The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-12-03


present date. We have u public do
main of 100000 acres, all Of which
are to-day, with the exception OF the
LlanO Estaoad0, or staked plalll', lh
rich aud fertile ~ the valleys OF the
Nile,
You gentlemen deal Ia figures more
than In fancy, 40 permit me TO read
YOU a few statistics taken from the
actual records of the states
'Iho great state OF Texas embraces
u territory OF 28l ,bOi square miles, or
l60, 0O2, 800 acres Of arabic land, much
of which IL nsulpassed by any terri
tory OF like extent on the continent
There are yet In. central, western, east
ern aud southern Texas, with u climate
mild and genial ~ that Of Italy, many
millions Of acroa ~ set unoccIlpled'
IN 1870 the United States census mar
shuls returned for Texas u population
of SlS507 n gain Of 2Ol, 365 In ten years,
II h estimated that since 1870 the pop
uatIOn of the state has Increased OOO,-
900, which would make the present
population l,4lS, go. In 1870 the as
sessed value OF tho property of the
state was Sl70,i73,77B, In 1871 the
value of property had increased to
500, 2OGG9l. In 1872 theassessed value
had arisen TO 5000, 9jO, O2l, showing IN
increase IN three years OF Sl2i, 7S2,SlO.
And now from the figures OF 1879, we
have the value vet down AZ I'm round
numbers) S3i0, 100000.
"No state In the union grows 80 sue
Gesslully such II variety Of crops ~
Texas. In cotton, from crop Of So
600 bales In 1850, we have Increased
to G00,0OO bales for theyenr 1874. These
are bales of 500 pounds each, remem-
Der, instead Of the usual commercial
bale Of l5O pounds. The aggregate
farm products of the state IN 1870 em-
braced i2l,50i horses, o., 322 mules,
i2S,0iS milk cows 49,, 10Y working
oxen, aud 2,033, ,5SS other cattle; 7ll,35l
sheep, ,202, ii5 swine, 06, l73 bushels Of
spring wheat, 2S,52l bushels Of rye,
2O,5 jA,63S bushels of Indian corn, 7Gl,-
GG3 bushels OF oats, 1851 bushels Of
barley and GO, Sil bushels Of rice, 3d.
700 pounds OF tobacco, 36O,6 bales of
cotton, l25l, 1928 pounds OF wool, 2OS,3S3
bushels of Irish potatoes, 2l5S,64l
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of wine, 3,7l2,T47 pounds of butter, 81
3i2 pounds Of cheese, 62,77l gallons of
milk, 1920 h0gsheads Of sugar and 2l6,-
06l gallons Of cane molassos. Among
the smaller items are hay, hops, hemp,
wax, honey and garden and orchard
products. The progress in manulnc-
lures has been no less remarkable than
in agricultural Improvement There
were in 1870, 1893 steam engines, ll6
water wheels, 1927 hands, S6,2S5,l
capital invested, SG273, 1913 worth of
materials, and turning out ST. ,5l73O2
worth of products The products in
clude cotton and wooden goods, iron
castings, freight aud passenger cars,
leather iron, hardware and large
number of other important articles
The principal products as to value, were
those of the 533 flour and grist mills
amounting to about S2,500,000; of 324
saw mills, amounting to abont 81, $780,
S5l and of the 10 beef packing estab-
lshments, yield Sl,052, JOG. 1t is
entirely safe to estimate that bota the
capital and products of the manufac-
turing establishments in Texas have
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Now, gentlemen, | have mentioned
these things to show you the status of
Texas to-day, since the same ratio of
increase of property from S2l0, 600, 600
to $40, 900, 900 must also be applied to
increase this estimate. Since our
states lie upon the borders of the same
gulf, with the same interest and the
same destiny, it is we'll to acquant
ourselves with our capacities. We of
the south are to become great power
in this country. The state of Texas has
to-day but six members of congress,
while you have nine. If Texas grows
on at the pace of the present great tide
flowing in upon her, she will at the end
of this decade have another million of
people.
Come to Dallas, but three years ago
n mere hamlet, now il is city of ten
thousand souls. | had the honor, at
the state barbecue, not long ago, to
address twenty thousand people at that
point, and the proudest boast that its
mayor could make for ii was that it
was the "Atlanta of TeXasw APP
plausc. We look to you here and
quote you and initiate you over there.
We invite you there, not to make you
stay, but to show you our state. Then,
if you do stay, we will rejoice at our
mothers misfortune and bless our own
good luck. [Applause.l And when
they told you that we were lawless and
halfway savage, by thegods, my friends,
it was not true. Out upon the frontier,
where our brave pioneers took their
lives in Their hands and went against
the Indian raider, there may have been
some lawessness, some murders and
disregard for law, but we have no more
lawlessness to-day in Texas than there
is in New York or Boston. We are as
free from such passions and disorders
rs young state like Texas could pos
sibly be. Commerce wants peace.
Trade and civilization wants peace. AS
a representative of the executive de-
partment of my state greet the dawn
of that better day which wakes shout
at Plymouth Rock which is echoed
back from the Rio Grande. Applause. !
The bones of our Texan brothers lie
upon either side of your iron highway
from the mountains of Tennessee to
Atlanta, as they do all over the south,
just where they fell at the soldiers post
of duty. In their graves lie buried all
our hopes of seperate nationality.
Then, men of Georgia and of Texas,
yea, Ct the whole south, let me say, in
those houored graves let them sleep
together forever! [Appluase.l We
have future yet before us in which we
may accomplish destiny of which
neither ourselves nor posterity need
fool aehampd