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Last year 85,000 people visited Mineral Wells, according
to the most authentic sources-the ticket agent
of the Weatherford, Mineral Wells any thinking man or woman
can see what this means to Mineral Wells. And no
one .will deny that it is but in the infancy of slightly
awakened progress and development.
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Two banks, one national and one private, with a
combined capital of $50,000. Four large exclusive dry
goods stores and one haberdasher's shop. Two furniture
stores, both carrying large stocks. Ten grocery
stores. Two hardware and implement houses. One
cigar factory. One steam bakery. One architect.
Two steam laundries. Two racket stores. Two photograph
galleries. Five drug stores. Three jewelers.
Two livery stables. Two transfer, passenger and
freight lines. Three lumber yards. One ice plant,
* twelve and one-half tons capacity. One electric light
and power plant., One telephone exchange, with long
distance connections. One brick plant, employing
thirty men. Two newspaper plants, one daily and
two weeklies. Three bath houses, one brick. Not
less tban one hundred mineral wells of different degrees
of mineral strength; twelve of these famous over
the'entire continent. Seven pavilions, where the visvisitors
are served with water at a nominal price.
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Mineral Wells, "The Carlsbad of America", text, Date Unknown; Mineral Wells, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16332/m1/5/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.