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corn, oats and hay. In fact, he goes further than this, and buys, 

 practically everything to eat and wear. He can afford to. Rice 

 farming also takes just that much corn and cotton land from use 

 for these crops, and pushes up the notch of diversification as re- 

 gards this State. 



The increase in Southeast Texas this year will probably 

 reach 60,000 acres, and preparations are now under way to in- 

 crease it to 100,000 acres next year, which will represent an out- 

 put of not less than $3,500,000 worth of rice. Every indication 

 points to the maintenance of present prices, which are quite satis- 

 factory to the producers. 



Thousands of acres are rented to tenants for crop rent, and 

 there is no crop grown that pays them so well. There is no road 

 to a home quicker than rice farming. It is nothing uncommon 

 for tenants to buy their own farms with the result of one year's 

 work. W. C. MOORE. 



THE GROWTH OF TEXAS. 

 , 

 A THIRTY YEARS' VIEW OF THE LONE STAR STATE BY JUDGE z. T. 



FULMORE, OF AUSTIN. 



DATA FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES. 

 Judge Z. T. Fulmore in the Current Issue : 



The closing month of the closing year of the century affords 

 the proper occasion for a partial review of the material growth of 

 Texas since she resumed her place in the Union in 1870 under the 

 changed conditions brought about by the great Civil War. 



No comprehensive summary would be practicable in a paper 

 of this sort, even though the data were available ; hence this re- 

 view will be limited, in the main, to our growth in population, 

 wealth, agriculture our main pursuit, and the transportation fa- 

 cilities, which have become so necessary to our development. The 

 data has all been obtained from official sources of the State and 

 United States, and embrace the period from 1870 to 1900, with 

 just enough from the reports of 1860 to give a proper under- 

 standing of some conditions existing after the war. 



That due allowance may be made for what might seem ex- 

 travagant estimates of United States agencies, the statement is 

 made that they underestimate our resources in important particu- 

 lars. For example, the census of 1890 credited the State with 

 only 6,201,552 cattle. In the same year there were actually as- 

 sessed for taxation 7,378,203, with 3,354,658 sheep, when our tax 

 rolls showed 4,281,812; with 1,253,494 horses, mules and asses, 

 the tax roll showed 1,528,819. The rice product of the State has 



