Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1855-12-08
Hnrrl.hurn Rad

The Richmond Sun says Cotton is con'
ing IN there mpdIy, uycmglng from i~culy 10
thirty wagon londt pcr day aud that The slim'
illus infused in,o tho community, by the mp
pfoach of the Harrisburg road 20 tcnsibly felt
in every department. Of ,Wdc," When this
rond Is through to che Bnsos, Of which ricrc
is every prospec, by the 1st Of December, we
shall be w near Richmond, IN point Of time,
as we me 70 Houston. What effect this
change will have on all that section Of coun.
try, between the Bnzos aud Colorado, former.
" tributary 10 Houston, remains TO be proved,
Ii seems to Us, however, that we shall soon
realize the change already telt in Eichmcnd,
when these twenty or thirty wagon leads Teech
fifty or one hundSed per day, and vixen the
cotton comes rolling over the road TO Harris
burg, md thence by boat to our whorycs, con-
sighed 10 our merchants here,
Some OF our citizens have opened branch
establishments ia Richmond, Others have
agents there ready to receive cotton, and Curn.
ish supplies, and there can now be no doubt
but that the eyten ion Of this road TO the Bra2'
'os will be the commencement OF a new era IN
the trade Of Galveston.
We are Informed, the company are in need
of money to carry on the work, and push 1t
ahead with that rapidity, which is now Of so
much importance to our city and that the en-.
tire stock taken in Galveston, does not amount
TO the subscription oil Gonzales county alone.
Our citizens having been called upon so repeat
cdlv to aid in works of internal improvement,
may not be enabled TO subscribe, as ~liberally ms
some others, BIT al can do IL little, and all are
more than a little interested. lC Gonzales coun-
" Gan see it to their advantage to be connected
with us by railroad, surely the advantage must
~a,jleast be reciprocal and as we are to be the
receivers of their produce, and supply them in
return with articles of consumption, on which a
profit is 10 be realized, it would seem that our
interest in the speedy completion of the work,
rs even greater than theirs. If IN extension
of the road to the Brazos river, is to be pro-
drdive of sach results as we already begin to
experience, what may we expect when 1t
reaches q country where cotton is raised IN the
proportion of ten to onc,-where one county
alone raises 5000 bales and is settled up every
year with a rapidity almost unparalleled, even
iii our own State.
This is n subject worthy the attention OF
our citizens generally. Not only the mer-
chant and the store keeper will be benefited, but
the mechanic, and every branch Of trade
down to the vender of oysters, must at once
feel the change such an amount OF business
thrown into our city would produce. 1t
should not be a matter of consideration wheth-
or the stock of itself would pay, but whether
the investment will not pay indirectly ten fold
and that within a very short time. We have
now a sufficient guarantee that the money
will be applied to the object for which it is in
tended, and that it is no moonshinc specula-
lion, but that the road must and will be built,
and that any aid our citizens may extend will
only help to expedite ii 50 much the more
Galrest0n Ncws,