[Galveston Tribune Supplement for The Ennis Meteor] (Galveston, Tex.) Friday, October 29, 1897 Page: 5 of 8
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A FINE INVESTMENT.
Cost of the Jetties Saved to the
Western Producer.
REDUCED
RATES ON GRAIN.
Five Cents a Busliel on Corn the First
Season—Saving to the Cot-
ton Grower.
Sentiment cuts no figure in trade. Facts
and conditions control its course. The
general tendency of the times is to the
cheapening of the cost of production,
to the lowering of the rates of transpor-
tation, to the elimination of business bar-
riers and to a wider and freer intercourse
in every branch of commerce. Every
move that releases one section of the
country from the domination of a single
channel of ingress and egress is hailed
as a benefit to all the country.
Of all the new channels for commerce
made by man, none has had a more wide-
spread or far reaching influence than that
of the jetties at Galveston. No great
public enterprise brought such immediate
and marvelous profits to the people. It
has inaugurated a wonderful change in
the movement or interchange of trade
between the east and the west, and the fu-
ture reveals possibilities for expansion in
this line that even startle the optimist.
The current of the business of the west
has been for many years held on the lines
of latitude more than on the lines of
longitude. The railroads of the west that
run north and south have always suffered
because traffic moved in the contrary di-
rection. It was not until the jetties were
built at Galveston that there was a change
in the current.
A traffic manager of considerable
prominence, in an address delivered before
the Commercial club of Kansas City last
February, called attention to the evolution
in the business of the west in a style
that must have stirred up the natives.
After relating the conditions as they have
been in the past he said: “I am con-
vinced that the situation will change, and
also that g’rain which goes from certain
points in Illinois, Iowa, and other states
to Chicago, will no longer stand the ad-
ditional freight and elevator charges
by going to Chicago, but will go direct
to tidewater. I cannot but think that we
are correct in the assumption that ex-
portable products of the states of Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colo-
rado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana will,
in a large manner, gravitate towards the
gulf.' I do not speak of the states fur-
ther south, because their position is not
questioned. In these states alone, how-
domain sufficient for a dozen
The surplus from their farms,
ever, is
empires,
and the minerals from their mountains
will, by nature, find their outlet through
the nearest port, and who can gainsay the
statement that this vast area supplement-
ing the states of the south, will supply
a traffic which will not only sustain these
ports, but will constantly build them up.
“It must appear to you, as it has to me,
a strange incident to the life of a com-
mercial community, that the possibilities
at the south, which open up like a reve-
lation, should have been a closed book
to us so long. During all these years little
^Bterest seems to have been manifested
and scarcely an effort made to avail our-
selves of advantages ever present, which
proffered not only immediate but per-
manent prosperity. * * * Kansas and
Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri have pro-
itfUced beyond the capacity for home con-
sumption, and markets must be found
beyond their borders. The middle states
supply the east, and have to spare. The
great surplus of these Missouri valley
states must find an outlet where the value
Will not be absorbed in cost of transporta-
tion. The hope is in the gulf ports. The
surplus grain and live stock must get
out via the gulf. The gulf outlets, by
cheapening transportation, will save mil-
lions to our western farmers.”
This paper sought to ascertain from
some of the local authorities just what
■this cheapening of 'transportation saved
to the farmers of dne state—Kansas—in
one year on but a single commodity—
grain. No figures have been compiled
but if you take the surplus product of the
state for 1895 and then average the re-
duction of freight that followed the first
shipments via Galveston, an idea can be
arrived at that may be suited for the pur-
pose in view. In that year Kansas furn-
ished 11,915,880 bushels of wheat lor export
and 51,190,090 bushels of corn. Previous
to the opening of the Galveston route the
rate on corn was from 28% to 35 cents
per 100 pounds to Galveston. That was for
the local supply. The rate from Kansas
City to the Atlantic seaboard was some-
what higher.. Immediately upon the get-
ting of deep water here and the routing
of grain shipments via Galveston, down
came the tariff rate to 20 cents per 100
pounds and a railroad fight ensued in
which shipments were made at as low a
rate as 13 cents per 100 pounds, Kansas
City to Galveston. As the farmer pays
the freight, directly or indirectly, the
saving to him on corn alone in the season
of 1895 ranged from 8y2 to 22 cents per 100
pounds on 51,190,060 bushels. Say he saved
at the rate of but 5 cents a bushel, or,
in other words, got 5 cents a bushel more
for his corn than he would otherwise have
received, it put $2,559,500 in his pocket—
nearly half the cost of the jetties!
