Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-20

on account OF the arid and droughty con
dltioTs which prevail. These figures can
| be Improved ON 80 as to make Eastern
Texas about GO, 900 square miles, rich In
soil, which never fails to produce an aver
age crop Of cotton, corn, potatoes aud
other vegetables which grow In the
ground, besides being fac fruit coun.
try. IL Ia also the great timber country,
from which hundreds OF millions of feet
OF lumber are cut. The middle portion,
comprising the great rolling prairie sec.
tion, IL wholly suited to corn and all the
small grains, besides making large crops
OF cotton. This strictly grain region is
not lees than $4,000 square miles In ex
tent.
The portion have not mentioned, com.
prising about GO, 900 square miles, Is what
might bG called the great "uucortain
land" because you cannot calculate on
even tolerabIe average crop OF any kind
there on account OF the liability OF dry
weather. You cannot move farm to
water, but you can move your stock
llence II Is tho great grazing grounds,
anu, TO large TX ent, u must always re-
main 30, With the exception OF some
counties along streams which have fertile
valleys. Yet nature has placed other
OF farming aud ck.raislng. Mineral,
or building materials OF the very best
end m lst valuable qualities exist in mex
hausuble quantities. fact which means
largely increased wealth and manufac.
lures IN the years to come.
Texas already sas normal school
which IL doug as good work as any la
the countryi similar institution for
colored people, which ia doing more for
them In tue way of education than any
other states mechanical and agrlcul.
.ural college for whites, and similar one
Tor coloroi people. This fact will be
news 70 many people--especiall to New
Englanders. Its university Is destined
10 bee me renowned, with such men MS
Frof Humphreys, whose text books are
used In Yale and Harvard; Prof. Halstead,
whose mathematical works are used In
Priuceton, Yale, and other colleges IN
America, and In the univ rslty OF Il lin.
ourg, Scotlandi ana Prot. Macfarlane.
late OF Edinburg university.
Ga the subject OF convict labor great
deal has been said against Texas, esp cl.
ally among the so-caled protective labor
organizations, In connection with the
work on the magnificent new capitol now
being erected by a syndicate composed of
ausl VOL known men as Col. ADner
Taylor and the Farwell brothers Of yonr
city, and Col. A. 9. Babcock. The facts
about the conyicts and the Texas capitol
are theses
Had Col. Taylor and the Farwells en-.
p'oyed convicts they would have violated
law OF P'xAs which says that ''no CON
Nict labor shah ever be employed on any
public works or public buildings in this
a'ate Ia any capacity whatever. In the
seeoud place Cll. Ia lor and tho Farwoll
brothers have never had control OF any
eonyio's IN Texas, as they hsge been uG.
uhr control OF III state authorities ever
slhcT ina contract was lot, and henc,
they could not employ them Without
stealing them Ia the third place, they
dld not ask the state or any one else "a
let them Vnploy conyicts on the new
capitol In thefourth place, no conyicts
az any Time has ever been employed 90
any parl OF tho work sud never will be. |
even should Col Taylor aud the Farweli
brothers desire such thing In /
tle nth place, Col. TAYLOR and The
farwslls offered, both by word OF mouth.
bautoitively, before the state oiliclals
and the press representatives of Texas, |