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PREFACE
The Texas Almanac is a title well known in Texas, as well as
abroad. The work published under it was issued annually by the
Galveston News from 1857 to 1873, inclusive, except during the years
of the civil war. It was devoted largely to a description of the resources
of the State, to information concerning such development as had then
taken place, and also to the discovery and publication of valuable his-
torical matter. It obtained a-wide circulation, and was recognized as
the authoritative hand book of Texas, and, as such, one of the most
potential factors in the upbuilding of the State. So valuable was the
work et'eemed that recently, when the publishers sought to purchase
numbers to duplicate their files persons owning them asked as much
as $25 for a single Almanac, while others, kindly offering to loan their
numbers, declined to sell at any price.
Believing that the publication of such a book at the present time,
changed in its scope, of course, to meet changed conditions, would
materially assist in furthering the interests of Texas, while preserv-
ing in permanent and convenient form the record of the State's prog-
ress, the publishers some time since decided to resume the annual
publication of the Almanac.
They now present the first number of the new series, hoping and
believing that it will prove as useful in its day as its predecessors
were in their time. It has been the purpose of the publishers to give
facts about the State, and it is believed that the contents of the book
will bear the closest investigation.
To organize anew for this special work, to develop reliable sources
of information, to sift that information and to handle the almost infinite
detail connected with it, has been a task of great proportions. In its
accomplishment the publishers received valuable assistance from many
citizens of Texas and from their corps of correspondents throughout
the State.
Mr. Tom Finty, Jr., of The News, compiled the work, being assisted
in various ways by other members of the editorial staff. It is a matter
of regret that some meritorious suggestions -came too late to be of ser-
vice in this number. "Texas: Resources and Climate," an admirable
work published by Col. A. W. Spaight when he was Commissioner of
-Statistics, has frequently been drawn upon for the topographical
descriptions of the counties, with such occasional revisions as seemed
necessary. Acknowledgment is also made of the courtesy of the New
York Tribune in permitting the use of calendar and astronomical infor-
mation from the "Tribune Almanac and Political Register" for 1904.
A. H. BELO &-CO.
May, 1904.
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