This season the amount of wheat and
corn exported from Kansas will perhaps
treble that of 1895. The yield in that
state this year has been phenomenal.
Nearly 5,900,000 bushels of wheat from
Kansas have already gone through Gal-
veston. and yet Galveston is not getting
anything like her fair share of the amount
that is being exported. The saving of
1895 is small in comparison with that of
today, for now the rate of the east and
west lines is based on the rate to Gal-
veston. Injustice and discrimination are
being shown to' Galveston in the matter
of grain rates and the power of the great
trunk lines has been enough to block to
some extent the flow of, grain that would
come this way if normal conditions pre-
vailed, but all these things adjust them-
eelves in time. As an example of the
rross injustice practiced it is only neces-
sary to quote the rates from Kansas
points. Take Wichita, for instance. All
the grain from Kansas goes to Kansas
City. Now the rate on wheat, Wichita
to Kansas City, is 12 cents per 109 pounds.
The rate from Kansas City to. Galveston
is 21 cents per 100 lbs. That makes it 33
cents per 100 pounds from Wichita to
Galveston. The rate from Wichita to the
Atlantic seaboard is: Wichita to Kansas
City 12 cents; Kansas City to Chicago, 15
cents; Chicago to New York 10 cents—a
total of 37 cents. The rate from Chicago
to other Atlantic seaboard towns is from
2 to 3 cents per 100 pounds lower than to
New York. There is a rate from Wichita
to Galveston direct of 31 cents per 100
pounds and apparently Galveston has a
rate of 6 cents per 100 pounds lower than
to New York, but it is necessary to re-
member that the grain goes to Kansas
City and is redistributed from there. The
difference in ocean freights on grain be-
New York and Galveston
is equivalent to
favor
tween New York and
Europe is equivalent
in favor of New York.
Wichita to Galveston direct
operation Galveston would enjoy the ad-
vantages of a difference in charges equal
to 1 1-10 cents per bushel on wheat but
based on the actual rate via Kansas City
to Galveston the rate via New York is
the same as through this port while Bal-
timore and Philadelphia enjoy a lower
rate. And yet the distance from Wichita
to Chicago is exactly the same as from
Wichita to Galveston!
The railroad men in their wisdom take
no account of distance when competition
is developed and the proximity of Gal-
veston to the great grain state is not so
greatly appreciated as it will be at a
later day. It is true, it must be acknow-
ledged, in justification of the east and
west railroads, that they can handle
freight much cheaper than can the rail-
roads leading to the gulf. The volume
of business to the east is much larger
and everyone knows that the larger the
traffic the smaller is the percentage of
cost of carriage. Then there is another
cause, and a strong one it is: They have
freight each way. The roads running
north and south have comparatively little
north bound business. The cars are
loaded when bound for the gulf but gen-
erally return empty. The business in one
direction, therefore, has to pay the ex-
penses of the operation of the entire line.
It is only a question of time, however,
when Galveston will develop an import
trade and the conditions that now favor
the roads that follow the general lines
of latitude will also favor the roads that
follow the general lines of longitude.
Then is the time that Kansas and the
whole west will get the full measure of
relief to which they are entitled by reason
of die realization of deep water at Gal-
veston.
INCREASE 80 PER CT.
Grain Receipts Are Nearly Double
Last Season!s(
AND CORN IS HARDLY STARTED.
The Process of Hammering Down
Rates and the Ultimate Result
to Galveston.
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and
to
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Were the
rate in full
In an address delivered on Sept. 9, 1897,
at the farewell banquet given in honor of
Maj. A. M. Miller, U. S. A., the engineeer
under whose direction the jetties were
chiefly built, Mr. Bertrand Adoue of the
banking house of Adoue & Lobit told of
his experiences with a shallow water and
a deep water harbor. Here are the essen-
tial features of his speech:
“During 31 years I have uninterruptedly
imported and exported merchandise, and
I have with many others shared the trou-
bles and tribulations attached to a shal-
low water harbor sufficiently to appreci-
ate the advantages of the present condi-
tions.
