Pictorial review of the city of Paris and Lamar county, Texas (1885) (14594584347)

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Title: Pictorial review of the city of Paris and Lamar county, Texas ..
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Benton, F(rank) Weber, 1855- (from old catalog) Beach, Edgar R., (from old catalog) jt. author
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Publisher: St. Louis, Benton, Beach & Daniels
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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use—illustration of which islerein presented. The firm also has a branch house in LittleRock, and purchasing agencies at nearly every important shipping)ointin Arkansas and north Texas, and handle over 100,00 bales)f cotton a year. The cotton compress at this place, in whichhis firm is also interested, is likewise a gigantic institution. It isequipped with the most improved of modern machinery, and hasi capacity for compressing all the cotton that may come to this•oint. Paris Ice Factory, D. W. Hale, president, J. W. Moore,ecretary and superintendent, and D. W. Hale, J. W. Moore, J.V. Ownby, and S. Buford, directors, was established in 1881.^he ice is manufactured from pure distilled water, by chemicalrocess. Yield per annum, 800,000 pounds. A large planing mill was established by Moore & Ownby in871, and after several changes of owners was bought by Hamil-)n & Son and destroyed by fire in 1884 with 800,000 feet ofimber. The other manufactories of more recent establishment
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PARIS, AND LAMAR COUNTY. 29 are the planing mills of Henley & Ramseuer with saw mills atTexarkana, and the Paris Cotton Seed Oil Works, Culbertson &Gaston, proprietors. There are three steam flowering mills of large capacity, viz:Crown mills, of Bassano Bros., Eagle mills, of Alex McLaughlin,and the Excelsior mills and cotton gin, Provine & Stell proprietors. The Paris iron works and machine shop, Williams &Lowery, proprietors. The North Texas machine shop, M. F.Ritchey, proprietor, and numerous smaller manufacturing enter-prises. There are two banks of large capital, Farmers & Mer-chants and the Paris Exchange Bank, also the Paris Gas Lightcompany, and the Paris Lumber and Grain company, with wasmills near Texarkana. The street railway of Paris was constructed by Capt. J. MDaniels in 1878, with two miles of track and good facilities foithe transportation of passengers and freight from the railroaddepot to the center of the city. It is now owned and operated bya st