Show IMMENSE GROWTH OF UNITED STATES Activities on Texas Gulf Coast One of the Striking Evidences GALVESTON AN EXAMPLE MILLIONS MILLIO S EXPENDED AS BASE FOR A GREAT PORT Perhaps the most moat striking evidence of ot the growth of ot this country In n general generalis is to tobe tobe tobe be seen in the trend of commerce and im immigration immigration migration in recent re ent years and particularly particularly particularly In the movements now naw in progress commercially industrially and agriculturally agriculturally along the gulf gult front of ot the state of f Texas When the Improvement of ot Galveston harbor was undertaken in Galves Calves Galveston Galveston Calveston ton folk figured that a large volume of business would shift from Atlantic ports port to the new gulf guIt outlet as soon as the big bigI ships could come up to the wharves as I Galveston would furnish the line of least resistance But in this they were dis die disappointed disappointed appointed for a time Water can be b made to run up hill bill Railroads leading from the granary of ot the nation continued to t take products for fur export to the tha Atlantic ports albeit rates slumped The Tha dream of diverting commerce was not realized Within the last few years the com merco of ot the port of ot Galveston has grown enormously It is i now naw 2 per cent greater greter than In 1890 Growth of If the west and ana southwest growth of ot the business of o the country In general Is la the t e cause Atlantic ports aro still doing business at the old stand But they have become crowded cr To expand their terminal facilities facUlties and nd to build to them new lines Unes of railroad would Involve enormous expenditures expenditure exp It Itis itIs is cheaper to build to the gulf and the great railroad systems of ot the West Vest have been putting out lines to that body of ot water as the cotton plant sends its roots to moist molt soil In a dry season Upon Up n the surplus commerce Galveston Galve ton is growing The Atlantic reservoir Is full Galveston and her sister er ports porta of ot the tha gulf have be become becom become come com the spillway for tor the fhe nations foreign forel n nI j I commerce I Influence of the he Big Ditch Some diversion will in all alt likelihood come with the completion and utilization of ot the Panama anama canal not because bec use the Ute gulf gnU ports are so much nearer the t e At Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic lantic portal of the canal than are our Atlantic ports but because the gulf gult ports will then be as aa favorably situated as arc are arct those t ose of ot the Atlantic seaboard in respect to Oriental and other Pacific coast com corn commerce merce merc At the present time they are arc the least favorably situated of all aU American ports In that regard in consequence of which Oriental business moves liy by rail to Pacific and Atlantic ports even out o t of ot Texas Finding Room in Coast Country Likewise the Texas coast country the I great coastal plain is being rapidly pop populated populated populated developed and utilized ed not through a process of diversion but because the surplus of ot inhabitants from older olier sec see sections is s here finding elbow room No part of ot our country countr is yet crowded as af a is Eu Europe Europe Europe rope and Asia but Americans have been accustomed to plenty of breathing space and demand it The Pioneer spirit yet et lives Whenever a section of ot the country becomes bec mes moderately mo thick in settlement the nomadic Impulse asserts itself Thus ThUi the new sections get settlers not no so much because of ot superior r advantages In soil soli and climate e as os because they have breath breathing b breathing ath athIng ing space and they do not get settlers in considerable numbers until that space I is needed M e Transportation facilities of course have much to do in determining the choice of ot the Transcontinental rail railroads railroads roads ocean to ocean lines which were stretched across tIle the t e country In the tho 0 and afforded access to sufficient new country to last for tor many mapy years In con consequence consequence sequence the tha triangle of ot Texas which lies below the southernmost of or these these trans transcontinental transcontinental transcontinental continental lines was practically practical y neglected until recent years Rather ly It U was WIlS early the subject of ot colonial effort for In 1863 1865 the Chevalier La Sane Salle planted the tb colony St Louis midway Try This for forGet Catarrh Get a I pronounced III hO hOme me