San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-09-06
,.narkable Increase Of Wealth.
ktbi flaIxeston News.

he" Galveston News.
.,or Ireland has estimated the
uo 'ss 10 be SS0,C00,000 to 800, 100000
ncie'1 avogregate of taxable property of |
j. inc so zee during the year 1882 and in the |
sS',troller's office where assessors
S S are being received daily, the in
oils :" IL believed to be at least, $780,
a ceSSo There is no better evidence
w., So had of the growth of the state
70 ~ such data afford. 1t is surprising
ilal, 70 70 those who have been most OBJ
Nem vent of the rapid growth of Texas.
% sa';Ia in some degree this remarkable
With n may be attributed to the natu-
increase in values, especially of
~ nd and live stock consequent upon
w. U advent of capitalists, and the es-
W. %Vl;sbment Of ranches and farms in
pU"attled districts of the west, yet
' annears that the cities and the CEN
y wi RI norton of the state have kept
80 nal pace in progress and accumulation
wealth. There is nothing more graf
~ sr mo in the situation than this indica-
a ;.n that all the portions of the state
s IUr measurably shared in the genera,
a a..osnerity tits true, there is complaint
hot oi the English and other non-resi.
isnt investors in the wild lands in
Western Texas are unreasonably
,ssessed, but were the truth known it
would probably appear that their
'ssessments are not in excess of their
nvestments. 1t is even true in large
majority of cases that there is q steady
demand for school lands contiguous to
t6e lands of corporations and non-res-
dents at the minimum price fixed by
tbe state, which is almost double the
nrice the non-residents have paid. The
new school land board is reported to
he in daily receipt of first payments of
600 from actual settlers making their
first payments. The first payments
being one thirtieth of the purchase
money at s. to So per acre, would in
dicate that the sales are quite large,
and as the land board has not yet in
augurated it's system of selling to 9TH
ers than actual settlers, it would ap:
pear that the lands being taken up are
not generally by non-residents. The
marvellous growth of the state evincet
by the probable increase of taxable
values to the amount of $1O0,0O0,0Ol
in one year, and year, too, in which
there was comparatively little in tn
way of railroad construction, it is be
lieved, has no parallel in this country
It is attributed mainly to the increas
of population, which has been attracte'
by the enterprise of the railway mana
gers and the press of the state. VIVA
The Ne1Cs has performed in achievin
this grand result, it's readers we'll know
and that this service to the state j
kept steadily in view will be clearl
shown in it's forthcoming special issu
of September l. At the same rate {
increase in wealth, in five years til
assessments will exceed 81, 0OO,00O,O0'
or at half that rate will roach that sui
by the next census. The people
Texas may we'll expect general an
continuous prosperity from the acquis
tionof enterprising citizens and cap
JallStS, 1rOm Un0 ueCeSStIy llCl oSoo
wealth, the diversity of industries, tt
reduction Of taxes, and rapid extensie
of transportation lines and faciliti
for commercial intercourse. And
the state government is prohlbltt
from the encouragement OF immlgratl'
the main source of all this prospect
it devclves upon the people general
to aid in such efforts as are made by t.
press to supply the information abro
which is required to keep the state
fair view of the unsettled people
the world. These efforts continued I
til 1890 should maintain the annual
crease at not less than half the rate
the past year. Hence The NeacS OF
asks for itself the support OF read'
deeply interested in the continuance
this general and individual prosper
when it furnishes to the world the
nual compendium of progress and
velopoment contained in it especial
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