The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-01

the wild buffalo, and the skulking coyote I
made quick tracks for ihe short grass"
Today We view with delight and [
surprise this beautiful growing busthng
city OF 10000 people surrounded with the /
finest and most extensive wheat fields ON |
the American continent, and we come 10
you men OF Wichita to clasp hands, and
as our Kansas and Texas Tom Richardson
spsaks By the card in saying Wichita is /
l22 miles nearer to the new seaport of
Houston than 10 any other ssh wafer
route, we invite you hereafter to come
our way. VIII you do so? Kansas and
Texas. We have in the iron producing
region OF New Birmingham. Texas, the
Kansas and Texas Investment company.
Kansas City has tho Kansas and Texas
Coal company, aud also that growing giant
cf pre- gress, the "Pit,sburg and Gulf and
Port Arthur" built and operated by the
Missouri. Kansas and Texas Trust com
pany OF that throbbing city at the mouth
cf the Kaw. Kansas and Texas are uni,ed
commercially. and here today in this
august presence, Texas comes 10 extend a
cordial Southern creating and Godspeed
to not only Kansas, but the whole North
west. and to here cement the union Of
States, politically, socially aud CONNER
olally. never again TO be suudered And
why not? From this glad day Texas and
her seven ports are TO receive and send
the products OF twenty-five States and
Territories rich portion of our common
country that compiles the value of its
products by billions only, that feeds the
world, and now, as a before breakfast Job,
is preparing to supply Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines.
And what of Texas9
In size rs large as seven average States
Of the Union. larger than England, one
county larger than the State Of Rhode
island ont ~ debt loves, rates Of taxation
e any State the largest school fund 90
educate hor children, the cheapest good
land near gulf ports Texas raises ono
third OF she cotton crop of America and
one -fGh Of all the cotton produced In the
world is raised within the 1errtcry be-
tween Wichita and Houston. and the new
port Of Houston received last year over
2,000000 bales Of this great staple. No
State has such varied. extensive and un-
developed resources, inviting men and
capital, and right here let me say our
Houston delegation has standing rtter
Of corner lot in that thriving city OF
| 10000 10 any one who can place his hnger
on a single statute OF Texas that Us m
tmical to capital or corporations. enough
2 contrary impression prevails sac
| localities
Kansas and Deep Water Porte" IS my
! euhiect today Let Ms 70 fariher aud VITA
! Kansas include the great Northwest
Seven Of these States TsNS Arkansas,
Missouri Kansas, Nehras<a, North sad
| South Dakota, line reacnlng from tho
gulf 20 Manitoba, raised IN 1895 OF com.
wheat and oats alone i01i,S 70 50 bushels,
valued by the agricultural commits opcr
at Washington at 1852 6oi 73l II would
require 23o204s cars 10 transport these
three products alone, or '6i5S ;rsin9 OF
thirty cars each, l4s25 mu35 of solid cars
TO transport To market these three crops
Of seven States for one year on y, a coid
| train reaching One-hlif way arc ma It's
earth
Freight Rabes Make AID Cumake cntc'
and States This Is The - ~ mportau
suojec, that will be brought before N
session OF tho Tran1misnJNppi Congress
II 1899. because Il atfsc;s more thor
twenty-five millions Of people, ich aut
poor are alike interested Ia 1892 &C
gress. at tho solicitation Of Texas and III
Northwest and through tie influence o
this same congress- that Is asss hhl ID lti
Today, gave So 200 000 10 make deel
water port az Galveston, and we are her
today tn record The success OF this ben
Efficient act of our National administers
non, and state hat twenty nine feet e
water has been obtained across the bar
: and tho largest ocean sailing vessels rng
sail into that harhor A. the last scstiol
2 cf congress all the Texas ports receNe
aid from the Nation TO continue the Foo
work only begun at Galveston, Sd'J y
! Pass, Port Arthur Velasco cat tho mcul
Of the BraZos) Galveston, Ard1sls Pas
: tRookporD, Texas CITY and last, bui great
( EST OF all. congress gave TO Hodstol III,
I FIRST instalment Of the $4,000 600 recon
! mended by the government engineer
C$267 G00) to continue "A twenty five foo
channel from Galveston TO Houston, thG
bringing a land locked harbor and l0il'll
; center fifty miles nearer the grew Grai
fields, OF which Wichita Is the eenier an
metropolis
How are the people OF the mighty Yves
Q to be benefited by the opening up Of ines
r deep water ports? is asked The h'stor