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METZ
-Leon
w h y
have
y o u
found
southweste r n
history
fascinating
enough
to write 17 books and countless articles about?
“I am fascinated by history.
It was so different than what
I grew up with back in West
Virginia where I completed
high school. The history here
is different, unique, often individualistic. And there is so
much of it. It is history that so
much of the world has no idea
about.” -L Metz 2011
Electric Rails
-Considerable
speculation
exists in El Paso concerning
the kind of electric railroad
that is to be built here. Select
surveys are now being made
and people have begun to ask
whether the line is to be operated by underground or overhead trolley.
EP Chamber 1918
-Last year, 1917, was the most
prosperous in the Chamber
of Commerce’ History. The
organization of El Paso businessmen and manufacturers
by systematic and persistent
work added to the city’s industrial and commercial
greatness -aids government in
patriotic endeavor.
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