The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-29
STATE DEVELOPMENT.

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sources of tho state the value OF her lands
ETC., we commend specially to the attention
of our readers. Our state is SO broad in
extent, embraces so many varieties and quail
ties of soil, adapted to the cultivation of so
many products, that few persons un.
acquainted with the state can form
an adequate idea of its posi-
bilities, of its importance as u
state in this union. Just think
Of 256, 900 square miles of territory, all in one
body, all in one political organization. And
within the scope of that territory, capable
of supporting and furnishing HON es
for 100000 of people, there are only
some 100000 inhabiants. This on its face
shows that the great lack Of the state is pop
ulation, is the development of its resources.
The people of the state are alive to this want.
1t is being felt, and to overcome it there
is determination that there shall be thor
oleh system Of free education, that there
shall be school-houses in every COM
munity that the children of the land
may drink deeply from the fountains
of knowledge supplied by the bounteous
hand of the state, that the affairs of learning
shall be erected on every hand, at which the
little girls and boys of the country shall at
tend and partake of the incense there offered
up. The determination is growing one,
too, that the people OF all climes and coun-
| tries shall be invited to come here and find
for themselves new homes in this land of
plenty and of generous gifts With railroad
facilities, wonderful for their rapid develop
ment in the fifteen years just past, railroads
that have increased from less than
three hundred miles in extent
to more than twenty-five hundred
in that time, permeating every section Of
the state with their Briarean arms, great iron
arteries for the circulation of commerce,
Texas stands to-day as the most inviting re-
gion for the immigrant to seek, of any state
in the union. Not only is there within our
borders al classes of soil as rich as the hus-
baudman could desire, giving magnificent
return for industry, but our climate is genial,
Is hospitable, is inviting and with the grandest
possibilities that cah be conceived of, the FIJI =
ture of Texas when once developed from its
present inchoate condition, is bright enough
to satisfy the widest anticpations, the most
glowing hopes. Let US secure immigration, let
us people our wild lands, let us fill up our
frontier counties virgin in soil and
resources and secure on our coast deep water
that the commerce Of the world may find
inlet TO our shores and our own products
outlet to the world, and Texas will be an
empire within herself, an empire capable
with her cereal productions to feed millions
and with her wool and her cotton to clothe
the naked of all chimes. Texas is giant
sleeping now In her bosom is iron ore, cop
per and coal for hundreds and hundreds of
manufacturing industries to bring
us wealth and to support
thousands and thousands Of population.
With timber of all varieties for building and
other purposes no state in the union sur
passes her in this respect. Soon the Texas
& Pacific road will be completed, great iron
and steel railway spanning the entire width
of the state and connecting two great oceans,
q highway over which the commerce of the
orient and the oecident will pour, highway
the one extremity of which will be layed by
the placid waters of the Pacific slope, while
the sullen plash of the Atlantic beats upon
the Shores of its other. Over this highway
will not only roll the productions of
every section of our own state, seeking
market, but it will bring to us the yields of
AHatic soils, such as we may need, and the
growths of European countries such as may
be demanded. With the possibilities
SO visible within her grasp, can Texas afford
to stand still? Can any citizen raise up his
voice against the development of the state ?
The inquiry is what is to be done? How
best can we bring people to us, what induce
ments can We off r to secure class of immi-
grafton that will join in the benefcent work
of making Texas what nature has intended
her to be? We must let the world
know what Texas is. All people must know
Of our advantages, of what we have to offer
them in the way of homes, and what the fu.
ture holds out to them. The immigration
enterprise just started, and that on Thursday
last advanced to permanent. organization at
Austin by the election of Hon. w. w. Lang
as president, is move in the right direction,
and the people have right to look forward
!. to its efforts with hope, 1t should meet with
all encouragement and should be given what
ever facilities towards furthering its ends that
it may reasonably ask. 1t is movement if
We understand it Alright, that has in vew the
single purpose o. bringing inn igra icn
to Texas, of finding people who want ,mes
aud of giving them not only encouragement
10 seek them in Texas, but such advantages
that they will naturally come here to partake
of them and profit by them. It is matter
OF fact that when the state government from
1871 to 1876 made special efforts to secure
immigration, that people BY thousands