The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-14
ILLUSTRATED
TALK ON TEXAS
Glowing Description by Northern
Lecturer.
First in Cattle. Cotton and Rice : Crest
Gulf State with Broad Plains and
Thick FOrcsts-ROmantic His
terry Under Six Flags.


| Presbyterian church Monday night.
His subject was, q, Brave New
World of Texas: the Lone-Star
Land of Plenty and Fortune, +" and
it was illustrated by stereoptican
slides and moving pictures, per
haps the most beautiful of the
scenes being that showing the spray
and surf of the blue waters of the
Gulf at Galveston in the moon
light. The lecture was rhetoricaIly
impressive and covered every phase
of life and development of the
great Lone Star state and present
ed glowingiy its advantages and
possibilities.
Mr.. McClurg, in an interview
Tuesday, said, Texas today is
exporting to Europe, either direct
| ly or indirectly the FIVE great
American staples-which are pro-
duced within Texas borders-cot-
ton, beef, oil, wheat and copper,
as we'll as many other products.
And these staples are bringing
mich needed gold today from Eu-
rope to America! You, of the north.
cannot do without Texas-for she
gives you cotton, sugar, rice and
semi-tropical fruits. Texas as twice
as many cattle as the second rank
ing state in this, industry; produces
three times as much cotton as the
second state; she is first as to rice
production; second in the union as
to oil; and second as to lumber!
President Andrew Jackson
never did anything wiser than to
send Sam Houston (who had been
Governor of Tennessee, FIVE years
in the army and two terms in con-
gress) to report on the value of
Texas to the United States. 1t is a
gulf state-midway between the
Atlantic and Pacifc-for four hun
dred miles Texas lies along the
Gulf of Mexico. for eight hundred
miles rests against the Rio Grande
river; and it is the keystone sup
porting the central arch of the
United States"
Mr.. McClurg is assisted by Mr..
q. A. Campbell. who uses both
and oxy-hydrogen gas
in making beautiful dissolving eff
iects upon a huge screen. Since
Mr.. Campbell accompanies Mr..
during the entire season
Of this fifth transcontinental lee
lure tour, perfect presentation of
The pictures is assured.
The audience was first taken on
4 panoramic trip through the Pan
Handle by means of motion pic
lures along the Rock Island-Frisco
ines.
Mr.. McClurg said, in part, Mon
lay evening:
The many-dowered Lone Star
State of Texas, emerging from her
nascent period, rises large and full
in the gaze of the nations, the larg-
est of the States United; an empire
of antitheses; of distances and di
of bignesses and contra
dictions.
1t is the state of the treeless
plains and the thick forest grOwths
Of pine, mezquite, oak, pecan. wal
nut and ebony; the state where you
may battle every day in the year
m the blue Gulf of Mexico and
lelve in the mountains at FL Paso
icr ore; the state of heavy rains
lud rainless desert; of inland farms
md plateau cities. and ports, ship
ping the cotton of the worlds
narts; of land for all who come and
yet not an acre of government land;
/ state with granaries dating back
20 1898, and with two crops of
corn a year, in fields from which
the cactus was grubbed up year
ago by Trinity and Brazos Valley
settler; the biggest state with al
most the lowest rate of taxation;