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Tiny Texas Beer Haven Wasting Away

Sunday, December 24, 2006 6:52:52 PM
By PAUL J. WEBER

A truck drives by a club in Mustang, Texas, Wednesday,  Dec. 20, 2006.  Welcome to Mustang, a 75-acre town carved from a cow pasture in 1973 to sell alcohol so that a beer run in Navarro County was no longer a 60-mile drive to Dallas. But the city hasn't sold a six-pack in a decade, the total tax revenue for November was $28 and Mustang can't pay its bills. (AP Photo/LM Otero)MUSTANG, Texas (AP) - It's not much to look at: two dusty streets, a strip club, a boarded-up country western bar, one trash bin, and a dilapidated trailer park where the entire population lives.

This 75-acre town, carved from a pasture in 1973 to sell alcohol so a beer run was no longer a 60-mile drive to Dallas, is broke, withering and down to about 50 residents.

Yet even with the place in such dismal shape, two people have been fighting for a year over who effectively owns Mustang: the strip club operator and the little-known widow of the town's co-founder.


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