Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1899 Page: 11 of 16
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January 12, 1899.
THE SOUTHERN
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Have you any conception of the size of the
Lone Star State? II not you can get some idea
of the area included within its boundaries by
the following comparisons:
Texas is five and a half times larger than the
State of New York.
It is more than fifty-four times larger than
the State of Connecticut.
It is one hundred and twenty-nine times larg-
er than the State of Delaware.
It is two hundred and ten times larger than
the State of Rhode Island.
If the entire state of Texas were planted with
corn and the hills were two feet apart, and the
rows were three feet apart, and if every man,
woman and child in the State of Connecticut
were set to work in the field to hoe the corn,
and if each person were able to hoe and did hoe
two hills in five minutes, it would take this army
of laborers seven years, 280 days and seven
hours to hoe every hill of corn in the state, lab-
oring continuously day and night 365 days each
year. *
To those persons who have never stopped to
consider how great a country they are living
in these figures may be of interest. The man
who fears that he could not elbow his way
around in the crowded West without chafing the
nap of his coat sleeves, may gather some solace
from the statement that the entire living popu-
lation of the globe, 1,400,000,000 souls, divided
the limits of the state during the past twenty
years. Yet during that time hundreds of in-
valids from other sections of the United States
and even from Europe have sought and found
health within its borders.
It has more mineral springs, hot wells and
noted health resorts than any like territory on
the earth, yet this feature of its possibilities has
hardly begun to be developed.
Less money has been expended here in de-
veloping its natural resources than has been
paid in any of the larger cities of the north and
east in beautifying the grounds surrounding
their private residences, yet in no case has fail-
ure followed any intelligent expenditure of
money in the development of the natural re-
sources of Texas.
This is an acknowledged fact, yet the natural
resources of Texas in agriculture, stock raising
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AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SCENES IN WARD COUNTY, TEXAS.
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If it were possible to run a railway train
from Connecticut and back in a day,and if the
train could take the entire population of the
Nutmeg State, as given in the last census at ev-
ery trip, and upon its return there should be as
many persons in the state as there were before
the train left with its cargo, and if each
v ere placed upon an acre of ground upon ar-
rival in Texas, the train would be obliged to
make 224 trips, or to depopulate Connecticut
224 times, before accomplishing its mission, and
then there would remain in Texas 703,808 emp-
ty acres.
It may be of passing interest to know that
sfcch a train, made up of coaches twenty feet
capable of accomodating fifty passengers
would extend over a
into families of five persons each, could be
located in Texas, each family with a house on
a half-acre lot, and there would still remain
50,000,000 vacant family lots.
This vast territory includes some of the best
farming, stock raising and mineral lands in the
world. The climate is favorable for out of doors
work during nearly every day of the year, and
the extreme heat of the midsummer sun is
tempered by cooling gulf breezes, so that while
semi tropical growths are common, yet prostra-
tions by heat are much less common than in
the northern states where ice and snow cover the
<earth during the winter months.
Texas possesses the most productive soil as
Veil as the most genial and health restoring
^limate of any land under the sun. There is npt,
and mineral wealth await the full development
of the experienced agriculturalists, stock rais-
ers, miners and capitalists of the future. All
we know of its possibilities is but a faint shad-
ow of the reality.
All that has been found out thus far is that
Texas has less waste land than any other count-
ry of like extent, that it is capable of producing
the staples of every other country, that it is
capable on sustaining a denser population tH .n
any other land that has ever been created and
tliat there is untold wealth here for all prudfnt
investors in any line of development that lias
ever been attempted elsewhere.
We invite the attention of capitalists and
honest anf intelligent workers to this ~
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Park, Milton. Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1899, newspaper, January 12, 1899; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185785/m1/11/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .