The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-11-18
Special Correspondence NEWS.
TRAMP PRINTER
StrOIIS Through the Lone Star
State,
And Writes of Her Resources,
Industries, Crops, Cities,
and Newspapers,
One Congressional District
Some Statistics Origin of
the Lone Star"
Galveston Houston WOrth-DaI-
laS-WacO Austin and Elsewhere.
DALLAS, TEX, November Gtb, 1885.

DALLAS, Tex, November 9th, 1885.
Mr.. EDITOR Texas is bigger than Lib.
erty township N. p. Strange to say it is
even bigger than Liberty township N. P.
aud Liberty township S. P. combined.
! have spent the last two months in
Texas, visiting all its most important places
except those upon the immediate frontier.
and going over three thousand miles of
railroad and yet there are plenty of places
in the State that must forego the honor Of
my presence. In less than another week
the Lone Star State will kiss me good bye,
and I shall seek new fields and pastures yet
unhOgged, far up in the heart Of Arkansa,C,
amid the glens and recesses of the Ozark
and Iron Mountains
During my rambles through Texas I
have seen some country and observed that
the towns and cities have all grown wonder
fully since I made similar tour through
the State two years ago. After few
words in general I will write about the
cities.
ABOUT TEXAS.
The State of Texas embraces an area of
274,OOO square miles. 1t is larger than
England Ireland, Scotland and Wales
combined.
1t is larger than the States of Illinois,
Indiana Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey, Delaware, Rhode Island, New
Hampshire Vermont, Connecticut and
Massachusetts, combined, with a population
about equal to the cities Of New York and
Brooklyn. At least so a land agent tells
me.
The Eleventh congressional district of
the State embraces territory equal to the
States Of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Connecticut
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Ohio.
These States are represented in Congress
by sixty-one members, and the same area
in Texas is represented by one man. This
district, however, embraces the western
portion, nearly half of the State, which is
quite sparely settled many Of the counties
being yet unorganized.
There are pine lands in ffty-one counties,
covering an area larger than the State Of
Ohio.
The sugar belt in Texas covers a terri
tory larger than the State of Florida, and
the cotton and corn producing section is
larger than the States of Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Louisiana combined.
It has territory producing cereals in
paying quantities larger than the States of
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio together.
1t has iron ore in ffty-six counties, each
county averaging over 800 square miles,
coal in forty-two counties so far discovered,
and mineral water in forty-fve counties in
different sections of the State.
Silver has been discovered and mines
partially worked in twenty-one counties Of
the State, and gold has been discovered
in seven counties aud in few instances
mines worked
It has lands that will produce two hogs
heads of sugar to the acre, 40 bushels Of
wheat, 80 to 1876 bushels of oats and 100
bushels Of corn, and cotton proportionately
It also has pine lands growing from 5000
600 to 10000, 600 feet of lumber per acre
and land producing two to four tons o.
mesquite grass per acre.
The business outlook for the entire STATE
Of Texas is decidedly more encouraging
than for years past The grain crop is fal
in advance Of anything hoped for, ant
+. when we take into consideration the fac
that Texas is the only State in the Union
where the small grain crop is anything likl
a general average in point of yield, we SCI
no reason why the farmers should not bD
well compensated for their labor. Corn
wheat, barley, rye and other small grain
has and will continue to command gooC
price, to say nothing Of the cotton crop
which is placed by knowing ones at twr
millions bales Take that as q basis anc
place its value at $50 per bale aud you hay
the astounding sum of 100000, 600 alon
from the cotton crop, In fact Texas offer
good inducements to those who desire b
cultivate the soil from the reason that
does not require the extensive preparation
for long winter that is Incident to In
frigid regions of the northwestern States.
There seems to be a deposit of excellen
iron ore in some portions Of the State
which, by experts, is pronounced equal {
the best Pennsylvania ores, greatly resem
bling Swedish iron in it's qualities. N
thorough geological survey has yet bee
made TO determine the extent Of the do
posits, and as far as known, only surfac
deposits exIst. These arc. however nral