The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-07
TEXAS ON WHEELS
A LETTER FROM DIRECTOR
SLOSSON.
Going NOrthwa ard And stu the Cars
Are Crowded DaiIy-Great Good
For Texas-Send Moro Advertising,
IT'S Badly Needed.


SNho Wy tulo bOul vi llCl IAllDlt SHS !
through the states is that hereafter
when any man or family becomes dis
satisfied with. his surroundings in
stintively his thoughts revert to Texas
as the place for the immigrant Texas
is the "Out West" of all the southern
states and the immigration that will
seek her borders in the next three
years cannot be estimated. The tide
has turned that way and even here in
North Tennessee and Kentucky where
advertising agents for the northwest,
Kansas, Colorado and Oregon have
been most active, railroad men now
tell me we are turning it Texasward.
In the report received from General
Jas, L Taylor, general passenger
agent of that immense system, the
Richmond and DanvlIle, which we
traversed for nearly two months, he
says: SIN the seven states traversed
by our system, viz. Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee
we sold in November and December
tickets to Texas as follows in the
four states visited by the Texas Exhi-
bit cars S32 tickets during the time.
In the three states not visited by you
in the time, viz: Tennessee. Missis.
sippi and Virginia including
District of Columbia we
only sold seventy-four Texas tickets.
In North Alabama and Tennessee the
best iron men admit Texas iron ex.
GELS them all in quantity and cheap.
ness of raw material. Also in timbers
only yesterday at Dresden, Tenn. |
noted two men examining minutely
the samples of hickory wood on board
In conversation they said they had
planned to shut down their spoke
factory employing loo men in few
days and visit illinois, to buy hickory
timber and remove their plant. But
that our Texas samples of hickory
were the best they had seen in this
country and before we left they had
decided to visit Texas first and locate
there if the wood was found in any
quantities. They do large business
and ship most of their manufactured
goods to Australia and could readily
see that being near Texas deep
water ports wou bring them nearer
market.
As the west is depopulating New
England farms because they cannot
compete so Texas is fair square con-
test for supremacy is making
the farms of the south and
eastern states Improbable
and as a result the Texas Exhibit cars
list of people going Texas this season
has grown to over 1905 persons in
the last 80 days and astonished rail.
road managers in the South by this
practible mode of advertising her
great resources. Our Texas farmers
may be discouraged this year at the
= low price of cotton but if they had tc
idvest $3.50 per acre this spring in
cash, or mortgage note on the pros
pective cotton crop for fertilizer they
, would then be on an equal, Compel
ing level with the farmers of the
older states.
About manufacturers, think | car
, see where Texas can learn a practica
lesson from the older states in secur
ing manufacturing establishments
instead of paying TO
one enterprise 100000 o
, more dollars as has been the rule il
, Texas to secure large plant 1t ha
, been the rlle in most of the South t,
subscribe to the extent If a site ant
=, from $4,000 to $4,000 small manu-
. featuring establishment which i
\ adapted to the country and proftabl
would soon double and TRIBE its ca
pacity from its own earn ngs and with
out further cost to the community
This has been the rule in Texas il
several instances as for example tn
y Dickson Car Wheel work
e Of Houston which double
its capacity in the last tw
s years because ia paid It's owner to d
J. -. Nearly every city in this stat
has college or high school and
/. has been pleasant incident to hav
our exhibit visited by 800 or 400 stud
h ents in body headed by their pofet
sors or the faculty. In nearly all thes
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