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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

] need not tax this intelligent audience
with long history of the appeal OF the
great states west of the Mississippi river to
congress and the government for a So, 600,
600 appropriation for the port of Galveston
, for a deep water harbor. It is sufficient to
say that Texas and sixteen of her sister
states render grateful thanks TO the Ameri-
can congress for the promptneSs with
which we were given those millions, As
well as the several appropriations under the
river and harbor bill for the other Texas
seaports. F'ellOw-citiZens, i'll less than a
half decade great ships drawing thirty feet
of water will sail into that port of Calves
ton from all friendly nations, and take III
return our exports of grain and meatstuffS
and cotton and iron and the products of the
looms ard factories the mills and mines OF
Texas and the great trans Mississippi
states, outward 10 the markets of Europe
and Asia and to the islands of the sea
Applause.
Our horoscope casts bright shadow, my
countrymen, on the canvas of the near fut-
ure The footsteps Of that progress are al
most seen and heard even now by the eye
and the ear of faith, looking and listening
for its coming. What engineering cannot
do on land or on the sands and beds OF the
ocean is no longer Il problem. Already
over seventeen feet of water by the indom-
liable enterprise and courage of your own
~
and others-has been obtained at Velasco.
at the mouth of the Brazos river, where
only eight feet was had two Years ago. It
will be obtained at Sabine Pass and Aran-
sas, and deep water at Galveston means
deep water at Houston.
Did you ever think what all this means,
my friend. These ports are 500 miles
nearer by rail to the center of tine great
West than is Boston or New Pork, where
the great surplus of grain is now shipped
by water and rail for European ports. A
saving of 1900 miles round haul III railroad
transits will be accomplished with CORE
neutrality-suspicious. on freight. This added
to the low prices of your grain has covered
macy of your great and fertile states with
mortgages and created a spirit of wild I'M
rest. The West will have at last additional
competitors for the millions Of her grain
and meat stuffs. You will have the great
lakes. the Eastern trunk lines, the Missis-
Sippi river and New Orleans, and last the
deep water ports of Texas which will lower
the ocean freight rate TO Europe. 1t will
quadruple our railroads and, with the COM
bined commercial coming supremacy of the
West and Southwest, will hold the balance
of power so to speak, in the grain and cot
ton and wool and iron trade OF this CONT
nent. Applause.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

Until the last decade, Texas was compar-
atively unknown to the horticulturiSts of
the older states. Now it is second in both
the quality and quantity of its peach, apple
pear, plum, berry and grape and melon
crops, to no sister state, and in luscious sac
charine properties surpasses By 10 per
centum the far-famed fruits of the ''Golden
state'' of the Pacific. The culture of the
pear, as developed by that pioneer horti-
culturist, Stringfellow, solves the problem,
that Texas as far down as Hitchcock, near
the gulf of Mexico, can produce as fine
pears as in any Northern or Eastern state.
The peach, apple and grape, including es-
pecially Eastern Texas" so-called, and as
far west as the famous abilene country
bounded by Denison and Red river, and as
far south as Brownwood, grow in great per-
lection. and the commercial value. with the
products of the garden, amounts to over
three millions of dollars annually, as the
official state statistics attest, Our country
mon of New Jersey and Delaware. Florida
and California, hitherto the great fruit and
wine centers of the Onion. may look to their
laurels when we show them on board our
exhibit cars" peaches weighing one pound
and half, the Pippin {app.e) weighing
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

velop 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 a 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 Onion.
Virginia, North Carolina. Georgia and
Florida can no longer satisfy home con-
sumption, much less the demand in the
central and western parts OF the United
States. Alabama. Mississippi and Georgia
find Il 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 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 win be seen that it
is small compared to the vast area of coun
try which it must supply in the future.
In 1850 Louisiana had, of long-leaved
pine, 26,5sS. 900, 900 fees. of short-ieaved
pine, 81. CPS, 900, 900 feet-total in Louisiana,
As, 2l3 ZOO, 600 feet. The annual cut in 1850
for Louisiana was 81. SOL. 600 fest. But the
cost now perhaps is more than three times
what it was in 1850. 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,
Is, 093, 200, 600 feet; ''iobloly" pine, &c, $685.,
100 900 feet-total in Texas, &c. SOS. 800, 900
feet. The cut for 1880 was 294 40 900 feet
now
So it will be seen that the total supply,
as estimated in 1850, in Louisiana and
Texas, was ll2, 72l, 500, 900 feet, less the cut
for the past ten years.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
Loyalty and TOIeratiOn.

Fellow citizens, Texas recognizes that the
war is over. The blue and the gray, they
who died in camp or bloody field, are sleep
ing in the immortal brotherhood OF a COM
mon ancestry. common blood, and l thank
God we are once more and forever a united
republic. Texas is a cosmopolitan state.
Every state in the Union has largely CON
tributed to her population. Our legislature
has recognized the arbitrament of arms. We
educate the negro child from the same
school fund, share and share alike with the
white child, and ''before the law" he has
all the rights guaranteed by the constitu-
ton. Honesty ana obedience to the laws
are the safe passports TO our homes-every-
where from the mountains TO the sea.
Come and break bread with us-and see
our land-and you will exclaim. with that
ancient Eastern queen. The half hath not
been told!'' On historic river in Virginia
near the close of the late war the grand
armies Of the Union and the ragged but
brave soldiers of Lee were in camp on either
side BY consent those soldiers bantered
and hadgered each other across that river
in friendly esprit, when just before the
lights were to be put out. from the ban1 -
the Federal army came the airs of IA NC
Doodle and Star Spangled BAN
rerly ths Southern hands n Thk
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
Concerning Internal improvements

Prior to the advent of the Anglo Ameri-
can settlers in Texas the pack-mule fur
nished the only means of transportation.
With their coming, hoof and wheel Were
introduced, supplanted in turn BY the iron
horse In 1858 the first mile of railway was
constructed in the state. Under press ure
alone of increased production nearly 1000
miles have been built and are now in active
operation. Texas, | believe, to-day is the
only state in the Union where the construc-
ton of railways has not been discontinued.
In the extension of main trunk lines and i'll
dependent roads her activity keeps pace
with her march of progress in every de-
partment Of human industry. In the en-
enlargement of works of internal improve
ment, in removing distractions from her
navigable rivers, in the irrigation of her
western plains. and especially in the con-
struction of railways, Texas has extended
the most magnificent bounties. Though
among the youngest of these states, she has
outstripped them all in the princely gifts
she has offered her own and citizens of
other lands to build these great public links.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
Growth of aIapufactnres.

The manufacturing statistics by totals
from 1850 TO 1888 show an increase from 800
establishments in 1850 to 1856 in 1857 The
total capital invested in 1888 was S23. 900, 600
in round numbers: total value of raw mate
rial used, 81, 600, coo, and total value of
product, over $40, 900 900. Employees were
paid wages amounting to 5000, 600. The
calculation-based on the low assessments
(they are never abnormally high shows a
net earning on the capital invested OF
nearly % 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 bearded millions u
go to Texas-and establish Lowells and
Manchesters, and Fall Rivers, and Prov
dences, and Pittsburgs; to spin and weave
our 1000, 900 Of fieecy 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 will 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-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
wheat-GrowIur Region, Too.

Heretofore we have regarded the great
Northwestern states as the only source of
supply for our bread and meat stuffs.
Now that we are connected by great lines
of railway with the Northwestern states
we have begun TO reverse the old course Of
trade. We are vet deficient, but will not
always be so, in improved facilities for
manufacturing flour us compared with the
great mills of the West. And hence this
very grain, in many instances, was re-
shipped to Texas in the form of flour, Just
as thousands of our hogs have heretofore
been shipped to st. Louis to be sold to US
again as bacon and lard. but now we have
our own packing houses. The area of
Texas, peculiarly adapted TO wheat and all
the cereals, is larger than the great states
of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana combined.
The wheat crop in the United States in
1860 was estimated in round numbers at
113.0oc.0oo bushels. OF this Illinois
and Wisconsin 17,0O0,000. in 1891 it
was doubled. What could Texas do
if one fifth of her wheat-growing counties.
say sixty in number, were planted in wheat
now, the Panhandle included. There are
fifty of the organized counties capable Of
producing twenty bushels to the acre, which
is below the average product by far.
II one-tifth OF the area Of these counties
were planted in wheat it would yield u.s.
000, 900 bushels. the cash value of which is
greater than the cotton crop. Texas wheat,
both in quality and excellence, is not
equaled by that Of the most favored grain
growing region of the United States Let
me give you an instance in point. Flour
from Dallas county, Tex. has been sold
years ago in Galveston market on May 10
and was from a crop yielding thirty-three
bushels TO the acre. Just III proportion Us
the measured bushel increases in specific
gravity, it holds greater proportion of the
nItrjtous quality of wheat and less
quantity Of water, and the less water it
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
Homesteads EXEMPT from Sale.

