hOpQraole, but more often
entirely speculative ventures, have invar-
iably fallen to the ground, and distress
and panic have followed in their wake.
The people have prohted by their expert
ence for she time being however, and
great caution is now evidenced in the
launching of any important enterprise.
We therefore refer to the growth of
Houston as a railroad and manufacturing
center more particularly when we assert
that its growth has been marvellous for a
long number of years, and that every foot
forward has been admirably sustained and
maintained
The people OF this State realize perhaps
less than interested observers abroad that
the city OF Houston is one of the largest
railroad centers in the world. Not in the
sense of the number OF trains which enter
and depart each day, but by reason of the
large number OF great trunk lines enter
ing tbere-great systems of railroad which
penetrate to the utmost recesses of this
North American continent; twelve rail-
roads with fifty daily trains, general Of
hces and shops for the most of them and
dispensing over 5000, 900 per month in cash
They also fail to realize that the manu-
featuring interests of Houston are-Alarger.
both in number and variety Of establish
ments, capital invested people employed
ana consequently in money dispensed.
than any other city in tho great South
west-west of the Mississippi
With the establishment of new manufac-
tories on grand scale, the opening of coal
mines; with the new waterway to the
gulf in plain sight with its surrounding
agricultural country, rich in fruit sugar
rice, cotton, corn and other products, thu
city OF Houston can be likened unto Il
strong and Vigorous youth, who has lust
emerged from the growth OF childhood and
now pesents a firm and secure front Ia
the problems of the world, ready and able
TO take advantage of every turn of the tide
which leads on to permanent prosperity.
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While Houston is not surrounded with
pine and cypress forests. and while at the
present time its port facilities have moi
been developed, the city has nevertheless:
become the main center Of the trans
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west outside of the mill towns themselves
The natural gravIation of this bushes,
: to Houston has been slow and sure, anC
! the influence of the presence at one center
OF firms able to fill any kind OF a bill al
short notice, is beginning to exert itsel,
all over the State. A great lumber ex.
change has been born and grown to Wig.
orous life without aid or stimulus of an,
kind except the attraction of gravitation.
One by one the sales offices of great mill,
, are being located in Houston. one by ON,
the wholesaler or 1obbers are Joining them
One by one the individual agents Of mil,
! are hanging up their shingles. one by ON,
each OF the above have established tbeI,
} offices side by side. Today so per cen
, OF the resident lumbermen are under ON,
roof. ''
In the Binz building their are located
the following lumber concerns:
Nj. t. Jones Lumber company.
Bmporia Lumber company.
Trinity River Lumber company.
) W. H. Norris Lumber company.
l.. B. Nenefee & Co.
Schureman FAN.
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