Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-01
TILE GAZGTTE: FORT WORTH TEHAs TTEsDAY JANUARY /

Mississippi or Pennsylvania; thirty times
as large as Massachusetts, and PA times
! as large as Rhode Island If Texas was
! as densely populated as Rhode Island it
| would contain 6S POS 600 inhabitants;
more than the entire population of the
| United States and Mexico combined.
As a stock raising country Texas is
| without rival. Texas has ,305, 900
| head Of horses and mules, valued at
! $50 900 coo; Texas has 600 900 head of
sheep aud goats, valued at ST 500 900;
Texas has 3 $50 900 head of cattle,
! valued ut S37 900 600; Texas has 3 200,
600 acres in cotton, yielding l 600 900
bales, worth on an average S45 per bale.
Texas has $50 ZOO acres in corn, yield
| ing II ,2I4 900 bushels There is in the
state treasury cash balance, and this,
with only state tax of 10 cents on 500,
while the assessments are very low.
Texas has $500 miles of railroad, and
three or four great systems will soon eX-
tend their lines into this state. We have
within our borders, now being worked,
but only partially developed,
coal mines, iron mines, copper mines,
salt mines, some silver, gold, lead and
platinum have lately been discovered.
We have sandstone, lime stone OF many
y;lrities, granite, marble of several col
Ors, immense beds of gypsum and natural
cement, while fine clay is found through
out the state from which excellent brick
can be cheaply made. In all, Texas has
20 GOO ,0GO acres of mineral lands. Texas
has 10 600 900 acres of the finest timber
to be found on the continent, consisting
of oSer 400 varieties. We have long-leaf
pine, cypress, bois d are, lignum vitae,
white oak, live oak, hickory, ash, poplar
and walnut. In eastern Texas alone
there are % 600, square miles of pine,
cypress and hard woods. Texas has the
grandest free school fund in the United
States. Public schools are maintained
Z from four TO ten months out of the year.
There is a state agricultural and ma
chanical college, normal school for
whites and one for the colored people,
state university, q school of correction,
n state orphons home, an institution for
the blind, and for the deaf and dumb.
No state has such liberal laws, exempt
ing homesteads from forced sale. The
homestead in the country consists eff 200
acres with all improvements In q city
or town of 4 lot valued at $1,000 at time
of purchase, with all improvements
thereon, provided the same shall be
used for the purpose of a home.
WHERE TEXAS STANDS.
The following report of crop products
and their market value in Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri and Texas is taken from the
tables Of the report of the department of
agriculture for 1886, and was compiled
by Colonel C.. H Higbee of Fort Worth
Tarrant is one of the leading agricultural
and fine stock counties of the state, and
these facts and figures become more
interesting to home-seekers and in
vestors when considered in this connec-
ton.
The four states presenting the largest
returns of farm products, cereals, pota-
toes, tobacco, hay and cotton are as fol-
lows for 1885:
CORN.
Illinois, valued so ,3l9, $40
Missouri, valued Observation-Disclosures. a., 2I5, 250
Texas, valued ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Al ,35S, $40
Value per unit of quantity; Illinois, %
cents; Iowa, "a cents; Missouri, 20 cents;
Texas, 49 cents.
Average yield of wheat per acre: ILL
nOis, IS bushel; Iowa, IL 3 bushel Mis-
souri,, Z. A bushel; Texas, IL 2 bushel.
Value per unit of quantity: Illinois,
81 cents; Iowa, 81 cents; Missouri, 76
cents; Texas, so cents.
Average cash value per acre of
Corn. Wheat. Oats.
Illinois. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 50 $6s7 $7s1
Missouri ...:......::..... IS - IS
Texas ..-................... 10 IL SS % /
Largest yield of single products of the |
four largest returns of the states:
LIMOS, corn So, 49, 44O
Iowa, corn IS, 1904
New York, 66, 40 SOP
Texas, cotton 81, 613 1O7
Values of cattle in the four largest |
cattle growing states, 1885:
iowa $50, az $50
New YORK 549
diLnols- 61,9gz $40
Iexas ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. sc, 5Io SOL
Values in 1886:
Iexas So 81 2O9
Iowa 1871, 029
iiiiOiS o' 4lO'I lou
Total value of all farm products in |
greatest returns of any four states:
Illinois. S149. O33 4O7 |
iowa ia, ~, sol
AeAtas w. t1zVof
Value of the four largest cotton crops:
Texas .S54, 613, 1O7
Il So, 341
Aaoana 81 ~
Arkansas 20, 226, 612
Increase value of cattle in Texas
fol- 'S0 to 'S6. ~ per cent
Increase value of cattle in New
York from 'S5 to sc. .............. 3.5 So SO
Decrease value of cattle in Iowa
from 'S5 to 'S6.. ................... ga 90 Sc
Decrease value of cattle in Illinois
from 'S5 to 'S6. Observation-Disclosures. S.6 4" So
Value Of sheep in 1885: