John J. Conway

John Conway founded the city of Mission, Texas in 1907 with J. W. Holt when the two purchased the 17,000-acre (6,900 ha) La Lomita Ranch from the Oblate fathers. Subdivided parcels were sold to arriving settlers and water was pumped from the Rio Grande by means of a pumping station called the First Lift Station and distributed to the residents of the Rio Grande Valley through the Mission Canal Co. Irrigation System, also started by Conway and Holt.

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External links

"Mission Historical Museum | City of Mission". missiontexas.us. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
"MISSION, TX | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
Fort, K.G.; Museum, M.H. (2009). Mission. Arcadia Publishing. p. 127. ISBN 9780738571485. Retrieved 2015-11-09.

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