Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-02
TEXAS.
What a Pennsylvania Thinks Of the
Lone Star State and Its Advantages.
inducements to Home REPRESENTATION OF
the Homestead Kind of People
Wanted-HeaIth, Society, Etc.
Huntington penn. J Monitor.


W. d. Isenberg, Esq, who formerly
resided in MoConnellstown this county
but who is now located IN Fort Worth,
Tex, writes the Monitor the following
interesting letter:
God in his infinite wisdom has endowed
this wonderful state with boundless re-
sources beyond description. This is the
garden spot of the world, and a large
spot too, at that. Here it is where the
seeker of all the comforts of this world
can find them. Texas has an area Of
l67 1865 800 acres of land, of which
80 200, ZOO acres are mineral land, on
which are an abundance of coal,
iron ore, lead, fire clay, silver
and some gold, together with marble,
granite and fine building stone. These
are fonnd in every part of the state. We
have our Pittsburg and other manufac-
turing cities. Capitalists are developing
these resources and the noise of the
steam hammer can be heard on every
hand in its daily manufacturing toll.
There are as, 900 900 acres of the finest
timber lands in the country, of which
26 900 ZOO are pine and cypress. The
wisdom of the people of Texas shines
forth in the grandeur OF her pub
lie school system. She has now
40 ZOO, 900 acres of the richest
lands set apart TO foster and support
this system; besides the counties have
over four million acres for the same pur-
pose. Every benevolent and worthy
charity that Christian people are adj
monished to support has been literally
endowed by the state with public lands.
The state has 256 organized and 100 I'M
ways cool; rains fall abundant in every
part of the state, except the extreme
southwest corner, and here are found
the best pasture lands of the state. The
public school fund, exclusive of interest,
is $40 900 900. The State university is
endowed with S14 200, 600. In the bounds
of the state 10 ZOO miles of railroad are
in operation.
FOrty-five million acres of the richest
and most productive soil in the world is
what the state offers immigrants, with
forty years credit at per cent. interest,
for 81 an acre. If all the people OF Can
ada and the United States were located
IN Texas they would not be as thickly
settled as they are in France.
Texas produces a greater variety of
crops than any country on the face of
the globe. It's chief products are cot
ton, corn. wheat, rye, oats, etc. Veg
etables of all kinds, including Irish and
sweet potatoes, grow to perfection in
nearly every part of the state; large
quantities of sugar cane are proftably
cultivated in the southern part. The
various fruits found in Pennsylvania
grow here to perfection; oranges, figs,
etc. are grown IL large quantities. This
is the only country where these fruits
grow to perfection side by side in the
same land. The yield of cotton is from
one to two bales to the acre; corn twenty
five to fifty bushels; wheat twenty to
forty, etc.
Texas is without a rival in raising
horses, cattle and sheep with little ex-
pense. In 1870 it had 500, 900 people
Fo-day the population is between 3,OO0,-
600 and 1000, 200. In 1870 shs had 200
miles of railroad, to-day Is, 900.
The homestead of 200 acres in the
country of every family is exempt from
forced sale, except for purchase money,
and if once family owns home there
is no misfortune that can drive them out
of doors and TO poverty. A homestead
can Il be mortgaged in Texas. Wages
are good-teachers, $50 to So per month;
brick masons, So ana S. per day; car
month. How striking the point of diff
ference between Texas aud Dakota.
Wild prairie lands fell for s. per acre in
50 in Texas; Dakota almost per-
petual winter, Texas perpetual spring.
Mechanics can work ont OF doors every
day in the year. Texas is S25 miles
from east TO west, 760 miles from north
to south.
The healthfulness is not surpassed. It
is warm but tempered by the gulf breeze
ever blowing, free from malarial dis
eases. In the entire state sunstrokes are
unknown. AS to society, Texas will
compare with any state. A greater pro-
portion of her people belong to some
Christian church than in any other state.
Her free schools are open from six to ten
months each year, and the cities and
towns have all the modern improvements
works, electric light, electric
street railroad. etc. You will see more
business done by thrifty set of business
men here in any of our cities than you
will in a place of twice its size North.
Look down the business thoroughfare and
see the street lined with conveyances and
q busy, prosperous people trafieing.
Texas wants immigrants, thrifty, 60