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Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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A Texas Industrial Congress Demonstration Crop or CornRaised by E. M. Woods at Gladewater. Planted April 13th; picture taken July 30th KING COTTON 147 Raising so much from the bush that bears fleece morebeautiful than the wool of the sheep, as the Greeks ofAlexanders army over twenty-two centuries ago describedthe cotton of India, raising far more cotton than her peoplecan possibly use, Texas is very largely dependent for herprosperity upon a market for cotton and upon the priceof the staple in the United States and in Europe. Hence ithas happened in the fatal sequence of the world, that theshooting of an Austrian Archduke has caused tenant farm-ers in Texas to suffer by thousands. The great Europeanwar at first so checked cotton exporting that for the firsttime since the Civil War there was no market and saleswere nominal at 8 cents per pound, and even lower. Soprofound was the effect on Texas trade that a special sessionof the legislature was called to provide legal facilities forma

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