El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-04
INCREASE I'M NUMBER AND VALUE Of
TEXAS FARMS; DECREASE IN AREA
Census Report Shows Increase Value of Texas Farms
of 1853 Percent in Ten Years-The Expenditure
For Labor Shaws an Increase of 108 Per
cent in the Same Period

$4,000, as against sss1.774,00o in 1900.
an increase of s1.130,s3s,0oo, or 1913 per
cent.
The total value of all farm land
alone was reported in 1910 as s1.613,-
51s, O00 as compared with 1891. 900
in 1900. a gain of s1,021, 1852. 900, or
173 per cent.
The total value of all farm build
ings alone was given in 1910 as $780,
200, 600, as against 500, 22S, 600 in 1900,
an increase of sos, 977,o00, or 100 per
cent
In 1910 the value of the farm land
alone constituted SO per cent of the
total value Of land and buildings, as
compared with Sc per cent in 1900
The reported value of farm imple-
ments and machinery was s56,533.000
in 1910 as against $50 $4,000 in 1900,
a gain of $26, 407, 600, or So per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
was los, 226.000 acres. as compared
with 125, s07, 900 in 1900. a decrease Of
1851. 600 acres. or 10 per cent
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to 27,120.000
acres, as against 1886. 600 in 1900, an
increase Of $4,000, or 80 per cent
The improved acreage formed 25 per
cent of the total acreage in 1910, and
1e per cent in 1900
The average acres per farm reported
in 1910 were 262, as against 357 in
1900, a decrease of e5 acres. or 27
per cent in 10 years This decrease is
caused largely by the subdivision OF
many large ranches and by the with
drawal from active use Of the 10000
600 acres of land to which attention
has already been called
The average value per acre Of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated as
1853, as against SIS so in 1900. a rise
OF s1119, or 204 per cent
The average value per acre of farm
land alone in 1910 was reported as
SAT-, while in 1900 it was $40. the
amount of gain being s10.o7, or PA
per cent.
Color of Farmers.
Of the whole number. 416,377, of
farms reported in 1910, there were
S46.565, or SO per cent operated by
white farmers, and 69.S12, or II per
cent, by negro and other nonwhite
farmers, as compared with a total Of
S52190 in 1900, Of which 2S6.654, on
81 per cent, were conducted by white
farmers, and 1886, or 10 per cent, by
negro and other nonwhite. The in
crease in the number of farms of white
farmers during the decade amounted
to 59,911, and in the number Of farms
of negro and other nonwhite farmers
to 4,276.
Farm Ownership.
The total number of farms operated
in 1910 by owners, part owners, and
owners and tenants, comprising the
"an owners class, was 194.9sS, as
compared with 1883 in 1910, an in
crease of 20,354.
The total number of farms conducted
NV nj IA IA n 70
and cash and share tenants.s compris
ing the "a1l tenants class. was 49,
los, as against 1749e1 in 1900, an in
crease of 44115.
The total number of farms operated
by managers in 1910 was APIS, as
compared with 1850 in 1900, a de-
crease Of 2S2.
The total number OF farms operated
by the ''all owners" class constituted
At per cent of the whole number of
farms in 1910, and so per cent in. 1900;
those operated by the "all tenants
class SO per cent in 1910, and so per
cent in 1900: and those conducted by
managers, 0.5 per cent in 1910, and OF
per cent in 1900.
OF the total number, 1928, of
farms operated in 1910 by the "al1
owners class, there were 131,161 or
81 percent reported as "owned free
of debt" and 1882, or 33 per cent,
as mortgaged. There were
3,57S farms for which no mortgage re-
port was secured. and these are in
cluded in the farms owned free of
debt"
In 1900 information was secured
the owned farm homes"
At that time 133,567, or Is per cent,
were reported free from debt" and
SO, 40S, or % per cent, as mortgaged.
There were S.063 farms In 1900 for
which no mortgage report was secured,
and these were included in the farms
free from debt"
The expenditures for labor in 1910
reached the sum of SIS, 631 ,0O0 as COM
pared with So, 600 in 1900, an in
creas of 1929, 900, or los per cent.
The expenditures for fertilizers
amounted in 1910 to $3.50, 600, as COM
pared with s125 900 in 1900. an in
crease of s464, 900. or 81 per cent