The constitution now in force exempts
from forced sale i homestead in the country
OF 200 acres, with all its improvements, and
a homestead in cities and towns not exceed
ing in value 5000. at times SO designated.
There is also clause exempting curreht
wages from garnishment-assimilat in
this respect wages to property. Thus the
wages of the landlesS laborer, living by the
sweat of his brow and the homestead of
the family, around which widowhood and
orphanage cling in misfortune, are forever
exempt from debt by the humane declare
ton of organic law.
1t may be asked if all the advantages that
Texas offers in cheap lands, variety of pro-
duct, health, comfort, and iaw-abiding peo-
pie, are not counterbalaneed by heavy
taxes. The bonded debt Of Texas Is s., 600,
600 in round numbers. TIC taxable prop
erty Of the state in September, E75, was
s275, 900 700. To-day1t is essially estimated
at $500, 000, 900. A direct tax Of less than l
per cent, if levied and collected on this
property. would extinguish at once the en-
tire debt of the st3te. Her credit once
lettering, now stands erect sha peer atsny
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

other state. The accruiug interest on her
debt is paid promptly at her treasury, aud
her bonds sought eagerly at home and
abroad, With The increase of our taxable
values. the fabulous growth of our popula
ton. with Il rigid assessment ana collection
of the taxes forcing the necessary eXpendi-
lures of the government and the revenues
to cancel each other, guarding against all
deficits, Texas may discharge any day
every dollar that she owes.
Our constitution provides that the state
tax on property. exclusive of the tax neceS-
sary To pay the public debt, shall never eX-
coed 30 cents on 800 valuation, and that no
city. county or town shall levy more than
one-half of said state tax Thus for the
future the state and county tax shall never
exceed 20 cents on the 500. This wise pro
vision Restraints the state and county from
imposing upon themselves and their pos
terity great public debts, crushing and TO
crush the industries ANA prosperity of gen
erations to follow after Us.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

contains better adapts it when ground into
-four for shipment to warmer and tropical
climates. No. 3 Texas wheat will weigh
siXty-one pounds; No. .. sixty-three to six
ty-four pounds, and Ne l. sixty-fve pounds
to the bushel. These qualities of our
Texas wheat are entirely due to the chemi-
cal peculiarities and adaptation of the sol
ana climate 1t is superior, first, because
It is dryer. more dense and the heaviest
known, containing less moisture than any
wheat west of the Rocky mountains; sec
ond, because it contains more muscle pro-
ducing qualities; third, because it reaches
market four to six weeks earlier than flour
made elsewhere in the United States. In
quantity the difference is not less marked.
Genesee county, \. Y. from 1889 TO 1913,
believe, stood first on the list.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
Setting Him Right.

a rather dense British noblemsn. who
had letters TO the best houses in Boston.
and who was the recipient OF much ceur-
tesy, left the Hub after few weeks Visit,
for the inevitable expedition to the Rock
les. which every Englishman considers an
essential part Of an American experience.
On his return he again visited Boston and
again bethought himself Of calling AZ a
house where he had frequently dined on
his former visit. In answer to his ring
the old butler. who had been in the family
for many years. came TO The door.
us Mrs. b in" said my lord.
On, SIR" exclaimed the faithful old
soul with the tears running down his
cheeks, my master is dying" Lord
C., who suffered good deal (Which
rather increased the effect of his fashion
able vacuousness), stared at the man an
instant RS If he did lot quite understand
him, and rhen rejoined with dignity, Il
/ d-didn't arsk for Minister b; arskeJ
for Mrs. B-."-Exchange
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

this territory there is embraced wider
area of fertile land. with less that is unpro-
ductive, than any portion Of the habitable
globe.
Extending from the semi-tropical line of
the gulf to the temperate zone-from the
region of the lemon, the citron and the or
aBge, on which frosts never fall,
through rice and sugar and cotton fields,
up to the Egypt of Texas Cher great north
vest where the cereals yield in unsur-
passed PROFESSIONALISM a country, with
such climate, bounded by perpetual
spring on the south and by almost eternal
winter in its farthest border line. il must
be adapted TO all the wants OF all the kin
dreds and tongues on the face Of the earth.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
Education and Free Schools.

