The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-03-25
guarantee to fill the houses with
the incest kind of people all the
year around, if they will keep a
good, comfortable place at reason
able rates.
Letter from N. S. Park.
Galveston, Mar. 81, 1910
Editor Canyon News

! | promised to write you an oc.
casional letter, describing our
trip, but we have been moving
around so rapidly since leaving
Brentwood that it was difficult
to write. After leaving Brown
wood we visited at Lampasas,
Temple, Rogers, Davilla and
Cameyon, and had a most de-
lightful time visiting relatives
and friends. whom we had not
seen since moving to the Plains
seventeen years ago. We came
here on March 18th and have
had almost perfect weather since
we came. Spring is here in ali
its beauty, and we have spent
many pleasant hours strolling
along the beautifully paved
streets and sidewalks and ad.
miring the many lovely flower
gardens. 1t is yet too early for
the oleanders to bloom and we
are sorry to miss this beautiful
sight. One of the distinctive
features of the city is the many
beautiful palm trees. which i'm
part semi-tropical appearance
to the surroundings both fasci.
mating and novel.
Five years have interviewed
since my last visit and the great
est Improvements noticeable are
the completion of the great sea
wall and boulevard, the raising
OF the grade of great portion
of the city snd the marvellous
progress in street paving. |
think Galveston is jnstly entitled
to the credit of being the clean
est and most sanitary city in the
state. 1t is perfect delight to
traverse its beautiful clean
streets and broad, smooth side.
walks, free of everything that
could offend the eye.
Much has been written about
the wonderful pluck and perse-
verance of Galveston in their de-
termination to rehabitate their
ruined city after the disastrous
storm of Sept. 1900; and they de-
serve the praise that has been
given them. l will not attempt
to go into detail as to what they
have done and are doing, but will
furnish your readers with few
figures. The county built four
and one half miles of sea wall,
and the Government continued
the wall a mile and a half to pro-
tect their reservation. The city
then assumed the hercuIanean
task of raising the grade which
necessitated a filling of sixteen
feet in some places. The two
great undertaken gs represented
an outlay of approximately four
and one half millions of dollars
to the county and city, besides
untold thousands to individual
owners Of property. They have
now undertaken the building of
a great concrete causeway ac-
cross the bay, connecting the is
land with the main land, at an
estimated cost of one and a half
million dollars. Total length
1862 it., heigth, 10 feet above
mean low tide. There will be
two railroad tracks with room
for athird. two Interurban tracks
and county driveway. All of
which is expected to be ready for
traffic by next December Local
capitalists have recently organ
lied a joint stock company of
100000 capital to build a great
beach hotel and thus secure a
share Of the tourist traffic that
comes to South Texas every
winter. We have greatly enjoy
ed our visit but are ready to turn
our faces homeward and will be
glad to greet our friends in Can
yon again.
NJ. S. PARK