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Gardens and Museum, 38,024 to South Kensington Museum, and 8,998 to the Geological Museum. I could give many more such examples of other prosperous States and nations.
Texas has more fertile soil, greater mineral resources and a better climate than England, all which gives promise of a rich and prosperous future, if her domain is rightly managed, by giving proper encouragement to her agriculture and manufactures and the development of her mineral wealth, now mostly hidden and unproductive.
Let the true condition of Texas be made known; capital will come here, intelligent, industrious people will also come, help bear our burdens, enrich themselves, and make us as a State richer.
A geological, agricultural and natural history survey of Texas will make her known abroad and give reliable information to many people in other Staes and countries, which are less favored by nature, having soils loss fertile, climates less pleasant and less healthy, and also having less advantages for the easy accumulation of wealth and making pleasant homes.
SYNOPSIS OF WORK DONE FOR THE SURVEY IN 1875.
Continuing the plan adopted last year of ascertaining, by a general reconnoissance of the State, its main geological and agricultural features, our observations have been made mostly in the region west of the Colorado river and north of latitude 29 degrees.
Leaving Austin early in May, we went through the counties of Hays, Blanco, Llano, Burnet, San Saba, Mason, Menard, by way of Forts McKavit, Concho, Stockton, Davis and Quitman, to El Paso. Returning to Fort Davis, we went to Presidio del Norte, examined a portion of Presidio county; then back to Fort Davis, and via Stockton, down the west bank of the Pecos to a ford near old Fort Lancaster; thence down Devil's river via old Fort Hudson, San Felipe springs, Fort Clark, Uvalde, Castroville and San Antonio to Austin, where we arrived on the 27th of September.
We started with four teams and two young men on horseback. One of these teams belonged to Col. John M. Moore, a member of the last Legislature, from Corpus Christi. He is experienced in mining in Alabama, and