Business View Civil Municipal - July 2023

115 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 7 history also includes the lumber industry. She cited a former lumber mill that was once a major part of the city’s economic tapestry. Plus, it’s long been known as a major railway hub. And Wadzeck credited Ross Sterling (1875-1949) with having a major impact upon Dayton and the state of Texas. Sterling served two years as governor during the worst depths of the Great Depression, nine decades ago, and he later went on to be among the men who founded the Exxon- Mobil oil company, the largest direct descendant of John Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, according to the Texas State Historical Association. With a population greater than 2.3 million, Houston is the largest city in Texas. If it is the sun, possessed of much heat and a mighty gravitational force, Dayton is the moon. And located just more than half an hour away, the former is being pulled into a tighter orbit with the latter. “Houston is growing our way very quickly,” Wadzeck DAY TON, TE XAS Caroline Wadzeck Kimberly Judge Jennifer Billings