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shelling plants, cheese plant, poultry -dressinmg
plant, pecan-shelling plant, hatcheries, mattress
factory, grain mill De Leon (1,971) has peanut
processing plant, feed mill, ice plant, %holesale
pecan market, center of peanut-growing area
*CONCHO COUNTY
Upper edge of Edwards Plateau, southern part
rough and broken, northern rolling with tillable
land Drained by Colorado, which forms northeast
border Created from Bexar County 1858, organ-
ized 1879, named for Concho Rier Alt 1,600-
2,100 ft, ann rainfall 24 55 in , mean ann temp
65 1 Growing season, 230 days
Resources Soils dark and gray loam, white
sandy, dark alluial Mesquite, lie oak, catclaw
on uplands, and pecan along streams Small oil
and gas production
Crops Grain sorghums, 3,533 bales cotton,
886,349 bu oats, wheat, fruit and truck for local
use
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MILES
Livestock 263,198 sheep and lambs, 1,775,113
lbs wool, goats and mohair Beef cattle, hogs,
poultry, some dairying Primarily a liestock
county.
Famous "painted rocks," hieroglyphics of pre-
historic origin, near county seat Hunting, fishingI \ S S T 0 N o V A LL EY V IE W
0 2 4 6 10
MILES
Crops Excels in small grains, 718.849 bu oats,
607,147 bu wheat, 96,120 bu barley, corn, grain
sorghums, rye, cotton, 2,174,262 Ibs peanuts
Fruit, truck for local sale Postwar return to
farm noted
Lix estock Beef and dairy cattle, hogs, poultry,
sheep, wool marketed Milk production 3,771,808
gals Some honey
Old California and Chisholm Trails passed
through county Fine fishing in lakes Part of
Lake Texoma touches county
Area sq ml... 909 Income ..$18,987,000
Population ... 24,909 Cropland (a). 147,389
Pop sq mi .. 27 4 Bank dep . $12,722,000
Tax value .. $21,210,620 Retail sales $10,661,000
Total ,alue $42,421,240 Auto reg . 7,914
Gainesville (12,000), county seat, known as
"City of 100,000 Trees," home of nationally fa-
mous Community Circus Has nil refinery, gar-
ment plant, lee-cream and milk-processing plants,
, ottonseed oil mill, woodworking plants, saddle
shops, fishing lure plant, foundry, broom factory,
leather goods, other industries Home of State
Training School for Girls, Gainesville Junior Col-
lege Muenster (599)1 has cheese plant, flour mill.
oil refinery. Valley Views (700) farm market.
'tFor explanation of all signs, symbols, abbre-
siations and source, map and text, see p 436.envsSur
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GEAP JLTEXAS ALMANAC -1947-1948
Area sq mi... 1,004 Income ......$4,897,000
Population .. 6,192 Cropland (a).. 125,137
Pop sq mi .. 6 2 Bank dep .. $3,440,000
,8, Tax alue . $6,227,724 Retail sales $2,198,000
, ETotal value $18,871,890 Auto reg 1,761
Paint Rock (800), county seat, is wool and mo-
hair concentration point Eden (1,603) is retail
and shipping point for farm-ranch area
\*COOKE COUNTY
*'waR Rolling prairie in west, sandier Cross Timber
Region min east In Central North Texas, drained
R by Red Ri'er, ahich forms northern boundar},
RcTOR _ and by tributaries of Trinity River Created from
S Fannin County 1848. organized 1849, named for
S William G Cooke, captain "New Orleans Grays,
1 who fought in Texas Rexolution Alt 700-1 100(( fl
NE annual rainfall 35 94 in , mean ann temp 63 09"
LMKIN Growing season, 226 days
36' " Resources Oil production 5,114,176 bbls Soils
7 ary from black waxy and gray loam on uplands,
\NERGY' lighte loams in Cross Timbers to deep red min Red
Riper V\alle Post oak, pecan, walnut, hickory,
willow, some blackjack Other minerals natural
gas, asphalt, brick and tile clay, molder's sand,
limestone silica sand
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