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COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES.
MORRISON & FOURMY—Directory Publishers; Established 1876; Main
Office, 170 Tremont Street, Galveston.
In no branch of the publishing business has there been greater progress
made in the last score of years, than in that devoted to the publishing of city
directories. Prior to the civil war, it was only the very large cities of the
country that boasted a directory, and even those few were insignificant
publications compared with those of to-day, being too feebly supported by
the business public to justify a publishing house in expending the time,
labor and capital requisite to make them the comprehensive vademecums
they should have been and are now. But the enterprising publishers of
America have been indefatigable in their efforts to educate the masses up
to a full knowledge of the indispensable value of a thoroughly complete
and reliable city directory, and as a result, we now find that the most ordi-
nary towns in every section of our country clamor each year for a new
directory, and it is a slow-poke community indeed that will not contribute
liberally to the publishing of a new directory of their town at least once
every two years. No publishing firm has done more to bring about this
improved condition of intelligence than Messrs. Morrison & Fourmy, the
well-known publishers of Texas city directories (established in 1876), and
too much credit cannot be accorded them for the good they have accom-
plished, the benefits they are continually conferring upon the public at
large, and the important influence they are exerting upon the development
of our cities and towns throughout the State through their invaluable
directories. The firm now publishes regularly annual or biennial directories
in the cities of Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Waco,
Fort Worth, Sherman and Denison—all live, go-ahead Texas cities—and
also Shreveport, Louisiana. The rapid advances which these several cities
are making as centres of trade, commerce and industry, must in a very
considerable measure be ascribed to such valuable adjuncts as the well
printed, comprehensive and thoroughly reliable directory they each support
liberally and with the spirit of true nineteenth century progression. The
main office of this extensive directory publishing house is located at No.
170 Tremont street, Galveston, and where are kept on file all directories of
the principal cities of the United States, and also back files of their own
Texas publications, for reference, free to the general public. Messrs.
Morrison & Fourmy are arranging to add several other live Texas cities to
their list of directory publications this year, another evidence of the appre-
ciation by the public of their capable works.

LAND & THOMPSON—Real Estate and Land Agency, for the Sale, Pur-
chase, Exchange and Lease of Improved and Unimproved Property;
Also, Fire Insurance Agents; Dallas, Texas.
The importance of the commission agent in the business affairs of this
life is thoroughly understood by every intelligent, wide-awake main of the
nineteenth century. No other medium is so capable for establishing the