outfit today Pour a p few tew drops drop from the t e bottle Into the inhaler that comes with each ea h outfit and breathe it in 4 or 5 fi time tim a aday aday aday day Immediately you will know that soothes and antI heals the inflamed and irritated membrane But Ut does de more than soothe l land and heal it kills klUs the germs erms those per persevering per persevering severing pests that are aro at the root of ot all catarrhal conditions Last year I suffered red terribly with catarrh I used one ln bottle of and mY m catarrh c tarr was wa better Miss Helen McNair MeN Loyalton Cal Cat CalA CatA CalA A complete outfit including a bottle of a hard rubber pocket Inhaler and simple directions for tor use costs only If It you now own a n inhaler you can get g t an extra bottle of Qt for tor only 50 SO cents at druggists drU glat everywhere re and amI at itt Drugs five stores Guaranteed to cure catarrh croup asthma and sore throat or money back bacle the Texas coast Not until the latter halt half of ot the nineteenth century however how ver was wag Wall much progress made In the th settlement of ot Ti and then the building of trans transcontinental transcontinental continental con Un en till railroads to the tho north left the lower triangle of ot the th state to one onu 01 sid sido and only within tile the hc last twenty years lars have bave the ports been sufficiently de do developed elop to make rn k its Us seaboard important Taken Out of the BacK acl Yard yare But this t 15 strip of country countr has been taken out of at the back bUck yard A railroad traverses the coast Coalt country from end to end fol following following lowing the tha lie trail which w General Taylor made on his march to Mexico This road was built five years ears ago al o partly t tu to open this flue country to settlement partly td t es cc establish a new short line to the City of ot M Mexico Benjamin H II Yoakum the rail raU railroad railroad road magnate mante projected it He lie Is a Texas product grew up as a farmer boy raised and sold fruit trees and knows a at lot about soils solis agriculture and horticulture When in training for his big work worl he learned burned that corns som ol ot o the pioneers In fu n the tM coat coast country were e successfully success fully growing oranges orangeR upon anon a small scale s le He IJO H stored this Information away and when ho got out upon a larger stage and next to t the tM money boxes baxes he lie bunt built the Gulf Coast Const Una and placed another garland of ot orange blossoms los oms upon the tilt brow brew of ot Columbia During PurinG the th last three or four years ars the tha th Influx of ot population into Ip a the coast cOa coun country country country try lute has beer beef enormous The nurseries pur series of America and Japan have been beep swamped with witt orders orders for or orange lemon grape fruit fig Jig and olive trees Commercial ship shipments ments of ot the fruit have begun They are nr raising cane on an the battlefield of pt o Resaca Res ca cade da de la Ia palma and elsewhere In the lower Rio Grande volley valley and up and down said valley v and up and down the th coast the production of sugar rice onions fruits and vegetables has a grown and P I Is enormously Millions for Foundations F unda These large lar movements are reflected In Jn Inthe Inthe the towns and nd cities ot of It the t e region r I p Gui Gal Galveston veston notably has been busy during the tho thelast last nine years fn in laying the h he foundations toun for gr gre t things Many millions of or dollars have beer beep put Into improvements tm public and private te Twp Two Tw works wor B have been completed a third is Ii under construction a fourth and fifth projected and nd Assured Tho The first or ot these thele was w s a great sea wall Seventeen feet teet high twenty feet wide at atthe att atthe the t a base the tite same being protected by feet tee of at grantt and feet In length constructed by the tha people of through their th lr county government gov at a cost of i oooo This has hils beep been b On extended o feet by y the t e fed federa fe feral era ral government to protect Its HI Fort lort Jf rt Crock Crockett Crockett ett att military reservation at a cost of qt atCO 3 1 COO CO the entire wall wan forming an embank embankment embankment ment for the grade raising which W comes to a level luvel with the tha top op at 0 tho th tin t miles niles and breadth one entire of 21 ZI July mile of ot the city the storm wall wan and anda 1909 1109 was a severe test lost to this a most satisfactory ono one to Galveston peo people people