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Willacy County was created in 1910 and organized the following year. It is in the level coast area, and a considerable part of its area is sandy waste. Until the building of the St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railroad in 1905 there was no development aside from the live stock interests, and no towns and a very limited permanent population. Along the railroad have since been founded the towns of Sarita, which is now the county seat, Mifflin, Turcotte, Catherine and Rudolph. The county seat is Raymondville The following information is given by the Texas Almanac for 1914: "Most of the area is given over to vast pastures, which support many thousands of cattle. In some sections artesian water is secured and small tracts are irrigated. There are also a number of small farms, while it is becoming the practice of ranchers to grow a large acreage of feed stuffs, which is possible with a rainfall of twenty-five inches. Under irrigation many kinds of fruits and vegetables, as well as field crops, produce heavy yields. With further development of the water resources will come a greater demand for land at increased prices."
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