Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26
KEEP YOUR EYE ON TEXAS
Prediction Of Marvellous Growth for
the Lone Star State.
A New Yorker Tells What He Has Learned
Of Texas Resources on Bust
ness Trip.
PHILADELPHIA Press

''It is my firm belief that you will see
more immigration into the state of Texas
in the next two years than any state in
the Union has ever received in the same
period of time. -
The above remark was made to Press
reporter at the Gilsey House last night by
Mr.. T. @. Palmer, who has just returned
from an extended trip in Texas, made in
the interest of Frank Leslie g Illustrated
Newspaper.
"Mr. Palmer, what is there in Texas
TO induce so much immigration
''What is there? Everything. A de-
1ightful climate, a soil that is so rich and
varied that there's scarcely anything
that grows that il will not produce
wheat, corn. oats, in fact all kinds of
cereals-hundreds of thousands of acres
of as rich cotton lands as lie in America,
millions of acres of sugar cane land,
fruit country that bids fair TO rival, if
not excel, California, the finest grazing
land in the republic, and at New Biz
5ningham and Llano have been discov-
cred inexhanstible iron deposits.
Large furnaces and rolling mills have
been established at New Birmingham,
which are now working on a large scale,
and furnaces will soon be erected at
LlanO, where the ore runs 20 per cent.
of iron out Of possible y per cent.
A fair quality of coal has also been
found in some places, and the state Will
probably have cheap fuel for manu-
featuring in a few years.
Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, Houston,
Galveston, Austin, San Antonio, Laredo,
FL Paso, in fact all OF the cities I visited
are wonderfully prosperous and growing
rapidly.
Then the deep water question is agitat-
ing the whole state.
Galveston now has sixteen feet of
water over the bar, and if she gets her
Sc 900 200 appropriation bill through
congress she viii have thirty feet.
private syndicate is building jetties
at the mouth of the Brazos, which will
give thirty feet Of water inside of three
years, and Arkansas Pass is asking that
the government give her the privilege of
dredging the bar where $500 900 will give
her thirty feet of water, and being the
port nearest the Mexican border will
make her one of the most important har-
bors on the gulf.
Sabine Pass is also working for deep
water, and, in my judgment, it's
question of but few years when Texas
will have three, possibly four, ports
into which can steam the largest vessels
afioat.
This deep water question is not only i'm
portant for Texas and the contiguous
country, but also 10 New York, PhiIa-
delphia, Boston and Baltimore, for it
will give them a cheaper water and rail
freight rate than can be secured by COM
peting inland cities where all shipments
are by rail.
State and railroad lands can be pur-
chased for from 81. so to S. an acre, and
this supply runs into millions and tens of
millions of acres. The railroads of the
state are all prosperous; the' tide has
turned Keep your eye on Texas, an /
empire where a line drawn from the
northwestern corner to Brownsville on
the southwest is 1925 miles, or but TWEEN
ty-five miles less than the distance from
New York to st. Louis, and the develop
ment IN five years will astonish you.