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Texas has Millions of Acres of fine Farm ing Lands at $1.50 to $3.00 per acre. Texas has 46,302.500 Acres of Timber Land, with 6r, 508,500,000 Feet of Standing Timber. . .. _ - _ _ —— t Texas has 400,000 Acres in Wheat, 1 yielding 4,173,700 Bushels. Texas has 3,000,000 Acres in Corn, yielding 63,416,300 Bushels. Texas has 375,000 Acres in Oats, ’| yielding 9,239,600 Bushels. Texas has 3;000,000 Acres in Cotton, yielding 1,500,000 Bales Texas has 1,305,000 Head of Horses and Mules, Valued at $36 000,000. Texas has 5,500,000 Head of Cattle, Valued at $137,000,000. Texas has 7,000,000 Head of Sheep and Goats, Valued at $17,500,000. Texas has 2,000,000 Head of Hogs, Valued at $7,000000. A; ' -A _ - -■'' at ... _. * -- ■' ■ x. A-A z- ' V-- \ j ' ’ -’K-- /|4|H|IHR|MvI.wA - And'Ss, . . A A '~C' a A hIIBk £ •MWMK& MW B® - ■Ai-,A | sm »• w ■•M S?.fs i i wWHrriffiMM' fflßHE4’t? " 5 AiaHK-s® ■*ISEI“— Bt- «Mb -1i» MM-MBUMawE«MsMg<Bi •■■-••A A-<- < W Moll® ' it- -i. '■• Av T >?A, -V \ v'\':-T.l ; --//• - AiS&Jii'VJifX-. -■■.==."■ -'- _ v_. v ......-a. xsjKti’ ji-x.’ • - - - - „^rfasffiWWß^Ks&»ygaMS^?^!BWW*^aar-...- ?c .- - =- A:: A.v_; .. __. "AA?:. CITIES AND TOWNS IN TEXAS. *Their Business and Social Advantages, Popula tion, Manufactures and Industries, Agri cultural Surroundings. Transpor tation Facilities, Etc., Etc. CLASSIFIED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER Continued from last number. I FROM THE GALVESTON NEWS. SULPHUR SPRINGS. Although it has not yet gone regularly into the sanitarium business, Sulphur Springs, as its name indicates, is a place of healing waters. One of the mineral wells in which the locality abounds has been analyzed and found to contain sulphates of ferric oxide, alumina, magnesia, lime, soda potash, besides reaction acid, chloride sodium, carbonate of lime, phosphate of lime, scilicic acid, free sulphuric acid, nitrous acid and organic matter in reasonable ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER, 1887 DESCRIPTION.—The building is to be a flre-proof structure, classic in design. Its form approximates a Greek Cross, with projecting center and flanks; rotunda and dome at the intersection of the main corridors. It is 5«6 feet, 6 inches long, inclusive of porticos, and 288 feet, 10 inches, at its greatest width; it is 311 feet in height from grade line to top of statue on dome. Besides the basement and dome elevation it is three full stories in height; comprising business and storage apartments, offices, vaults, etc., for the entire Executive, Judicial and Legislative Departments of the State Government, including arrangements and apparatus for lighting the building by electricity, steam heating, ventilating, plumbing, drainage, sewerage, hydraulic elevators, and all other appliances and conveniences of a complete modern State Capitol, and will be the largest Capitol building of any State in the Union. It is only second in siae to the Capitol at Washington, and is the seventh largest building in the world. STATE CAPITOL, AUSTIN, TEXAS. proportions. That the health of the place is above par may be taken for granted, Tntre is also abun dance of free-stone water, and nearly every resident owns a cistern. Judicious advertising and the intel ligent expenditure of money for a large sanitarium and hotel will make Sulphur Springs one of the most frequented resorts for health seekers in the Southwest. The town of Sulphur Springs is built on an eminence of moderate height and ample ex panse. It contains 3,000 inhabitants and lies on the east line of the Missouri Pacific Railway, 60 miles from McKinney and 93 from Jefferson. Last July a syndicate of the citizens got together and entered into a contract with representatives of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad, by which they agreed to cede that company right of way and depot grounds and to bear the expense of constructing the roadbed from Mount Pleasant, thirty-nine miles distant, the Sft. Louis, Arkansas and Texas bargaining to lay the cross ties and rails as rapidly as the other condi tions of construction were complied with. This branch of the road will run via Sulphur Springs to Sherman, and give the former place two additional outlets to the norih and west and two to the South. The contract calls for the completion of the road by PRICE. TEN CENTS. January 1, 1887,Krom Mount Pleasant to Sulphur Springs. It will be completed to Sherman by Aug. 1, 1887. Distance from Sulphur Springs to Sher man, 74 miles. The next step will be to throw out a branch of the same road from Sulphur Springs to the city of Dallas byway of Loneoak and Rock wall, which will place Sulphur Springs within 80 miles of the great railway center of the Southwest. The business portion of the town is built around a hollow square, which serves as a plaz i for farmers to unload their produce and receive their merchan dise. On one side of this square is the court house of Hopkins County, a brick building of the regula tion size and architecture. The town has also a substantial jail and a handsome opera house. Two weekly papers supply the citizens with political pabulum, neighborhood news and local-'’•"‘erature, while 7 churches, two of them for r <?lks, afford the populace ample opportune ( ,receive every Sunday various and sundry hints about the most practibable methods of sky farming. .Sulphur Springs possesses rare educa ionaT-Kdj vantages. It is the seat of Central College, a ous institution of learning, with a fine faculty of teachers, and with a handsome building of large No. 11