TEXAS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 27, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 30.

Some idea of the State of Texas may be formed with the aid of a few statistics, says the Courier Journal. Its extreme length is 620 and its breadth 765 miles, comprising an area of 265,780 square miles. It has 243 counties, 19,500,000 acres of improved farming land, and farm property of the value of $962,000,000. The number of its farms is 352,100. Its population, as shown by the last census, was 3,048,710, being in point of numbers the sixth state in the Union. Those which exceed it are New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, whose aggregate population is 23,656,769. Yet their total area is only 262,010 square miles. This is less by 3,770 square miles than Texas, which would not be equalized were Connecticut and Rhode Island thrown in. If the population of Texas were as great to the square mile as New York's it would be 49,598,220, or nearly twice that of the five states mentioned.