The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-28

M1rlnadukei w. ~ Shryock ana W.
NJ. Senler.
Al 1890 the visitors were received
on Change BY President Web. NJ,
Samuel in u few informal words OF
welcome.
Captain s, j. Adams, Of Dallas, re-
Piled as follows 10 the remarks Of Mr..
Samuel
REMARKS or CAPTAIN ADAMS.
We are hereto represent the husI,
ness men Of Dallas shreveport and
Jefferson, the more 10 cultivate the nj
ready social rs well as pleasant and
profitable commercial relations exist
ing between our sections of country,
AMI TO discuss with you various other
interests that may be mutually advan-
tageous.
with our present system of railroads
aud telegraph, we no longer wait for
the old and slow mode by which trade
sought It's natural channel, but we are
now wont TO anticipate IL and drive II
az we wish.
II trade seeks lls natural channel,
We are not Ns slow To discover that
channel as in earlier years, for II only
requires one or two quick shipments
now TO show the sngaciOus merchant
where his interests lie, We from Dali
las are the representatives Of II COM
paratively new but great country. a
few years ago we were almost unknown,
but now we have railroads connecting
us with the balance of the world, and
our progress Is cXcelled 10y no state in
the union. II Is not egotisticnl in me
to say that there is no country in the
United States equal TO north Texas,
that portion which we represent. II Is
situated in the section where nature
refuses to draw the division line be-
tween the north and the south. 1t Is
where the cereals of the north overlap
the tropical productions of the south,
and all grow luXurantly in the same
field, We are an agricultural and
stock-raislng people, and one grand
item with us Is MOTTO he over estimated
to see that we are not taxed beyond
our endurance. A tax of one-half of
one per cent would pay the entire debt
of the state of Texas.
ANO viz lft hloN y lht tilNtllN w bNl
country, With our present meager
system ofcultlvaton, we produce, with
anything like u fair season, one bale OF
cotton, twenty-five bushels OF wheat,
forty bushels of corn and sixty bushels
of oats to the acre. Statistics, rs you
gentlemen know, bear me out in this
statement. Texas planted last year
!, 100, 900 acres In cotton, Georgia 200, =
600, Alabama 100000 and Mississippi
1900, 900, and Notwithstanding the fact
that Texas planted half u million acres
less than Mississippi, ii is now csti-
mated that she viii make quite us
much il not more cotton than any
other state. We have IN Texas $780,
100000 acres of land, state six times
as large ~ the state Of Pennsylvania
Our development has just commenced,
aud il Is left 10 imagination to say
what her future will be.
We wish TO call your attention cs-
pecially to the cattle trade of Texas,
whose destruction is now murderous,
suicidal and Improbable to the state.
a low estimate Of the number Of cattle
driven and shipped from the state an
nunlly is six hundred thousand. The
most Of them arcdrivcn 10 Kansas and
elsewhere when young, and, therefore,
are bad sale. IL has greatly reduced
the stock in the state, and been u
source of but little profit to the pro-
duccr. As n consequence, no more
cattle will be driven from the state, but
will hereafter be shipped by rail. None
but fat cattle will he shipped, which
ARE always marketable, and we can
ship them from May till December.
The young cattle and cows will be
lief in the state, and her now vacant
prairies will again swarm with that
source of wealth. Cattle have hereto
fore been driven from Texas because
we had no railroad facilities for ship
ping. This no longer the case. We
can now, and will soon be shipping
from Dallas alone to st. Louis Chicago
and other places, 100000 head of fat
cattle annually. No point in Kansas
or elsewhere eXcels 1t ms n shipping
point We have good grazing and
water from the city all the way to the
Brazos river distance of over one
hundred miles. We also have COM
peting lines of railroads and water
transportation which prevent discrim-
nation against us provided one road
does not let the other throw sand in its
eyes.
We offer you then, gentlemen, a
trade in cattle of ten millions in money.
This trade belongs to you because no
other portion of the country can now
handle 1t. One great advantage in this
trade Is that II comes in season when
the products of the soil are not being
moved, when railroads are idle, when
money is cheap and exchange low In
short, Texas long horns are good
thing to fill up ON. And while we are
not here to urge that railroads should
give cheap transportation, to their own
injury, we do contend that these facts
should influence them to give u low
rate to n freight that has never hereto
fore gone over their roads-they can
afford in dull season to be satisfied with
small profits.
In this grand move, so beneficial to
both sections of country, we ask your
cooperation and assistance We want
your moneyed men to furnish the
means necessary to carry ON this trade.
The corresponding benefits you will re-
ceive from exchanges and trade grow
ing out OF it, you, as business men,
need not be told, while at the same
Texas will sell one-half the cattle she
now sells, for more money, and the
other half will remain to increase the
stocks, and aid in drawing our portion
of the circulating medium. This is
about all the protective tariff we in
Texas desire at this time.
There is another interest in Texas
second to that of no other state, as
have before stated, in which you are
greatly interested, and that is our cot
ton trade. Cotton is easily and expe-
ditiously handled, II seeks the nearest
and best market to the producer, and
hence you see nearly all cotton handled
in the leading markets of the world are
shipped from second hands, and not
its producer.
We in Texas have city beside the
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