The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-30
IN SoGTu TEXAS.
More People nnh More Capital Arc
Needed.

More People nnh More Capital Arc
Needed.
South Texas needs more people and more
capital. The size of the State OF Texas
can be best illustrated when 1t is said
that Germany which supports a popula-
ticn of more than $4,000, 900 souls. is only
three-fourths the size of the Lone Star
State. How sparse is the population com
pared to the area may be appreciated when
1t is explained that there are today less
Il an 100000 persons in tho State
The possibilities of Texas are illlmitable.
In no part OF the world is the prospect of
future greatness SO glowing or the chance
for the husbandman so attractive.
Throughout the whole stretch of coast
country territory, from the Sabine to the
Rio Grande, lands as fruitful as any on the
from S. to $40 per acre. To the patient
earnest, careful, scientific farmer there Is
an assurance of not only good home and
good crops but ready market and hand
some profits. What coast country lands
will produce has been told by good au-
tkOrity, as follows:
Cotton. Prairie lands, from half to one
bale per acre; bottom lands, from three
fourths to one and half bales per acre.
Cotton varies in price from S25 to $45 per
bale
bushels per acre.
Sugar Cane.--From twenty to fifty tons
per acre, marketable at SO per ton.
Sweet and Irish Potatoes From 100 to
300 bushels per acre, marketable at from
30 cents to 81 per bushel.
Oats From forty to loo bushels per acre
worth 80 to so cents per bushel.
Millet-From two to four tons per acre
marketable at $12 per ton.
Tobacco.--Fine cigar tobacco, equal to
that of Connecticut or Cuba, is grown in
South Texas at many places.
Rice.-Lands in Jefferson, Liberty and
Chambers counties produce from fifteen 10
twenty barrels OF rice per acre. The rice
is worth from 50 70 81 per barrel
Strawberries. Throughout the coast
country strawberries grow as large and
sweet as in the best cultivated gardens of
the North The crop OF one acre not in-
frequently brings more than 500 profit TO
the coast country farmer.
Pears, pums, peaches, grapes, cante-
loupes and watermeons and nearly all the
vegetables are grown on hundreds OF
farms,
The fruit and garden stuff OF the coast
country is the first to reach the Northern
market making it reasonably sure THAI
the returns will be far greater than those
OF the farms of the North.
The products of the South Texas farms
In many cases can he marketed before the
frost is out of the lands in the North.
Orchards in the coast country have been
sold for more than $1,000 an acre The en-
HANGED value was due simply to the fact
that the land had been brought to high
state of cultivation, that the trees We're
bearing and that even at that great price
the purchasers were sure OF handsome
profits. The experimental stage has been
passed in regard to many OF the South
Texas products. Much has yet to be
learned however, before the agriculturists
will reap the fullest measure OF profit from
the lands they till. That the Importance
OF the fruit growing Industry OF the coast
country is being realized Is evidenced by
the presence in the coast country OF agents
Of the dealers OF st. Louis, Kansas city
Denver and Chicago. The railroads have
inaugurated e special train service, send
ing fast freights made up OF cars loaded
with coast country fruits and vegetables
destined for the Northern markets.