Bisbee daily review., 1907-11-03
SOUTHWEST THE
PROMISED LAND
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Michigan, and most OF them paid nc
attention to the talk. One became in
terested. however, and got others 4
join with him in sending for a carload
of seed, which was distributed
among the negroes. The first cotton
crop was planted In 1898, and today
the results have astonished every one
connected with the enterprise.
The cotton crop OF Texas is III
creasing so rapidly in value that the
state now supplies one-third of all
that is raised in this country. Con
sidering the recent development OF
this region. the reIlrd is remarkable
and the expansion has not stopped.
Discovery of the value of the gull
coast for the growth of rice also
came about in a peculiar way. A
number OF Japanese rice growers
induced 20 come over three years age
as an experiment. They establish
ed themselves near Mykawa station
seven miles south of Houston. They
are making money and are teaching
Americans how to raise crops success
fully The rice industry has develop
ed to remarkable proportions and is
now one of the staple products of the
state.
During September Baron X. Ishii
chief OF the bureau of commerce OF
Japan. and S. Shimizu. consul gen.
eral of the Japanese government al
Chicago, visited the gulf coast country
especially 10 inspect the ,Mykawa plan
tation and to ascertain generally the
welfare OF their eountrymen in this
section. At Houston they weip given
a reception by the business men OF
the city, and in short addresses they
said that IN all the world the soil
Of the gulf coast country of Texas
is the best adapted to rice production.
Before a Japanese colony is estab-
lished in a foreign land the country IL
proposes to settle in is studied by
the bureau OF foreign commerce.; and
when this colony was proposed at
home suitable place was sought
for 4. and Texas selected.
So, added to the testimony of farm
ers who are growing rice in Texas is
the judgment of these two distin-
guished Japanese, who have studied
conditions all over the world. AMI
they declare that the soil and clim-
ate of the gulf coast country of
Texas are the best in the world for
prOutaDtS rice culture
Japan IS watching Texas closely
Recently a telegram was received
asking the probable amount of the cot
ton yield and Baron Ishii also sought
the same information. 1t has there
fore become known that Japanese
spinners intend to purchase cotton dt
rect from the growers in Texas. Ii
will be SHIPPED by sea TO the isthmus
of Tehuantepec. then across the 18th.
mus by RAJ and again by sea &c
Japan.
Sixty-three products are credited to
the Texas farms And of these tho
lowly onion-of the Bermuda variety
ms not least. There is a man in
San Antonio who is paid $4,000 9
year merely TO market these onions
the supply of which is controlled by
Texas. This man IS ctdLic.CC ijy The
Western Texas Truck Growers Asso
citation, an organization made up OF
the onion planters. A grower al
Laredo made $3.50 an acre on q
acres with his crop this year There
are men who have realized $500 q
year net on every acre, and even
more, raising onions.
The peninsula railroad, which runs
from Point Bolivar to Beaumont, is
chartered as the CUE and Interstate
and thereby hangs tale of the Popu
list party of Kansas OF fourteen
years ago. This enterprise had its be
ginning in a resolution of the Kansas
legislature of 1898, and it was TO be
come a railroad of such magnificent
distances that the newspapers labeled
it the North and South Pole Road.