. MARSHALL, Tex., county-seat of Harri son County, is situated about 14 miles north of Sabine River, 40 miles west of Shreveport and 67 miles south of Texarkana. The city was founded in the year 1840. Marshall is situated in the midst of a fertile agricultural region which has heretofore engaged mostly in cotton raising, hut recent developments show that this section is well adapted to truck growing and the raising of fruits, especially peaches, and large orchards are being planted. The city is largely supported also by lumber interests, there being large areas of pine timber contiguous to the city, which is rapidly being marketed. The land from which the timber is taken is quickly occupied for agricultural and orchard purposes, some orchards containing as high as 6,000 acres. Stock raising is also carried on and the city re ceives considerable support from this source. The Texas and Pacific Railroad runs through the city, west to El Paso, north to Texarkana and southeast to Shreveport and New Orleans. The Texas Southern Railroad has its terminus at present at Marshall, but will be pushed far ther south. The shops of the Texas and Paci fic Railroad, located at Marshall, are the finest to be found anywhere in the Southwest. Loco motives and all kinds of rolling-stock are manu factured. These shops have d local payroll of $50,000 a month. The local shops and general offices of the Texas Southern Railroad are also located in Marshall. Marshall has also a 50-ton
cotton-seed-oil mill; the Marshall car-wheel and foundry plant, employing 325 men; two wagon factories, a soda-water apparatus fac tory — 22 factories in all, giving employment to 1,200 people, using a capital of $1,700,000 and producing annually $1,800,000 worth of goods. The city has installed complete sewer age and waterworks plants.
There are excellent churches and schools. The total value of the city school property is $100,000. There are, also, a number of private schools. There are three Catholic schools in the city— one for girls and one for boys, and an industrial school for boys. In the city are also located the Wiley University and Bishop Col lege, institutions for the education of the ne groes; the former with 493, and the latter with 500 students annually. The property of the former is valued at $65,000 and the latter at $150,000.
The city has two national banks with a total capital of $200,000, a daily, semi-weekly and weekly newspapers. Marshall and vicinity is noted for the medicinal properties of its many springs and wells, and many people annually, especially during the summer season, visit these places as health resorts. Pop. 13,000.