The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01

ties, without violating the constitution, /
which fixes the minimum OF county at
thirty square miles.
This great territory is much larger than |
France or the Austrian or German empires /
1t is more extended than the United king |
dom of England, Scotland, Ireland Wales,
larger than Greece, Switzerland Denmark, |
Belgium, the Netherlands Portugal, and |
all the New England states combined, II is |
greater in area than Maine, New Hamphirc, |
Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Mas |
sachusetts, Maryland, New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois and
Ohio.
PRODUCTS.
Three-fourths of this vast territory is srs-
ceptible of high state of cultivation, and
produces greater variety of crops than any
coutry known to civilization. Its chief pro-
| ducts are cotton, corn, wheat, rye, barley,
oats, and grasses of every description, with
sugar, hemp, jute, flax, the castor bean,
every species and kind of vegetables, and
| the various classes Of fruits known to north
ern ATTITUDES, semi-tropiCal and tropical as
auxiliaries All these grow here in the
greatest profusion and perfection.
COTTON.
We produced last year twelves hundred
Thousand bales of cotton, or nearly one
| fifth of the total crop of the south, worth, at
| $50 per bale, $GO,W0,0O. Its staple is
ranked in the cotton exchanges of Europe
as the finest in the world, and always com
mands a higher price than that raised in
the south atlantic states, or India. The
day is not distant when but q small portion
of the raw material will be exported, cotton
goods and cotton yarns being shipped in
stead, and that the revenue of Texas will be
increased from this source teniold. 1t will
be difficult, however, for manufacturing to
ever reach the capacity of Texas for the pro-
duction of cotton, for were only one-siXth
of our cotton lands in cultivation they
would produce more than double as much
as is now grown throughout the world,
The yield is from half to one and half
bales per acre, and without the use of fertil-
izers, not one ton of which has ever been
used in field in this state to aid cotton or
any other crop.
SMALL GRAIN.
That portion of Texas suitable for the
growth of wheat, oats and other small
grain, covering 100, 900 square miles, larger
than the great states of Missouri, Illinois
and Ohio combined, and produces much
greater yield per acre than either. We're
all these lands cultivated in wheat, the
gross product would be more than four
times as mach as was raised in the United
States last year. Our average yield is
eighteen bushels per acre, but thirty-tiye to
fifty have often been gathered.
Oats yield from 40 to 100 bushels per acre
barley, % to 70 bushels; rye, 20 to so; and
corn produces from % to so bushels per acre,
SUGAR.
Texas has one million acres of land upon
which the best sugar cane natures, which
will yield two hogsheads of sugar and foul
barrels of molasses per acre. If one-hali
were cultivated and that half made only
half crop, the result would be more sugar
and syrup than are now consumed in the
United States. The four counties Of Fort
Bend, Brazoria, Wharton and Matagorda
produced in 1870, 5,G6i hogsheads
of sugar and l2,22l barrels Of
/ molasses, valued at $4,000. The
sugar growing country extends along the
coast south of the latitude Of New Orleans
, yet the heat is not oppressive, as it is con
stantly famed by the gulf breezes which
sweep over it, rendering the climate pleas
, ant and hcalthful, and almost free from ma
laria.
c STOCK RAISING.
AS a pastoral country il is without riva
on this or any other continent. Horses, cat
a tie, sheep and other stock are raised with
! out trouble and next to no expense, sub
sisting and thriving, as they do the yea
, round, upon native grasses.
The finest beef in the world is taken fat
: from the mesquite grass on the prGiries OF
Texas. Refrigerator ship IRE loaded al
' Atlantic as well as at gulf ports, with beei
4 for consumption in Eur0'"Gn markets. The
time is not distant wh' nc markets in oul
> northern states will j., supplied from ouI
G prairies in refrigerator cars with fresh, fat
2 and juicy beef. Our total exports of beet
now aggregate more than 100000 head an.
, nually, of the cash value of $25,000,000 and
' as our facilities for raising cattle are almost
: unlimited, the number will be doubled and
qusdrupled in few years,
> Horse raising is considered by some even
n more profitable than cattle, but sheep rails
ing and wool growing is more profitable
> than either. lam not prepared at present
l. to give the statistics,
. MINERAL RESOURCES.
Inexhaustible supplies of iron ore, ofvery
c superior quality, are found in ditlercn
g parts of the state, also rich beds of copper
- silver and other valuable ores, awaiting tht
d magic touch OF capital and labor when they
II, will yield their millions to enrich our state
% Archer and Llano counties are about III,
IS centres of our richest mineral districts
The Texas Copper Mining and Manulactur
Q ing company with office at Dallas owl
. about l2000 acres of rich mineral land IL
the centre of Archer county, with outcrop
r. drcds of wagon loads of surface ore hav'
- been shipped, the average of which assaye'
1t 81 35-1OO per cent. copper, and about ON
per cent silver.
e There are also extensive beds of coal Il
n various sections of the state. In YounI
y county are veins six to eight feet thick o
u hardcoal Of superior quality, which ha
IS been used at the government posts and b.
citizens for more than twenty-five years. :,
s. Rich beds of hard coal of q superior quail
/, ty are now being opened in different part
> Of Stephens county.
4 TIMBER.
b.. In eastern Texas We have more than %
900 square miles covered with the fines
10 pine timber, much of which Is the long LEI
n pine, also large quantities of cypress, an
p for lumber Is superior to any have eve
II seen. Tho Trunk line road now b'
ing rapidly built from Dallas to Sabin
u Pass runs directly through this timbere
in country.
HEALTH AND SOCIETY.
~ The healthfulness of our climate Is n fa'
ID so long ago firmly established that 1t necC
q. neither comment or repetition IL Is warn
~ yet tempered and toned bv q gulf breei
so ever blowing II Is In the south, yet Oh
and as free from malaria as any state in I'll
NJ west.
m As to society our state will compare iavo
ably with any other In the Union, as we b
nc lieyo greater proportion of our either
n belong to some christian church, and
temperance organizations than can
70 found in older states
- EDUCATIONAL.
We claim to have In existence and q
" groundwork laid for the most complete pu
MI lie free school system In the union. O
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