The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-10-10
OUR WELCOME TO-DAY
BEAUMONT READY TO RECEIVE
THE VISITORS.
HTREE YEARS AGO AND TODAY
Miles Now-Bog5y Streets Then
Five Blocks Of Pavement Then
Good Sewerage Now.

! Beaumunt's hotels may not be par
icularly taxed by enormous crowds
this week but certain it Is that they
ire going with the rest of u, to show
the visitors good time to instruct,
entertain and afford them pleasure
The Good Roads invention Is the an
nual meeting of the association for
the betterment of public roads
throughout Texas. The Texas body
is practically part of the National
body and so it goes. The idea Is that
better roads get better farmers, gel
better products and more products
Arguments in favor of such move
mcntS should be unnecessary but
these annual gatherings are had
that all may be convinced and that
the people everywhere may know
what is to be gained by an improved
country road service.
There will be people here tdUay from
all over the United States and large
number from Texas. A number o.
men with national regulations will
be here and Beaumont wants to wei
come them heartily. They are the
people we would like to see come to
Beaumont and see just what we have
Many people throughout the coun-
try have gained the opinion tha'
Beaumont is n city OF mushroom
growth produced by the phenomenal
Spindle Top oil discovery. The idea
is gradually becoming eradicated hut
there is still much reason for MS
scmination of the proper know" 90
of our true status. We have a city
here that is not as large as some
of the others in Texas, but we have
hero n city that has shown the most
wonderful growth instead OF corrugat-
ed iron structures that one would nat
uraly expect in q boom town. our Wis
itors will find large substantial and
costly brick and steel buildings, rice
mills that are unsurpassed for size
and capacity as well as modern i'm
provcments in machinery. rclin"ri"S
that represent one OF the departments
of industry that the oil discoveries
have produced. They will find small
cr factories saw mills and planning
nils with a goodly supply of railroads
from every direction.
What will perhaps interest them
most Is the enormous amount of CITY
having that has been done IN III"
nat three wears. Our growth IN
this respect has been phenomenal 10
the extreme. From FIVE blocks of
pavement three wears ago we now
have several miles completed and an
der construction. The sewerage svs.
tom has grown in the same rapid
proportions and practically the sam"
expenditures have been made IN that
direction. There Is hut one tro0hl"
about this. a. II could be possihl"
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three years ago ana see the muddy
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