37,000 bbls. daily. Willi the production of the oilier companies some 100.000.000 bbls. are now claimed as Spindle Top’s record and the end not in sight. Networks of pipes lie under this land. Thousands of producing wells feed the refineries—from Spindle Top’s prodigal flow and from the countless fields of Texas, Oklahoma. Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana. At Beaumont is the Magnolia refinery and near are other Magnolia plants. At Port Arthur, 22 mi. southeast of Beaumont is the Gulf refinery embracing 3,GOO A.—largest in Texas, and also the chief refinery of the Texas Company, and at Texas Island is the big plant where the cans are made and the Texaco products manufactured and shipped; at Port Neelies their asphalt plant. The Pure Oil Co., Humble, Atlantic, Yount-Lee, Prairie and others add to the network of oil industries in this district. An annual payroll of .$50,000,000 is claimed from the oil companies. The automobile was a toy when oil was discovered. Gasoline had no market and was dumped into the sea. Today the products from this district go out to the world over the seven seas. Today the automobile is king and the Sabine district is the king’s market place.
HOTEL BEAUMONT is new, well equipped and popular with all classes; restaurant good. CROSBY HOTEL, old but well kept. New cabin camp well equipped. Good free camp at the fair grounds. Inf.—Chamber of Commerce.
Also Automobile Club (AAA) at Hotel Beaumont.
McDonald’s Tire, Service and Storage Sta. is large and well liked.
*LIBERTY. One of the old settlements of Texas and center of fertile farming country. Several big oil fields.
Rice, cotton and cattle. The CENTRAL, a clean country hotel, fills early. Inf. and service Jackson’s Filling Sta. opp. the railroad station; also his tourist camp one-half mile east, both on the OST. Camp grounds arc free. Cabins arc 75c. New and clean.
^TRINITY RIVER. Another of the big flood rivers draining into the gulf.
DAYTON. Cotton, rice, cattle and oil fields. Developing into a busy little town. Lodging. Camp space.
CROSBY’. Cotton and general farming. Lodging. Free camp, good shade.
SAN JACINTO RIVER. Private camps. Camp sites by the river.
^HOUSTON. Deep-water sea channel; greatest port and one of the important railroad centers of the Southwest; oil and cotton exporting and products manufacturing; one of the rich and fast growing cities of Texas. East 25 ml. is San Jacinto Battlefield where Gen. Sara Houston and the Texas patriots defeated Santa Ana and won Texas freedom in 183G. Big sulphur mines to the south. Galveston at the gulf. Rice Institute is passed on South Main St., a fine and distinctive college; a drive about the spacious campus will repay. The Gulf Coast Good Roads Ass’n. is proceeding intelligently to tic all East Texas together with a first-class system of highways. This is all good country.
Hotels.—RICE leads, 1,00ft rms., well liked; SAM HOUSTON, new, nice, moderate priced; BRISTOL, popular prices, well managed; WARWICK, apartment and transient, near Rice Institute. Cabin camp, Harrisburg Rd., camp space 50c, cabins up to $2.50. Inf.—Motor League of South Texas (AAA) at Bender Hotel, nice service.
SUGAR LAND. This entire community is owned and 1 maintained by the Imperial Sugar Co. and allied interests; it is an interesting study in community development. A
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