The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-28
INTERPRETATION fOa EMlaRANIs.

which Of late years haa been pouring |
into Texas. not only from al parts o.
the Union, bat from all parts Of tho
world has excited general curiosity and
created everywhere u general desire
for correct information IN regard 10 the
soil aud productions OF this
vast bat thinly populated region oil
country II will bo impossible In
brief editorial Nrtiale 10 give anything
like q detailed description Of such u
country, and hence we will endeaEor Ia
condense rs much ~ possible giving
only such facts aa will be of value
TO parties who are mediating change
Of base, aud seeking home IN u new
country Texas has been properly di-
yidod into five districts, which may be
classified az follows First tho grazlne
district second the sugar district :
third, the wheat and cotton district :
fourth tho lumber district, and fifth the
mineral district
But before referring to these districts
singIy, it will be appropriate to present
II few observations upon the general
characteristics OF the country ToxNs
extends through ten degrees of latitude,
Is considerably larger than France, and
il more than five times ~ large as New
York and Is capable of sustaining easily
u population Of sixty millions of inhab'
itants. Her extreme northern and
southern frontier oseparatedby a thou
sand miles, and the distance Is scarcely
less separating her boundaries on the east
and west. Her sea coast, which fronts
ON the Gulf of Mexico, extends from
the Louisiana shore to the mouth Of the
Rio Grande, and is plontiiully supplied
with safe and commodious harbors'
Her commerce is open to the world,
and her most fertile districts are pro-
vided with noble rivers that furnish,
during most of the year, easy outlets to
the sea- A level plain, slightly ascend
ing towards the west, and from sixty to
eighty miles in width, belts the entire
coast and furnishes surface Of the
eascst grades for the construction OF
railroads and canals Further west the
surface rises and becomes rolling, and
then lilly until it reaches the high
table lands of the, hlano Estaoqdo,
which are something more than two
thousand feet above the level OF the
sen, The elevations of the seaport
cities of Galveston, Lavacca and Corpus
Christi are respectively ten, twenty
four and forty feet above tide water A
delightful and hcalth-g giving sea breeze
fans tho entire coast and sweeps over
the interior for hundreds of miles, init
igatine the heat Of summer and making
the climate, during three-fourths
of the year, equal to that of
Italy, or the south OF France
What is called cold weather in Texas
usually begins in the latter part OF Mo-
vcmber and continues periodically, un'
til the first of March 1t is always nc,
companied with wet or dry norther,
which is cold northwest wind, that
springs up very suddenly A
All that portion of the state south OF
the Galveston and San Antonio rail,
road constitutes, par trcei1cnce, the
grazing region, and for the growth and
development of cattle and sheep is UNI
excelled in any quarter of the world,
Dallas, n vigorous young city of fifteen
thousand inhabitants, is the center of
the cotton and wheat growing region,
and take this section, all in all, i'm
GLIDING fifty counties, north, south, east
and west, it is the most God-fayored
land on the whole surface Of the
Garth Tho soil lis Of incxhaustible
fertility and will produce everything,
and in the greatest abundance Wheat,
rye, oats, corn, cane, cotton and pota~,
toes will grow in the same field, and
with equal luxuriance, The climate is
healthy and delightful the year round.
The summer heat is not near 50 oppres-
sive rs in Virginia and Kentucky. Cal
houn Victoria and and few other
counties on the sea coast, comprise the
sugar district. Tho mineral district is
in the northwest, Llano county being
about its center. Here there are i'm.
mense undeveloped deposits of iron,
coal, manganese, lead, copper silver and
traces of gold, The lumber district,
beginning at Texarkana, through the
northeastern portion of the state for
hundreds of miles, and is vast prime
val forest, composed of variety of the
finest kind of timber, A number of
railroads are beginning to pierce this
region, and the country is rapidly fill.
ing up with an active, energetic popu.
ulation.
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