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that it has progressed in proportion as that industry in those sections
has forged 1o the front. It is also beyond dispute that a marked and
lasting impetus to that growth was given by the construction of the
3;erra Madre and White Oaks loutcs and the opening to El Paso of the
vast valuable mineral seciions which they respectively penetrated. If
j El Paso has thus been l-uil. up by the growth of the mining industry
| In the sections penetratea by her several railroads there needs no
! further evidence that she is the common metropolis of those sections
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! and must continue to grow as they .continue to develop.
The wealth of these sections is absolutely beyond the power?
ot estimation, the possibilities of their future development dp'
fies computation; but it is because of these facts that the - well in
formed expect to see at the pass of the Rio Grande a city of 150,000
inhabitants in the next fifteen or twenty years.
Tn the aggregation ot all these sections El Paso is the largest
town. It is^the only" town which has direct communication - with
them all. It is the only town which has four, and soon will have five
and it may be six, competing railway systems leading to the great
manufacturing, centers #nd sources of supply in' the United States,
the same systems being among the largest and most^important in the
whole country. It is the only point through which northern Mexico
can send its mineral products to the United States and through which
It can receive in return the American machinery and other manu-
factured articles which it needs. Finally, El Paso is the only place in
all these sections where ore and coal can be .brought together with
the least expenditure of time and the least outlay of money. This was
true befQre the opening of the White Oak route'and it will be more
emphatically true as the coal fields of the Sacramento mountains shall
be developed and marketed. Thus it will be seen that nature and
art combined to prevent El Paso from having any rivals as the most
absolute mining center of the great Southwest.
This field is .so vast that merely to publish the names and
locations of all the mineral properties it embraces would be to print
a large volume composed entirely of names. Illustration rather than
enumeration is all that can be attempted.
AN EIGHT-SPOKED WHEEL.
Eight railroads emanating from as many different pomts {>f
the compass focus,El Paso and give access to the territory from which
she draws her wealth and to which she sends supplies. These are
the Santa Fe, from the north, the White Oaks route from the north-
east, the Texas & Pacific from the east, the G._H. & S. A. from the
southeast, J:he Mexican Central from the south, the Sierra Madre
from the "south-west, the Bisbee from the west and the . Scuthern
Pacific from the west and northwest.
Nor must it be imagined that the influence of El Paso extends
but a few score miles or so along any of these lines, Ore reaches this
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Buck Directory Company. Buck's Directory of El Paso for 1902, book, 1902; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth213974/m1/35/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas at El Paso.