The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14
TENAs WHEAT.
Galveston ns wheat and Tlonr
Market.
CHAMnrn or CoMmrno4

/ %, +, liuliord, Esln Galveston
DEAR Shelly resolution Of III,
Chamber OF Commerce am requisite,
TO ask your views relative 10 The es
lnbllshment OF n Touring mill In thi
city.
The grain trade has been successful
| ~ inaugumted during the past year b,
the construction of an elevator an,
the expectation Of grain TO foreign anC
domestic ports, aud the need of flour
Ing mill IN connection thcrewith, Ii
already felt Without this II IL he
lieved the full measure OF success tina
an eligible position promises viii no
attend the enterprise, Both elevator
and Touring mill are necessary, and Il
Ia probably true, that one contains hui
hall the element Of success that has H.
complement In the other.
UNTOLD WEALTH I"|
Is locked In the wheat, which simply
receiving and forwarding, lifting from
cars and lowering into ships, does moi
extract. II should be converted here
into Hour Then the full commercial
benefit of the grain trade will accrue
to State and city, and will be felt ny
producer and consumer in retaining
the profits of this vast business al
home.
Believing that these legitimate re-
suits will enure benelicially TO Calves.
ton and Texas, and prohtably to your.
self, from the inauguration in this city
of the Touring mill enterprise, permit
me to submit TO you some facts and
figures which | have been at pains to
collect, and the reflection which |
have made upon the subject in con-
nection Herewith.
TEXAs AS A GRAIN STATE.
The grain growing capabilities OF
Texas are just beginning to be under
stood. During the war some wheat
was grown 10 meet the necessities OF
the people. AT It's close wheat was
abandoned and cotton became the
chief product of the State, and II was
not until three years ago that the Guilt
walton OF wheat was resumed to any
considerable extent. Even then IL was
regarded as an experimental crop.
These experiments resulted in Il
yield last year of seven million six
hundred thousand bushels in thirteen
counties. The average price of which
was 81 80 per bushel.
WHEAT AND COTTON CROP COMPARED.
The cotton crop of the State esti-
mate at $50, 600 bales, (say 100000 for
Galveston and l25,0OO shipped to st.
Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, New
York and other Northern cities and
Mexico at $50 per bale, the value Of
the crop would be 500, 250,0OO Thir-
teen counties, (and there are about lGS
counties in the State, produced ~, 9SS,-
900 in wheat, nearly 80 per cent. OF the
value of the cotton crop.
There are so counties in Texas 2apa-
BILE of producing 20 bushels of wheat
per acre, which is below the average
product. If one.ffth of the area of
those counties were planted in wheat
it would yield one hundred and fifteen
millions of bushels the cost value of
which to-day Is Sll5,000,000, nearly
four times the value of the cotton
crop.
WHEAT STATES COMPARED.
Texas wheat, both in quantity and
excellence, is not equaed by that of
the most favored grain-growing region
of the United States.
Genesee county, New York, from
1880 to 1910, stood first on the list; the
average yield during that time was 20
bushels per acre.
Starr county, Ohio, ] believe, stood
second, and the average yield was Is
bushels.
The average yield in the United
States is 10 bushels. The average yield
in Texas, in the thirteen counties al
luded to, is a l-l3 bushels per acre 80
aud 10 bushels are not unusual. These
thirteen counties had in cultivation
last year, in ,
Acres. Yield per acre;
Wheat."",..,'''''.'",oUl, ~ 4, ~,
Corn, ""....'""...'.ILoWu ~ - "
Olts........"...,,...,.'. p1ilVO % s-lI
INDUCEMENTS 10 IMMIGRANTS.
The large and certain yield in wheat,
and the production OF other small
grain relatively as great has caused
chiefly the immense immigration
which il pouring into Texas through
every roadway leading from the
North and East.
The production of wheat alone has
thus added population and wealth to
the State at large. The conversion OF
this wheat into flour, by Touring mills
established here, would stimulate 9TH
err branches of industry connected with
it, aud the effects upon our city's pop.
ulation and wealth would be indicated
by an increase in ge0metrical ratio.
WHY WHEAT SHOULD BE SHIPPED no
GALVESTON.
Wheat can be transported from the
center Of the State to Galveston at
S72 per car load, containing 500 bush
els of wheat. The same wheat is now
carried to st. Louis from Texas at 500
per car load 1t is there manufactured
into -four, and reshipped to Galveston
at Sl25 per car load. Thus the consum'
err is made to pay for $50 miles of I'M
necessary transportation.
Flour can be produced here 81 G5 pei
barrel cheaper than the present cost
Our present population alone consumes
200 barrels per day, exclusive of the
shipping. Thus Touring mill on the
spot would save to our people Sl2O, l5l
annually
At the present increase of acreage ii
wheat. it is believed that 30,0O0,OO Of
bushels will be raised in Texas in the
next five years, 25,O0O,0O0 of which
will find an outlet through this port as
wheat or flour. -,
liza Touring mill here prove a sue
cess, it will result, believe, in thu
run of two hundred pairs OF burs II
this city within the next ten years
producing for domestic use and expor
npwards of 5000 barrels of flour per day
The subject is one of great import
60 10 o,Ir State and city, Your Ions