town and said he did not live in El Paso but in Illinois Junction.
So far as his influence went, it was against El Paso.
He then added a bit of pertinent information, saying
Bestor moved away the only house he ever built in El Paso.
Wathen and Gibson then brought up the argument that the railroad injured
the town's growth by discriminatory freight rates, and they called George
H. Campbell to the stand. He backed them up by testifying
I was agent for the Peoria and Oquawka for eight years. I was acquainted
with the freight rates. There was no discrimination in favor of
El Paso that I ever knew of. They always shipped cheaper from Peoria to
Chicago than from El Paso to Chicago.
15. Deed record book W, page 16.
16. Deed record book 49, page 324.
17. From the writing of George R. Curtiss in his El Paso Journal.
Curtiss was an authority on early El Paso, and we recommend the booklet
he and Evans published in 1896 called the El Paso Journal’s Souvenir
Edition. Perhaps his most accurate research is summed up in a two page
supplement to the El Paso Journal under the date of June 21, 1934
in which he republished the drawing entitled El Paso City in 1869.
Although along in years at that date he had a lifetime of facts in the
files at his fingertips. Much of this history is from a search through
every El Paso Journal still in existence. The Library board purchased these
files in 1951 so that they would not be lost to posterity, and the obtaining
of them led to the idea of this book.
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