Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-30
THE FAIR.
East Texas and Wichita, County Day
Brings Out Thousands ofPeOple.
EX Governor Hubbard Makes the Speech of the
Day Summarizing the Advantages
and Resources OF His Section.

srecial to the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tea, Oct. 29.-The great
fair grounds were crowded to-day with
people, especially from East Texas and
Wichita county. Mr.. John Mayer, sec
rotary of the Tyler board of trade, has
worked increasingly for the past few
days to make East Texas day great
success, and indeed it was. Among the
people from that section of the state
many prominent men were noticeable.
Appropriate exercises were had during the
day In the music hall, and Mr.. Mayer
introduced Governor Hubbard to the as
sembled crowd, who addressed them sub
stantially as follows:
He started out by saying that he was
not present TO quiet spirit of discOrd
and sectioaalism, because such did not
exist. Every inch of him was Texan,
and he loved the great state as each of
his hearers ought to and must love every
section of this grand, peerless and i'm
perial empire. From the day when
Rusk, Houston, Van Zant and Kaufman
settled and lived and died in this domiu-
ion, We all have been peopling this mag
niticent territory. Eastern Texas, he
said, was as one distinct billow in the
great sea of matchless resources, enter
prise and development found in Texas.
You have all been told to ego West
Go West and seek g home where the soil
ia so desUssSsTat it takes an artesian well
snsa1(&#the bottom. l 90 not find fault
With that spirit OF the Anglo-Saxon race
that looks towards the setting sun. 1t Is
part OF the spirit that inspired
our ant Gators and placed civili-
cation and law upon these
shores. Bnt in the past decade revolu-
tions have taken place in all the indus
tries of Eastern Texas. New mines and
resources of wealth have been brought to
light. In that work the land from which
/ come has been borne on gradually TO
the font. In the production of cereals.
cotton aud cattle you are far ahead of
us, but your state statistics show that in
the last ten years In the diversity of our
fruit crop and our iron resources we have
added to the wealth producing area of
our section until to-day we are in the
lead. Proceeding on in this strain, the
speaker said he wouldn t pluck the hum
best flower that adorns the chaplet of
other sections, but facts and figures
which bolstered up his assertions were
stubborn things, comprising philosophy
which teaches by example. From the
city of Tyler alone last year there was
shipped to Chicago, Kansas City, Dem
yer, St. LOUIS and to this queenly young
city of Dallas Si97 200 worth of fresh
fruits. Senator Reagan had said that
ten years from date East Texas would
ship to the markets OF the world $40 .000,-
000 worth OF fresh and can
ned fruits annually. A country
with diversity of products is
independent and it becomes ''God's
country When you of West Texas
left the eastern portion of the state the
iron industries of that section were not
developed even in their 1ncipiency. The
United States statistical reports show
that thirtY-six places in East Texas will
furnish enough iron to pave the earth.
Not two months ago the speaker was in
Pittsburg, Pa. when one of the wealth
lest iron workers of that city pointed out
to him q carload of iron which was
shipped all the way from Birmingham,
Ala. and sold before it was unioaded.
This East Texas iron is from So to l0R