The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-09
TEXAS AND HER CAPABILITIES.

TEXAS AND HER CAPABILITIES.
This il the title of an address delivered By
Hon. W. w. Lang, president Of the South
western immigration company, an organizes
ton acting under the auspices of the railroad
companies of this state, before the farmers
club Of the American institute, 10 New York,
last month. Colonel Lang is in New York
was there establishing an Office in the
interest Of the immigration association o.
which he is president, and of course no spared
no opportunity, being true Texan, and
devoted to the best interests of his state, to
say word where 1t would likely do the most
good. His address WAS thought so much
of by the club that he addressed,
that 1t had 1t published ia pamphlet form, n
copy Of which Col. Lang has very kindly
sent us. As is we'll known by every reader
Of the HERALD, we have worked honestly,
earnestly, zsslously, for the cause Of lmn.
grafton for two years past. We have advo'
Gated change in the constitution so as 10
enable The state 10 do something 10 behalf Of
the cause. We have urged communities
and counties to action to MD the measure, q
measure that would fill our unsettled territory
with people and bring countless thousands
Of acres of waste lald into cultivation and
increase taxable values everywhere
and give US more taxable property
We have appealed TO railroad
companies to do what they have finally done
10 forming an immigration association, at the
head Of which they have placed Colonel Lang,
h worthy and competent and energetic gen.
tleman, and we have never ceased to labor
and TO counsel In their behalf. While the
legislstureju just adjourned, in ,he extreme
magnitude of its wisdom and wonderful
combined ability, failed TO understand and
comprehend u common sense proposition,
and would do nothing to enable tho state to
help itself in the way of immigration, yet
the railroads, despairng, perhaps, of the
startling intelligence that characlerizes
Texas legislatures, went to work and inaug.
uraied an immigration scheme of
their own, and they are bringing
people to our state by the thousands to re-
claim Its idle, rich lands and to make desert
places bloom like gardens of Sharon Hes.
periden gardens, indeed, that will bear golden
fruits. Members of the legislature arc re-
ferred to classical dictionaries for further in.
formation. Colonel Lang, in his address, re-
ferring to the capabilities Of Texas, especially
In tho matter of wheat production, says
"Texss contains about 0 degrees of longitude
and degrees of latitude, but her peculiar
surface con6guration gives her much more
varied power of production. All the pro-
duetions of tho Temperate zone and many of
the Torrid flourish in Texas cotton, all the
cereals and grasses, rice, sugar, tobacco,
oranges, bananas, olives, guavas. Texas pro-
duces. with almost equal ease, all .he grains
and meat, that support life-the cotton and
wool, which clothe il; tho fruits that, like
thoss Of Eden, are pleasant to the taste, and
the tea and tho silk, which arc
its luxuries. In 1850 tho production
OF wheat was less than $4,000 bushels, and ho
who should have predicted its successful
culture in any save the counties OF the eI-
treme north would have been regarded as a
wild visionary. Yet, in 1878 the wheat crop
was A 900 600 bushels, and It's production is
now only limited by market facilities. 1t
ripens u month earlier than the wheat of
more norIhern states. Ia Centennial year
tho first sack of Texas -four reached Calves
ton May 18Th. 1t was sold at auction for
handsome sum aud sent TO tho emperor of
Brazil, while tho price bought many sacks
for the orphans in tho asylum. Texas wheat
weighs from 90 10 6S pounds the measured
bashel, and four msde from i, passes the
tropics without danger OF fermentation or
sourng. The balance OF our trade 10 favor
of Brazil is about thirly.ive mil lions, ev-
cry dollar Of which might be saved by
increasing the production OF Texas wheat
and the expectation of Texas flour TO pay
for Rio coffee. A careful estimation shows
that Texas can produce sixty four millions
Of bushels, or ono.eishlh Of tho entire wheat
crop of the United States, with
out interfering with her othOr erops'
Colonel Lang has not exaggerated in tho
slightest d'greo rs to tho possibilities, tho &c.
Qualities OF Texas, on tho wheat question and
be can produce tho statistics TO sustain bis
words. Again, speaking Of the area and the
productive qualities of Texas, he tru,hfully
says, Texas could produce all tho crops Of
every character produced in tho United
States and have largely over quarter of n
million acres of land to spare for other crops
and also have an abundan, room for the en-
tire population Of the United States. In
other words tho total acreage of tho corn,
wheat, oats, ryc, barley, buckwhoat. hay,
potatoes and cotton In tho United States Is
N,lIS303 acrei ind Texas has
tho arabic fertile land for those crop,,
with 3230o,ii7 acres 10 spare, for
fruits and vegetables and homes,
What do vou sav In thna, n,,n,,s a,d tha.o