THE IMMENSE STATE OF TEXAS.
Texas is equal, in area, to the great States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri combined, and enough territory over to make five such States as Connecticut, or ten the size of New Jersey, or eighteen the size of Rhode Island. A glance at the map of these five great States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, all in a body, will show the magnitude of Texas. The State is seventh in population, third in railroad mileage, fourth in number of sheep, first in cattle, and first in the production of cotton by more than one hundred per cent over any other State. Now, of the one hundred and sixty-five million acres of land in the State of Texas, less than one eighth is in cultivation.