Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-03-30

York do. Besides, all such men can have
! residences at the first station on each line
Of railroad running out Of Dallas. Half
an hour brings them IN in the m0rning-.
another takes them out when business ia
over, and we must suppose that when we
assume city customs business hours here,
as in all cities, will run from 8, q. IN, to
4,p.m.
A few words as to outside property;
Take, for example, ST. Louis, with her
100000 busy inhabitants. Ten miles out
on the North Missouri Railroad, 25 min
utcs from Water Street, in the city, at u
nice, healthy town, the man in the city
can buy an acre ofground at 500, or OF
most $3.50. So at half dozen nice places
on other roads at from s 10 90 miles. 1t
costs the business men to go in and out
daily less than to feed horse. Within an
hours ride of Broadway, New York, where
trains run "a times during daylight, am
pie ground for residence can be bought SO
cheap, compared with city prices, that
250,000 people, whose business is in the
city, live at station towns from 10 40
miles oat of the city. "a
Recently, in drive around Dallas with
a stranger, the writer drove him over some
three miles from our courthouse. "What
is this land worth7" said he. NJ do not
know, but understand it is held at s. per
acre." aWhy, sir" said he, ~ can buy for less
money as fine land as there is in the Uni
ted States, within three miles of the court
house, in Lexington, Kentucky-a rich
town of 10000 Inhabitants, in easy rail
road connection with all the Union |"
| e;J 60 rtk tbot bov
fpark, promenade, or other public ground in
all the mile and halfsquare of our limits,
save and except pretty little spot of 200
feet square, whereon is being erected our
splendid courthouse-that the plan Of the
town is largely in chacs-not even mark
ed in streets--streets and private lines at
loggerberds. In the old town (hanks to
the old pioneer, John Neely Bryan,)
streets 80 feet wide and at right angles,
in q small addition, streets only 80 feet,
in another so feet, and some proprietors
unwilling for the town authorities to lay
out straight and wide streets through their
lands-lands of scarcely any value, ex-
cept as the growth of the town may cre-
ate demand for them. One, or more,
whose only hope of large gains depends on
the prosperity Of the town, it is said, has
violated plain and just town law, by
opening streets to suit the shape of his old
land surveys, in antagonism to the course
of streets as provided by law for the COM
mon good and harmony of all. This one
fact is well calculated 10 deprecate the
value Of property, and create distrust, for |
who will venture TO buy lots laid out en-
streets South of Elm at an angle of As de-
grees, when the law, public opinion and
good taste require that they shall run par
rallel to and at right angles with Elm
street.-the same being nearly North and
South, East and West, and in harmony
with the streets of the original town
Who so foolish
Considering all these things and many
others to be overcome by time, unity and
perseverance, the thinking portion of the
community must see that exorbitant pri-
ces added will prove injurious to all, in
cluding the proprietors themselves Let
us not dash the cup of promise from our
lips by too much of mistaken selfshness.
Let us all wisely unite in sustaining the
town Government, las in this respect at
least the common agent ofall, in consist
ent, persevering affort to lay out all streets
North of Elm on the plan begun there,
and all South Of that street on the plan es-
tablished there. This is the next best plan
TO making the whole town on one uniform
scale; but as that is impossible, let us car
ry out fully the two distinct plans which
are being made to divide on either side of
Elm street. Let us labor as we may, for
wide and straight streets, and let no use
full man, ofany avocation, seeking home
among us, be sent away on account Of over
reasonable prices for ground that is valu- ;
less unless we build up large and pros.
porous town. Remember that prices now
are not based on what DALLAS is, by no
means but on what people think IL is going
to be; but without people, mechanics, fac
tions and capital, ii never can be.
Two years ago Tyler was sure of becom- :
ing rail road CENTRE property went hy- ,
ing to grand fgures-many invested, but ,
to day they lament as those without hope.
If ever village or town needed union,
" Use and liberal action 10 insure permanent {
Dallas does now. Our posi-
tion, locally and geographically, is excel 9
lent for an inland town, possessing no
navigation. The two railroads soon ex-
pected will open the way for growth and {
levelo pment ; but it is for our people, un r
der Providence, to determine whether |
growth and development shall follow. =
Prices may keep away working men and
and without these no city has
ever been built up since Adam left the a
garden of Eden. If we had good plan r
III delineated on n map-half dozen pub a
lie squares hereafter to become shaded :,
parks; lots dotted here and there for /
school houses, and such kindred provisions
rs real live towns usually have, prices
night be fixed justly much higher than is
now reasonable. But no one, owing to the :
ground having been peddled out in 8 or :,
10 acre lots for years past, has felt able to
lonatc them and, in time, hepeOple will v
be taxed to buy them. Remember this. n
The town government should work in v
TO lay out all the streets, and y
inme them, that strangers may buy fixed :,
'owy LOTS, and not an acre here or there I
Il full price, not knowing that a fourth or q
more Of may soon be taken for streets. p
do not alledge that property is too y
Ugh. In some cases it is--in others not. h
,ly object is to aid Informing correct gen. :,
raj opinions on the whole subject-to pro.
note unity and concert, and thus to guard T
gainst dangers abroad, and so far as in j
IS lies to secure and advance the real well D
are Of our town. CITIZEN. 4