Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-11
TEXAS ATA GLANCE.

Home-seekers, investors and curious
people will have an opportunity next
June to see at a glance all the varied
products of Texas constructed into
palace of marvellous workmanship and of
picturesque beauty that will not only be
a delight to the eye, but serve as a guide
book to the particular field in which the
stranger may wish to find home, invest
ment, health or pleasure.
The season selected for this unique and
Texas is most beautiful, and when the
gentle gulf breezes make life a physical
qualification uudreamt of by those who
have never peen in Texas when its prai-
ries and helds were one vast natural
flower garden and its climate perpetual
enjoyment
1t will be worth something to the in
vestor to look on this Palace, for it will
tell him without useless travel and ex-
pense in what section of this vast
area of country is found the field
of his preference; it will be
worth something to the home-seeker, for
it will tell him the capacity of each sec
ton and all that the immigrant may
wish to know; it will be worth something
to the pleasure-seeker and curious, for it
will reveal natural beauties of unique
design and construction and a marvel
Gus workmanship in products of the field,
producing effects that would seem to be
impossible; it will be worth something to
the health-seeker, for it will point him to
localities where nature provides healing
for ailments deemed incurable; it viii be
worth something to every man, woman
and child who takes in at glance, as it
were, the products of an empire and the
quaint and even fantastic handiwork of
man and woman.
To Texas this Spring Palace will be
worth much. Texas is a sleeping giant,
an unknown Colorado, with ca
pacity within itself for living
to itself in complete indepen-
dence of the world, and with area suf-
fcent to give every human being in the
United States three acres of land. Texas
is scarcely known to the great world of
capital and home-seekers. From this
Spring Palace will go back to their homes
men and women, who will bear testi-
mony to what they have seen in this en-
pire of the Southwest, and these self |
appointed missionaries will do more to
advertise Texas than all the |
efforts heretofore made-for these men
and women who have seen Texas will be
credible witnesses by those
whose minds have been poisoned against
the state and against those who have been
speaking in its behalf
And that Texas may reap rich reward |
from this effort, all Texas must
strive to make the exhibit complete. The
popular apprehension of Texas is vast
plain, large portion Of which, in the old
time maps was advertised to the world
Is lying within the Great American
Desert. Therefore in this exhibit should
De shown the cotton, the sugar, the
wheat, the oats, the.millet, the corn, the
the castor-bean, the potatoes,
he apples, the peaches, the plums, the
bears, the ounces, the figs, the pun
yranates, the almonds, the grapes,
he pecans, and all that Texas
ields, farms and gardens produce.
rhe grain, the fruits, the vegetables and
he products of North, South, East and
Vest Texas should disclose TO these visi-
ors how false is the popular idea of this
tate, in the very Staked Plains of which
wheat and peaches and other productions
1--WE the lie to tales of sterility.
And into this palace should go short
nd long leaved pine; the red, post,
lack jack and live oaks; the mesquite;
he pecan; the sweet and black gums;
ne elm and the ash and the hickory and
he walnut, for this palace should show
o the eyes.o men that Texas is not all a
lain, but has of pine timber alone
5 200 900 acres. capable of producing
yer sixty billion feet of merchantable
amber.
And this Texas Spring Palace
hould afford an opportunity TO
apital in search of mineral
elds to see what they want without trav-
ling all over the South on special ex- !
arsions. The products of the great
pal basins of the state must be here,
18th the iron, the copper, the
.ad. the silver. the petroleum, the