The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-27

country neeu Immigration worse tnhn norm
Texas. Where we have one farm laborer
we have an abundance of wosk TO- ten.
Texas the Last Chance Of the Farmer.
As there is an end to all things. so there
must be an end some day to immigration.
The boy is now living who will see the sparse
ly populated states and territories Of the
west and south rs thickly settled as Virginia
and Georgia. Indeed, outside of Texas, it
is hard task to even now find an open, de-
sirable and cheap spot upon which TO open
a farm. Government lands north fit for till.
ing have long since been pre-empted. Be-
tween Kans g anG Nebraska and the Rocky
mountains and as far north as you may go,
the lands are naturally poor, and where one
acre Of ground fit for grain can be found
millions abound that VIII scarcely produce
buffalo grass. New Mexico is worthless
country. 1t often happens that rain don't
fall there once in three years. Arizona is
but little better, and that exhausts the out
lot for immigrants, for west of the. Rocky
mountains lands are higher in price than in
Missouri. The arabic land of Colorado is
held at an average of $40 per acre. All
north of that it is not only cold and inhos-
pitable but quite poor and timberless.
There is no doubt but that Texas is fast
becoming, if it is not alre~dy, ne list hope
of the overcrowded rural populations of the
Union. Here is the only place where they
can obtain farms at tn, prices prevailing in
middle and northwestern divisions Of the
country fifty and seventy five years ago
There are millions Of acre in this state still
untouched by pillow and reaper as rich as
crow ever flew over, fertile MS the val
Icy Of the Wabash, the Mohawk, the Con
garee, the Chattahoochee or the Alabama.
Aud these lands can still be bought for one,
two, three and four dollars per acre and time
given to pay every cent Of the purchase
money. Railroads. are either now in close
proximity or reaching out to them, so that
in II few years hence there will scarcely be
any portion of Texas not in striking dis.
lance of u railroad and enable all surplus
produ tions to find market.
AS no sta o is, no state ought to receive the
immigration Texas is now or will hereafter.
Whether In the light of soil or climate, pres
ent or future possibilities, il has claims upon
the poor but homeless ugrieulturist no other
land in the union can show. And no n after
| what branch of his business he may wish to
| follow as a specially the land will generously
respond. Whether he wishes to cultivate
corn, wheat, cotton, tobacco, flax, rye, barley,
oats, hay, potatoes. fruit, nuts, run rancho
OF cattle and sheep, or dairy farm; whether
he wishes to farm with one horse or five
hundred, run upon his own labor or upon
hired help without limit, he can in Texas find
the location to do so without the least
trouble. Here is all Pan Handle Texas, al
most absolutely uninhsbited, and yet hiss
more good land in it than was to be found in
the whole state of Pennsylva ia in l776. =
1t will not remain thus long. In one year
from now the railroads now building will
have reached far into these splendid valleys
and bring them into market. And so of
western Texas. The Pacific is already one
hundred and forty miles west of Dallas, and
rapidly h"ading TO FL Paso, which it will
reach in little over two years. A ads
going southwest from San Antonio, and
northwest to El Paso, and still another is
going northwest from Waco. These lines
will bo quickly followed by people, by towns
and cities.
Does any sane man, acquainted with its
latent wealth, doubt that Texas will be the
leading state in the Union? 1t is as inevi.
table as the stars will continue to rise and