pie who had bu bullied It H a as II the protection It afforded was thorough there being no erosion of at the gredo gT de no damage to the city and anti not the least damage to the wall cubic cable In raising the grade yards of material was tilled filled In at a cost of 3 The third notable work now nO under con construction Is U a great causeway to connect It Galveston island with the mainland will wi 11 be two miles mile long will cost co t eGO and will have ways ays for ans automobiles wagons etc for tor the steam railways and for the electric interurban railway y which Is Isnow Isnow isnow now under construction It will be the largest structure of its kind In the United States excepting tha th fh Florida keys via viaducts viaduct viaducts ducts duct and will pe he wider than any iny lengthy viaduct In the tM world Greater Grater Galveston ston Harbor HarborA A fourth project In 11 l course of ot realization tion flon is Greater Galveston ston harbor as QS planned by the t e engineers e of It the United States army which h will Include the port of ot Galveston and the tA h of ot Texas City and Port rort Bolivar The Tha Th plan includes the tl deepening of ot the channels cl to thirty five feet teet and the opening up of t the en entire entire tire Ure water front of t lower Galveston ston bay bayThe bayThe bayThe The work cork will cost coal co t approximately ro anti and require ten ton to fifteen years to exe execute cute etite At t present pre Galveston has hal feet fe t of ot water vater w ter and Texas City Git and Port Bolivar feet te et Texas Taxa City Is seven miles distant from Galveston and Port lort Bolivar five miles The federal government has thus far tar ex expended eXpended se on the flie Galveston har liar harbor harbor bor improvements with the Ule result that the t e people are iTt saved more milT than Ut annum Jn In transportation charges c arges or ora per about a out the h coSt coat t of ot the pew new project It ItIs Itis Is lf worthy of ot note that thit hat the toe saving In ocean carriage 6 on In foreign commerce Q mme ree within the thelast thelast last twenty years y rl tins has lur been een greater reater than rail that which has ben bean e n accomplished ac In carriage For example the he rate on cot cotton cotton ton top from Galveston to Liverpool has hns fallen train from 00 60 cents per poundS pound to 27 cents whereas the tho vail rail f U rates rate fro from fron n Texas com COrn common common COrnmon mon points to tit Galveston have been re redu reduced du d 15 cents The Pleasure Side Another notable feature of the new now ac activities along Iong the Texas coast c at ta is the devel development development of pleasure resorts The Tho most of the projects is that t at of ot Gal GaJ vestan This city has for many years ye rs had considerable reputation especially lallY In Inthe i ithe the and nd west vest as s a resort but It If is now proposed ed to place It In the front rank r nt A step In that direction Js I the proposed ed and assured erection ot a first seaside hotel hote fronting ln Seawall boul evard vard and overlooking the thO s sea a Within two weeks w kI more mare I than halt half a million dol dollars dollars I lars In Ia stock was raised r sed by private sub subscription subscription subscription for this purpose and it is probable probable probable able that a million dollars will be in invested Invested Invested vested in the tha enterprise The Thu proposed site of the t e hotel is on the gulf front the island from the scenes of shipping and trade far tar from the madding throngs ignoble strife strite Bases for tor the expectation that a high class resort will vill be developed are salu saiu salubrious climate an Incomparable beach long and shelving splendid for surf bath bathIng bat batIng Ing lag und affording miles milu of ot fine driveway the matchless Seawall S boule boulevard yard vard three miles in length Jen th connecting at atone atone atone one end with W Ul the beach beitch and at the other end with oleander and palm lined Broad Broadway Broadway way and through it with the Causeway and the shell road to Houston fifty miles mUes north the whole affording opportunity for tor forthe forthe the most lordly ordly on the conti continent continent nent font Also AIo there t ere are thE aquatic sports porth fishing and hunting from the tamest to the gamest and a city of ot quaint charm All of which development and projected development as was said at the outset is evidence not no of pf diversion but of ot tremendous tremendous tremendous dous resistless s growth of ot our common country |