Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-05-03
The Growth of Texas.


collatcd from advanced census
sheets by tho Philadelphia Press,
exhibits tho magical and unprece.
dented advancement Of our State,
as we'll as It's wonderful adaptabili-
ty to the growth of temperate Or
tropical products, while it COM
bines the charms of both climates,
without tho rigor of either, it offers
to the settler the most unequall0d
advantages. Let the statistics tell
the remainder:
TEXAS IN THE CENSUS.
Fro m the advanced sheets of the census
reports we have obtained some inter testing
figures bearing upon the condition and
progress Of Texas ms regards agriculture
and manufacturers. The whole area of
the State Is estimated at 237, ,504 square
miles, or 156, ,002, $50 acres. This is twice
and one half-tmes the combined areas Of
New York and Pennsylvania, more than
three times as large rs all New England,
considerably larger than France and Cor
sica together, and not much smaller than
the entire Austrian empire.
or this immense area 1896, ,523 acres
only was even included in farms at the
time the census was taken, and Of the land
so included 2.964 1881 acres only was i'm
proved. The remaining 15,43L6S7 acres
embraced within farms was about equally
IL n..:o
bottoms. or uplands not timbered.
The average size Of farms was 301 acres,
as against sol in 1860, and 942 in 1850,
showing a great increase in the number of
small farms. The total number of farms
in 1870 was CLIPS, as against 1891 in
1860, and l2.19s in 1850. The increase in
twenty years, therefore, had been over
fvefold.
In 1870 there were
1854 farms of between 10 and 90 acres,
2O62O farms of between 20 and so acres,
l0S90 farms of between so and 100 acres,
62S6 farms of between 1G0 and 500 acres
sos farms of between 900 and 900 acres.
Consi dcrably more than five-sixths of
all tho farms in the State were between
three and one hundred acres in size. The
increase in the member of farms has been
far more rapid during the last three years
since the taking of the census, and the |
tendency to q decrease of size, and as a
consequence toward better average of
has been more and more
marked.
No State in the Union grows success
fully such variety of crops as Texas.
The aggregate farm products of the State
in 1870 embraced 424,504 horses, 6l,322 |
mules and asses, 428,0 ,04S milch COWS, 1885,
i07 working oxen, and 2,933,5S8 other
cattle, 7l4,451 sheep, 1,202, ,445 swine, Co.
l73 bushels spring wheat, 34S,039 bushels
If winter wheat, 2S,52l bushels Of rye, 90
j5i,52S bushels of Indian corn, 762, ,G63
bushels of oats, 44,35l bushels of barley,
md G3,7i4 bushels of rice; 50,706 pounds
If tobacco, 350,628 bales Of cotton, and
,261 1928 pounds of WOOL 20S, 38S bushels
# Irish potatoes, and 2,lSS,64l bushels
If sweet potatoes; 6,2lG gallons of wine,
,712,747 pounds of butter, 34,342 pounds
# cheese and 62,77l gallons of milk, 2,
)20 hogsheads of sugar, 246, ,O62 gallons
# cane molasees.
Among the smaller items are hay, hops,
emp, wax, and honey, and garden and
richard products. The progress in manu-
actures has been no less remarkable than
n agricultural improvements. There
vere in 1870 2,3229 manufacturing estab-
employing $40 steam-engines,
l6 water wheels, 1927 hands, $2,2S4, ,ll0
n capital, S6,273, 1913 worth of materials,
nd turning out Sl1,5l7,302 worth of pro-
roducts. The number of establishments
n 1860 was 983, which employed 3,449
ands, upwards of three millions of capi-
al, over three millions worth Of materials,
nd turned out products to the value of six
billions and half.
The manufacturing products include
otton and wooden goods, iron castings,
reight and passenger cars, leather, iron
ard ware, and large number ofother i'm
ortant articles. The principal products
9 to value were these Of the five hundred
nd thirty three -four and grist mills,
to 81 .96O,S5l; and Of the ff-
cen beef packing establishments, yielding
il ,052, ,lO6.
1t is safe to estimate that both the capi-
,l employed and the products Of manu-
acturing establishments in Texas have
increased at least fifty per cent since 1870,
ince no State or Territory has enjoyed
nch large influx of immigration during
,e past three years.