Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-11-30
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Railroads are great developers Of Ia
tent ezcelencies in all the branches Of
human enterprise and civil:zation-the
primal cause to magnificent results. In
ternal improvements of all kinds of
which the railroad is the most important
stand as firger-boards to direc..t see.
ker after fortune the true road wherein
to travel. While these are truths patent
of themselves, exemplified by the thou
sands Of living witnesses in the shape Of
particular internal prosperity, they are not
the ultimathule of country's greatness,
andare certainly incapable of creating tha
full measure of local Importance and
wealth so eminently necessary to town
or city.
Now the CITY OF DALLAS possesses, in
| perhaps greater degree than any Of her
young sisters in the State, these neocssa.
ry adiuncts-the first great incisivc point
gained to the end of the full development
of our city and county. The question then
occurs that, inasmuch as these are neccs.
sary blessings to beginning, but not the
perfect accomplishment Of our prosperity,
what enterprise or enterprises would most
conduce thercunto. This becomes an i'm.
portant question, not that the resources
arc lacking, the crude material necessary
TO fashion all manner of industrial enter
prises being found in great variety and
abundance in our own midst; therefore,
the only question is, what special under
taking would most accord with the means
at hand necessary to its perfect accom-.
plishment.
There are many species of manufacture
which could, at comparative small cost,
be placed in active and profitable opera
tion. we have q suficency of fuel and
water; soil producing all the'great staples
labor is or can be procured in abundant
supply and OF q cost entirely reasonable;
facilities for procuring the raw material,
and an outlet for the manufactured article
unsurpassed in the State; but even with
out the advantage of this outlet, we ven
ture the opinion that consumers could be
found at home for the products ofsuch en-
terprises for many long day to come.
1t is estimated that Dallas will ship be-
tween 10000 and 5000 bales of cotton
this season, and these figures will even be
increased in future, Notwithstanding the
railroads are reaching cut into sections
now naturally tributary to rs. The mag
nitude Of our stocks of merchandise
competition that the energy and capital
of our live business men creates does, and
will continue 10 attract to our markets The
products Of large scope of country
around us, and the accession of railroad
facilities to those sections comparatively
remote now, will serve to increase tn Sc
receipts until we shall become the grand
commercial entrepot for one Of the richest
sections of country upon the globe--North
ern Texas. Aside from cotton we have
those o,her staple products, wheat, corn,
oats, wool, hides, etc. Mater ial enough is
produced in few counties around us to
feed, clothe and ornament every household
in the land. N N-
The writer of this addressed himself to
the task in hand clad in full suit Of
Texas production-the wool grown in Tex
as, the cloth made in Texas, and fashion
ed by Texan artizan-a proud commen-
tary upon the magnificent possibilities Of
our land, for il is perfect in every partic.
ular, and cheaper than the same could have
been procured elsewhere. This brings
us to the spindle, aud the loom. Think
of the vast quantities of cotton yarn and
cotton aud woolen clothes consumed in
this country, the raw material having
been produced here, transported to East
ern factories and returned to the producer
with the accrued profits of some dozen or
two ,speculstors, manufacturers and mer-
chants, 1.-THE of whose profits would de-
clare handsome dividends TO home en-
terprise. Aside from this we find the
controversion ofour wheat and hides into
the perfected article of utility Of SO easy ac-
complisbment, all things considered, that We
are filled with renewed hope Of the future
immeditsely opening up to us. The discus
sion of one enterprise seemingly so easy Of
accomplishment and so frsught ofgooi to
our own material interests, leads to that Of
so many others Of equal importance thatwe
fain must close leaving the matter in the
hands of abler and more experienced men,
by whom, we are satisfied, every possible
thing will be done calculated TO raise us
id the scale of human enterprise and civil
izatiOn ;men who, by thsir energetic, liberal
support to railroad enterprises, have writ
ten, in living characters, the title page to
history OF Dallas teeming Of commercial
greatness and moral elevation, over whose
fair pages pOsterity win love 10 dwell, and
bless the hearts and hands that wrought
them.