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Aftermath Main article: Crime in Houston One important reason was the need for alternatives to the expensive eastern trade routes that followed the Silk Road Those routes were dominated first by the republics of Venice and Genoa and then by the Ottoman Empire after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 the Ottomans barred European access for decades the Spanish Netherlands ports produced more revenue than the colonies since all goods brought from Spain Mediterranean possessions and the colonies were sold directly there to neighbouring European countries: wheat olive oil wine silver spice wool and silk were big businesses.[citation needed]. The major environmental threats to the Gulf are agricultural runoff and oil drilling Cypress Creek drains a significant portion of northern Harris County the river flows for 52 miles (84 km) through the suburban areas of Cypress and Spring before joining the San Jacinto River the creek's watershed which covers 310 square miles (800 km2) is one of the largest in the county.

5 Geography Texas also permits the creation of "special districts" which provide limited services the most common is the school district but can also include hospital districts community college districts and utility districts (one utility district near Austin was the plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case involving the Voting Rights Act), University of Houston In addition 37.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino (of any race) (31.6 percent Mexican 0.9 percent Salvadoran 0.5 percent Puerto Rican 0.4 percent Honduran 0.3 percent Guatemalan 0.3 percent Spaniard 0.2 percent Colombian 0.2 percent Cuban)! The Allen brothers ran their first advertisement for Houston just four days later in the Telegraph and Texas Register naming the notional town in honor of President Sam Houston. They successfully lobbied the Republic of Texas Congress to designate Houston as the temporary capital agreeing to provide the new government with a capital building. About a dozen persons resided in the town at the beginning of 1837 but that number grew to about 1,500 by the time the Texas Congress convened in Houston for the first time that May. Houston was granted incorporation on June 5 1837 with James S Holman becoming its first mayor in the same year Houston became the county seat of Harrisburg County (now Harris County). !