Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-02-22

Kentucky paper of the 10th ult.-
The letter was written in Decen
+, ber, and as it is fully calculated t.
represent fairly and justly the mag
nificent interests, resources and ad
vantages of our State, we hope tha
every true man in our city wh'
takes the HERALD will, after read
ing the letter, enclose it in n wrap
per and send to somo of his friends
in other States who are thirstins
for tidings from Texas, the grca
objective point of live men and true
who arc unwilling to endure longer
the expressions entailed upon theil
existence by the miserable admin
istrations of all the rest Of the
States of tho South. The letter
reads:
Dallas must become the largest com
mercial point IN North Texas. Capita
and population rapidly pouring in. Cot
ton, hides, wheat, stock, etc., bring enor.
nous amounts of money. Merchants and
Bankers tell me the business of the, season
has EXCEEDED their expectations ten times
and YOU would not know the city if placed
in it suddenly. Wagons of cotton, etc.
keep the streets constantly blcckaded-sc
much,,so that the police are often detailed
to force q pass way. This is almost u daily
necessity ON Elm street, around the squares
and on Main street the crowd is general y
as thick aud busy as in city of 10000
population or more.
III wish to answer your letter seriatin
but imagine in an office-in part oc-
cupied by large railroad lie contractor
whose clerks are kept busy from "early
morn to dewy ete"-yeo, even to the "we
sma' hours" by a constant incoming and
outgoing of an army of subs and thelr
satelites-under such circumstances you
will overlook the much jargon which may
appear before | close. -,
awhile on the subject of Dallas-will
say, to-day we are almost connected with
St. Louis by rail. The NJ. X. s. T., mag
nifcent road with all the modern palatial
com forts of sleeping coaches, etc., will
bring you in haste and safety this side OF
Red River to the town of Denison, thence
little relief by a stage coach--a short
distance, and the Texas Central will dump
you most elegantly-precisely in the right
place-the young American city-"Dal-
las, Texas" All this will be done in a
brief space of time from that favored blue
grass Heaven of Kentuckians-yea, from
that beloved spot of yours tho fort of
sold Harold" the dear old town, we love
it vet, and its noble people, we love
them we'll Again, in an almost incredi-
BILE space of time, we can ship you, VIC the
Texas Pacific, in good order and condi'
| tion, over one of the best roads in Ameri-
ca, on which no defective cross ne is plac-
ed-whose iling and bridging will stand
the test ami weight of time and tonnage
as the work across the Trinity and its
valleys assures your humble writer. In
deed, you may "tell it in Gath, you may
publish it in the streets of Askelon" that
with the rail road brains of Scott, Dodge
and Bristow, the energies and indomita-
BILE will of their Directors, together with
such men, means and material as they
alone will or could control-IIerculean as
the Job may be-time, space and obstacle
will yield them sway; and "ere long" from
the white cap Of the Atlantic, over the
turbid Father of waters, across prarie,
plain, desert and mountain, on the 32nd
parallel to the Occident, stayed only by
the golden shore--near the wave OF the
dark and blue Pacific-will this enterprise
of the 10Th century go on to grand and
glorious completion. And may health and
longevity be allotted by Heaven to all
those whose conceptions gave the project
birth, and whose skill, industry and ener-
gy shall follow it up, till the last spike is
driven from East to West, and its consnm-
nation re.ecboed from the Golden to the
Oriental shorc,-that grateful posterity
the then present living, and millions YET
to come-may honor their names rs bene'
factors of their age and generation. For,
Sir, do you conceive what remarkable de-
velopement is already progressing and
will continue in more than o geometrical
ratio as these enterprises go forward =
Already q teeming population of wealth
enterprise, skill and intelligence is pour.
ing upon us throughout Northern Teas
And let me impress upon you the fact that
North Texas as q whole country-say all
the country north Of an air line from
Shreveport to FL Paso, is capable of yield
ing constant stream of health and wealth.
The first is easily procured by railroad
ride of q few hours from any malarial or
infected district, either in the direction Of
the NJ. X. 4 T. along the Ozark wales and
mountains, or westward on your road, the
Il. p. & where | am informed from
eminent sources, that sickness Of any
form is rarely or never known. Second
ly. agriculture, stock raising, mining
bank ing and merchandising generally, al
prove profitable. Dallas has bright fu
ture. The Wichita railroad will certain
ly be built if our present Legislature will
only act justly by giving.a fair subsidy
At this writing, work is going on along
the line, end with such resources and
ma epetic influences ahead, along the
wichitas, in the way Of copper, silver
lead coal and other minerals, together
with a fertile, well watered and healthy
country all the route, as also through q
delightful climate and large and thrifty
colonies being rapidly planted, the "scalp-
ing aborigines" must give way to steam
and the Anglo-Saxon, and retire to his
mountain Businesses, or else yield the palm
TO the "sons of Japhet" Other roads are
being projected, and if you will observe
recent maps, il is no day dream that we
are on the highway of progress, and o
most refined civilization; and the day il
not remote, that the alone STAR" after 60
ing through the furnace of several revo-
lutions which are yet vivid to the memo
ry Of her present living, who saw her
. blood flow piteously aud shamefully at al
Alamo, a Goliad, San Jscinto, and else
where, from dim, small star, twinklinl
in distant, murky horizon, far removed
from her sister States, boastful Of theil
superior civilization, may, at an early
day, become q bright "Venus Of the morn
and eve," and yet like jewel in the cor.
onet, a bright star in the galaxy Of States
eclipsed by none, yet bonored by all.
aYou mention in your last, what abou
cost Of living, society, &C. In q few
words: We have only missed in the long
. catalogue and bill Of fare sPieurean, YOU
bluegrass milk. This we use in q con
, densed form, until shall keep some goot
, cows, ss economically as you keepthem il
Kentucky as good wheat-bran and corr
l meal, ct ceiera, are more abundant ans
: cheaper than in Kentucky. Our beef il
equal to yours and much cheaper. Tn
Injuries Of the tropics as we'll as tn
temperate and frigid zones are ours il