The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-05-01

over this broad State and see the
vast railroad enterprises under con
struction and those projected anc
likely to be built in the near future
he can but be amazed at what Is
going on, and in his amazement
realize that at last Texas IS coming
into its own. Its prosperity has
within the last year or two, brought
about in part by the great increase
in the value of cotton and in part
by a general realization and utiliza-
ton of some of the vast resources
of Texas, been moving forward
with stride of the tabled seven
lleagued boots.
So vast is its area that it has
been well described IN the state
ment that if we should cut from a
map of the country the State of
Texas and put the center of It on
Nashville, the northern end would
reach Chicago, the southern Mo-
bile, the eastern wing would stretch
to Raleigh and the western to Lit
tie Rock. 1t is twice as large as
Japan, which has a population of
so, 900, 900, and III natural re-
sources, in the ability to support
population and to create wealth,
Texas is so far ahead of Japan that
comparison between the two
would be useless. Within five years
it has taken rank as one Of the fore
most oil producers of the world.
1t is a State of vast mineral wealth,
of iron ore ranking in quality with
the best known and with quantity
great enough, it is believed, to
support a vast iron and steel in
dustry; it is a State of GRANTEES and
marbles which in quantity and
beauty battle description, and the
extent and variety Of which can
never be understood except by
those who see for themselves. Much |
of it is a region of the greatest
wealth of timber, of hardwood as
well as of pine. Though ranking
for years as a leader in the cattle
interests of the United States, many
of its vast cattle ranches are being
divided up into smaller farms, thus
Insuring far greater general agri-
cultural development and at the
same time not lessening the posi-
Dilities in cattle-growing. With an
area of 265,000 square miles, or
but little less than that of France,
it is on only one-tenth of this area,
Or Is, 100000 acres out of a total
Of 10, 100000 acres, annually pro-
iucing $500, 900, 900 in agriculture.
Every year sees a higher develop
nent of agriculture, a stronger ,
to Investigation, a great {
Increase in fruit and truck grow {
ng, and likewise, by reason of the t
of immense stock :
ards and packing-houses, a rapid :
dvance in connection with diver
fled farming of hog-raisiug. We
re so accustomed to think OF Tex
S, with its annual production of
otton averaging about 800, 900
ales, or nearly 80 per cent, of the
ountry's crop, as a cotton State,
hat we are prone to overlook the
act that it also produces 200, 000,- {
90 bushels of grain and that every
ear sees an expansion in corn and
heat and oats. U
In diversity and extent of prof
able agricultural products, COM .
ined with mineral resources, as :
-ell as in area, Texas probably
lads the Union. With a popula-
on Of less than 4 GOO, 900, though
apable of easily supporting So [
90, OOO,- with a variety of soil suit
BILE for every crop from that of
he tropics to that of the higher :
ltitudes of the temperate zoHe, 4
nth great water-powers yet I'M .
with wealth of mineral
little realized as yet, with
beauty Of mountain, scenery of | +