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The H. A. Harvey, Jr. sternwheeler made a 67-day trip up the Trinity River to ramp on Dallas' Commerce St. in 1893. For the next five years it made only 13-mile excursion trips to the south, but its threatening presence was sufficient to lower rail freight rates for agricultural commodities in the Dallas area.

 
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