The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-02-11
A TRIP TO TEXAS.
G. W. Heiubaugh, Of Progress, a Sub.
nrb Of Harrisburg, Tells What He
Saw in the Lone Star State.

your request, | will briefly tell
your readers of my recent trip to
Texas. | left Harrisburg on the
st. Louis express at 10:40 p. m.
January 18th, and arrived in St.
Louis at $3.50 next evening. In
that city / went to see the new
home of the Famous & Barr Co.
Railway Exchange Building. 1t
is said to be the largest Office and
store building in the world. Its
floor space covers 33 acres. The
Union Depot in st Louis has over
IL acres under roof and has 30
gates leading to trains on differ
ent tracks.
| then left for Texarkana by
way of Poplar Bluffs, Mo-, and
Little Rock, Ark. At Texarkana
| found little of interest except
that the town lies half jn Arkan-
sas and half in Texas. Next
stop, Palestine, Texas, | found
to be a lively little city in the
timbered district of eastern Tex
as. Travelling southward to-
wards Houstononepasse through
plains as wide as the eye can see.
These prairies are covered with
grass and cattle. Houston is a
beautiful city Of 110,0 inhabi-
tants, and is surrounded by the
level country just described. 1t
is a great railway and business
center, and has many eighteen,
and twenty-story buildings. My
next stop was Galveston the
city partially destroyed by a
tidal wave in 1900. In order to
guard against a second inunda-
ton, the city built a concrete
wall seventeen feet high and
three miles long, to which the
United States government added
two miles, so that the metropolis
of Texas is now protected by five
miles of sea wall. A beautiful
sand beach lies in front of this
wall where sea shells can be gath
cred. The city claims the finest
surf bathing in the world. Gal
weston is built on an island, and
the bay extends thirty-one miles
inland behind the city. The To-
cality is noted for its fine fishing,
and ten-inch oysters. The eli
mate is ideal. Since the disaster
in 1900, the ruined portion has
been rebuilt and the city has
made more progress since that
time than it ever did before. 1t
is beautiful city with wide
streets shaded with Liveoaks and
Palms and the lawns are green
with grass and brilliant with
flowers during all the year.
Being a carpenter, | wish to
say that the Union wage scale
for an eight-hour day is $3.50,
and | am told that this price pre-
walls throughout the state.
From Galveston | went to New
Orleans by way of Houston, over
the Southern Pacific railroa d.
New Orleans is the greatest cot
ton shipping city in the world,
and one sees the when cotton
that is handled there in one
day, he is lost in wonder as to
what will be done with the bal
ance of the crop.
My next stop was at Atlanta,
Ca, by way of Mobile and Mont
gomery, Ala, over the Louisiana
and Nashville railroad. Myroute
then led through Spartanburg,
South Carolina, Charlotte, and
Greensburg, North Carolina,
Lynchburg, Va, to Washington
and Baltimore.
| traversed fifteen states while
on my trip. On the 18th and Is
of January | saw many Indiana,
Illinois and Missouri farmers
husking corn. Down in the cot
ton belt | saw them picking cot
ton, and | saw great acreage that
would not be picked on account
of low price, and it was being
ploughed down preparatory to
planting corn. In Louisiana Ala
bama and Georgia, | saw great
orchards of hardy satsuma or
anges ladened with fruit.