The resources and attractions of the Texas panhandle for the home seeker, capitalist and tourist (1891) (14574464060)

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Title: The resources and attractions of the Texas panhandle for the home seeker, capitalist and tourist

Year: 1891 (1890s)

Authors: Union Pacific railroad company. (from old catalog) Barrows, Benjamin H., (from old catalog) comp

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Publisher: St. Louis, Woodward & Tiernan printing co.

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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produced Lincoln, Henry Clay, Breckenridge,Tom Marshall, Prentice and a. host of men of brains and ability. Like theblue-grass region of Kentucky, it has no sick horses, cattle, swine or poultry.Everybody and everything keeps well. In production, it brings the largest average and the best quality of wheatof any country, whether in Europe or America. It produces no 60-bushelcrops of wheat, but it keeps up everywhere, and nearly every year, to anaverage of 23 bushels, or two bushels more than Colorado, the banner Stateof the Union for wheat. Wichita county is 400 miles from an ocean market, while Chicago is1,000. Wichita county is 600 miles from Denver (the best market for fruitand vegetables on the continent); Chicago is 1,100 miles from Denver. With Denver at one end and Ft. Worth at the other, the man who set-tles on the Texas Panhandle Route gets on one of the great railroads ofthe country. Think on these things. Then act promptly, if you expect to get yourchoice of the cheap lands.

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