Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-06
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| WV NooheAr o. ueoies - U lhutuoAC ehiHe
| Wherever misery exists. At oil events
no one can gsinsay that 1t alleviate:
! temporary distress and substitutes per-
manent wealth. In any circumstances
! this is claimed by those who are best &C.
| quainted with the condition of the people
| who in the past have emigrated to Texas
| and California, aud the fact that during
the last ten years the former state has just
doubled its assessment and population.
and now contains some 5000, 900 of in
habitsnss, is surely corroborative
| of the assertions thus put forth.
When one considers that Texas contains
PA 1856 square miles of territory, equiv
alent TO al acreage of lis ,5S7 $40, thus
giving nearly square mile for every
person in the state, one gets an idea of
the vastness of the place and the amount
OF land which must be waiting cultiya-
ton. Government statistics show that
there are some thirty millions OF acres of
railroad land in this state alone which
can be bought at from two to five dollars
per acre, and railway communication is
now in such an advanced stage that
markets are easily and cheaply found for
every product grown. so much that Is
favorable has been said and written
about the state under notice that it is,
indeed, difficult to strike fresh ground.
fer its climate, products, mineral re-
sources, plentifulness of land, educa-
tional advantages and general prosperity
place it far ahead of any other state
perhaps excepting California, which is
more difficult to reach-in the republic.
When we say that bacon is quoted at
four pence per pound, beef penny to
three pence per pound, and -four penny
to three-half pence per pound, while at
the same time ordinary laborers receive
an average of thirty shillings per week,
including food, further description
is to certain extent super
fuous, for when high wages,
plenty of work, and cheap food run to-
gether the prosperity of the lower classes
needs no further FLIP. To fully. under
stand the claims OF the state one has to
consider that there is practically no
winter, and farming goes on all the year
round. Imagine country where wheat
is sown in the autumn, oats and barley
in winter, and corn and cotton in the
spring, where double and i'll some cases
treble crops of everything can readily be
obtained every year, where five differ
eEt crops of hay can be raised in twelve
months, and where the native grasses
are almost the only food of magnificent,
easily reared livestock of every descrip-
ton, and you have fair notion Of the
present position of things in the ''Lone
Star State. A native of Great Britain
who has never seen a cotton pod in his
life takes to cotton planting as If to the
manner born, and the immense superb
GRITTY of the fiber Of this portion of
America is best illustrated by the fact
market. Last year the value of the
cotton crop In Texas amounted to no less
than IA 900 900 sterling, and the reports
of those who have travelled the state are
entirely unanimous as to the absence of
poverty or discomfort. and the wonder
fui future in store for its inhabitants. In
word this is one of the finest countries
in the world and only needs an access of
population to render it one of the most
powerful. 1t is well that, if emigration
should have to be resorted to, it should |
be taken III hand by men of the very
first position in the land, so as to guard |
against the uudoubted evils which q |
reckless and irregular stampede often |
gives rise to; and we therefore look for |
ward with interest 10 the publication of !
the names of the directors in the pro- |
posed company.
The eInigrants can make sure of an |
exceedingly kind reception from the |
Texas people, for an increase in popula-
ton in these sparsely peopled districts is
considered absolutely essential to their
full development. The government of
the United States is of course ALWAYS
happy to see its districts becoming more
thickly populated, and every possible
help is afforded to settlers on their ar
rival. The railway companies are also
interested from pecuniary point of
view, for more people mean larger crops
and more freight, SO that the companies
N question may be relied on to favor the
project to every extent in their power.
As we have said, the chief feature of the
proposal Is the fact that the people are
lot to be pauperized. Permanent good
5 very seldom obtained By policy of
Eorkhouses, but it often hap
,ens that "a well-timed stim-
liant may stave off the sickness
Until strength Is gathered to overcome 1t
altogether. There are may capitalists
Who hold this view in high regard, and
he security afforded them by the mag
lifcent land of the country ought surely
o be sufficient TO satisfy the most ex-
cting. The price of land in Texas, as
n other places, differs according to the
position of the plot, but the whole title
nd freehold can be bought at rates
'arying from twelve shillings to e. per
ere. In the case of people gong over
'ho do not want to buy the land out
light, O most equitable cooperative
ystem Of renting farms is in practice,
he owner furnishing the house, land
nd improvements, and the renter the
cams, tools and provisions; and out of
he crop the landlord receives Us rent
ne-thrd of the grain and one-fourth of
he cotton. The latter system is be-
omine a favorite one in the state for
migrants with little capital, but very
aw years suffices to place the tenant in
ossession of his holding. Another plan
to purchase the farm by paying a for
eth of the money every year for forty
ears, and, considering the average
rice of land, this would mean that q
arm of fifty acres, paying at the rate of
lirty shillings per annum, would be free
! forty years. Labor is in very great
and men, even If not courage
US enough to start farming, are never
Ut of employment. Statistics are, of
purse, everywhere to be met with, and
encs there is little use burdening this
rticle with figures, but if it be remem-
cred that the tremendous area of land
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