The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-24
WHAT NORTH TEXAS
NEEDS is FARMERS
Country Surrounding Dallas Is
Rich in Opportunities for the
: Possessor Of Willing Hands,
Ambition and Good Health.
SOME FACTS AND FIGURES
" ABOUT A GREAT DISTRICT
Immunity from Boil Weev1l ana
Other Crop Ravaging Insects Is
Due to Wonderful Climate and
the Character of the Soil.
az HERBERT vANDERHooF.

eY HERBERT vANDERHooF.
All that is said of Texas in these days
when nearly everybody is talking apoue
it, all that is written OF Texas M mess
days when so many are writing ABOUT IT,
might as well be left unsaid and unWrlt-
ten. if facts to support the staee go
made were lacking. would go farmer amer
Thousand club of Dallas might consume
all the white paper and all the INK III
the Iand-might blow itself hoarse sing
ing the praise of it's commonwealth ana
cify-and it would all amount to nothing
if it failed to prove to even a small per-
centage Of the people who are now
migrating in sWarms to the southwest
that it was telling the truth.
NV own experience in Texas warrants
me in saying that it would not be wise
to tell the whole truth concerning ene
Star state is at. this moment holding out
to the active, honest, Industrious set
tier. One might be accused OF eAag-
geration.
There are many parts of the United
States where the man of capital may
invest his money with every assurance
but there are not very many parts where
the man of very little capital may nope
to build up he may In Texas IN
reasonable time, an ample independence;
would advise no man without capital
to go to Texas, but the best capital he
can have is good health, willing hands
Even the good health is not SO much
of a requisite, for there are thousands
of husky men in Texas today who were
little better than physical wrecks "heh
they arrived.
Wherein Texas Leads.
There is no place in the wide world
where the man who is willing~to Work
can do better than in Texas ana II ne
have little sash &c sap 1T 50 % Work 'a ae
long for others. Down there he need not
fear that if one opportunity fails no
other will be offered. 1t is land OF OPP
If you are farmer it might interest
you to know that there are more wheat
lands in Texas than in both the Dakotas.
fruit lands than in California. If you
are a lumberman, it might interest you
to know that there is more timber IN
Texas than in Michigan. If you are a
know there is more marble in Texas
New Hampshire. Suppose that y !,'i1
would like to become a planter, 1t Will
interest you to learn that there are more
rice lands in Texas thar in all the rest
of the United States. and that one-third
of the cotton crop OF the country IS
produced in Texas.
If you have ambition in mining way,
it must interest you to learn that texas
the greatest iron states. in the Union;
more ignite and more kaolin than the
whole of Europe If you are a rallroao
man, and do not know it, it will not only
interest but surprise you to learn thai
Texas has more railroad mileage than
any other state. =
Texas is such all empire efadtsef 4tha'
it could accommodate without croWdins
the entire population of the country
More than this, Texas could, with 1t:
own products, provide for our entire pop
ulation, and If developed to its full ex
tent, have a sufficient surplus to provid
for another population equally as large
These facts only lead up to one grea
inevitably step from the fifth to the frs
place among the states in population,
and at the present ratio Of e gain in thu HI
crease In population must come an In
crease In the value Of everything ma
terial within her borders. Fifteen year
from now nay, ten years from now, ther
will be cheap Texan lands.
Dallas Is a Good Example.
Take the city of Dallas, for instance
Five and one-half years ago. when tn
last United States census was take1
Of a. 600. 1t has now, by actual coun
population of about $4,000. 1t is grow
ing at present faster than ever b
the rate maintained during the last f7
years. it will soon have its population
$50. 900.
radius Of 1o9 miles Of Dallas becon
more valuable, for Dallas is to the MAJ
nihcent territory Of which it Is the cent
Tha chiSago h is to the Nor RTsrx far
developed within 100 miles Of Dali
adds to the population Of the city b
cause it increases Its business; eve
expansion in the business Of Dallas ad
to the value of the land in the surroun
ing country, because it provides a be
ter market.
Equally wonderful has been the d
velopment in every corner Of that ri
stretch of country known as 1t
of the small towns, the springing ii
being Of new villages, the volume
produce shipments, the circulation
is at least Keeping abreast with t
marvellous progress Of all other parts
the state.
Immunity from Boil WeevI.
One Of the reasons for thB-and
important one-is that northern 8
extremes-neither too cold in winter
too hot in summer-and that partly
this and nd Party by the rea nont
in ni ef from e the boil 0S wee S
other crop ravaging insects which
such a pest in some other quartz
Mosquitoes are unknown in this sect
in fact. the conditions prevailing tn
are similar to those in the best highl
country of the West and Northwe:
similar to those of middle and north
Illinois and southern Wisconsin,
though, of course. the summers
longer in Northern Texas. more unifo
ly warm, and of necessity more {
ducive to the growth Of Southern CT
Touching upon the single product
cotton. it is interesting to note that
compared with the cost Of production
Alabama. Mississippi, Arkansas. ST.
Carolina and certain of the lower &C
ties in Texas, the results obtained
northwest Texas are highly crafty
+! North Texas and Alabama.
I have room only to compare 81
county in this district with one Of
other states. Let me take Alaba
J, There it costs $3.50 to break the Il
In Hall county, Texas, the cost is
cents; the seed costs the same, plan
costs so cents in Alabama, as comp
with Is cents in Hall county. Chop
ont costs 81 in Alabama; in Hall cou
30 cents. Hoeing costs 81 in AIaba
IN Hall county, 40 cents. Flowing
$3.50 in Alabama; in Hall county
cents. In picking, weighing etc.,
Expenses in Alabama and Hall co
. practically even up, but the final
i in Hall county of cotton growing
. acre is s15.55, against s17.95 in Alab;