Texas and Pacific Land Trust Narrative 1888, 1962

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Texas and Pacific Land Trust Narrative 1888, 1962

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01298/01298-P.html

The Texas and Pacific Railway Company operated under a federal charter and had a large impact on the growth of Texas and its oil industry.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Texas and Pacific Railway Company

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The Texas and Pacific Railway Company was the only railroad in Texas, and one of the few in the United States, to operate under a federal charter. Congress granted the charter March 3, 1871. With the end of the Civil War, the project to construct a southern transcontinental railroad was revived, and the Texas Pacific was given the right to build from Marshall, Texas, to San Diego, California. The company was granted a federal land grant of twenty sections of land per mile through Ca...

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