Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-07-20
CONTRIBUTED BY COMMERCIAL
SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION

Austin is having an epidemic of rail- !
road building and three new roads
leading out of that city are being agi-
tated by the citizens of that place.
A committee OF business men from
Austin, Fredericksburg, Johnson City,
Stonewall and Dripping Springs will
meet in Austin for the purpose OF per-
fecting arrangements for building
road from Austin to Fredericksburg,
in Gillespie County. The interest is
united and there is very little reason
TO doubt that active work on the road
will begin at once. The Business
League of Austin is leading the move
ment and an effort is also being made
by that body to secure a line from
Austin to Lockhart and still another
connecting that city with Rockport
and Arkansas Pass.
The shipments of fruit and truck
from East Texas during the season Is
one of the heaviest in years, accord
ing to reports from that section OF the
state. From the Jacksonville district
alone 1400 carloads of tomatoes have
been shipped since the season first
opened early in the spring. The terri
tory producing this amount OF toma'
toes lies within radius OF thirty
mile of Jacksonville and includes
Tyler. Alto and other we'll known fruit
sections. The fruit and truck farmers
of Texas supply large percentage OF
the products for the principal markets
of the North and East, and Texas prod
iucts are always in demand with the
consumers of other states.
Cotton is by far the most valuable
of our farm products. In 1910 we har-
vested 10,53O,000 acres of cotton, max
ing 3,140,000 bales, valued at S2l9,,
$50 900. The increase in yield in 1911
over 1909 was "a pounds per acre. The
crop of the United States in 1910 was
II ,426,000 bales.
The Reynolds College of Albany
which is one of the leading private
colleges of Central West Texas, has
recently established a military depart
ment to that institution. Hon. l.. b
Gray is president. Paul Baker Is regis
trar and Capt. ]. B. Kicker, COMMAND
ant This is the only military institute
in Central West Texas. Our schools
and colleges rank among the pest II
the Union, and the Texas institutions
of learning are a strong plea for oul
bovs and girls to be educated at home
The state average of cotton produc
ton per acre 1910 was 149 pounds, th'
lint selling for s20S6 and the seed a
S3.77. making a total average produc
ton per acre of $24.63. COMPARING
with this the leading agricultural prod
ucts of other states, We find corn IL
Illinois producing S14.S5 per acre
wheat in Kansas $11.95 per acre, ant
oats in Iowa 5000 per acre; thes'
states leading in the products men
toned.
The Red river TO the gulf highwa,
now being laid out by r. J. Potts, o
A. & NJ. college, and party, Is exciting
statewide interest and an effort l
being made by the commercial club
in the Panhandle to run loop iron
the Fort Worth branch through thu
plains country The Bowie Chambe
of Commerce is working out a rout
through Montague county to Wichiti
Falls and the commercial secretarie
will ask the path finding party % plaz
a route that will encircle the cap rocl
and return to Fort Worth through tn
Stamford country. A route can be sc
lected that will require very little roa'
construction, as natural roadways eX
list through most of the plains country
and the scenic grandeur Will re al
tractive to tourists.