Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1884 — The Size of Texas. [ARTICLE]

The Size of Texas.

The distance from Dallas County, in the Texas Pan Handle, to Brownsville, at the mouth of the Rio Grande, is 800 miles, but we can better realize how far it is by saying that it is nearer from Dallas County, Texas, to St. Paul, Minn.; or to Bismark, Dakota; or to Helena, Montana; or to Yellowstone Park, in Wyoming; or to Salt Lake City, Utah, than it is from Dallas County to Brownsville, Texas. It is also nearer from Brownsville to Guatemala, in Central America, than from Brownsville to Dallam County. Again, it is nearer from • Lipscomb County, Texas, to St. Louis, than from the same county to Galveston. And even Chicago and Cincinnati are nearer to Texas than Dallas County is to Brownsville. It is further from Texarkana to El Paso than from Texarkana to West Virginia, Old Virginia, or North Carolina. Suppose a gentleman should start from Savannah, Ga., on the Atlantic, to look at a tract of Jand at El Paso. After traveling three days and nights on' a passenger train >he might arrive at Orange, Texas. Of course when ho puts his foot ou Texas soil he would begin to look around to see how he liked the country by way of deciding whether he would buy El Paso land or not. But if told that he was not half way from Savannah to El Paso, he might turn back discouraged, but such would be the fact. Again, Texas wants deep water at Galveston. But it is nearer from El Paso, Texas, to the deep harbor of San Diego, Cal., than from El Paso to Galveston. In fact, more than 1,000 miles of the Pacific coast, extending from Los Angeles, Cal., to Mazatlan, Mexico, is nearer to El Paso than any part of the Texas Gulf ooast. Greenville, Texas, Banner.