The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-03-15
[From the Philadelphia Times
ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS TO TEXES.
Her Boundaries, Area, Soil, Climate,
Productions and General Character
istics-The Kind of People Texas
Wants-An Empire of the Future.

For the information and instruction of
all Pennsylvania and citizens of other
States who desire to emigrate to more
genial climate, the following items, descrip-
tive of the great Southwestern Eldorado,
are grouped together for their special at
tention and considerations
Texas embraces an expanse of country
that reaches within one-half degree as far
south as the most southernly limits of
Florida, while her northern boundary is on
the same parallel as the southern boundary
of Tennessee. She extends from twenty
FIVE and half degrees to thirty-six and
half degrees north, or through eleven de-
grees of latitude, and from ninety three
and a half degrees to one hundred and sew
en- degrees of longitude west from Green
wich, or through thirteen and one-half de-
grees Longitude. Her greatest length from
north to south is about one thousand miles
and is nearly the same distance from east
to west. She has an area of274 ,365 square
miles and nearly 100000, 900 acres of land .
Her empire of territory is considerably
larger than France, and exceed is in ex-
tent most Of the governments of the world.
A comparison with other States may furn-
ish an approximately correct conception Of
her. size. To give a definite idea of her
immensity she is more than tour times as
large as all of the New England States,
with which the reader may be more fami
| liar, she is as large as the six combined
States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
| Illinois, Indiana and North Carolina, and
| is larger than any of the Territories, except
| Alaska
VARIETIES OF CLIMATE AND SOIL.
Texas has within her limits every vare-
ty ofclimate and soil. The average of the
heated term, one year with the other, for
the twenty-four hours, is about $40. The
thermometer rarely in any portion of the
State shows temperature of more than
950 Farenheit, and very rarely goes below
20o In summer the sea breeze, which al
ways pre- yails, mitigates the heat and rem
ders the climate one Of tie most delightful
in the world. Her soil produces all the
substantial cereals of the Northerly sec
tions of the United States; the best fruits
and all the productions of the Middle
States, and nearly all the fruits ofsfhe
tropics. There is no part ..of Texas that
will not grow cotton. 1t is the great staple
of the State. She has capacity to produce
a larger crop of cetton than is produced in
the whole of the United States. There are
but few cultivatsrs Of the soil that do not
grow cotton. Even where it is not raised
as corp, a little of it is raised for home
consumption. 1t is raised on the freeman's
half acre, on the farmers field of hun.
dred acres and on the planters field OF
thousand acres. The southern part of the
State produces wonderful crops of sugar
cane, equaling the cane grown in Cuba and
Louisiana. Especially are the extreme
) southern counties on the Lower Trinity
, Brazos and Colorado rivers we'll adapted tC
the cultivation Of sugar. Corn is grown
on every farm in Texas, and there is not ar
acre of land in the State that may not be
made to produce it. This staple is planted
according to the latitude, from the first Of
February to the last of March, and natures
in Juns and July. Wheat is sown in No
vember, and makes It's start in winter, and
in many sections of the State is used at
winter pasturage, it being necessary to keeI
its growth back in this way until the mid
!, die of February. 1t grows luxuriantly dur
ing the spring and ripens in May. or jus
about the time the fields of wheat in the
North begin to grow. 1t is harvested il
May, and new Texas -four can be put il
the Northern market by the middle of May
or first Of June. Frost does not iniurt
wheat in Texas. In that State such thinl
as winter killed wheat is unknown. TIL,
/ wheat region of Texas is of very broad
expanse of country, equal TO sixty thous
and square miles, Of which but very