Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-10


! The Record continues: "Startling as
! these figures NAV appear at first sight :.
| there is nothing of the mpossibie about
J them, and they invite further considera-
! ton in order that their possibilities may
| be shown more In detail.'' Virginia is
first taken as an illustration. 1t now
has density Of 1879, while Pennsyl-
yania, almost its neiRhbor, has ia 05 to
! the square mile, vet it is Virginia with
her great coal and iron industries that
| seems destined to rival that common
wealth. "But in order to rank with
Pennsylvania in this respect, - says the
Z Record. "Firglnia must increase her
GAS ,9ll people TO 81 372, and yet
those who would set themselves up as
critics of the South would have US believe
that Virginia is already over-populated
and should not be permitted to grow any
further
Tennessee. Georgia and Alabama,
those states of magnificent agricultural
and mineral resources, which have en-
jOved such exceptional prosperity and
shown such marked growth in popula-
tion and commercial activity during the
last decade, are next proved equal TO the
support of tie population indicated in the
'able above, and still have as much or
more unimproved land Us now lies idle il
the densely populated states OF Massa-
chusetts and Rhoie Island. cit would
be multiplication of words to apply
this reasoning to all the Southern
states, - says the Record, "for the alb
surdity of the alleged over booming of
the South seems too apparent upon the
slightest examination TO call for extend
ed argument. Great as has been the
progress and development of the South,
the increase i'll population during the
last ten years bears about the same rela-
ton to the possibilities of that region
that the arrival Of a few hotel guests
bears to the population of New York
city,
Texas, with its enormous territory of
PA 1856 square miles, and its scauty
population OF only s IA to the square
mile, Is Il case especially in point. There
Is no state in the Union that has such agri-
cultural prospects,. none IN which min
eral wealth will be such factor of de-
velopmeut. In other states, like Penn
sylvauis, the mineral resources have
long mnterislized, or like Alabama,
much has already been done. In Texas
all the development of the underground
wealth lies ahead. We are at the
very gateway, and hardly yet realizs
what lies buried TO be yet developed
Our agricultural resources are becoming
known, bur not yet has this states true
immensely been more than dreamed Of
As yet tbs smokestacks of Texas eau be
easlly numbered, but when our cotton 10
manufactured here and then sent to New
England and Old, when our mines are
keeping the Tassie Belle furnace and all
its coming successors lighted the
year round, when our coal
mines are supplying even our own
market, and when our unparalleled
forests are supplying the numberlees
factories that are possible with timber
for the furniture and wagons and i'm
plements that are now imported, then |
Texas shall begin to realize her own I'M |
portance In the Industrial procession. |
That will be long before our s. "A persons |
per square mile shall reach the III 05 of |
Pennsylvania. not to speak of the 2S6 80 |
OF Massachusetts. Should even the |
density of the first be reached Texas
would have population OF more than |
81 900 600, while with q density equal TO |
that of Massachusetts the people of this
state alone would amount to over 49,
900 900, 20 per cent more that the forty
four states now contain. But, says the
Record, "we have yet to hear that
or Rhode Island or Con-
uecticut Is overcrowded.