The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 235
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British Correspondence Concerning Texas
worth about Ninety dollars. It will raise from forty to sixty bush-
ells of Indian Corn per Acre.-Its delightful prairies, even in a
state of Nature, are perpetual gardens, producing the most delicious
fruits,-Flowers the most beautifully varregated and all kinds of
garden vegetables, may be obtained in every season of the year.
To enumerate the various productions and capabilities of the
"Garden of the, West" would require the space of a volume, but it
would be unpardonable not to point out its leading productions and
growing commercial worth to Great Britain.
Nature has evidently given to Texas commercial advantages
which she has denied to every part of Mexico and other surround-
ing States. Few Countries, if any, are more favorably situated for
carrying on an extensive and lucrative foreign and domestic trade.
Its resources are immense.-Bounded on the South and West by
the rich mining districts of San Louis Potosi, New Mexico and
Santa Fee, it must form the medium of Communication between
those parts and the civilized world. This circumstance, and the
commercial position of Texas cannot fail to have a considerable
influence on the future destiny of the surrounding Nations, while
at the same time, its trade in bullion will be extensive and profit-
able.
It is true that Texas is capable of producing almost every thing
which we import in a raw state from foreign Countries, but like
other Nations, she too, has her staple articles. The first, and de-
cidely, to Great Britain, the most important is her Cotton. Her
soil, climate and position for producing this most valuable Article
has no equal, and though in England more than one Million and a
half of people are employed in this trade, Texas can produce more
Cotton, and at a cheaper rate than we at present consume. I would
here beg leave to observe, that we, in payment for this and other
raw Materials, give our manufactured goods of Manchester, Glas-
gow, Sheffield and Birmingham. I need not stop to point out the
great advantage which must arrise to our merchants and manu-
facturers from such a Commerce. The immense value of a grow-
ing customer like the Republic of Texas, must be obvious to all.
She is, and will be for more than a hundred years to come, desti-
tute of all kinds of manufacturies, whilst her daily encreasing pop-
ulation and wealth will require a supply of almost every thing made235
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