Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-23
GREAT is THE STATE OF TEXAS
hEh FARMERS AnE ALI RIGHT
AND ARE PROSPEROUS.
Her business Men Are All Righ, aud
;" Are All Her PcopIe-onc Who
hnows Tells the story OF Her
Greatness in the Capital city.


Special Correspondence
Austin, Jan. 22.-In this city of law
makers and political strife one meets
men OF profound thought and deep
funds OF information II he keeps his
eyes and cars open. The banker, the
lawyer the politician, the cattle king,
the farmer, the prospcctor the gam
bier the lounger the loafer and the
lobbyist all hive here, each on a spe-
cial mission. The Bohemian OF the
press is here also, and is generally ON
the qui vive for news. Occasionally
you read In newspapers that Texas Is
bankrupt and going to the demnitlon
bow-wows. Don't believe word OF it..
The builders Of a state. the men who
push enterprises and people the prai-
ries, and rear cities. and construct rail-
roads, and open mines, and start facto-
rles. don't talk that way. They know
better. They consider Texas the i'm
pertal state Of the union, more inviting
TO the capitalist, the manufacturer and
the home seeker than any section Of
the earth Gods sun smiles upon
At the Driskill last night ]. NJ.
Thornton, Jen McLemore, Major John
G. Lewis and Il Gazette correspondent
formed a coterie. Thornton was doing
the talking, The others were listen
ing. Thornton was banker for years
here in Austin. He is now loauing
money for big life insurance COM
pnny He has Travelled extensively and
Is one Of the best posted men on Texas,
Texas farmers and their conditions, in
the state, Among other things, he
said:
Texas has greater possibilities than
any other country In the world Its
climate and soil are Incompatible. Its
resources illimitable, its magnitude
| almost astounding, and Its future
| grand one. 1 know Of no country In
| the world that offers greater induce
! mcnts. From DenisOn to Houston you
| traverse a country whose soil Is richer
| than the valley Of the Nile. Go to
! Montague and adjoining territory and
| you are In the richest fruit, vegetable
/ and cereal growing country In the
| world. Go from Laredo to Browns
/ Vile ana you pass through a land that,
| when irrigation comes will be richer
| and more productive than civilization
has ever recorded. Go to Corpus Chris
[ a and contiguous territory and you
/ win discover that water melons fruits
| and vegetables grow In almost mNu-
RANT abundance. Rich and luscious
they are, too.
Deep water will come some day 10
these points on The gull. TITS only q
/ question OF time, and then great cities
teemng with Industrious and progress.
slve people win follow in their wake,
There has been a revolution In Texas
and that revolution IS still going on
The farmers are raising hogs and chick
ems. They are not only supplying their
own larders but they are raising hogs
for the Northern markets. Cheese and
butter-malling are engaging their at
tention and the egg crop Of Texas an
/ nually must represent a large sum of
money. The farmers are planting or
chards: they are raising vegetables
they are growing corn, wheat, oats and
barley instead of buying from the Nor
thern raisers. They are building large
barns; they are building sheds to pro
tpct their stock and their Farm and
garden machinery and reapers and
mowers. In fact they are feeding
themselves at home, and do moi
depend on outside help Scrubby cat
tie and mustang horses are disappear
ing and blooded horses, draft and thor
oughbreds, and Hosteins, Jerseys
puiled Angus, Herefords and Other
breeds OF blooded cattle are taking th'
places of the scrubs and the longhorns
Brush stock in Texas Is doomed. Di
/ Nersity IN crops ana plNh paVtlCa
farming has come in Texas and revolu
tons never go backwards, The stat
is all right and its citizens ara gettinl
all right DO you know that Texas lar
mers are best equipped of any state II
the Union in the shape of farm ma
chinery. and all cotton machinery an,
appliances OF the most modern inven
ton? Well they are. 1 have been as
sured by men in position to speak b!
ihe card that such Is the case Texas
is all right and the world Is finding i
out"
minutes later the correspondent can't
upon two statesmen agitating the ad
visibility OF reducing the wages o
pages from 81 to 81 per day.
HUGH FITZGERALD,