The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-07-14
The Emnire of Texas.

From the Galveston News.
A trip through Texas at the pres
ent season of the year will show the
great commonwealth to excellent adj
vantage. 1t is a marvellous domain
Those accustomed to judging of the
State from what they read about it
can only form faint idea of what is
really in progress. Moderately fair
notions can, of course, be formed of
what is going on in Texas by those
who may depend entirelyupon study
ing and searching closely the current
literature of the day upon the subject,
but nothing approaching exact state
ments of the States wonderful growth
can be obtained short of actual obser-
walton. The cities of the State are
fine evidences of the march of i'm
provement. Galveston, Houston, San
Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco,
Austin and Brenham are more i'm
mediately representative of the BUSH
ness energy which invigorates the
whole State. The towns along the
Central railroad, from Hampstead to
Denison, are busy and businesSlike
also so are those upon the line of the
Sunset road from Houston to San
Antonio; while the new country
opened up by the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe, and the Fort Worth and
Denver city railroads, from Rich
mond, on the Brazos, to Wichita
Falls, on Upper Red river, is strung
with prosperous and thriving COM
munities. The population of the State
must be increasing very fast while
its wealth is being added to in an I'M
precedented measure. On the Austin
branch of the International and Great
Northern, from Palestine to San
Antonio, fine ratio of improvement
is discernible in all the settlements of
that prosperous section. West from
Fort Worth, on the line of the Texas
and Pacific. from Fort Worth to
Colorado City, a similar spirit of
thrift, push, and enterprise is OBJ
served I; which is also the case on the
line of the Missouri Pacific from Tay-
lor tC Denison and from Denison to
Mineola. The same may be said of
the towns and settlements on the
Texas and Pacific from Marshall to
Fort Worth, and on its transconti-
mental branch from Sherman to
TeXarkana. There has never been
anything like il in the history of the
State. The whole country is in a
glow of prosperity, which is felt from
DenisOn to Laredo, and from TeXar-
kama to Ell PasO. To enumerate spe-
officially would burden a newspaper
article. Crop prospects throughout
the State are again excellent. The
past season was a fruitful one in all
directions, and the present promises
equally we'll. In north Texas there
has been somewhat too much rain for
small grain. but the corn crop is mag
nificent; in this section cotton is
somewhat late, but very promising.
From Brennan, on the line of the
Santa Fe, running its entire length
to Fort Worth, and beyond on the
line of the Fort Worth and Denver
road, to beyond Decatur, the whole
country is cultivated like a market
garden, and crops of all kinds never
looked better. In central Texas corn
is good and cotton we'll advanced and
looking fine. In eastern and north
eastern Texas the crops are beyond
an average. In some parts of south
ern and southwestern Texas the corn
crop has certainly been cut short by
drought, but even here the seasons
have been partial, as some portions
of the country show good corn. Cot
ton throughout southern and south
western Texas is spotted from the
same cause, although the general out
look for this plant is favorable for
moderate yield in even the unprom-
Using districts. Grass is fine in all
sections and cattle fat. The value of
exports from the State of Texas DUR
ing the past year will press closely to
$120,00O,000. The outlook for the
season ahead promises no falling off.
This sum represents the products of
the State for export, from which an
idea may be CLEANED Of the entire
agricultural and pastoral wheath of
the grand State. The material situa-
ton in Texas is simply amazing in
its Superabundance.