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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1914
Page
1
Texas issued bonds to fund highways and spent nearly eight million dollars on road work last year. The article cites high freight costs, a record reinforced concrete product in Dallas, and an 80 percent wheat production gain, with per capita wheat use around 5.4 bushels. It notes flour mill investments and a 1914 Washington report on farm credit legislation.
Hay and forage production stands as one of Texas chief agricultural industries with significant impact on farming and livestock sectors.
Texas rehauls its cotton sector to market services for 400 600 teams and wagons forming a long procession. One year’s cotton crop could clothe 300 million people. Dallas leads as a gin machinery hub with 4 670 gins, 113 compresses, 224 oil mills and 1p cotton mills. Cotton accounts for 47 percent of Texas agriculture and 25 percent of US cotton seed oil mills. Cotton crushing plants employ about 4,000 people with $21,506,000 capital investment. Texas population grows by 236 per day, density 14.8 per square mile, rural density 11.31 per square mile.
Texas ranked seventeenth in wheat production but fared better in prices paid and yield per acre. One Texas acre yielded Be 16 more than the average in principal wheat states. Texas had 7,000 planters mainly in the Panhandle, producing 13,650,000 bushels on 780,000 acres valued at 12,831,000 dollars. The state had 238 flour mills employing about 2,000 people.
The article states Texas leads in petroleum as the leading mineral, accounting for 43 percent of annual output. It notes 2 100 miles of pipelines supplying refineries, claims the longest oil pipeline is in Texas, listing 8 refineries and a known petroleum area of 400 square miles with Port Arthur as a leading export port.
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