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70 TEXAS ALMANAC.
and windows of the rooms occupied by the operatives to be kept closed. It is
well known that the crowded, ill-ventilated rooms of many of the manufactories
of Europe, and of the Northern States, bring disease and death to thousands
of workmen, thus entailing loss upon the manufacturer and laborer. Here,
constant cheap water-power can be used instead of steam-power. Here there
is the greatest abundance of the raw material at hand, whether cotton, wool,
or iron be desired. The growth of wool is already a leading agricultural
business in Texas, especially the western part of the State. Cotton is the
staple of Eastern Texas, and the cotton lands of the lower Brazos and Colorado
rivers are unsurpassed for their productiveness. There is an iron mountain
in Llano county, the magnetic oxide, or magnetite of the mineralogists, whose
ore yields upward of seventy-five per cent of metallic iron, and a similar iron
ore abounds in various parts of that county, affording more than enough ore
to supply the Southern country. Brown coal (lignite) of a good quality exists
in extensive beds in Bastrop and Caldwell counties, scarcely 100 miles south
of the Llano iron ores, while in the vicinity of the brown coal-beds, iron ores
of an inferior quality abound, some of which are hermatites, affording from
20 to 50) per cent of metallic iron, which last, in most countries, is considered
a good yield. The Southern market now has, and will have, a constantly in-
creasing demand for all goods made from cotton, wool or iron-particularly
this last, for railroads, machinery, agricultural implements, etc., etc. We
trust that capitalists and manufacturers, who are not tied to any one locality,
need only to be informed of the great advantages presented by Western Texas
for manufacturing, to be induced to go there and engage in business.
SALT LAGUNES OF WETER TEXAS
The vast salt lakes below Corpus Christi are eliciting no little attention.
Twelve miles south of Corpus Christi is the entrance to the Laguna Madre,
along either shore of which the salt lakes are found. This laguna is ninety
miles long, lying nearly north and south, and is, on an average, eight miles
wide. There is no current in it, owing to the shoals at or near the south end.
It is situated between Padre Island and the main-land-either shore being
very low and the surrounding country very flat. The sun evaporates so much
of this laguna that the remainder becomes strong brine, killing the fish that
enter it and whitening the shore with their bones, until it resembles in the
distance a shell beach. The strong winds of winter back up the waters of
the laguna, causing it to overflow the flat country on both the island and
main-land sides. This overflow is evaporated by the summer sun, and leaves
vast fields of pure white salt, from two to eight inches in depth, in all the
lower places.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
T E State of Texas was divided by the late Legislature into the four fol-
lowing Congressional Districts:
first Ditrict.-The First Congressional District is composed of the following
counties: Chambers, Jefferson, Orange, Hardin, Liberty, Polk, Tyler, Jasper,
Newton, Sabine, San Augustine, Angelina, Trinity, Houston, Anderson, Hen-
derson, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Shelby, Panola, Rusk, Smith, Van Zandt,
Wood, Upshur, and Harrison.
Second Disrict.-The Second Congressional District is composed of the fol-
lowing counties: Davis, Bowie, Titus, Red River, Hopkins, Lamar, Fannin,
Hunt, Collin, Grayson, Cook, Denton, Wise, Montague, Jack, Clay, Young,
Palo Pinto, Archer, Wichita, Wilbarger, Baylor, Throckmorton, Stephens,
Eastland, Shackleford, Callahan, Taylor, Jones, Haskell, Knox, Hardeman,
Tarrant, Parker, Johnson, Ellis, Dallas, Marion, and Kaufman.
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The Glaveston News. The Texas Almanac for 1867 with Statistics, Descriptive and Biographical Sketches, etc., Relating to Texas., book, December 1866; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123772/m1/72/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.