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from its manufacture than is realized, by the South from its 

 sale. 



England paid the United States last year for cotton .$180,- 

 000,000, and by making it up into fabrics, she added $188,- 

 000,000 of value, to it as a profit — more than double her 

 money. 



True, England has superior machinery and cheap and 

 skilled labor, but Texas has other advantages which may 

 be rriade to overbalance these. She can import the best of 

 machinery suitable for making the best and finest goods, 

 and also import laborers to run the works ; and to make 

 these laborers efiicient, they should have a share in the 

 business in order to make them interested in its success. 

 The advantages which Texas has over. Old England and 

 New England are, a superior climate. Here it will cost 

 less to heat the factory buildings ; here living is cheaper; 

 fuel is also cheaper, both wood and coal ; the brown coals 

 or lignites of Bastrop, Robertson and other counties, being 

 good to run the engines of the factories, as has been tested 

 at Bastrop. The buying the cotton from the farmer would 

 save the profits — and they are not small — which are^ now 

 realized by middlemen. Transportation would be saved. . 

 The best of water power abounds in nearly every part of 

 the State. The proprietors and operatives of factories will 

 buy a large portion of their food from the farmer, and 

 thus give him a home market, not only for his cotton, but 

 also for his surplus grain, meat and vegetables. With 

 such advantages, Texas can manufacture cotton cheaper 

 than either New England or Old England, and she may 

 have as mueh or more profit from its manufacture than she 

 now receives from the growth of the staple. Texas can be 

 made, one of the most independent and pleasant countries 

 in the world, with her delightful climate, varied scenery, 

 fertile soil, and advantages for manufactures. 



