The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-19
DALLAS UTY AND OOUNTR-C0H
MERGE, TRADE AND P0PU"A'


olsIaunin couptyraud ela-sod it as On
average county Of NorthernTeXas. III
is stated that The average crop Of that
county, thepresent year has been,
eat,tYepts,iye bushela corn, for
" bushels; oats, sixty bushels; ana
cotton one bale. The same may be
saidof nearly every county in what is |
known as the wheat region of Texas
and il is ESPECIALLY true Of Dallas Hnd
6f.the great bclt q country Of when
Dallas Is thecenteI.
We refer to the subject again for the
puriiole of'prudueing some figures to
show that the country Immediately
tributarygto etlls city, qnounds in re-
sourcessatdils 70 build usup
TO lafe6clty, without any reliance on
what is now known as our western
trade.
aFNmln@Qunty is not superior in
productive power to Dallas, Kaufman,
Hunt, Collin, Denton, 1armnt john
son aud Ellis. Our city occupies a.
central position Ia regard 10 the eight
large counties Justnamed a(ofWhieh
except Hunt, touch the borders of
Dallas county, Theteriqiy embraced
inithese counties comprises in round
numbers, about seven thousand square
miles, or a60urafiye millions ofncres
or these counties we can always calcu-
late as certainly luhutmy 70 the com
merce Of our city, Whatever railroads
may be built, as follows; all Of Dallas
one-fonrthYof Kaufman, (ncluding
Rockwell, recently taken from Kauf.
man, p1le-eghth Of Hunt one-fourth
of Collin, Denton, Tarant Johnsoa
and Ellis. This willgiyeus two thous-
and five hunlredsquarepliles, or over
one million and Ia half acres Of as fer
tile county as can be found In fcyos.
All this territory Is alike susceptible OF
cultivation, and observation-disclosures
tire area wen fadapted for division
into farms. Five thousand farms oF
two hundred acres each may readily
be carved out, and yeta large area
left uncultlyated And it does not re.
quire the gift ofprophccy to foresea
that In II verysfow years, at the present
rapid rate OF immigration, as many
iarmsas that viii beunder cultivation
III the territory named. But for the
sake of avoiding any appearance of
extravaganza, let uS reduce the calcu-
lation just one-half, aud we have an
average oltwenty-llye hundred farms
0ftwd hundred acres each. 'Phis puts
In cultivationa in the county Of Dallas
and parts of the other counties named
only five hundred thousand acres Of
the million and n half Now what is
the capacity of this half mi!lion acres
judging from the results OF The present
years cultivation2 Two hundred
thousand acres in wheat at an average
of eighteen bushels, will produce
three hundred thousand bushels; in
corn, one hundred thousand acres, at
forty bushels, viii yield four million
bushels; oats, one hundred thousand
acres, at forty bushels, yields four midi
lion, and cotton, thirty thousand acres,
at two-thlrds sof q bale, will bring
twenty thousand bales. In these four
leading articles we have allotted four
hundredrand thirty thousand acres,
leaving vet seventy thousand acres to
be devoted TO the orchard, garden and
other crops. Now what is the average
annual value Of this production, thus
certainly tributary every year to Dial
las? Wheat, three million dollars ;
corn,Ft@o million dollars; oats, one
million dollars and cotton, one nil
lion dollars, making total Of seven
millions OF dollars, and this at calcu-
lation Of only four hundred and thirty
thousand acres of the million and q
half The count may be safely raised
to one million Of acres, and we still
have halfa million Of the area named
to spare; aud when you raise it to
one million acres, you see the com
merce of the city enlarged to
nearly fifteen millions annually, draw.
ing their supplies from an agricultural
region Immediately surrounding us,
the greatest distance being not more
than thirty.hve miles away. With
such an area Of fertile country, now SO
rapidly filling up with an active, In
dustrious aud entcrprising population,
there never eanbe any shrnkage here.
The calculation we have made based
on five thousand farms OF two hundred
acres each, would give us with only
tenpersonsto eachfsrm q population
OF only fifty thousand In the territory
named, and Is it not safe to say that
thenuplbcrs will soon reach fifty thou.
sand2 Isut supposewe return 10 the
smalidhehleulation, andwe then have
arural population Of only twenty-five
thousand lp thehcountry immediately
around US engaged In farming whose
annual Productions will Yield to oul
cilya commerce Of over seven mil
lions OF dollars.
Y Now ~ scon6ne the calculation /,
IT. Il
thccounty cfDallas alone. Thea
qitlNs county iapiue hundred sqpar,
nli'eascriive hunlred aud scventy-sl,
Thousand acres. Four hundred thous
N and acres OF tlis arc iirst.clnsa landu