1t has always been the policy of Texas to
encourage 4 liberal system of education.
Early in the history Of the republic i'll 1886,
there was ample provision made for com
mon schools and for one great state univer-
Sity of our public domain. There has been
surveyed aud set apart more than a quar-
ter of a century ago for state university,
221. 400 acres for each county i'll state Il,
~ acres; thus giving to the counties for
free schools over 30.000,000 acres. The
older counties located their lands years ago
and they are now in the settled sections OF
the state and worth from SO to So an
acre. At present rates the university lands
at the same figures are worth the prlucely
sum of 81 900, 900. Our school lands to-day
in value amount to $4,000. 900. In a. ID
1000 it will equal 800, 00O,0 We have to-
day state university and agricultural and
normal colleges equal to any i'll the union.
In a few more years this splendid endow-
ment made by the early patriots OF Texas
will be fabulous in value. In addition
to this, each alternate section
granted to railroads is reserved for the
school fund, and by the present constitu-
ton, One-half of all the public lands and
and one-fourth of all the general revenues
are solemnly set apart for perpetual fund
for the common free schools for the chill
dren of Texas. The number of acres of
our public school lands will now approx
mate SU,UOU,UUU acfeS-WOrtn over !sU,OUu
900. BY the late constitutional convention
of Texas there has in addition been granted
to the university 1000, 900 more of acres of
the public lands. This university we in
tend shall stand by the Harvards and the
YaleS of the new and the Cambridges and
OXfords of the old world.
Under wise legislation our unrivaled
school fund will furnish basis for the free
education of every child in Texas. She dis
penses this bounty in no spirit of caste,
party or section All races may bring their
children to drink at this fountain. The
legislature of my state. i'll addition to our
public free schools established by law Il
college for the colored youth of the state.
and appropriated thousands of dollars for
its perpetual endowment.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

Once there was lawyer who closed Ut
an estate case. but he died many years ago
He was young man He had studied law
in his father Office, and his father finally
retired and gave the business 20 him. Ona
day, less than week after the old gentle
man had retired. the young man cams
home and proudly sxid:
Father. you know that old Glpin estate
case That you have been trying for yesrs
and years to settle"
Yes" answered the father with a Sug-
gestion OF a smile.
We'll. it didn't take mo two days q
settle it after got at it,
WHAT" shouted .he old lawyer. "You
have settled the Gilpip estate."
.'Yes; and it was as easy as rolling OF q
log"
well. you Internal idiot, you'll Why.
that estate has paid the living expenses of
our family for four generations and might
have paid them for four more il l hadn't
left the business 10 snia4xs@OskDois Esas
= 4GnS
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

Dixie and My Maryland" Then ths
bands of both armies united IN floating or
the air Home, Sweet HOuc,'
There were tens and tens of thousands
on each side vino wept AZ the sounds ut
home" SO VIC are again in our fathers
house" united. and together may UIingle II
common pride and glory over the heroism
of the struggle and in the restored union ot
the states I.OuG appauSe
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
Average Yield Per Acre.

The average yield during that time was
twenty bushels TO the acre. Stark county.
OHIO, ranked second. with an average of
eighteen bushels. The average yield from
thirteen counties in Texas from which sta
tistics have been obtained exhibits the fol-
lowing table:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
Not q Land of Drought.

Having referred to productiveness of soil
and salubrity Of climate it may not be with
out interest TO allude to the rainfall, with
out which the sterility Of Sahara would
girdle the earth with its burning belt of
sand. \ comparison of the rainfall of Texas
with states famed for quantity and GER
tainty of yield will show how ill-founded
was the once prevalent idea that Texas was
u land of drought. Assuming Illinois and
Missouri to be the mean center, geograph-
ically and agriculturally, of the productive
regions of the United States, would give
the following result of rainfall in inches
from September, 1881, to September, 1891
period OF four years:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

In the opulent and delightful city OF San
Antonio, the center of what has been mis-
called the dry section the following re-
suits have been obtained from a carefully
prepared table extending over period OF
six years observations: Mean temperature
for the seasons-Spring, 69.44; summer,
So Sc; autumn, winter, 1894; year, 6s65
mean annual rainfall six year., 81. 80.
Italy may in vain be challenged to pro
duce so extraordinary table of mean tenn
pcratuTe, relative humidity of air and rain
fall as is furnished by the state of Texas,
and which may be pronounced one of the
healthieSt in the world
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

Acres. per acre.
Wheat .......,.....:S0 1 600 "A lib
Corn 2T1 ego 39fS
Oats %, 900 56 l-6
| have thus alluded at some length to the
grain-growing capabilities of Texas, and
partic ularly of wheat, which stands first in
the list of cereals in point of value and as an
article Of food for man. Since its introduce
ton as such it has kept equal pace with his
civilization. / am not less proud of the
wheat and cotton-growing states of the
Union than of their great commercial and
manufacturing sisters. One is the indis-
pensable compliment of the other. Nine
tenths of the commerce of the world is en-
braced in the two terms-food and raiment
But among the three emblems of industry
the plow, the loom, the anvil-the pillow
represents the largest interest. Thus,
while behold with pride the states which
separately contribute by the production of
one of these to our national prosperity, [
turn with not unbecoming admiration to
Texas, which contributes the products of
all to the general veal.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

seventeen ounces and melons 100 pounds
each