Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-25
TEXAS AND MIME oTA.

established within the state, and its principal
officers residents OF the state
Such legislation as this is not infrequent
When a state like Minnesota effeetually deter
mines what corporations shall and Shall not fur
nish the peoples meat supply and, moreover,
determines what corporations shall not enjoy
access to the courts for the protection of their
property rights, surely n commonwealth where
the production of long horned steers is practi-
cally the only industry. ought to go uncritioised
for adopting so comparatively harmless meas
ure.
1t is a fact worthy of some slight considera-
ton at least that those states where railroad
regulation has never assumed the form of a
public craze-such for instance, as New York,
Mass achusetts and Observation-Disclosures to
maintain fair average of prosperity and con-
tentment among the people, and are generally
able to raise capital enough for any public en-
terprise that may be projected. States, on the
other hand like Texas. Kansas, Iowa and MIN
nesota, where the craze is in bountiful operation
and where everybody is 'agn the railroads, -
it must be admitted that capital is less plentiful
the people at least no more contented, and the
progress of industrial enterprise at somewhat of
a lower ebb.
Time will, without doubt, bring its remedy
along for this state of AFFAIRS but meanwhile the
example of the state of Texas should not be lost
on our granger statesmen. Let them forthwith
determine that even the qualified legal status
which is here accorded TO the railroads shall be
withdrawn unless the principal officers Of all of
them shall transfer their lives and fortunes to
Minnesota and establish here their principal Off
ces. AS precautionary measure against the al
most certain results of existing legislation,
think this would be a good scheme. Otherwise
there mightn't be a railroad officer or railroad
Office hereabouts in the course of little while.
list. Paul Dispatch.
Laying aside the natural disposition to
correct the estimate which the Dispatch
makes of the people of Texas and its er-
Tor regarding the law to which it refers,
THE GAZETTE desires to say few words
to that esteemed contemporary regarding
the mistaken idea it entertains of the
position held by Texas in the commercial
world.
Of course the Dispatch is too fair a
paper to wish to do Texas u wrong, and
will, when its error is pointed out, has
ten to make the amende honorable by a
correction OF its mistaken assertion.
The Dispatch speaks of Texas as "the
commonwealth where the production of
long horned steers is practically the only
industry - and this erroneous idea it
entertains is common with q great many
people who have never been in Texas.
The fact is the practice of cultivating
the long horned steer is now almost OBJ
solete. Instead of its being 'practi-
eally the only industry, - it is practically
no industry at all in Texas. The long
horn has rapidly given away to the short
horn in Texas, and now the herds that
are raised in Texas are almost
all high grade cattle, that are
eagerly sought by the graziers of
the Northwestern pasture lands.
So that the impression noticeably con-
veyed by the Dispatch IS statement-that
Texas still clIngs to the old, happy-go-
lucky style of raising cattle is entirely
erroneous.
But the most erroneous part OF. the
whole statement is that cattle raising of
any kind is practically the only INDUS
ty'' of this state We have at hand sta
tistics gathered last year by the agricul-
tural bureau from which we are able to
gather some idea of the industries of the
state. This volume is the first published
by the department, and is, therefore,
very incomplete, its figures being far be-
low the actual sum of the products. But
and something of what Texas has done.
This work shows that in 1887
the cotton product of Texas sold
for S45, l27 ,67G .33, while the corn
product amounted to S25, $40 ,652 so.
Other articles swelled the total valu-
alton of farm and plantation products
to Sl2l, 1876, l58 GO. IN addition to this
the factories in Texas, not including
those whose output was less than five
hundred dollars, amounted TO S23,
615 ,249, making total product for 1887
of Sl45, 600, 407 go.
It must be remembered that 1887 was
a very bad year in large part of the
state, the crops in many counties be-
ing a virtual failure. The most con-
estimate places the cotton
crop for this year at SIS, 900, coo, the |
wheat crop increased at least three mil
lion dollars, the oats 81 900 900 and the
corn $40, 900, GOO; a total increase of at |
least forty-fve million dollars in these |
four articles alone. Add to these an |
increase of 81 900 900 in the lumber
product and 81 900, 900 more in general
small estimate when |
we consider the largely increased iron |
output, the building of the cotton mill |
at Dallas and a large number of |
smaller manufacturing institutions at |
various places-and we have an increase
Of S53, 900 900 altogether, while having |
all the other various products at the fig
urus of 1887, would swell the total prod
net for this year to sI98 ZOO, 900.
The product of Texas for the current |
year, as shown in this estimate, VIII be
oioI, 1oII for