The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-12-17
p.McCALEB, Editor.
y.,yrruaE oaEArxTAs oE NORTH
49, TRNAH.

1tl TEXAS
General facts ARE easily understood
They require little thought or calcu'a'
tom, but Me trie statesman ana poli'-
IcaF economist must needs spend the
d,,iot bolIrsofnigiitm order correc'ly'''
10 solve problems affecting the wei
fare Of the state. Drawing mint line
between the extremes OF superhciai
carelessness and profound lnvesliga
ton, we propose, In few words, to pre-
sent 10 our readers q glimpse OF the
material power and glory that u IN
store for this fayorlte secondary en-
pIre In territory which we call Norlh
Texas.
We take Dallas county as on Illus
tratlon. There are In this county .oIOi-
900 thousand acres Of rich land, two
thirds Of which are Of rich soil and
suseepblbls ofipronisSle cultivation IN
Cotton, corn, small grain, fruit and
vegetables. But, to be sure OF deceiv-
ing 10 one, and planting ourselves on
an lnyulnerable basis ofealculation, We
adopt as base that three-ienths OF the
county only may be profltably worked.
Let us locke ut the results;
Plant one-tenth OF the whole In cot
ton and we have $1,000 acres, which,
at the low average df thee-luarters Of
bale to the acre, gives 1890 bales.
.Ope-tenth (57,eQO acres in wheat,
III IAN yefagf o. Is Busfieis per mere,
anil VIZ rtiwg In wheati, oss, 500 basb-
els, or 1922 SQ9 popnYd4uo div 9yI
One-tenth IN corn, barley, oats, rye,
:. fruit and yegetables-say half or one
twentieth in corn, (2s,sOO acres, AT 80
bushels TO the acre, and We have
$4,000 bushels, or at 40 bushels II
would produce ,ls0,OO0 bushels. One
half Of the remainder In barley, oats
aud rye, at SO bushels per acre, will
yield 10000 bushels besides the hay.
The remaining IA, 400 acres in mixed
crops, fruits, vegetables, etc., make UP
the whole three.tenths of l7.a1,S00 acres,
leaving for pasturage and waste lands
the enormous quantity o. scven-tenths,
or 10000 acres,
Thus, tcsecapR6lateI We Should have,p
as the produce Of Dallas county,
S %Sss SssSs"sassg LOCO 500
Corn, busl4els.. .. g. CT. M $4,000
Rye, oetsaAd.barley, buAheh%5 fD,DO0
M. Mixed as,iS crops fruits and vegetable, not
Now, there are fully twenty coun-
Ms ia North ITexasthat win, in the
future cQme, pp TO the average Of y al-
los, and twenty that asillldo tw6.thirds
as much. Apply these sentiments, and
we get the folioGing results: q u -
Cotton, bales. ......~...,....,, l,439, 800
Wheat, bushels. ...,..,,,,.,. 1880, 200
Corn, bushels. .................. $685., SS2
Rye, oats and barley, bushels 24,OOO,OOO
The twenty counties that we class as
prospectively averaging equal to Dali
las ar% Red River, Lamar, Fannin,
GrSyson, Cook, Montague, Clay, Wise,
Denton, Collin, Hunt, Hopkins, Kaul-
man, Navarro, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant
Hill and Dallas.
fhetwentyscouDties thatwe class as
prpspeclively averaging two-thirds the
productive pSwsr of the tirsttwenty
are: Archer, Young, Palo Pinto, Hood, |
Earth, Eastland, Stephens, Throck-
morton. Callahan, Taylor Jones,
Shackleford, Wichita, Wit anger, Har-
deman, Knox, Haskell, Comanche,
BFpYrEend Coleman 9A9gAEgl
We omit, as extra to be thrown in,
the small but fertile wheat counties of
Rockwell Rains aud Deltas We have
altogether left out the large timbered |
counties of Van Zandt, Wood, Upshur,
Titus HARRISON, Marion, Cass and |
Bowie, all of which lie on or north of
the Texas and Pacific Railroad, and all
of which are good corn and cotton
counties, but cannot be classed as part
of the small grain country.
So much for the productions of the
SOL nAddgt@ Alis the vast forestsof
tip,Serf leshlhTo 10 many varieties,
in the nine counties last named and |
the slx-fold greater amount south
ofthem, With which, our, rich, prairies
are nowilafyely railroad connection,
and the curious, as well as the enter
prising--whetheg citizens or strangers
--Siilfihave' bases on Which to found |
calculations of the mighty future that
is in store for North Texas, The white
man's 'codHtfy, TO Which Hundreds of
thousands Of longing eyes are now
turned from theeld States of the South,
the cold regions oftheWest, the Pacific
slope aasa w. he great telling hiyss Of
Europe. sIb0M |
Aa,oNi the stsArigS episodes in real |
life is the fact that in Belton, Bell
county. on the al. December, Colo