Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — Great Texas. [ARTICLE]

Great Texas.

It should be remembered that Texas has nearly ‘277) 000 square miles and 174,7)85,840 acres It has more coal than Pennsylvania, more iron than Alabama, more granito than New Hampshire, inoro oak than West Virginia, more prairie than Kansas, more corn land than Illinois, more cotton land than Mississippi, more wheat land than the two Dakotas, more sugar land than Louisiana, und moro rice land than South Carolina. It contains as many rivers as any other five States, and as much coas as any other t hroe. As was appro priately said by Mayor Tone, of Den ison, the iron mines of Michigan, the granite quarries of Maine, the wheat fields of the Dakotas, the corn fields of Illinois, thu cotton fields of Mississippi, the prulries of Kansus, the oyster beds of Maryland, the orange groves of Florida and the vineyards of California are all duplicated in Texas.