The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-16
ADDRESS OF HON. JAMES W..
TMROCK .
fRenorted for thc galveston Nows.1

Friday, November, IL, 1878.
REPORTED for the Galveston News.l
lie spoke rapidly aud eloquently, but
under dlscouraging circumstances, rs Il
nigh wind prevailed, which prevented
him from being heard, except by II
small portion of the audience of over
three thousand persons. lie said: lr
Texas has had her day Of trial, of sor-
row and of misfortune; she has also had
her day OF grand effort and OF triumph;
but | regard the present as one OF the
grandest triumphs IN her history. The
time has been when the tOcsin of war
sounded. She called her gallant sons
from the pursuits OF peaceful life, from
cities and the fields, to fight The bat
Ties Of liberty. These times are past
and gone, and ofthe times the presenl
ia the grandest of all that have gone
before. l regret the high wind pre-
vents me from talking as would like
to do. would like for all to hear
what | have TO say Of our State, be-
cause we have q state and country,
and we have a people, men and w0-
men, OF which we may Well he proud.
We have resources which, If utilized,
would surely make Texas the greatesJ
State of the nation, In wealth rs it Is IN
territory. What is IL you have dis
played to-day onthe'short notice? You
have seen here displayed the agricul-
tural implements, the productions, the
handiwork, and the thoroughb bred
stock from every nooSand corner OF
our broad State tina, would do credit to
the far-famed State OF Kentucky, or
any other State. If the success has
been SO great upon such short notice,
what must 1t be upon future occasions?
| would like to call your attention to
the agricultural, mechanical andall in
dustries OF the country, but the wind
prevents me from doing Justice to my
self / would ask those before me to
ponder upon the wonderful resources
of our State. Some years ago / was
in California. was asked 10 speak,
large portion of the people
being made up from Texas emil
gratlon,s fahd I was entitled to
talk 10 them about Texas. / told them
| had seentheir great State; It's tower
ing mountains, its fertile valleys, and
its broad plains and the vast amount
of its pr0ductons-its wheat crops and
its glittering sands of gold, and | was
wonderfully impressed. Such elements
Irof greatness slartle the mind, and
when | look, especially upon its I'M
told wealth, | wonder at the great
riches of that country; but when COM
pared il with Texas in allthe elements
of trua'nnd lasting prosperity, it5faded
intoinsignilicance. At Los Angeles
sawone of the most beautiful spots on
the earth. Issld to them Ibelieved
had found the place Johnson pictured
In his mind when he wrote Rasselas
the place where every component of
delight and every want of man were
provided, that he might have the most
perfect human happiness. There must
have been some prophetic vision IN
Johnson's mind of tins favored coun-
ltry when he composed that charming
work, but when you take Ii all in all
we Of Texas .have greatly The Gdvau
tage. | will give you some of the rea
SOILS in my MUD when uttering thest.
words. We have in reXas some one
hundred and forty COUNTIES .organix II
under the statutes. Yun remember uuI
constitution provides that ourcountieo
shall contain nine bundled square niles
each. Those who are acquainted with
the country well know we can have
! two hundred counties in the fertile RI.
4 gions, wnen you take into account the
| Panhandle country nd the vast scope
of unsettled ana fertile region in the
| southwest, US know IL II. | can not
be said to eXaggerate when ! say YOU
can have one hundred counties adapted
to the production ct cotton You
might take each county aud cultivate
1t In cotton, and you can produce more
cotton than all the other States and
theiworld now produce. Take one nth
only of each couuty--about 100000
acres and allow one-half bale TO the
acre, and you have 5000 bales to the
county, making IN aggregate Tor the
one hundred counties, 900 900 bales.
Look upon the map of our State and
you can easily see the counties IN
which 0ne-iiith can be cultivated In
cotton, as far up as Collin county.
They are picking out to the hand one
hundred and fifty pounds per day. IL
is evident that ii we see proper to do
IL we can raise more cotton than IL
raised in all the world besides, But
take wheat alone. At leastfiity coun
ties Of the area indicated are adapted
to Its production, and at least 100000
acres. in each county will produce Is
bushels to the acre, yielding 9, 25O, 900
to the county, and over hundred mil