Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-12
'sTExAS, 4 REAL EMPIRE STATE

TEXAS, 4 REAL EMPIRE STATE
Texas, with all its self complacency ,
is just beginning to be heard Of, and
known of men beyond its own
borders; and when once the state
is known and the truth of
its resources and adaptability is
made apparent to the world, there will
be such influx of capital and people as
Will aggrayate the apprehensions of those
who stand on the shivering sands and
tremble at the yawning of "the deep
blue sea that once upon a time moved a
Texas governor to tell the world through
a magazine article that our Texas people
dldn t want to be crowded into the shallow
water on the coast line. But that gov
eTnor is gone now, "gone, John, for
ever, " and a different spirit moves Tex
as to action. The latest contribution to
the advertising of Texas is the Philadel-
phia Ledger, which, barring a protec
zionist fling at Mr.. Mills, has some good
words for the real empire state:
that their country, stretching, as it does, from
the Arctic ocean to the tropics, with its i'm
measurable variety and wealth of resources, ag-
ricultural and mineral, and with its millions of
Industrial population, needs no aid from the out
side world for its supply of either the neces-
saries the comforts or even the luxuries of
life, it is not every. American who knows what
imperial resources are to be found in one of the
sisterhood of states, and that one a younger
sister, too. 1t is not alone the great breadth
of the territory of Texas that makes it
the real Empire state of the South, but
her opulence of natural resources also. The
territory of this single state, extending from the
temperate zone nearly to the tropics, and cover
ing 237 ,321 square mies-fve times the area of
Pennsylvania-is capable of producing all the
staple agricultural products of both zones. To
what is already known of the productions of
Texas in the cereals, in WOOL in cotton, in sugar
and in cattle-in addition to her minerals-there
is now to be added very promising probabilities
in coffee, Sea Island cotton and the finer grades
of tobacco. Although the coffee planting
is still in the experimental stage, the trees be-
ing at some risk from occasional slight frosts
in the late autumn, still the agricultural bu-
reRu has the record of planting in Cameron
county, near the twenty sixth parallel of lati-
tude, where every seed that was planted ger
minated, the planter writing that he now has
about one hundred and fifty young trees from
twelve to eighteen inches high. and all strong
and healthy Men constitute state, . but it
is all the better constituted when it raises all its
own coffee, sugar and corn for breakfast; its
wheat and potatoes and beef cattle and swine for
dinner; its grapes and bananas and oranges for
dessert and festive occasions; its cotton and
wool and skins, leather for garments and head
and foot gear all the year round, and with illim-
liable resources for salt all along the sesshore.
With these Texas has the men, too. The one
great thing to be added is manufactures, facto-
ries, mills-but Mills of a more productive sort
than the Hon. Roger O., late chairman of the
ways and means committee.