The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-08-23
Address OF Hon. ". A. Wallace.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-As the
representative and executive officer OF
the Texas and Pacific, | congratulate
YOU and the stockholders of the road
upon the completion of the connection
between the cities of Shreveport and
Dallas. This link enables the products
of Central and Southern Texas to find
with ease and economy OF transit their
market. The rich valleys and !ecming
praries mt the heads of Sabine ana the
Trinity, concentrating their produc-
tions ut the one city, will pour them III
an ever increasing stream through the
other to the center of the Southwest,
and but few months will clapse uhtll
a Northeastern and Eastern outlet will
be added to the facilities now yielded
you by your great river. No man can
ut this time Justly estimate the size and
volume of that tide of production when
at its full, for nowhere else upon this
broad continent is found territory
that can equal its capacity to sustain
an enormous population and to yield
in rich return the labor there eXpend-
ed. The richest valley in my native
State does not equal in productive ca.
pacity the soil that lies, fat, blnck and
waXy, on the head of the Trinity
The agrculturist who tills the rich
prairies of Iowa or OF Illinois boasts of
his enormous yield of grain, but his
largest crop is his poorest profit, for
oyer-productiOn and cost of transporta-
ton are barriers to high prices, whilst
i'm Central and Northern Texas all the
grain needed for local and personal
purposes can be successfully raised, and
upon the land not needed for this, oots
ton is sure crop and finds ready sale.
In the bleak winters of Kansas, Ne
braslla, Iowa and Minnesota, the live
stock of the farmer must he for five
months housed and fed, whilst
i'm this favored region they grow into
money without shelter in winter, and
with the smallest modicum Of care.
In these two essential points are found
wealth for the producer, population for
the locality, trade for the cities, and
Just return for the capital iHyhsted lS
Il transporter. Placing implicit rfii-
ance upon the results that are to flow
from these two great advantages as
well as from the ineXhaustible riches
of the country their lines traverse, the
men who are building the work and
control the policy of the Texas and
Pacific, have, here done that which
has never before been performed on
this continent. In lass than ten
months, they have graded and brihgCI
nearly 400 miles of railway; have laid
the track, built the machine shops,
warehouses, section houses and tanks
and fully equipped with engines and
other rolling stock nearly one-ilait
thereof; have the iron and ties upon
the ground to complete the whole be-
fore December lst, 1873, and have
changed the guage and fully equipped
an old limo of GG miles, so that by lhat
date they wilt have in full operation
nearly 500 miles Of railway within :he
State OF Texas. In doing this they
have expended about ten millions Of
dollars, and neither bond nor mortgage
to the extent OF one dollar has been
executed for this purpose, but men of
large fortunes, of indomitable energy
and of undoubtcd integrity have de-
voted their personal means to the
task, and thus ehdcavor to show their
faith by their works. Such men do
NOT contemplate y failure. Their en-
tcrprise, TOD, is in every sehsr y nu.iHna
al one, and is recognized as such by
creation and endow-
Hlent.
With its main line reaching the Pa
cific at San Diego, and its branch to
San Francisco, uniting with the main
trunk in Southern California, and
thence crossing the Colorado of the
West at Yuma, following the Gila
through Arizona, trayersing Southern
New Mexico to the Rio GranGe, ana
Texas at lei laso, its loconio-
tive will | e the avant courier of civili-
zation to large territory of now i'll
hospitable and waste land. The influx
of ,,opulation that will follow in its
wake viii save 10 the government tile
enormous sums of money annual!y eX-
pended in protecting the frontier and
Indian depredations, while.
the facilities it will yield for trans
porting p,pchinery and supplies to dc-V
velop the vast mineral resources OF the,
country it penetrates, and the nQrthern,
PROVINCES of Mexico, will bring q largeJ
addition TO the aggregate wealth Of thpl
nation. With its direct eastern cont
nection now almost assured from this
point to Vicksburg and Jackson, its
fine from ocean to ocean will be nine
hundred miles shorter than that of any
of its rivals, while the ease and cheap-'
ness of transportation found here and,
at Vicksburg by water to New Orleans
and the Gulf, as well as the line of road
projected. and certain to he made,
hence to New Orleans, Will enable ores
and other heavy articles to reach thei
Northern cities at cheaper rates thanC
by any other lines.
In the completion of its trans-conti-
mental division from Sherman to "a juno
tion with the Cairo and Fulton road,
which will be effected by December,
1873, the people of the northern por-
tion of Texas will find for their cotton
and cattle easy communication with
st. Louis, Memphis and Cairo, by way
of Little Rock, and the same date will
find the Jefferson division at the same
point of junction, and your city and
New Orleans will share in the profits
certain to be drawn from the rich re-
sources of the Red River cQnnties of
Texas, In the completion of the latter
division communication between Gat-
weston and st. Louis will be made one
hundred and sixty miles shorter than
by any existing line, and the people of
the whole of Texas will thereby haze
a speedy and short line north. Com
petition for business brings cheaper
freights to the people, and the compile
ton of these lines brings Into the telh
an earnest competitor for your trade.
Houston, Hearne, Dallas and Sher-
man are to he the open doors through
which trade and population will be
poured into Central, Western and
Northern Texas, and their varied and
ever increasing productions be fostered
and drawn forth. From this stand
point this enterprise is Invaluable to
Texas, and II becomesr as all her pros
gressire statesmen have seep, her cers
tain avenue TO prominepce, position
and wealth. When we pass her west
ern border we are more than half way
to the Pacific. In our progress thithef
we drive the frontier before us, and fill
your rich valleys and rolling pralries
with teemiug population and taxab'e
values, The iron rail blunts the edge
of the scalping knife, and the war
whoop of the savage is drowned In the
Shrek of the locomotive. For five