Identifier: bookoftexa00bene (find matches)
Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Courtesy of the Houston Chamber of Commerce Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas CHAPTER XIV THE MATERIAL WEALTH OF TEXAS If I rejoiced because my wealth was great,And because mine hand had gotten much;This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges. —Job. IT IS the duty and the privilege of the remainder of thisbook to deal with the higher activities and the spiritualwealth of Texas, with human welfare and human prog-ress. Here it is our humbler task to summarize from theCensus the material results, measured in dollars, of the work-ing of the people of Texas with the land upon which theylive. The Census summary is very incomplete. It takesno account of the strength or the weakness of the people,of the smiles of children and the good deeds of men, of sum-mer breeze and bright sunshine, of the fishes in the sea andof most of the minerals in the earth, of the coming rains andof future crops. It includes only some of those tangiblethings that men are accustomed to measure in dollars. In-

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