The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-04-17
FOR GOVERNOR,
J. w. TuIROCKMORTON, Of Collin,
THURSDAY. APRIL II, 1873.
OUR PROGRESS.

ty--Jue irultS OF INC lncOmparaDlC
labors Of our Major Braxton, who
has just returned from a hurried
trip through the West, whittier he
has been iourncying in the inter,
est Of this journal. The trade Of
Texas is beginning to attract the
traders of the great cities through
out the North and West, who
have been engaged in the un-
profitable business of running
bankrupted merchants in the
Southern States, hoping for the
good day to dawn where bad debts
would be paid and bright prospects
begin. The erroneous idco that
Texas is barren of all enterprise,
that its wide, fertile plains supply
no items to the commercial traffic
OF the country, is being rapidly ex-
ploded, and every day witnesses
the advance Of capital and spirited
mon into our borders who have
been attracted hither by the mag
nifcent resources with which our
State abounds. St. Louis particu.
larly should BIO emulous in her ef-
forts to establish friendly inter
course with our people. 1t is to
that city that our merchants are
looking fd~ the supply of those do
mands which our State is not yet
prepared to furnish, and if tho
shrewd men of that city avail
themselves of tho existing advan-
tages in their favor, there is no rca-
son why their market should not
become tho headquarters of our
great and valuable commercial in
tercoursc. We already have direct
rail communication with the city of
StLouis,with everyhope established
that before two years more shall
enter within the pages of past his
tory, another route will be compile.
ted by way of Springfield, giving
to the merchants and traders, both
Of this city and of that, double facil.
tiles to control all the trade of this
magnificent and growing country.
All we want iss acquaintance with
each other, and this we believe will
be effected by the demands oitrudo
which are daily increasing and
stimulating men to act in concert
with each other, in building up and
developing interests which have
long laid dormant waiting the
advent OF necessity TO waken them
into practical existence. We can
hardly credit the fact that tho live
merchants Of st. Louis, whose fame
as fnanciers has gone abroad over
the land, would allow such means
OF developing their trade as the
business interests of this country
is Offering them, to 60 unimproved.
But few agents have come among
US, and until now no advertise
ments or invitations have been
made to our people to CORE
spond with st. Louis houses. 1t is
possible that these men nave over
looked us in the intricacies of their
transactions, or that they are un-
acquainted with the fact that we
have q city here Of quite eight
thousand souls, in which society,
morality and intellectual culture
are rs we'll developed and as pros
porous as can be found any where
in their own metropolis. But we can
scarcely conceive of such an excuse
being reasonable when currens his
tory and the laudits Of contempt
rary correspondents are daily com
municating the evidences of our adj
vancement. During the last year
tho city of St. Louis has increased
in population one hundred and
twenty-five thousand, and now
aggregates nearly half mil
lion inhabitants. Her interests
and enterprise has increased pro-
portionally, and as the leaders in
tho effort to share in our trade have
come to our doors and sent their
cards to our people through the
columns Of the HERALD, we hope
hat our friends will correspond
With them at once and ascertain
definitely the advantages OF St.
[,ouis commerce.