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COUNTIES AND CITIES OF TEXAS
none cut commercially. Br
available.
Important crops are cotton
1940), oats, grain sorghums,
falfa, corn, wheat and barley
creasing. All vegetables rais
tomatoes, sweet potatoes,
loupes, berries, other truck
mercially. New crops introd
soybeans, castor beans, pr
winter peas, hairy vetch, I
Farmers in south of county
stock with tractors. Northeas
Utilization Proect has two
15,000 acres where program
use projects, grazing and co
life conservation, reforestati
ried out. Practically all
county has been sodded;
leased to farmers in need of
ing land.
Beef cattle, hogs, sheep ar
mercially. Dairving gaining
portance; establishment of
plants in county have prov
raw milk, cream, herds of
seys increasing. Many acres
been converted into perm
Poultry brings cash income
round Surplus honey is shi
Fannin County has 15,000
State Park and other retreat
viding scenic attractions, fis
Historical point of interest
Fort Inglish at Bonham.
Area (sq mi.) 838 Crop
Pop . 41.064 Val.
Pop sq mi... 49 0 MIfr
Tot val..... 820,784,480 Retai
Tax val.... 15,588,360 Auto
Income ..... $8,580,000 Inc t
Bonham (6.349), county se
and retail market, has cott
seed oil mill, textile mill, ic
wholesale grocery, iron fou
schools, kindergarten, rural.. Cheese plant, fourth largest in state pa s out
S$250000-$300,000 annually to fa mels, sat:
cream sales exceed $200 000 ea lx Honey
* F"Grove (2 KJC) is cotton tr ade center atth oil
mill, compess, gins Other towns are Ladonia
MONKSTOWN 1279), Leonard (1,331), Trenton 1631) Savoy
(298), Bailey (223). Dodd City (30S), Ravenna
o (248), Ector (457), Windom (291)
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In South Central Texas. partly in Postoak
Fanmn County. Belt, partly on South Texas Prairies Lex el
to rolling, broken by small creeks. Colorado
ick clay deposits River flows southeastward through central
part. Created from Bastrop and Colorado
(60,069 bales in Counties 1837: organized 1838 Named for
prairie hay, al- General Lafayette Alt. 250-500 ft Annual
y production in- rainfall, 34.96 in. Mean annual temp, 69,7
sed for local use, July temp . 84.7 : Jan , 53'
peaches, canta- Soils varied prairie rich black loam, black
crops grown corn- lime land: bottoms sandy loam, chocolate
uced recently are loam, black waxy. Timber, covering approxi-
opcorn, Austrian mately half county, includes post oak and
talian rye grass. blackjack on uplands, cottonwood, elm, hack-
replacing ork berry, pin oak, willow, white oak, cedar
tern Texas Land pine, burr oak, in bottoms sycamore and pe-
sites of 2.000 and can, some pine cut commercially Minerals
of impro ed land include deposits of bentonite, kaolin, lignite,
nservaton, wild- brick clay, fuller's earth
nsegaticreationlod a..-.$27349 ealS..4,3 0
on is being car- Principal crops cotton 10,358 bales in 1940),
pen pasture in corn,. grain sorghums, sweet sorghm, hay
much has been All varieties vegetables grown for local con-
additional graz- sumption, large acreage planted to tomatoes.
garlic, onions for commercial market. All
re produced corn- fruits grown with exception apples, cherries,
rapidly in im- citrus fruits
milk products Beef cattle, sheep, goats, horses, mules,
ided market for hogs raised for market in increasing numbers
fine-loodee r- as cotton production declines. Three-fourths
fine blooded Jer- farmers have dairy heids, milk plant pur-
in countstuhave chases biing cash income Poultry shipments
anent pastures. increasing, 15,000 turkeys marketed annually.
to farmers year
nned to market. Area (sq mi.) 968 Crop land (a) 178,383
acres in Bonham Pop........ 29,246 Val farms X18,188,858
ional lands, pro- Pop. sq mi... 30 2 Mfr %al .. 1,319,434
hing, recreation. Tot gal...... 332,763,498 Retail S .. 54,739 000
1s replica of Old Tax val...... $16,381,749 Auto reg . 7,873
Income...... $8,y34,000 Inc tax ret 345land (a) 294,769
farms $18,353,038
xal... $2,282,157
l S .. 85,883,000
reg . 8,206
ax ret 277
at, is wholesale
on gins, cotton-
e cream factory.
ndry. Excellent
school buses.FIRST
La Grange (2 531), county seat, trade center
and shipping point on Colorado Ri er, has
cottonseed oil mill, compress, ice factory.
milk plant, creamery, two hatcheries, bottling
works, two new spapers, mattl ess factories.
marble works. Monument Hill Park, state
park oerlooking city. burial place of men of
ill-fated Mier Expedition and the company of
Capt. Nicholas M Dawson. Fayette County
stFor explanation of all siuns, symbols, abbre-
viations and sources, map ant' text, see p 407
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