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A 5 page overview of the Texas Railroad Commission. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Archives Commission). The story of the Texas Railroad Commission, an organization that one author states is an "obscure state agency, known only to economic historians and the oil industry," is
in some ways a story about the history of the nation in relationship to regulations and the railroad, and clearly a history of Texas (Epstein 579). The following paper presents
an overview, and history, of the Texas Railroad Commission. Texas Railroad Commission The history of the Texas Railroad Commission is, according
to the Texas State Library & Archives Commission, "the story of Texas itself, and the states rise from an isolated frontier to a major economic power." In the middle of
the 1800s, prior to the Civil War, the first operating railway was the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, & Colorado (Texas State Library & Archives Commission). It was not only the first
railroad in Texas, but only the second railroad that existed west of the Mississippi River (Texas State Library & Archives Commission). This particular railroad was responsible for conveying freight and
passengers from Harrisburg to Stafford, and back, a stretch of approximately 20 miles (Texas State Library & Archives Commission). "By the end of 1861, there were about 470 miles of
track in Texas and nine railroad companies. Five of these companies were centered in the Houston area, and all but one served a seaport or river port" (Texas State Library
& Archives Commission). As railroads grew the freight they carried changed and grew, with cotton being a big freight package (Texas State Library
& Archives Commission). As the railroads grew there was the obvious need for some sort of regulation and this is ultimately why "The Railroad Commission was founded in 1891 on
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