The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-02-16
Gail About Texas "

of to-day, her industries, resources, and
capabilities, history, topography, area,
climate. soils, RAINFALL healthfulness, pro-.
duotions of forest, field and farm,
garden, ranch and vine, fish
and game, manufactures, quarrios,
elays, railroads, water powers commercial
facilities, trade, political and public insti-
buttons, educational, bsnevolent and
penal, social condition, public schools and
railroad lands, taxation, locality and
analysis of ores, building stones, ETC.;
also, advice to immigrants, laws on lead
ing subjects, etc.; also, comparative tables
comparing Texas with herself in different
years and with other states.
The work Is to he in octave form,
about Exty-fve or seventy pages,
printed on strong white paper, in clear
bold type, and can be sold to
counties aud local immigration associ-
atoms at the remarkably low price of
800 for 1000 copies, or 10 cents apiece.
No such work has ever been published
about Texas, exhaustive yet concise, au-
thentic and readable.
In his preface he says:
The preparation and publication of this
little volume, spired by extensive inquiry
from parties contemplating removal to
4 or investment in Texas, was undertaken
with view to furnish the information in
as compact, accurate, readable and ex
haustive manner as possible, consistent
with brevity.
personal familiarity with nearly every
portion of the state aud its products by
tours through it at different seasons, and
acquaintance with it's people, their char
acteristics, methods, needs, ETC., through
annual reviews and state write-ups when
proprietor and managing editor of the
Dallas Daily Herald, from 1879 to 1886;
as commissioner-ln-chi chief for Texas to the
New Orleans exposition; as secretary of
the State immigration committee, to-
gether with my present residence at the
capitol, where the state departments are
located, have afforded me peculiar facili
ties for the discharge of the work.
The facts and data are from thoroughly
informed and responsible persons and
official sources, and, as far as they CO. can
be accepted as entirely impartial and
reliable, having been secured, compiled
9 and commented on with no interest to
subserve except the welfare of Texas, and
in the hope of benefits to those who,
through this agency, may cast their lot
among as superior people in as grand
a state as exists to-day, or was ever knoTn
to history.
CONCLUDING WORDS.
To the Immigrant:
And now having presented to you g
birds eye view of Texas, its physical
= conditions, its products and it's people,
confidently ask, does any country on earth
possess such diversity or offer such attrac-
tions and advantages as this, to shower
blessings on mankindp Is there
any land where an ample compe
tenoy can be procured with Less
of labor or engaged with as complete
contentment? Truly the field in Texas
is golden with opportunity, and appears
as near as possible of attainment; the
poor mans paradise, home for him OF
J small means, a promise of wealth ano
honor to the young and ambitious.
To the generous hospitality of its peo
pie you are now invited, whether
you be farmer, tradesman
mechanic, or manufacturer, cap
italist or laborer, health seeker OIL
travelling tourist. Under the softenng in
fuence of our southern rays we propose
to share with you all the rich resources OF
the state, equal in variety to her physical
features, her prolific virgin soil, genial
j heathful climate, untold mineral wealth
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fields and fruiting orchards, her health
resorts, her commercial facilities
her extraordinary educational pro
visions and benevolent institutions
her political and religious freedom
exemption from debt, her light taxation
her splendid growing cities, towns ant
villages, an unsurpassed social status; {
home where no epidemics come, and out
-. h. lDaIk &c do anf
earthquakes, and where are found il
fullest flower the enterprise and grant
opportunities of new states, with all thu
culture of the older crystalizing about it
the best elements of character, and max
ing it pre-eminently the countr!
of the present and the future
To all this cordial welcome await
those who come with sturdy wills ant
willing hands to help on in the develop
ing work; people who have turned thel
y backs to the past and their faces towar
the mornings, resigned in Gods goo
providence to leave for the halls of his
tory that past, with all it's valiant deed
and heroic struggles, with hearts un
chilled by losses and SORROWS that thickl
crowd the chambers of memory, and VIII
now, bravely taking up the duties of tn
nOur, deh IouI SO'OPeldOhOh III q JVAhU w
partnership.
n To y'Fellow.citizens.
y The object of this little work, tn
product of weeks nightly toll when tn
iabors of the day were done, is to fulnis
in as compact and comprehensive forr
as possible consistent with accuracy, in
formation to inquirers about Texas VIII
have applied to me, to individuals gene
\ rally, to officials and to corporations a
, u over this state. And to dispel the strang
II and chronic misapprehensions about Texa
as being only place of cotton creste
fields, choked with malaria, and hldln
spot for the scum and scab OF other state
Conscious of its defects, from de
fciency of data for lack of ayr
cultural, geological, immigration mat
ter, state services, or preVlor
work of similar sort to dra
much assistance from, l have done tt
best could with the materials at han
At every step in the progress, as unde
took to "turn on the light" about Tex