The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-02-20
THE DAILY HERALD.
ID. McCALEB, Editor.
Our Agents.
Our Railroad Interests.

The future of our city, its growth
and prosperity, is something which
should be dear to every heart in it,
and be the great stimulant for bold
exertion among all its people. We
are already on the highway for suc-
cessful development, and are NOV
ing upward in the scale of impor-
lance every day, but there yet re-
mains much to DO accomplished be-
fore the full realization of what we
are to be, will burst upon us with
the certain light of absolute posses
sion. Nothing has contributed
more to the present importance of
our city than its Railroad interests.
Dallas is geographically and topo-
graphically the great center of rail
road enterprises, and will surely
become the focal point of Transport
tation for the whole country if our
people will but will it, and labor
earnestly for the accomplishment
of this end. We already have rail.
roads completed and in course of
construction, leading off to the four
points Of the compass, which will
concentrate in our midst the ship
ping of the Lakes and of the Gulf,
the cargoes which will be landed
from the Atlantic's waves, and from
the smooth, unrippled bosom of the
Pacific ocean but these great lines
are not all that we need to complete
the magnificencc and Importance
OF our rising young metropolis
We want every angle already do
fined by the intersection of iron
rails bisected by other lines, thus
doubling the facilities and multi
plying by four fold the greatness
and wealth of our Western mart
Let the contemplated road from the
Wichita Mountains to New Orleans
60 through and Dallas will become
the entrepot OF the mineral riches,
which will rush into the smelters'
hands in our own midst and come
forth the perfect and well shaped
commodity of trade. The wide,
wasting pineries, among whose tow
ering heads the Z" minstrel winds f"
chant the constant strain of " hope.
deferred" will send to us the finest
timber the continent can produce,
and thus with ore and timber meet
ing in our streets, why should not
manufacturers come hither to COM
bine the one with the other and
supply every article essential to
the use, comfort or convenience of
mankind? The Houston and Tex
as Central Railroad gives to our
commerce q great artery running
from North to South-from St,
Louis on the Mississippi to Calves
ton on the Gulf.
But q conflict of ideas, in which
a clash ofinterests is recognized by
the corporation. representingit and
the one in charge of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas road, blocks up
the free passage Of wealth and OBJ
structs the full pulsation Of trade,
unless it be turned from this point
southwark. To crafty the claims
Of monopolists it is expected that
our people will remain silent and
allow them their own time to fight
out their own battles, on whatever
line and in whatever manner they
may select, but such is not their in
tention. This feud of railroad d.
rectors is about to be Aanked by
the demands of trade, and we re-
joice 10 know that the movement is
no mere dream of sickly brain,
but a reality, practical and tangi-
Bile suggestion, upon which enter
prise and capital will lay their
mighty hands and bring out a
sublime and worthy result. From
the St. Louis Times ofthe 7th inst,
we SEQ that the contemplated line
of road from Springfield, Missouri,
to Rio del Norte, is attracting the
attention Of live spirits and is
passing through the incubative
State necessary to its commence
ment of life. There. is already a
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