The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-04-16
GRAND OLD TEXAS.

GRAND OLD TEXAS.
The Austin Statesman is too busy with
the cotton mill project to join in the
chorus Of ''Grand Old TeXas."-Gal.-Dal
| News.
No, Stree. the Austin Statesman de.
lights to swell the chorus of grand old
Texas. The Statesman thinks there is
no place like Texas in all this round
world. No one has a fair conception
of heaven until he or she has seen Tex
as, tasted its ozone and reveled in its
sunshine. We have seen other specks
of ground as beautiful as the lands of
Texas, but they were mere specks COM
pared to the far-reaching, endless roll
OF beauty of our prairies, the romantic
grandeur of our mountains and canons
and the mighty sweep of our rivers flow
ing on to the gulf
The Texas sky is as deeply, darkly.
beautiful blue" as that of Italy, its flow
ers rich and gorgeous, clnging to noun
tain side or bespanglng every view from
which the breath of Proebus catches its
violet odor But most of all, Texans
ent cultivation it yields the most boun-
tiful and varied products of the field.
the orchard and the vineyard, and al
| though its vegetation is so generous if
is not rank with the miasma produced
by the swamps of Florida. Although
Texas is very far south and all tropical
fruits can be produced from its soil. its
attitudes, its rolling lands and water
sheds protect from stagnation and
disease as in few warm climates. The
very heat of which is relieved and vivi-
ned by the breeze sweeping over it's broad
domain from the gulf. There is no place
Ike Texas. Even the spirit of man
partakes of the divine. The population
of Texas has been viliiied and malgned,
Texas has had bad men and has few
yet, but there is no people on this or
any other continent more highly educa-
ted, more refined and more amcnable to
all the moral influences and religious
virtues.
While The Statesman believes all this
OF Texas, it is quite sure Austin is the
Eden of the state. While Austin peo
pie are not addicted to the fig leaf fash
ion. wealth has seemed to flow into the
Golfers of its citizens so naturally and
smoothly that they are hard to make
believe that they want any greater pros
perity. They are rather slow to an
preclate the new order of affairs. Some
OF them are so content that they do not
want 20 be disturbed by the rattle of
machinery or Inconvenience by the
smoke of furnaces, and while they have
expended large sums of money upon the
dam across the Colorado and eniov the
luxury of cheap water and lights. they
are rather slow in taking in the inevitable
destiny of Austin as great manufac-
turing city. While they have harnessed
their natural advantages, they pause for
Il moment to consider whether. after all.
they will change to the hustle of greater
enterprise and Il larger and more en-
during prosperity, but it is the mere
pause of contented and happy people.
indulging for a while longer their con-
servatism and love of ease. They know
that their advantages will force upon
them different kind of enterprise to
that they have been accustomed. but they
are good men and true and they are
now about ready to take the plunge. In
a few days they will have run up the
to the requisite amount and
then the cotton mill construction will
begin.
1t will open to Austin busy and new
epoch in its history that will touch with
generous hand every household. occupy
the waste places of the city and scatter
all about and around the city
of Austin. The mill to be erected will |
soon be numbered as one among the |
many, when every one will be eager to
buy stock in any new mill proposed.
Austin has long been the center of ed |
ucation and refinement in Texas and it |
will soon be the center of manufactures |
in Texas and the twin sisters of learn |
ing and utility will go hand in hand build |
ing up a great city. miniStcring to the |
comforts and happiness of its people and |
charging its sphere of enterprise.
SUBSCRIPTIONS tH :he AuStln cotton mill |
up to date amount to total of $751; 800. |
There are thus 125 more shares to be |
placed before the entire amount of $780, |
600 required to build the mill has been |
raised Twelve thousand five hundred |
dollars between Austin and prosperity; |
$4,000 between our town and sue |
cessful cotton industry. Our citizens |
ought to come up lively and finish this |
list ut once and let us begin work on |
this valuable enterprise.
Austin has Il granite capitol, a state |
great dam. magnificent |
system of waterworks, an artificial lake |
of considerable proportions, but she
hasn't cotton mll-yet. Subscribe to
stock in the Austin cotton mill 1t must |