“We are told that the government has
spent $8,000,000 in this harbor, and some
people claim that it is an unprofitable in-
vestment. The man making such an as-
sertion knows very little of the conditions
prevailing here before and after the ex-
penditure of that money, and to prove his
error, it is sufficient to state that last year
268 foreign and about 100 American steam-
ers carried from this port over 1,000,000
tons of freight, on which a saving of $2
per ton was made on account of deep
water, amounting to $2,000,000, and mark,
these are not imaglnery figures, but
actual facts.
“The government borrowing money at 3
per cent interest on $8,000,000 has to pay
$240,000 per annum. Deduct that amount
from the- saving of $2,000,000 and you have
left $1,760,000 profit on the transaction an-
nually. Who gets the benefit? It is divid-
ed among every man, woman and child
living west of the Mississippi river.
‘The saving of last year will be greatly
increased this year, and the increase will
continue until it reaches each year more
than the original cost of the improve-
ments. That is what discontented people
call a bad investment. For me, however,
the most interesting individuals are the
Galvestonians who claim that dee» water
on the bar has killed the business of our
city, and who lament over the loss of the
good old days of shallow water methods.
These are the men who prefer ox teams ’
to railways, and continue to. burn tallow
candles in preference to electricty. They
can not stand progress ,and can not adapt
themselves to the new order of things.
“Deep water on Galveston bar has in-
creased the value of all products of the
state of Texas—cotton, corn, wheat, wool
and cattle. It has increased the value of
all the products of the Indian Territory,
Arkansas, New Mexica, Colorado, Kansas,
Iowa, Nebraska and California. The ship-
per appears to be Providence’s favorite.
He likes to live comfortably, and the
farmers, the miners, the manufacturers,
all contribute towards supplying his com-
forts.
“The shipper dislikes obstacles, and the
government removes the bar standing in
his way.
“The shipper is is an important factor of
the w’orld’s commerce; he is the connect-
ing-link between producer and consumer.
Without him tlie world could not exist.
“The shipper is a grateful individual,
and he would not hesitate to erect a mon-
ument to perpetuate the memory of Rob-
ert, Mansfield, Ernst, Allen and Miller,
provided he could get somebody else to
contribute the necessary cash to pay for
the construction.
“Mr. Chairman, the shipper is a great
man!”
Three years ago no grain to speak of
passed through the port of Galveston.
Last season 9,500,000 bushels were shipped
through here and this season there will
be somewhere between 15,000,000 and 20.-
000,000 bushels shot into the holds of
steamers from the Galveston elevators.
Within this short space of three years
Galveston has bounded into the position
of one of the great grain ports of the
world. So marked has been the growth
in this department of commerce that the
jealousy of St. Louis, Chicago and the big
Atlantic seaboard cities has been aroused
to a most intense degree and vigorous
efforts were resorted to in order to check
the flow of grain Galvestonward. The
efforts of the northern and eastern cities
proved abortive and it is confidently ex-
pected that henceforth Galveston will
command a great share of the grain ex-
port business of the west and will be a
mighty rival of Baltimore and New York
in this trade.
On the 26th of October, 1896. there had
had been shipped 2,605,000 bushels of grain
since the opening of the season.
On the 26th of October, 1897, the records
show there have been 4,784,000 bushels
shipped since the opening of the season.
Within the next week or 10 days corn
will begin to move. So far this season the
receipts have been nearly all of wheat.
With the rush of corn to this market for
export the elevators will bo kept hustling.
At least 10,000,000 bushels of corn will be
routed through this port and if conditions
are favorable this may be materially in-
creased. The receipts of wheat thus far
this season are about 80 per cent greater
than last year. This percentage would be
180 or 280 no doubt had it not been for
some friction between the Wharf company
and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
was the pioneer line in bringing grain to
Galveston. It taps a great producing re-
gion and it -was expected that its grain
business of this season would be much
larger than that of 1896, but owing to the
differences mentioned the road has not
been very active in its endeavors to divert
wheat and corn from the old eastern
channel to the new route via Galveston.
