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February 15th, 1880 -- Lumberman predicts big future for El Paso
On this day in 1880, O. T. Bassett, visiting El Paso on business, wrote in his diary, "Plenty of room here for a big city, which it will be in time after the railroads come." Bassett, born in Vermont in 1850, had moved to Fort Worth in 1879 and established a lumber business. The following […]

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