Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-06-26

future greatness. have been no
further west than the Brazos river,
but down to that point, and / am
assured that 1t reaches far beyond,
no soil could well be more fertile than
that of the coast counties. Some OF
them, such as Brazoria and Fort
Bend | am told are good for two bales
of cotton to the acre, as against the
three eighths of bale average through
the south, or 125 bushels of corn.
This must mean towards 500 an acre,
upon very cheap land, and with no
other capital required than mule
and a small plow. This Gulf frontage
has even greater capabilities for sugar
and rice culture. For the former, OF
course some capital is requisite for
the machinery equipment, but for the
latter the problem has been largely |
solved by the artesian well, which at
a depth of $50 feet or so gets down
below the Gulf level, and reaches suf-
ficient flow for irrigating purposes
This obviates the expensive system of
dikes and canals formerly thought
necessary for the raising of this most
profitable crop, and today have seen,
between here and Houston, thousands
of acres overfiowed for the rice-sprout.
ing of the season, at a comparatively
small expense.
1, mention these things-and there
are many others equally pertinent, to
show how admirably fitted this por-
ton of Texas is to get the full and
lasting benefit of this last bounty
which nature has now thrust upon
it. TO my mind it is to be the cen
ter of hive of industry, the benefi-
cent results Of which it is not given
to human sagacity to calculate. l
look to see spring up here enterprises
of the largest and most varied sort.
| Every factor necessary is present,
and abundantly so. Rehneries, steel
plants, exporting houses, and the like,
will fill the air with the hum of gain
| full endeavor; the boom OF the forge
hammer, and the whirr of the spindle,
will resound through all the borders
the white wings of commerce shall
fleck the waves, and the horn of
abundance shall overflow in the gates
of the city. All this, and more, /
prophesy of the fair country see
spread out before me here today.
The outlook has it's side of comedy
too. Beaumont, as the local seat OF
oil-fevef, beggars description. 1t looks
to me like a Summit county fair
multiplied by about ten. Cots are
spread, under tents in the fields, as
sleeping quarters for the pilgrims wht
are sojourning here,-and they ar,
many. The hotel offices, lobbies ani
, porches are turned into offices TO
the sale of shares, real estate agents
are as vociferous in crying their allege,
!, wares as SO many barkers on tn
Bowery, and they even number som
: women among them. Mrs. Bette Bry
an has a desk in the hotel yard, whenc
she is ready to dish out oil venture
!, lad lib" These gentry will offer t
: sell one anything in the way of oi
, locations, without regard to title O
+ anything else. l am persuaded tina
f II l were to suggest that Heaven pos
j, sessed some promising indications fc
= an oil find, in a minute a dozen me
l. would undertake to sell me the entir
J. kingdom, with a deed Of general wa
q ranty, giving the exact number {
o acres 'be the same more or less
h Booths along the curbstone are ais
q os.upiSu Win uSohS, anu Inc II
e typewriter is in evidence in profusiol
- printing leases, and deeds, and col
n tracts and options, and what-not, an
4 chewing gum and pummeling til
If keyboard with about equal degrees {
l. vigor. The scene reminds me
e Bunyan's Vanity Fair. 1t comes pre-
% ty near up to the John Law eXcit
Al ment in London, a couple of hundre
10 years ago, or so, when poor folk ren
g ed out their backs for desks on whic
10 the spectators wrote their subscri]
" tions for stocks.
IN My friend Senator Towne was hel
to last week, representing a syndicate {
,e Minnesota capitalists, and it is sal
a. that he secured options looking to IL
lie planting of great industry in tn
}, vicinity, involving, among oth'
lie things, extensive refineries, rollin
n, mills, steel plants, and the like. n
st man more deserves to strike it ric
Id than he, and no one is better fitted I