But regardless of this, the receipts thus
far this season are, as pointed out, 80 per
cent greater today than this day last year
and it Is not. unlikely that the end of the
season will show an increase of 100 per
cent.
The big grain houses of the country
. were not slow to recognize that Galveston
was to be a potent factor in the grain
export business of America. There is to-
day hardly a grain commission house
of the first class in the United States
that has not
veston. Here, for example, is a list
of the new concerns that have been
attracted to this port by reason of
the grain business: Charles F. Orth-
wein & Sons of St. Louis; W. D. Orthwein
grain company of St. Louis; the E. B.
White grain company of St. Louis;
D. R. Francis & Bro. grain company
St. Louis; the Richardson company
Kansas City and Chicago, and Hall
Robinson of Kansas City. In addtion
these concerns the Galveston export and
commission company is engaged in this
trade.
expect to soon occupy a position in the
grain export trade second; to no city in the
United States. The great wheat and corn
belt of Kansas is as near to Galveston as
it is to Chicago while as to New York,
Baltimore and other Atlantic grain ship-
ping ports!—they are simply not in it
in point of nearness to t|ie grain fields.
It takes time to divert the course of
trade. The commercial relations estab-
lished by reason of the long continued
direction of grain to the markets of Chi-
cago and St. Louis have had a powerful
effect in retaining the output of Kan-
Nebraska but the diversion
started by reason of deep water at Gal-
veston will gradually loosen these bonds
and the grain will go to the market or
the port that offers the best inducements
and the cheapest rates. This was early
recognized by the old established wheat
and corn markets and all the power of the
east and west railroads was brought into
requisition to check the flow of grain
toward Galveston. Lower rates than ever
before known were put into effect, all
sorts of wild stories about the port were
circulated, every influence was brought to
bear to stop the north and south rail-
roads from engaging in the business and
yet the grain came to Galveston. Not
only that, but season by season it will
increase in volume until a proper equaliza-
tion and adjustment of the routing busi-
ness is reached.
The deepening of the harbor of Galves-
ton was the greatest boon the grain
growers of the west ever secured. Rail-
roads no longer dictate to them in the
matter of transportation rates. The farm-
ers are no longer mulcted for every cent
•the grain will stand; it is no longer all
profit to the railroad and no profit to the
farmer. They now have all the benefits
that accrue to good live competition.
Rates are put upon a basis to attract
business and this vigorous fight for traffic
by the various transportation lines lead-
ing to the east and the lines leading to
the gulf will in all probability be main-
tained just as long as the railroads to
the east endeavor to monopolize the grain
trade of the west.
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The grain that is coming to Galveston
this season is almost entirely from Kan-
•sas. There was a magnificent yield of
wheat in the panhandle of Texas but most
of it has been taken to meet the require-
ments of the variousf-ftp^ur mills of Texas.
The grain acreage of Oklahoma has been
greatly increased, in the last few years
and it will still further be broadened, no
doubt, by reason of the high prices ob-
tained this year for all cereals. Oklaho-
ma is naturally tributary, by reason of
geographical situation, to Galveston. With
the grain fields of the southwest gradually
widening and with the opportunities for
getting a fair share of the product of
Kansas and the other wheat and earn
states brightening every season it would
not be remarkable if the next 10 years
saw Galveston not only the first cotton
port of the United States but the first
grain port of America,-as-well.
Galveston is not Likel
unprepared- for this, gf:
ness as it develops. The two elevators
now in operation' have been spoken of,
but there is another that will in a short
time be in the field for business. The
elevator owned by J. Reymershoffer’s
Sons, of the Texas Star Flour Mills, has
been refitted and enlarged to such ah ex-
tent that when all the improvements are
completed it will have a capacity of 650,-
000 bushels. No expense has been spared
in enlarging this elevator. The latest im-
proved machinery has been put into place
and every conception of the elevator
builder’s brain has been utilized.
With the great 1,000,000 bushel elevator
of pier 14, and with the two other elevators
mentioned, Galveston has a capacity of
storing 2,300,000 bushels of grain. How
much could be loaded through these
three elevators in the course of a season
it is difficult to estimate but they perhaps
offer sufficient facilities for all the grain
that will come to Galveston for several
years. When additional elevators |are
needed they will promptly be built, every
requirement of the commerce of the port
being met as it presents itself.
