Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway Company Stock Certificate texas-oil-and-gas-collectionThe Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway was chartered in 1885 in order to construct a line between Forth Worth and Brownwood, TX a distance of 127 miles. The line was part of a plan to build a transcontinental railroad through Texas, from New York to Mexico. Fort Worth businessmen also believed the Fort Worth and Rio Grande would strengthen the local economy by bringing foreign trade, the Southwest Texas livestock business, and additional service and
Investors who owned these bonds would make regular visits to their banks to cut out and redeem the coupons and collect their interest
Houston was the new shining star of commerce after the loss of Galveston to a hurricane 15 years earlier
The new Houston Ship Channel is shown – it had been finished the year before this map was published after Mayor Rice had presented the “Houston Plan” in Washington and Jesse Jones had arranged for the sale of $1
One was the rattlesnake paired with the motto "Don't Tread on Me
These colonies were on the edge of the frontier
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The company was also one of the first in Texas to use oil as a locomotive fuel when it began experimenting with oil-fired locomotives in early 1901
The price varied from a total of $1
The first American offensive move in the Revolutionary War came over a year before the Declaration of Independence was signed
annexation by the United States was still an important issue
and was the largest fenced ranch in the world
At the beginning of 1931 the giant East Texas oil field around Kilgore was established
