Texas Short Line Railway Company $1,000 Gold Bond handcrafted-american-flags

Texas Short Line Railway Company $1,000 Gold Bond handcrafted-american-flagsThe Texas Short Line Railway Company was chartered on February 28, 1901. The company was formed to build and operate a ten mile stretch of railroad from Grand Saline to a connection with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company of Texas near Alba. The railroad primarily served the coal mines near Alba and the salt mine at Grand Saline. By 1903 small railroad owned one locomotive and seven cars. Despite the traffic provided by the salt works and

Unlike virtually all other flags with 13 stripes

New York and New Hampshire both claimed sovereignty of the territory west of the Green Mountains

ranchers and business professionals to leaders who had even served in the Mexican Government itself

scores of early towns and settlements

which became the state flag upon admission to the union

Their US maps were some of the first to prominently exhibit railroad lines

attacking the coast

In addition to his precise work documented in this map he also explored much of Texas and Oklahoma and was the first to discover the source of the Red River as well as the Palo Duro Canyon

protecting the lands claimed by settlers was a significant challenge

These rare TEXIAN LOANS

Declaration of Independence in 1826

oil-field workers