In the meantime Galveston will con-
tinue reaching out Into new territory,
broadening the lines of her trade and
spreading the benefits of deep water. The
establishment of one branch of business
or the creation of one channel of trade
naturally leads to the growth of closer
commercial relations. With Galveston
an active bidder for the products of Kan-
sas, it is but in the common course of
events that the imports of Kansas will
■ to be caught
fh export busi-
VICTORIA’S BUSINESS.
Victoria Advocate.
We are informed that one freight train
run over this division this week had
among the cars, 18 cars of local freight.
This shows the movement that has set
in.
a representative in Gal-
for example,
that
port by
CharlesO 8® H,
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To accommodate this new branch of
commerce the facilities of the port had to
be largely augmented. Long oefore the
accomplishment of deep water a million
bushel elevator had been built on pier 14.
There was little or nothing for this ele-
vator to do, while the bar remained, but
once that impediment to navigation was
removed the bins of the big elevator were
flooded with grain, steaiaahip after steam-
ship went under the spouts and the com-
mercial world suddenly awakened to the
fact that Galveston had entered the arena
of deep water harl»»rs and was attracting
trade that had for many years been under
the absolute control of St. Louis, Chicago
and the eastern seaboard.
So pronounced was the rush of grain
through Galveston that plans were at
once made for building another elevator.
This new elevator is now in operation. It
is leased to Charles F. Orthwein & Sons
and is as well equipped as any elevator
in America. It is not so large as the
elevator on pier 14, but what It lacks in
capacity, or rather bulk, it makes up in
facilities. Two steamships can go under
its spouts 'at one time and load, and it
doesn’t take many hours to fill the holds
of the vessels.
In addition to the building of this fine
new elevator, the house on pier 14 was
rigged up so- that its ability for loading
vessels is now double what is was 12
months ago. Formerly there were spouts
only on the west side of the structure.
Now there are also spouts on the eastern
side and the grain pours out through
these channels with equal speed and facil-
ity. Two ships can now load at this ele-
vator at the same time. How fast this
elevator handles grain can be appreciated
when it is told that 119,000 bushels of corn
were shot into the holds of a vessel in
three hours. This quantity of corn low-
ered the steamship nine feet in the water.
Persons who were present at the time say
you could see the vessel sinking deeper
and deeper as the grain poured through
the spouts. The captain of the steamship
apparently had never been loaded so fast
before, for he ran to the grain inspector
in alarm and exclaimed: “Man alive!
What are you going to do—sink me?” /
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sas, it is but. in the cc,inr/'eu. ~~u— ~"
events that the imports of Kansas will
in time find their way through the port
of Galveston.
FOWLER & McVITIE.
Competent and impartial judges of the
grain business say that, grain is handled
as well and as expeditiously at Galveston
as at any port in the world. It is also
declared that owing to the climatic con-
ditions here grain improves in quality.
With these benefits to offer it is not
strange that Galveston should reasonably
Greatest Firm of Ship Agents and Bro-
kers in the South.
Surely no firm of ship agents and bro-
kers in the south can compare in magni-
tude of operations with the great house
of Fowler & McVitie of Galveston. This
firm last year did 33 1-3 per cent of the ex-
port business of this port and from pres-
ent indications the volume of their car-
goes will be largely increased this season.
It is only by stating in detail some of
their handlings that a /fair idea of the
business they do can benObtained. Vessels
chartered by them onsentito them by the
owners to be loaded; ^carried away to
foreign ports last yeajj 324,152 bales of
cotton, 3,377,0-15 bushels- iof grain, 59,801
tons of cotton seed jmealf and cake, 137s
tons of lead, 329 tons gfi copper matte,
6599 tons of lumber, j-11,428 barrels of oil,
8253 bales of ixtle, besides thousands of
tons of mixed freight. How varied are
their connections oni.the I other side can
be appreciated when-a list of the foreign
ports to which they sent cargoes is given.
This list includes Liverpool, Havre, Man-
chester, Rotterdam, r Hamburg, Bremen,
Antwerp, Copenhagen, Aarhuus, Cork
and Falmouth, while part"of their freight
was destined for Iteval, St. Petersburg,
Ghent, Gothenburg,.. Aloste, Waes and
Term.
