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Here the final meeting of the Congress was held, Decem- 

 ber 15 ; speeches of welcome were made by the citizens and 

 responded to by Mr. Candage on the part of the Congress, 

 and the following resolutions were adopted : — 



Besolved, That thanks are due and are hereby tendered to the 

 citizens of Houston, a few citizens of Galveston, Colouel Cunning- 

 ham of Sugar Lands, the citizens of Victoria, Cuero, San Antonio, 

 Waco and Fort Worth, who so generously contributed to the com- 

 fort, pleasure and welfare of the members of the Farmers' National 

 Congress on their extended trip through the great State of Texas ; 

 to the railroads for contributing to their comfort and safe conduct ; 

 to Col. D. O. Lively for his untiring efforts to make the excursion 

 an education and a pleasure to all members and their ladies who 

 chose to avail themselves of it ; and to all who furnished badges 

 and pinned them upon us ; and be it further 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished to the 

 press for publication. 



The forenoon was spent in seeing the sights of Waco, 

 where the committees and citizens were untiring in efforts 

 to make the stay in their city a pleasant one. But the time 

 arrived to bid them adieu and to hasten to the end of the 

 journey, Fort Worth, which was reached the same evening 

 without accident, all in good health and spirits, notwith- 

 standing the twelve hundred miles travel on the excursion. 



The next morning the delegates bade adieu to Fort Worth 

 and started for their distant homes, carrying with them pleas- 

 ing memories of their contact with the people and their stay 

 in the great State of Texas. 



To conclude, — A Word or Two about Texas. 



The great State of Texas, with its area of 265,785 square 

 miles, would make thirty-three States of the size of Massa- 

 chusetts ; and, were all the population of the United States 

 centred in Texas, it would not be as thickly populated per 

 square mile as is the State of Massachusetts at this writing. 

 In 1890 it contained 2,235,523 inhabitants ; it is now claimed 

 to have 3,500,000. 



With its diversity of climate and soil, it is capable of pro- 

 ducing the products of the tropics and of the temperate zone. 



