The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-04-27
SUNDAY. APRIL q, 1873.
The Growth Of Texas.

collated from advanced census
sheets by the Philadelphia Press,
exhibits the magical and unprece-
denied advancement Of our State,
as well as its wonderful adaptable
ty to the growth of temperate or
tropical products, while it COM
bines the charms of both climates,
without the rigor of either, it offers
to the settler the most unequalled
advantages. Let the statistics tell
the remainder:
TEXAS IN THE CENSUS.
From the advanced sheets of the census
reports We have obtained some interesting
figures bearing upon the condition sad
progress Of Texas as regards agriculture
and manufacturers. The whole area of
the State is estimated at 237 504 square
miles, or l56, 002, 500 acres. This is twice
and ono half-times the combined areas of
New York and Pennsylvania, more than
three times as large as all New England,
considerably larger than France and Cor
sics together, and not much smaller than
the entire Austrian empire.
OF this immense area 1866 acres
only was even included in farms at the
time the census was taken, and Of the land
so included 1904 1881 acres only was i'm
proved. The remaining l5,43l 6S7 acres
embraced within farms was about equally
divided between woodland and prairie
bottoms, or uplands not timbered,
The average size Of farms was 30l acres
as against SOL in 1860, and 942 in 1850
showing q great increase in the number of
small farms. The total number of farms
in 1870 wa. 6l, 1875, as against 1881 in
1860 and 1918 in 1850. The increase in
twenty years, therefore, had been over
hvefold.
In 1870 there were
1854 farms of between 10 aud 20 acres,
2O,620 farms of between 20and so acres,
l0,SSO farms Of between so and 1870 acres,
6,.sb faras Of between 100 and 500 acres,
305 farms Of between 800 and 1000 acres.
Consi dcrably mole than fve-sixths of
ell the farms in the State were between
three and one hundred acres in size. The
increase in the member of farms has been
far moro rapid during the last three years
since the taking of the census, ana the
tendency to decrease of size, and as a
consequence toward better average of
cultivation, 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, Gl,322
mules and asses, 42804 mlCh COWS, 1885,
407 working sxen, and 1898, 500 other
cattle, 7l4,461 sheep, 1902, 445 swine, g.
l7S bushels spring wheat, 34S, bushels
Of winter wheat, 2S,52l bushels of rye 20.
554,628 bushels Of Indian corn, 1922
bushels Of oats, 44,S5l bushels of barley,
and 6S,744 bushels Of rice; 59,7O6 pounds
Of tobacco, 350,628 bales Of cotton, and
1851, 1928 pounds of WOOL 2OS,383 bushels
Of Irish potatoes, and 2,lSS,64l bushels
Of sweet potatoes; 6,2l6 gallons of wine,
S,7l2,747 pounds Of butter, 81, 342 pounds
Of cheese, and III gallons of milk, Q,
020 hsgsheads of sugar, 246,062 gallons
Of cane molasees.
Among the smaller items are hay, hops,
hemp, wax, and honey and garden and
orchard products. The progress in manu-.
features has been no less remarkable than
in agricultural improvements. There
were in 1870 1920 manufacturing estab-
lishmsnts, employing $40 steam engines,
1l6 wstsr-wheels, 1927 hands, 81, 1881, ITO
in capital, $6,273, 1893 worth of materials,
and turning out ST., 5l7302 worth of pro-
products. The number of establishments
in 1860 was 1888, which employed 3,ii0
hands, upwards of three millions Of capt.
tai, ever three millions worth of materials,
and turned cut products to the value of six
millions and shalf.
The manufacturing products include
Gotten and .woolen goods, iron castings,
freight and passenger cars, leather, iron
hard v are, and large number ofother i'm
portant articles. The principal products
% to value were these Of tho five hundred
and thirty-three flour and grist mills,
amounting to 81 .96O,S5l; and of the if
teen beef-packing establishments, yielding
$l,062, l06.
1t Is safe TO estimate that both the capi-
tai employed 0nd the products of manu-
featuring establishments in Texas have
increased at least fifty per cent. since 1870,
since no State or Territory has enjoyed
such large influx Of immigration during
the past three years.