The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-06-06
Kanss. city, Dallas and Galveston.


To the Editor of the Dallas Herald;
The late visit of the business mel
and capitalists from Kansas City Il
Galveston will prove of no little Boo'
to both of these thriving cities, but tn
effects produced hy their efforts Is o
vast Importance 10 Dallas aud th'
] whole of this section of our state.
| Kansas City Is surrounded by ricl
agricultural country which produces
vast amount of grain and the cereals
! for shipment abroad, and this amour
| IL increasing every year. Tbey cN
perience no difficulty in disposlng q
| il at remunerative figures, both to th'
actual producer and the me"chant tina
! handles IL in bulk. Their late visit Il
| Galveston was to effect arrangements
for the quick and cheap transit FOL
their produce to II seaport, ana Us ,tai'
weston Is so much-say eight hundred
miles-nearer than New York or amy
of the Atlantic seaboard cities thcS
will, rs matter of course, endeavor tt
make the former city their port OF exit
as well as their point of entry.
Galveston to-day enjoys good repu-
tation as q coffee market, but 1t does
not do the business she is capable OF
doing by far. She labors under more
disadvantages in not being able to send
fair proportion of exchange to Rio
and South American ports to offset the
amount of trade she brings from these
points, for instance, If ! am not mlsln-
formed, the uncertainty of vessels be-
ing able to get full cargoes throughout
all seasons of the year from Galveston
TO other ports prevent or drive away Il
great many that would come there Tor
business, and the roundabout way the
vessels that ply between Galveston
and foreign ports makes the trip still
more uncertain, and consequently rates
are charged in proportion. Vessels
from Rio loaded with coffee can get no
return cargo from Galveston; hence
they take cotton to New York, HaVre
or Liverpool from Galveston, and at
none of these points they experience
any difficulty in getting return cargo
of flour or merchandise for the South
American trade, compelling them to
make kind of Triangular trip attend
ed with doubt, hazard and other serl-
GUS obstacles. II Galveston was able
to furnish these vessels with u full car
90 of flour, thereby establishing di-
rect trade between herself and South
America, would equalize itself or throw
the balance of exchange in our favor.
She would then have the immense coi-
fee trade from Saint Louis and the
west to build herself up into one of the
largest coffee importing cities i'll the
union.
Before the late war Richmond, Vir-
ginia, establisheda a better coffee market
for the south and southwest than could
be offered in Baltimore or Philadelphia
or New York, and to-day Richmond is
buying wheat and shipping it by rail-
from OHIO, Indiana and Iowa to sup
ply the South American trade, ana why
cannot Galveston do the same? She
has competing transportation to the
great wheat fields of the west and with
in the borders of her own state can
find enough of the staple to commence
the direct traffic, and il only requires n
start in the right direction for Calves,
ton and Dallas, whose interests should
be identical, to increase the traffic
from year to year until it reaches the
magnitude of immensity. 1t may be
possible that Galveston has never real
lied the powers of north Texas for pro-
ducing wheat; it would only be neces-
sary for them to realize by visitinSand
examining the wheat growing region
of our state, the center Of Which is Dali
las. 1t will only require q little coopera,-
ton on the part of Galveston and Ddl-
las to stir up the planters to a proper
idea of the ready sales at their
doora for every bushel of wheat,
aud at paying prices, to Induce them
to raise more Of this article of trade,
and at the same time to encourage
emigrants to settle In this section, not
only that wheat can be raised but cot
ton, corn, oats and nearly everything
that can be raised in warmer or colder
climate. This climate and chat of
South America being so much more
alike than the climate of the north
and northwest, flour made nom Texas
wheat would be better adopted to the
South American trade than any other
that could be placed on the market,
and will demand better price in con.
sequence, and at all times 9 more
ready sale.
Itshouid be the duty ofevery business
man In our midst to- build up Calves
ton as an importing and exporting
city, and in return il should be the
duty of Galveston to assist Us in
settling our comparatively speaking)
idle lands with good energetic hard
working people, until every acre in oul
county be under close cultivation and
producing something to bring money
into the state. Galveston has 1t in her
power, to some extent, to show hel
generosity near at home, rs thousands
that enter her city, the former gate to
Texas, make enqairies as to the most
advantageous sections, and her citizens
should not point out only localities
that are compelled to do their trading
with GalysStop, but show up the
natural advantages of all sections OF
our state in their proper light, laying
aside feelings of Jealousy and enmity
towards a more distant, but, by far, 9
more desirable section. Our Interest
being, to u great extent, identical In a
theoretical sense, why not make them
so practically? A.