The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-01-15
TEXAS TREATED TO TAFFY
IT'S ENOUGH TO SPOIL US ALL
showing Us Up so Great that the Balance
Of tho World Looks Like u Gnat on
Bulls Horn-But Il IL
Every Word True.

You ask me to write an article des-
criptive of Texas, to make about col
umn. As we'll ask me to write the his
tory of the world on postal card.
Texas is so immense in area, and its
scenery, soil and products so varied that
description of one part of it would not
properly describe any other section, and
it would take volumes and volumes to
hold even statistical account of its
prominent features, products and re-
sources. To describe the state would
have to carry you from north to south
500 miles, and from east to
west $50 miles. The area
of Texas is 274,365 square miles.
Figures do not lie. Let me surprise
YOU with some. If the kingdoms of Bel
GUM, Denmark, Great Britain and Ire
land, Geeece, Netherlands. and the
states of New Hampshire, Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
Jersey, New York and Maryland, were
laid down in Texas-not on top of each
other, but side by side-there would he
enough of the surface of the great state
of Texas uncovered, on which could be
raised all the cotton, say 12,OOO,OOO bales,
that is at present grown in the world
Cant believe it," you say? Well, take
pencil and the back of an envelope,
and YOU can easily inquire out that am
telling the truth.
Here are some more figures. There
are raised in the whole United States,
in round numbers, about: .,
| Bushels wheat NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5000 00O0
u,el,ol, ,nrp I HOO. lOll 4,
Bushels oats ...........'.'..''...' go'n'0 0
| Bushels potoioes. l50,VO, W.
Bushels barley. ................. 4o,oo W.
There is, within the boundary of
Texas, enough land on which to raise
| all the cotton, wheat, corn, oats, pota-
| toes, barley and hay now raised in the
| United States, and then there would be
enough land left over to make seven
states, each one as large as Connecti-
cut.
ii Texas was populated in the same ra-
ito as the countries above mentioned, it
would have 55 600. 900 inhabitants, and no
one who knows Texas would question
the fact that it could support as much
population to the square mile as could
any of the countries named. Probably
no other country on earth equals Texas
in the value OF her natural resources and
the variety of her products.
|
growing side by side cotton, corn,
wheat, barley, sugar cane, rice and to-
bacco, and in the same orchard may be
seen some of the fruits of the tropics,
such as oranges, bananas, pomeSran-
ates and the hardy apple and nut, in
digenous to more northern climes.
There is hardly any product of the
fully raised in some parts of Texas, ow.
ing to the varying degree Of climate
and varieties Of soil.
| If Texas was cut off from all the world
her inhabitants would not suffer for lack
of any of the necessities of life, and few
of the luxuries would be wanting.
There would be produced the staff OF
life in all its varieties-wheat, corn, rice
oats and almost all the known cereals
Also sugar, tobacco, tea, coffee, and
every variety of fruit and table vegeta-
bic grown in temperate and semi-tropi-
cal climates; ali fabrics composed OF
cotton, wool, paper and silk. There
would be coal, marble. lime, potter's
clay, cement and porcelain clay. Oh
metals, silver, copper, lead and iron.
OF timber, pine, cedar, cypress, oak, ma
bois dare, ash, locust, elm, walnut, cherry,
and many other varieties.
| Texas may be said to be divided into
| three great natural divisions: Eastern
Texas, which comprises the pine region
and the sugar plantations; Central
| Texas, the great grain and Gotten belt;
Western Texas, the vast prairies and
table lands that stretch west to the Mo
| Grande, and that are covered Win
countless horses, cattle and sheep.
| Until few years ago Texas was popu-
| larly supposed to be q resort Tor the
refugees from Justice, who had TO ny
from the older states; land where
might was right. where power was rep
resented by the six-shooter, ana justice
by Judge Lynch; where the eiite were
gamblers and stage robbers, and the
7tenderfoot" from the east was ostra'
cised until he had killed his man.
| The great influx of immigration tc
Texas during the last ten years has
changed ali this. Northern and eastern
cnpitslists have invested immense sums
of money in different enterprises there
There has been built in The state IN tnt
last decade almost 5000 miles OF rail
roads, The population Is now 2,OOO,0OO
| in 1870 It was 10000.
One-fith of Inc cotton crop OF tint
| United States Is now grown IN Iexas
| Tine stockman has crowded the lndlat
| and the buffalo across the Rio Grande
and now the farmer Is crowdinR I'M
stockman further west every year
New farms are being opened mp, set
tlements are being formed, and towns
and cities are springing up on every
hand with marvellous rapidity.
Five years ago immense quantities Q
land could be bought at from % to b
cents an acre; to-day the market price
of that same land is from " to 70 al
acre, and 1t is increasing in value every
year. The land fitted for agriculture y
very productive. The soil varies iron
slight sandy" to "black waxy." INT
Only drawback To farming in Texas i
no rain will fall from May until prob
ably the end Of July. II such SEASON.
4 the crops are sometimes cut Fnor
almost one-half.
4 In no part OF the United f;tstcs can
farmer make living with less laoor,or
Il be is industrious, become rich. NOR