Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-20

To speak of this city as it should be
done would be at the expense of great
time, labor and space. l leave it to be
more faithfully portrayed by others upen
other occasions. Wha6 world of thought
crowds upon us when we contemplate the
scene incident to the laying of the cor
ner stone of Fort Worth : great building
1t will not. do to omit mention of this
, great state What of TeXas? The very
thought opPresses us. So great are its
resources and so bouudless its terri
tory that the inadequacy of language
atones for a failure to properly de-
scribe it. First of all, from the
dome of the capitol at Vienna,
must tell the people of Austria that
Texas is larger than their empire, and
is watered by an hundred Danubes.
must step upon the reichstag, and
trumpet to the people that Texas is
larger than the great empire of Germany.
/ want TO climb for moment upon the
Strasburg cathedral or TO some lofty peak
of the Pyrenees and tell the people of
France and Alsace that Texas is larger
than the great republic of France. L
would like to stand among the isles of
Britain as high as Westminster and tell
the people that Texas is larger than
at Harrisburg, ut Trenton, at Springfield
and at Frankfort | want to say to my own
countrymen that Texas, with PA ,356
square miles and l75, 5S7 $40 acres, is
larger than New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Illinois and Kentucky, and
has enough room remaining for two such
states rs Indiana. Nor is this all. Com
ing into the Union only forty-three years
ago, she had at the taking of the last
census a population only exceeded by
New York Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illi-
nois, and her population will now
crowd closely, if not exceed, 81
600, 600, with an assessed value
of $3.50 ,225 ,S2S, exceeded only by
the gf9at manufacturing states of Massa-
chusetfs, New York and Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Missouri. She has a greater
population, by 500 600, than the next
most populous state of the South, and an
assessed value of twice as much. But
this is not all. l want TO tell
the great states of the West
that in 1886 Texas raised SO ,2l3 900
bushels of corn, led by only two states of
the South, Kentucky and Tennessee. IN
the same year the state raised 5 1888 600
bushels of wheat, led by three states of
the South. painfully regret to confess
to the country, that though we have the
best state in the Union for the growth of
wheat, admittedly so, yet in this impor-
tant cereal we are behind. Little Ore
gon raised twice as much. But the con-
stantiy increasing acreage, renders it
certain that within Il few years Texas
will take the lead in this as she has in
cattle and cotton. It strikes me that the
great dailies like THE GAZETTE should
never loss sight of the Importance of
greater acreage of wheat for Texas, and
continue to- gan its importance9to the
attention efFIhe people of TIE state.
According tp the report OF International
statisticians Rexas had on Janu;ay /,
1883, l ,225 ,S4S horses on farms, worth
S38 liz, , 1885, 1nssRe than any statessin the
Union. Thestate Led 1913 ASS mules, q
greater number thailSany of the states
except Missouri and Tennessee. These
are worth $40 .0S2, 25a. She Lad 752 ZIG