They loaded 91 foreign steamers last
year. The weight of the cotton carried
in these vessels was 171,900,572 pounds.
This season is three or four weeks late,
yet up to Oct. 25 (the season begins Sept.
1) 40 foreign steamers had been loaded or
were receiving cargoes from this firm.
When it is understood that to charter an
ocean steamship for a voyage from Gal-
veston to Europe costs $15,000 to $30,000, it
can be realized what a vast sum of money
this firm diffuses.
In addition to the. regular steamship
business the firm does a large coal busi-
ness. The powerful steamship Pensacola
and several barges bring ca -goes of coal
from Alabama. A coal elevator, one of
the largest in the south, is owned by
Fowler & McVitie and their interests in
coal and coke are only second in import-
ance to their great shipping business.
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OFFICE:
21st Street and Strand.
FACTORY:
1JS
38th Street and Ave. G.
Galveston.
Texas.V^H
■ .Officers:
B. ADOBE, President.
W. S. DAVIS, Vice-Prest
W. S. DAVIS, JK.,
Sec’y and Treasurer.JO
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sgil§g|jgiBoard of Directors:
B. Adoue, W. S. Davis,
W. F, Ladd, T. W. English,
John Sealy.
CAPAC1TY:
10,000,000 YARDS JUTE
BAGGING ANNUALLY.
T. J. Groce, President. H. A. Landes, Vice-President. A. J. Compton, Cashier.
THE GALVESTON Will II,
Corner Strand and Tremont Streets.
CAPITAL......-...
$250.000
Does a General Banking Business, Buys and Sells Foreign Exchange; thoroughly abreast
of the times, it satisfactorily handles all business offered.
Accounts of Interior Banks a Specialty.
Organized November, 1889.
Succeeding the Texas Banking and
Insurance Co., Organized in 1872.
JOS. F. CAMPBELL_____________Cashier
F. WOOLVERTON__________Assistant Cashier
Island City Savings Bank
General Banking Business Transacted.
Foreign Exchange Bought and Sold.
CAPITAL-, - $100,000 | SURPLUS,
DIRECTORS: M. Lasker, Julius Runge, M. Ullmann, J. F. Campbell, A. Ferrier, J, Reymershoffer, R. B. Hawley,
Charles Fowler, Robert Eornefeld.
4 Per Cent Interest Per Annum Allowed on Savings Deposits,
M.
M.
LASKER ....
ULLMANN ..
_____President
.Vice-Presidentl-l
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N. WEEKES. ED. MCCARTHY. A. H. PIERCE.
f weekes. McCarthy & co. «
SUCCESSORS TO
AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK OF GALVESTON.
DEPOSITS RECEIVED and R A M KT F D
Collections fclade on Favorable Terms. —___— U ink 11 M Ik •
Foreign and Domestic Exchange Bought and Sold, Cable and Telegraph Transfers Made, and Commercial and
Travelers’ Certificates furnished, available in all parts of the world. -ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.
THE GALVESTON BAHREL FACTORY
Is the only Reliable Cooperage Firm in Texas, guaranteeing their work
for a long time. Satisfaction given in all respects.
Molasses, Sugar, Flour and Produce Barrels
Oil, Whisky, Cider and Vinegar Barrels.
Half-Barrels and Kegs of All Sizes
CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
WM. BUCHAN, Prop. -SE~ ■■
Big Cattle Ranch __________________________cheap.
158,783 Acres, a solid body, in Bailey County, Texas,
wnte for particulars All fenced, well watered, fine grass, good improvements.
/p* YQU WANT A HOME, farm or tsmbered lands.
Have for sale at extremely low prices and on liberal terms land in 150 counties in Texas.
WRITE FOR LIST.
The Leoti & BbmiLaitd Co., Galveston, Tex.
.ESTABLISHED 1879.
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Ousley, Clarence. [Galveston Tribune Supplement for The Ennis Meteor] (Galveston, Tex.) Friday, October 29, 1897, newspaper, October 29, 1897; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1374590/m1/5/?q=%22United+States+-+Texas+-+Galveston+County+-+Galveston%22: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.