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          for a 13- county area. Its proximity to the oil and gas
        
        
          fields of West Texas has made it a home to many oil-
        
        
          field service companies. A thriving medical sector has
        
        
          grown from its formative days in the early 1900s, when
        
        
          the city’s warm and dry climate helped heal tuberculo-
        
        
          sis patients who had come from all over the nation to
        
        
          its local treatment center. Other important sectors of
        
        
          the city’s modern economy are agriculture, livestock,
        
        
          meat processing, light manufacturing, telecommuni-
        
        
          AT A GLANCE
        
        
          WHO:
        
        
          San Angelo, Texas
        
        
          WHAT:
        
        
          A city of 100,000
        
        
          WHERE:
        
        
          Located in the Concho Valley in central
        
        
          west Texas
        
        
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