San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-04

recently outlined the DlgneSs' OF MS
state in the following:
UNLESS your front gate is IS miles
from your front door you do not be-
long to society as it is constituted
in Texas. One Texans gate is $50
miles from his front door and he is
thinking of moving his house back so
that he will not be annoyed by the
passing automobiles and peddlcrs.
"Other Texas landlords have whole
mountain ranges and rivers on their
ranches. One Texan has forty miles
OF navigable rivers on his farm. II
the proportion of cultivated land in
Texas were the same as in Illinois,
the value of Texas crops would equal
that of forty-seven other states.
Texas has enough land to supply
every man, woman and child in the
world with a tract of five feet by
twenty and have enough left over for
the armies of the world to march
around the border five abreast.
IF all the Texas steers were one
big steer, he would stand with his
front feet in the Gulf of Mexico, one
hind foot in Hudson Bay and the
other in the Arctic ocean, and with
his tail brush the mist from the Au-
rora Borealis. Some state"
Vast as is Texas and its resources
and great as has been its progress in
the last so years, this one Southern
state offers opportunities for develop
ment which stagger the Imagination.
CHANGING backward a few years, let us
compare what the state has done in
tine way of material advancement, and
some idea can be gained of what
may be expected in the near future.
LARGE POPULATION.
, The wealth of Texas is now estimat-
ed at over S0,S50, 100000, which is
more than one-ninth of the wealth OF
the entire United States in 1000. Be-
tween 1000 and 1922, the wealth of
Texas increased by $7,52S,00O, 900, or
1924 per cent.
The population of Texas in 1924
was over 100000, compared with
3,04S,O00 in 1900, or an increase in
"a years of IS per cent. Though
Texas adjoins Mexico, the last census
shows that 76 per cent of the popula-
ton of the state is native white about
s per cent foreign and Is per cent
negro.
With Texas ranking first in area
of all the states of the country, it is
fifth in population and thirty-fifth
based on the population per square
mile. If Texas were settled as dense
ly as some of the Eastern states, it
would have more than the population
of the country, now estimated at over
H., 100000.
Over 100, 900, 900 acres in Texas
are said to be suitable for cultiva-
ton and, as only 100000 acres
are now classed as improved, this
indicates its cultivated area can be
increased over 200 per cent. The
census of 1920 gives Texas a total
land area of 167,934, 900 acres, with
1920, 900 acres in farms. The to-
tai number of farms was 100000 and
the value of all farm property was
81, Al, 100000.
Texas now leads all the states of
the union in the value of its agricul-
tural products. Last year the com
bined farm products, including all
farm crops and livestock products,
of Texas were valued at 81, 202, O00,-
900, farm crops alone bringing $780,
100000. The total crop area of Texas
in 1924 was 29,292. 900 acres, 16,19S,-
900 acres of which were in cotton,
producing 4,770,O00 bales, or SO per
sent of the country's cotton crop, and
about one-fifth of the worlds output.
The value of Texas 1924 cotton crop,
excluding seed, was 1854, 100000,
which is equivalent to about S106 for
every man, woman and child in the
state.
Texas also produced in 1924 about
rs, 100000 bushels of corn, 26,000,0
bushels of wheat, 100000 bushels
If oats, 100000 bushels of grain
,orghums, and other grains.