Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-23
TEE eAzErrE FORT WORTH, TEXAS THURSDAY, April. 90

cotton belt as large as Mississippi, a
sugar section as large as Louisiana, a
mineral field as large az Pennsylvania,
and grazing ground as large as Ken
lucky.
With climate that yles in softness
with the sunny slopes of Spain,
through an atmosphere that tints with
purest blue the dome Of Italy, and in
whose healthful uniformity OF temper
ature q laboring man may work or a
child may camp outdoors almost
every day in the twelyemonth, or the
invalid seek his open-air tonic recrea-
ton, climate where fiourishes every
agricultural product known to tropical
or temperate zone, Texas is enabled to
become the winter-garden and orchard
of America, ripening all the staples
when with our Northern friends the
seeds are just a-sprouting.
With soils that rival in richness the
autumn deposits of old Father Nile,
which he gathers all the way from the
Abyssinian tablelands for those Egyp-
tlan shores, once tie granary of
the Orient--virgin soils of every
hue and complexion so exhaustless
as never to need the suspicion OF
stimulant in the form of a fertilizer to
bring to paradisial plenitude the va
rlous growths, 1t 10 no wonder that
our pulsiug prairies are perfumed with
every fruit and flower that can glad
der q garden or carpet a country,
while our nodding woodlands pro-
claim the presence ofevery tree that is
useful or ornamental for mankind.
With over 800 miles of mountains OF
metallic ores, only awaiting the pros
pector with his pick to reveal to his
"open sesamep their hidden wealth,
more fabulous than Ali-Babba ever
dreamed Of in the cave, and which
would have made old Vulcan smile,
the forge, the furnace and the factory
can sustain in Texas scores of Shelf
fields and Birminghams.
With beds extending over $4,000
square miles, where have been sleep.
ing for the centuries in twin-like close.
ness to the dusty king of metals, the
black diamonds, those buried sun
beams of the ante-permian period,
ready TO send forth their latent heat to
work the willing brain and
Drawn of q too often powerless
ambition in search of subsistence,
Texas can supply civilization with
Goals for the centuries yet to come.
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in most superbly sceneried sections,
bursting with all the igneous, aqueous
and metamorphic rocks, the GRANTEES
and marbles, and sandstones and
other building material, abide with us
in quantities sufficient to construct a
score of Londons, to ornament the
palaces of the czar, and the stores and
houses of Paris, or pave the streets and
sidewalks of America. Besides these
we have all the clays for the purest of
porcelain, the silica for every sort of
glassware, and gypsum enough to
plaster all New England over four
inches deep.
With 10000 square miles of water
surface, mainly live rivers and streams
and creeks,o on whose ripping flow from
Christmas unto Christmas the ice
king even in the dead of winter never
sets the seal of silence, we have power
enough to turn million wheels to
twist the wool and cotton into cheapt st
clothing for christendom, to shape
the timbers into shelter, and to
convert the ores into comforts and
conveniences, and to make many
Manchesters, Leeds and Lisles.
With $4,000 coo head of live stock,
herds of horses, caravanearies OF cat
tie and fiocks OF sheep and goats, sus-
tanning themselves the whole year
through upon some Of our 1858 known
varieties of grasses, and ready for the
market a month earlier than in north
ern sections, we can make all England
"merrie" with roast beef, fatten the
Frenchman with our mutton and in
gratiate the German with our pork.
With timber area of 10000, 900
acres on which now stand 6S 600 00O,-
600 feet board measurement, 1874 va
rieties of timber, we can supply the
prairies Of the entire South, construct
the navies of the Union and furnish
furniture OF the costlier woods, or of
the cheapest for the poor, in every
household in the land.
And for the ready transportation of
all these products we have 1929 miles
of railway, which give through bills.
of.lading from any point OF shipment
to any of the markets of the world.
Thus you read truly, as this banner
Just behind me states, that of the
United States the state of Texas is:
First In area, ga, 1855 square miles.
First in cotton production, $4,000
bales,
First in live stock, 10000 600 head.
FIRST In TIMBER land, 46 600 600 acres.
First in school fund, 100000, 900.
First in mineral area, $4,000 square
miles.
First in light taxation, 20 cents on
the 800.
Fifth in railway mileage, 1929 miles.
Seventh in population, $500, 600 in
habitants.
In 1890, at the present percentage of
increase, she will stand almost abreast
Of New York and Pennsylvania in
population and political power, and
with corresponding increase OF assessa.
BILE value not far behind them in
wealth supremacy.