Texarkana Miller County, Arkansas

Texarkana, Arkansas A city of 28,500 inhabitants, covering 7 3/4 miles about equally divided on both sides of the TEXas - ARKansas state line, 26 miles from the northwest corner of Louisiana and 28 miles from the southeast corner of Oklahoma. Two cities in one, one in fact and one in spirit. Two municipal governments; one joint fire department. Two United States District Courts; one Post office, Texarkana, ARK.-TEX. Two police departments; one court of civil appeals. Four mail trunk line railroads, and five feeder lines; union passenger and freight terminals. One joint food and dairy inspection service, one CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, one live city. Bank deposits, May 12, 1919, $8,696,750.42. Thirty-seven passenger trains and 800 freight cars daily. Texarkana has these important business: Three cotton seed oil mills. One of the largest window glass factories. One of the largest casket factories. The largest cedar chest factory in the world. A freight traffic bureau. A cotton exchange. Cotton compress. Automobile and truck factory. Three handle factories. New $135,000 sewage disposal plant. Six banks. A peanut milling plant. A pottery. Two large cresoting plants. Three bottling works. A manufactory of optical lenses. Two ice cream factories. A large and high class creamery. Hardwood and Pine mills. Large horse and mule sales barn. An oil line pumping station.

Miller County

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