Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-04-26

mo cOWPhT'so"t "'VV' WV
spoiled the horn" they besilatcd
about "making tho spoon"
Thcy refused TO procood without
another election, because said
they, who dear people may have
changed their minds since they
voted on this propositioa," and
(sotto voee) our term Of Office will
soon expire, and then-oh, hooky
II a Justice Of tho Peace was not
such small office-we would say
this savored Of demagougism.
Look for moment at the prop
osition, "whother or not the peo-
ple want the Court House com
pleted, and if 30, to indicate
in what manner" Suppose they
had have said, "cover II in the
way it stands" or "w eatherboard it
up" what would have been the
consequence The court would
have been honor.bound to complete
it IN the manner Indicated, and we
would have had disgraceful piece
of patch work, instead Of the best
Court House in the State, and one
which will be the pride OF Dallas
county for ages yet to come.
But as the Court Hssse is now
to be completed as first intended
lot us sec what benefits are to be
derived from it. We via not de,
nv that the interest on $4,000 OF
bonds at 8 or 10 per cont. is con-
siderable item, but we will then DO
relieved Of the present expenses Of
renting a court room, clsrk's office,
| and sheriff's office; the county will
have eight rooms below, worth $40
a piece per month, or 81 800 per
wear; there will be a tswn hall
above, worth at least $50 per night
which, with the present demand
for halls, will more than pay Che in
terest on the bonds; besides, in
thirty years, where it nowtakes one
per cent. to raise $40, 900, one-tontf
of one per cent. will then raise it
Our uncultivated prairies that
are now given at three dollars PEI
acre will then be fine farms wortt
thirteen dollars per acre; and The
city of Dallas, instead ofgiving il
one million five hundred thousant
dollars worth of property will then
give in twenty or thirty millions.
Besides, the Court House will (
dozen times pay for itself in thirty
years in the way of inducing i'm
migrants to stop in this county l
| is a fact which does not seem to b'
recognized by some of our citizens
that the prosperity Of Dallas il
the prosperity of Dallas coun
ty, and that what Injuries Dalla'
county necessarily Injuries the city
of Dallas. ,.
Why is it that Dallas county il
settling up faster, and her land'
are worth more than any adjoining
county, Why do lands in this coun
ty readily bring FIVE dollars pc
acre when the very ssme class o
lands in Kaufman cannot be sold TO
three? Simply because the city o
Dallas has become Commercial
center, and is the most prosperou
city in Texas; because she has tn
best merchants and the Invest bust
ness men of any place in the State
Men prefer to settle in this coun
ty, because they will have 4 hom
market for what they raise, and b
convenient to their children herr
at school in case of sickness, ant
i because that when 80 mach enter
prise is manifested, the county will
be rapidly developed and thei
lands will soon appreciate ten
fold. -.Ua ~ 49,
A fine iron bridge and turn
pike, an immense grain elevato
and -four manufacturing estab
lishment, a good market house,
prosperous city railroad, vtwo rea
estate building associations, tn
best hotels in the State NOR
churches and schools than any
other city of its size, and = magni
ficent Court House, will at once i'm
press upon immigrants that this il
q live place, surrounded by a soot
country and backed by substan
tial farmers, na &C.,
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