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Excerpt from The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest Starting originally from St. Louis, it was pushed mile by mile through the virgin forest; it climbed the hills by easy grades, and threw across the streams and rivers its arches of stone and steel and iron. The rough log causeway became the firm and rigid road-bed; the treacherous rope ferries were replaced by massive bridges; the and whoa, and haw of the teamster were drowned in the shriek of the locomotive and the whiz and whir Of the express train. Year by year the work Of the first engineers has been supplemented by the never - ending improvements which are continually being made in roadway, track and bridges, and' which modern railway management deems necessary in order to furnish the traveling public with the facilities for quiet, safe and comfortable transportation demanded by the present generation of intelligent travelers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.