Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-03

The plans and specifications sent the
road on paper from North Dakota 20
the Gulf OF Mexico, and from the
southern terminus steamship lines
spread out as the meshes of spiders
web. The funds to build the road
we're to come by popular subscrip-
tons. and the PopGlists were so en-
thussastic about it that they filed
their party platforms all over the
West and South wit hit. That was
the extent of the popular subscrip-
tions-platform promises.
However. these we're enough TO keep
it afioat for awhile. and sufficient
money Was put up - fs0I 9 3; -
ing place and pay for survey.
BY a lucky chance the committee
chose Point Bolivar Z or the gulf
terminus, and soundings proved the
wharf rights to be so valuable that
few long-headed old POpul.sts
raised enough money to take posses
sion of the water front and actually
built a road to Beaumont, a distance
of seventy miles. F. ]. Close. Cover
nor dwellings private secretary,
was in the deal and made some mon
ey out of it, Scott Whine of Wichita
also made some money, and one of the
stations on the line bears his name.
The Populists soon sold out. and the
ROAD was operated Uy others uIIuii inc
the great gulf storm OF September,
1900 which swept much of it away
and washed the rest of ii out of
shape. After that mishap the road lay
in decay for two years, when 1t was
resurrected and operated by its own
ers, until they sold II TO the Santa Fe
within a year.
Beaumont, which gained some fame
by the Spindle Top oil discovery o
few years ago, and afterward deelin-
ed. to its own and more Originally
sawmill town OF 1000 inhabitants,
II grew out of sight, until the col
lapse of the oil boom.
Now sugar and rice have come to
help lumber. and OIL is good again,
and what once was boom now is solid
growth. The population is IS 600
and the trade of the town is so well
established that it has come to stay
Houston, whose merchants so to the
gulf by light-draught boats through
a bayou and Galveston Bay. is a city
of $4,000. Galveston lays claim to
only 10000, but Galveston only late
ly, has begun to get her legs after the
storm of 1900, and soon will be at the
heels of her rival at the upper end OF
the bay. Already Galveston has more
population than she had before the
storm. BY her sea wall and the new
elevation of the town site the city is
better than ever, and strong enough
to withstand any storm that may hap
pen.
The native products of the soil well
supply the inhabitants of the gulf
coast country with the necessities of
life. Their own farms produce all the
staple foodstuffs and wool. cotton,
leather. fuel and petroleum. The
forests near by abound with game
and the gulf with fish and oysters.
Even tea and coffee will grow in
some counties on the coast, although
none has been produced in CONNER
cial quantities. For iron, coal, zinc,
lead and silver the people need not go
outside of their own state. In the
depths of the earth is an inexhausti-
BILE deposit Of living water and from
the clouds forty-five inches or rain
fall annually.
To send their products TO the mark
cts of the world they have the choice
OF the sea or the railroad Their 10.
cal market rank with the best in the
world. Their cities are modern and
their means of passenger transpoTta
tiOn quick and comfortable, even lux.
urious. They have churches and
schools and the highest institutions
of education. They have good news,
papers and the rural free delivery of
mail comes to every door.
AIDED to it ali, they have a climate
unsurpassed in the world and the
whole state is a health resort
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