Galveston is now the fourth or fifth exporting port in the United States. having 38 regular lines of steamships plying therefrom to foreign ports. and the wonderful development of the country tributary to it will soon make it second only to New York. And when the isthmian canal shall be constructed these ports will at once become the gateways through which perforce the products of the great Middle West must pass on their journey to the Orient. Possessing millions of acres of unsurpassedly fertile soil. with low land values. genial climate. magnificent schools. great railway systems. splendid ports. progressive and enlightened people. gigantic material resources in the infancy of development. and hospitably welcoming teeming thousands of thrifty and industrious immigrants to her soil each year. if this is the Texas of today. is it rash to peer into the future and prophesy that before the next half century shall have been rounded out the Lone Star will glitter foremost in the diadem of the States? The information I give you can be relied upon. It was prepared originally by an expert connected with the Agricultural Department. subsequently was verified for me by statisticians connected with the Census Bureau. and was finally compiled by a thoroughly accurate and cultured gentleman from Texas.
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