Question

How was the manufacturing industry in texas affected by geographic location?

Answer 1

The progress of the manufacturing industries in Texas has been that of the emblematic borderline region with its colonial economy in a slow shift from pastoral toward established economic status. The Texas region has had the superiority of rich and assorted natural resources. The geographic position inspiring the growth of population, and the expanding of transportation facilities. Consumption of these properties has come, primarily, by exporting of raw materials but progressively by manufacture in Texas into consumer’s products and semi-processed, as rail lines have been placing and deep-water ports dug, while the tide of American migration moved westward. Before the 1900 Texas manufacturing industries were of either the type that had inevitably come to the source of raw materials, such as brick manufacturing, stone cutting, lumbering, or the type that produce for the instant requests of a local market, as the milling of cornmeal and flour and the manufacture of saddlery and harness. Some industries were industrialized around the Spanish undertakings at San Antonio.