All about Texas: A Handbook of Information for the Home Seeker, the Capitalist, the Prospector, the Tourist, the Health HunterJ.H. Traynham, 1888 - 47 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
00 To appropriation A. P. Wooldridge acres Agents agricultural amount Austin Average value belt black prairie Brazoria Brazoria County Brazos Brenham buildings Burnet Burnet county bushels cattle Central City clay climate coal Colorado Corsicana cost cotton counties crop Dallas Denison District dollars DRISKILL HOTEL East El Paso F. B. CHILTON factories farm feet Fort Worth furnish Galveston Gulf H. C. Townsend hickory homestead Houston hundred Huntsville Immigration Committee iron John labor Lampasas land notes Land Office Lime limestone Llano Llano Estacado loam loans Louis manufacture Mason MICROBE miles mineral Montague Nacogdoches National Bank nearly Nueces Orleans Palo Pinto Paso pecan Pecos purchase Railroad Railway ranch REAL ESTATE Red River Richard Coke Rusk Sabine San Antonio San Saba sandy school land sections soil taxes Texas land Texas State bonds timber tons Total Travis TRAVIS COUNTY Waco water power Western Williamson Wood Worth
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Seite 5 - ... the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland...
Seite 44 - ... the homestead in a city, town or village, shall consist of lot or lots, not to exceed in value five thousand dollars at the time of their designation as the homestead, without reference to the value of any improvements thereon ; provided, that the same shall be used for the purposes of a home, or as a place to exercise the calling or business of the head of a family...
Seite 27 - ... to the manual labor industrial school. In view of this fact it is proper to state as definitely as possible the interpretation given to the act of Congress by the authorities of this college and the manner in which they are endeavoring to carry out its provisions. The general object of this college is to excite and foster in the minds of our people an enthusiastic appreciation of the attractiveness and value of those pursuits by which the material development of the country is advanced. It is...
Seite 33 - ... per cent per annum on the whole unpaid purchase money, which interest shall also be payable on the first day of November of each year ; and upon receipt of one-fortieth of the purchase money by the treasurer, and the affidavit and obligation aforesaid...
Seite 26 - TEXAS : Teachers holding a diploma from the Peabody Normal School at Nashville, Tenn., "may teach in the public schools of the state during good behavior, and such diplomas shall rank as permanent state certificates; and such teachers shall not be subject to examination by any board of examiners.
Seite 44 - All household and kitchen furniture ; any lot or lots in a cemetery held for the purpose of sepulture ; all implements of husbandry ; all tools, apparatus, and books belonging to any trade or profession; the family library and all family portraits and pictures ; five milch cows and their calves; two yoke of work oxen, with necessary yokes and chains ; two horses and one wagon ; one carriage or buggy ; one gun ; twenty hogs ; twenty head of sheep ; all saddles, bridles, and harness necessary for the...
Seite 5 - This would give to each man, woman and child in the United States to-day three acres of land. If as densely populated as New York, it would contain 28,000,000 inhabitants; or, if as populous as France, it would contain 45,000,000; or, if as populous as Japan, it would contain 65,000,000; or, if as populous as Belgium, it would contain 133,000,000. With a...
Seite 44 - League and labor, 26,000,000 square varas, or 4,605 acres. To find the number of acres in a given number of square varas, divide by 5,646, fractions rejected.
Seite 27 - ... this college is to excite and foster in the minds of our people an enthusiastic appreciation of the attractiveness and value of those pursuits by which the material development of the country is advanced. It is the business of this college to turn the attention of our young men from the overcrowded "learned professions" to those occupations which have brought abundant wealth and power to other States, and which are beginning now to attract and well repay the services of trained young men in Texas....