Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-02-26
TEXAS Tn ANUTSHELL.

Texas has an area of 274 ,62S square
miles, equal in extent to all the New
England states, New York, Pennsylva-
mia, New Jersey and Delaware.
Texas has the most fertile soil of any
part of the Union.
The climate of Texas is healthful and
salubrious.
The products Of Texas are more diver
sified than those of any state in the
Union.
Texas is growing more rapidly in
wealth and population than any state in
the Union.
Texas has comparatively no state debt,
end the rate of taxation for state pur-
poses is p mills.
Texas, although q young state, just
assuming prominence, has finer public
school fund than any state in the Union.
It is ths third state in the Union in
railroad mileage.
Il has the finest state building in the
Union, and the seventh largest in the
world, constructed without any jobberY
or waste of public funds.
It has 80 600, 900 acres of public land
for sale at 50 an acre on forty years
time.
It is capable of producing more cotton
than the present crop of the entire globe.
1t has the finest veins of metallic iron
of any state on this continent.
It has the richest vein of manganese,
without which steel cannot be made, in
the known world.
Texas has the richest and largest mines
of copper in the Union.
There are more acres OF timbe in
Texas than in any three states III the
Union.
Texas offers greater advantages to the
agriculturist, the mechanic, the laborer,
the capitalist, than any state in the
Union.
Owing to the diversity of soil and
climate and products it offers induce
ments to the home-seeker that no other
country can offer.
The Boston Herald says of Texas that
cit can show gold to California silver to
Nevada, iron to Pennsylvania, coal to
Alabama, lead to Missouri, copper to
Michigan, lumber to Wisconsin. rice to
South Carolina, sugar to Louisiana, cot
ton to Mississippi, corn to Iowa, wheat
to Minnesota, wool to Ohio, hay to New
York, and to every state that which it
produces and much that it does not. -
II all the people in the United States
were settled in Texas, it would not be as
densely populated as France.
The Panhandle country of Texas has
68 400 square miles Of almost unexcelled
fertility.
1t produces the finest wheat and moro
bushels to the acre than any section of
the Union.
It offers cheap homes to million ag-
riculturists.
FORT WORTH HAS
Eleven railroad outlets, seven of which
are great trunk lines. and one building.
Thirty-two miles of electric car line
now and about to go into operation.
She has forty eight miles OF macadam-
lied streets.
Forty-two miles of sewerage and finest
natural drainage to be found anywhere.
Arc aud incandescent electric light
plant.
Holly waterworks.
GasW0rks.
Five grain elevators. Capacity $50 900
bushels.
Four roller mills. Capacity 1000 bar
rels per day.
She has stock yard. Capacity 5000
head of cattle daily and 1000 head of
hogs, which is Icing doubled by the addi-
ton of some fencing.
She has stove foundry in progress of
construction.
Fort Worth has a moss collar factory,
the only one in the United States.
An iron foundry. The largest in |
Texas.
A windmill and pump factory.
A boot and shoe factory.
She has eight national banks. Com |
bined capital 81 $50, 900.
A refrigerating, packing and canning |
establishment organized, and which will |
soon be ready for business.
It is the headquarters of one of the
eleven postal divisions OF the United |
States.
Its bank clearings, sure indices to the |
business Of city show larger percent
age Of increase than any city in the
Union.
It has the finest water in the world,
and in the greatest abundance.
It has the most live, energetic, pub
lic-spirited and progressive people of any
city on earth.
Its growth has been steady, solid and
It has had no ''boom' and
wants none.