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BEAUMONT , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Jefferson county, See also:Texas, U.S.A., situated on the Neches See also:river, in the E. See also:part of the See also:state, about 28 M. from the Gulf of See also:Mexico and 72 M. N.E. of See also:Galveston. Pop. (189o) 3296; (1900) 9427, of whom 2953 were negroes; (1910, See also:census) 20,640. It is served by the Gulf & Interstate, the Gulf, See also:Colorado & See also:Santa Fe, the See also:Kansas City See also:Southern, the Texas & New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, the Colorado Southern, New Orleans & Pacific, the Beaumont, Sour See also:Lake & Western (from Beaumont to Sour Lake, Tex.), and the (See also:short) Galveston, Beaumont & See also:North-Eastern See also:railways. The Neches river from Beaumont to its mouth has a See also:depth of not less than 19 ft.; from its mouth extends a See also:canal (9 ft. deep, roo ft.wide, and 12 M. See also:long), which connects with the See also:Port See also:Arthur Canal (18o ft. wide and 25 ft. deep) extending to the See also:sea. Situated in the midst of a region covered with dense forests of See also:pine and See also:cypress, Beaumont is one of the largest See also:lumber centres of the southern states; it is also the centre of a large See also:rice-growing region. The manufactories include rice See also:mills, saw mills, See also:sash, See also:door and See also:blind factories, See also:shingle mills, See also:iron See also:works, oil refineries, See also:broom factories and a See also:dynamite factory. In 1905 the cleaning and polishing of rice was the most important See also:industry, its output being valued at $1,203,123, being nearly twice the value of the product of the rice mills of the city in 1900, 25.9 % of the See also:total value of the state's product of polished and cleaned rice, 46.1% of the value($2,609,829) of all of Beaumont's factory products, and about 7'4 % of the value of the product of polished and cleaned rice for the whole See also:United States in 1905. After the sinking of oil See also:wells in 1901, Beaumont became one of the See also:principal oil-producing places in the United States; its oil refineries are connected by See also:pipe lines with the surrounding oil See also:fields, and two 6-in. pipe lines extend from Beaumont to See also:Oklahoma. Beaumont was first settled in 1828, and was first chartered as a city in 1899.
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