Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-09

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bushels Of oats; or 20 to 30 bushels M
wheat or Indian corn. tirsSinv lands
ny worth, In private hands, from two |
~ i've dollars, the value depending On
wns,ner, aud TO what extent, they are !
suppiied with living,or constant water.
large bodits ofcompact hand cannot be
purcnascd from the state, and only
t ,,y, private persons IN rare cases.
Wneh obtainable at all. they are gen.
cc,M'y worth, and held at. from four 10
nv uoilars per acre, unfcnced. Very
rovn u VIII be quite impossible TO se-
cure large bodies Of Texas lands mt any
p'ice. J have rlr.ady mentioned the
'auk Texas holds among farming
sta'es. desire now 60 refer biieiiy TO
,,er rs a'stock-iaising state. Owing To
.ne ihct that her natural grasses are OF
Tue uest quality. cover every possible
SPOT except where kept down by the
hanus Of man and are nutritious IL not
green all the year, TIE state takes first
rank IN stock-raising. 1t raises an0u-
MY more cattle, horses and sheep than
IMAM any other of the American states.
~ mas grown in ten years from the
eleventh TO the first rank as wool
growing state, there being now In the
state, not including the increase OF 1851,
not less than 1,O00,UU0 sheep, that will
average from Al lbs. to 5 lis. of un-
washed wool per head year. stock of
an KINDS require no artificial protec-
ton from cold and storms, and roam
over the range throughout the entire
year, without othcrfood than they gath.
er by their own efforts. Sheep should
have some protection In winter.
have found IL prudent To feed them.
from seven To ten tons of prairie hay
TO ,0oo head during the winter, but
not one flock master In ten through
out the state has either shelter or win
ter food for his flocks, and yet the
business for years past has realized
from 70 To 40 per cent. OF profit annu-
ally. Cattle are never fed or provided
with shelter, and for years have real.
ised to cowmen nearly if not quite ms
large profits rs have been realized by
sheepmen. The same thing substau-
TALLY may be said of horses VI per-
SOILS wishing to invest In stock and
lands have only from II 900 TO e5,O00,
! would by all means advise them to
try sheep, but ii they have from
10, 900 up, they will do better TO Invest
In cattle or horses. IA an evidence of
what may be done Ia these directions,
| u VIII incUtitn NlitN AtstS MItillll lflN
own knowledge been done In late
years. know OF hundreds OF young
men, with annual Incomes varying
from ~ 900 10 cl0,000, equal to 5,0l0 or
! $4,000 dollars, WHO ten years ago star
ted in the stock business in Texas with
next 10 nothing, Many OF them be-
gan life rs COWBOYS or shepherds, and
got their sta by Investing their wa
ges In stock, either cattle or sheep,
! Developing aptitude for the business,
| they were at length entrusted with the
handling of stock on the shares THAT Is
getting, say, one-third OF the profits of
stock placed in their hands for terms
of three TO five years, Lands pur-
chased then at from % cents TO one
dollar per acre are now worth from two
dollars to Ave dollars or ten dollars per
acre. i do not pretend TO the gift OF
prophecy, but | venture to predict that
lands throughout the state now held MT
two dollars to dollars will in ten
years be worth in the market from ten
dollars TO twenty-five dollars, or fifty
dollars per acre. The history of some
| of the newer states of the American
Union is only being repeated in Texas
But, better than all, the stock inter
ests OF the state are thoroughly organ
/ lied. The Live Stock Association, EN-
bracing all the leading stockmen o
Texas, work together in quiet unity
and harmony. and regard their prop
erty as being thoroughly protected
f ON depreciation.
The temperature in Texas is not ex
ceptional ut all. averaging Throughout
the state about 60 deg, To 10 deg. The
highest maximum is given at 100 deg,
and the lowest minimum about 10 deg
have before Inc a record made for mt
. by the officer in charge OF she sigma
service station ut the government pos
al Fort Concho, and IL shows that the
monthly mean in July, 1882 was 81
deg. 90 min, and In August rs deg, At
min, and that during the former
month the range WAS from % deg. tc
1909 deg, as high az 100 deg. being re-
gistercd but twice during the month
while in August no such heat was IN
dictated mt all. This is not given as q
fair average for Texas, but may men
ton that Fort Concho isnotfir west
OF a north and south line, and not la
north of an east and west line through
the centre of The state. The total rail
road mileage of Texas IN 1872 was ,0It
miles, against D74 miles IN 1882, ano
nearly 900 miles in 1888. A state tha'
can build and cguip4 326 to 5000 miles
of railroad IN Ten To eleven years give
practical evidences Of prosperity incoin
patible with the idea of Texas TO bt
gathered from your correspondent
letter. Texas had common schoo
/ fund in cash aud bonds equal to 4 l68,
373, 30 on September ], 1882, and own
80, 900, 900 acres Of land. wortl
dollars to 10 dollars per acre. Besides
each org ,nieed county In the stat'
has II, 7i2 acres 10 the credit OF us owl
FIRE school fund. The State Universi
ty had, September LIST, 1882 10 its cred
II In bonding aud cash $JD3,3o4 ~,
, aud ,2l0 600 acres of land, worth twt
. dollars to ten dollars per acre, and li'
last state legislature made anoinel
. large reservation out Of the pubic 90
main for it's further endowment. III
, future wears education viii be rs FREE
as air In Texas. for the poor as well ~
, for the rich. The bonded debt OF Tex
rs /. now quite small, aud the best cyl
/ dence of the standing OF the state AS
, debtor is the fact Tint its 9 per cent
, aud Z per cent. bonds, outstanding an'
immature, are held at $40 on the 80
of face value. bout one-hall OF tHeli
r belonging to the University, Common
: school and Asylum funds. In ls5
) there were SlS570 people IN Texas
/ against sol, 7l9 in 1889, and nearly
, 400 900 In 1888 70 mind these facts
; for The correctness Of which ypuch
j indicate u prosperous state, ana on
E that is. at least thoroughly apprecla
/ ted at home. We think In Texas tina