Beaumont, a banking city, the capital of Jefferson co., Tex., on the Neches River, 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and 84 miles E. by N. of Houston, on the Texas and New Orleans and other railroads. It has saw-, shingle- and rice-mills, a foundry, oar-works, machine-shops, etc. It ships large quantities of lumber and has been boomed by the discovery of large oil-deposits. Pop. in 1890, 5680 ; in 1900, 9427.

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