Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-03-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE PRODUCING POWER OF TEXAS.  -Some remarkable statistics are just published respect. leg the producing, capacity of the State of Texas. In 1878-9 the value of the products of the State was placed at $57,820,141. while for 1880-1 the estimate was $95,560,930. This latter figure included 1,260,247 bales of cotton, 20,671,339/b. of wool, 781,874 head of cattle, 12,262,052 hides, 28,175 head of horses and mules, 39,605 car-loads of grain, and 278,609,542 feet of lumber. In 1881 the wheat crop of Texas was 3,287,500 buahels, as compared with 2,577,223 for 1880. The entire crops of the United States for the year 1879, as stated in the official returns, were as follow: Wheat crop, I 448,755,118 bushels, and it was produced on 32,545,899 acres. The amount of corn produced in the United States was 1,544,899,193 bushels, grown on 53,085,401 acres. The amount of land used in growing the nine principal crops of the United States—cotton, wheat, corn, oats, barley, hay, rye, potatoes, and buckwheat—is given at 223,763 square miles. Assuming this estimate to be correct, it appears that Texas has land enough to mien all the princial crops of the country, and yet have a garden plot of 50,000 square miles to spare. Tunas, therefore, may look to play a great part in the future agricultural productions of the world. Already the cotton yield in Texas is greater than in any other State of the Ameriem Union, and its fibre is longer, more silky, and in all respects auperior to other American cottons. After the cultivatian of the soil, the raising of live stock is the most important industry in Texas. The entire western part of the State and the district known as the Panhandle are quite given over to cattle-raising. By the expenditure of a email sum annually, stockmen can control their own ranges, and are not likely to be soon interfered with. Only In. an acre annually is the present rental of wild grading lands. The expense of raising cattle is thus reduced to a minimum, and there is no reason for surpritse at the large fortunes which are rapidly being amaseed in these great grazing districts. As regards sheep raising, the section lying between the timbered regions on the east and the etaked plains of the west, extending as far south as the Rio Grande, anti also Western Texas, between the Indian territory and Mexico, are regarded as the best lands in the world for this purpose. It ie stated that there are now 8,000,000 sheep in the State, which giving four acres to the sheep, will yield a total of 20,000,000 acres of the land in the State devoted to cheep. The value of the sheep and lambs is estimated at $24,000,000, the value of the land at 920,000,000, and the interest of capital and other expenses at $3,600,000—yielding as the total value the investment in thin direction 847,600,000. The Duke of Manchester ' and other Englishmen interested in stock-raising have recently visited these great grazing lands of the West.  A. row, aged 9, is in custody at Bangor, on a charge of pushing another boy, aged 5, over a cliff at rwllhell, and causing his death. The occurrence arose over a quarrel as to the poasession of a halfpenny. AT the County Police-court, Derby, Charles White, a young man of gentlemanly appearance, residing at 2, Michaers-Plare, Richmond, awl said to be employed at a fine-art association in Bond-street, was committed for trial a:. the sessions on a charge of obtaining by false pretences a cheque for £2 15s. from George Youngman, of Longcaton. The case arises out of an advertisement published at the instance of defendant. Bail was allowed. THE Chicago Inter-Ocean publishes intelligence front 3gging Camp, Michigan, U.S., according to which a lumberman at that place having decapitated one of his fellow-workers with an axe, the other lumbermen seized and mged the murderer. Subsequently, however, a neighbouring party who were friends of the murderer made attack upon the lumbermen who had lynched , him, and a general fight ensued, in which seven men were killed.