Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17

from 1850 to 1888 show an increase from 500
establishments in 1880 to 1855 in 1887. The
total capital invested in 1855 was s23, 600, 900
in round numbers; total value of raw mate
rial used, 81, 000, 900. and total value of
product, over $40, 0O0,0 900. Employees were
| paid wages amounting to SS,000,000. The
calculatiOn-baSed on the low assessments
(they are never abnormally high shows a
net earning on the capital invested Of
nearly 25 per cent.
The foregoing includes all kinds OF manu-
featuring in wood, iron, cotton, wool, tan
ming, OIL factories, fruit canning and the
like. We invite your boarded millions to
20 to Texas-and establish Lowells and
ManchesterS, and Fall Rivers, and Proyi-
dences, and PittSburgs; to spin and weave
our 100000 of tieecy staple, the clip now
exceeding Ohio in quantity; to mine our in
exhaustible iron fields; start the sleepless
furnace and rolling mill; to engage in all
the varied industries of mill and mine! Zap
plause.
1t will pay you. as it has the pioneers
who have gone before Your pluck and
energy and your millions we want to de-
velop a state imperial in soil, in mineral
wealth, in timber. in cattle and in cotton
and wool, and which only needs and awaits
the glad opportunity of extending to your
coming welcome. honest and earnest and
unity of the knightly days of our early
history!
The great pine forests of the United
States have been cut away rapidly to meet
the necessary demand for lumber. The
forests of Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin
have been well-nigh consumed. Large
quantities are supplied by the Dominion of
Canada to the Northern parts of the Union.
Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and
Florida can no onger satisfy home con-
sumption, much less the demand in the
central and western parts of the United
a IN.
find market to the eastward for all the
lumber they can furnish. Arkansas, Louis
lana and Texas must supply the vast terri
tory west of the Mississippi river, includ-
ing a large part of Mexico and as far West
as the Pacific ocean. The Pacific slope
will hardly be able to do more than supply
the Northwestern home demands and the
outside foreign traffic. Arkansas is mostly
short leaf yellow pine-limited in amount
and being rapidly consumed. Louisiana
and Texas now have the main forests in
the Southwest remaining. And by eXamin-
alton into this supply it will be seen that it
is small compared to the vast area of coun-
try which it must supply in the future.
In 1880 Louisiana had, of long-leaved
pine, 26,5SS, 0000 900 feet; of short-leaved
pine, 81 CPS, COG, 900 feet-total in Louisiana,
IS, GOO, 0O0 feet. The annual cut in 1850
for Louisiana was 81, 591, 900 feet. But the
cost now perhaps is more than three times
what it was in 1880 The United States
forestry bulletin shows that the merchant
able long-leaf pine standing in Texas in 1850
was 20, sos, 200, 600 feet and short-leaf pine,
20, 093, 200, 900 feet; 'loblolly'' pine, 1909
100,O 600 feet-total in Texas, %, sos SOC, 900
feet. The cut for 1880 was 294, 40, 900 feet
and it is at least 800, 100000 feet per annum
now.
So it will be seen that the total supply,
as estimated in 1850, in Louisiana and
Texas, was 1l2, 721 900 feet less the cut
for the past ten years.