Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-06
Ebert Hubbard
Writes on @@
Texas Siftings
To Say That the LoneStar
State Is Prosperous Is
Putting 1t Pianissimo; 1t
Is Microby With Money. -
By Ebert HUBBARD
Copyright, 19l2. by Internatonal News Service

When pay day comes, and thev GET
800 apiece, there is great tenn
tation to go to town and rest I'm
Thls vast amount of cash bai,s
distributed through Texas for -.
cotton crop is not without II.
drawbacks. Comparatively NOTHING
is being put back into the soil in
the way of fertilizer. How Low.
the black dirt will produce a veor
ly cotton crop no one knows h..
there must be limit,
No Sectional Lines.
There was time when the Tavo.
steer held the center of the eco.
nomic state. Now the value "a
the entire number of cattle -
Texas is about $3.50, OOO,o 900 and n.
number of cattle shipped ont .,
Texas brings back in cash. ANIMAL
~ say approximately saO,ooOOoo
At Fort Worth are immense
packing plants conducted by the
Armours and the Swifts Thoa.
concerns, I saw, were paying East.
ern prices for hogs, cattle and.
sheep. That is to saw the n,,oo.
the farmers receive In Fort Worth
for hogs and cattle were the ider.
teal prices being paid BY Jacob
Dold & Co, in Buffalo.
saw carloads Of ham and ba
con being unloaded at these mack
ing houses. And when asked
where this came from thew said.
1T ls shipped In here from Kansas
City and Chicago" So, behol6 tbs
curious fact of Texas depending on
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Kansas
for food products.
L saw mules sold in the s+cck
yards at Fort Worth at from s3Oo
TO $500 pair-bought by farmers
who had the good cash to paw for
them. Good horses brought s2Oo
and eStra choice gated saddle
horses sold for $500 and $500 apiece
Texas is neither North nor
South. European immigrants, and
the influx from the North. have
broken down sectional lines. You
get a good deal OF the hustle Of
Denver in Dallas. Yankee enter
prise Is everywhere noticeable.
Long years ago we were told that
Texas lacked two things-society
and water. You will find both Of
these here now in abundance.
The two things that Texas really
lacks are transportation and labor.
There are no double-track rail-
roads in Texas. Melons, peaches.
yams, sweet potatoes have been
rotting in the fields for lack Of
transportation.
The black dirt means fertility Of
soil, but it also means impossible
roads at certain seasons. II costs
big money here even to get the
product from the farm to the rail
road station, and just now there is
a dearth of freight cars.
Suffers From Over-Legislation.
Texas has suffered from over
legislation. The provincial mind
fears big business, Much of this
fear is temperamental, and has
come down to us from the remote
past, when power was polite pill
lage-and not always especially po-
lite.
Texas laws have made It diff
cult for the railroads to build ava
operate. The railroads have been
overtaxed, oversupervised, and sub
jected to many harassing and eX-
asperating exactions.
The tide seems to have turned
however and the people of Texas
now realize that the prosperity OF
the state turns on being broad ana
generous rather Than small ane
suspicious.
Texas is an empire in herself, Du'
her resources will be practically IN
guessed until the state joins hanos
with big business-say as Canaoa
0oes-and then. indeed, will tar
desert blossom like the rose, ana