The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-02-14
COM N ERCIAL.
PAlgr II.

The temporary appearance on our
streets OF the planters and merchants
from the vicinity of Waco, did not
cause our most clear headed dealers to
purchase the past season for the same
trade, as they well knew the causes
leading to the circumstance were but
temporary, and would, ou an adjust
ment Of freight tariffs take IL from us
again, rs ii would not pay citizens Of
that vicinity to come the extra dis
lance of fifty to seventy-hve miles, and
even in some instances one hundred
miles, tor the slight advantage in
prices our nearer proximity to the
great markets by rail, would enable us
to offer. Various things would prevent
such being the fact such as the time
required to make the trip, and the
general prevalence, during the fall sea-
son, of the uncertainty of the weather
continuing good during the trip, and
frequently Of the absence of II necessi-
ty for n sufficient amount of goods at
one time by individuals for full loads
for their teams but more especially,
through our loss of the great advan-
tage of railroad lieights on cotton to
market, which we had enjoyed the
previous year, and which, in some in
stances, had been 81 80 to 81 rs per
bale to Galveston and New Orleans, in
our favor.
Another reason why we could not
hold this trade was the great exertions
the merchants of that city made to
have no such mistakes occur again,
and the inducements they hence offered
i'll better stocks of goods and lower
prices, besides change from u basis
of specie to currency circulation in all
transactions in the
STAPLE AND MERCHANDISE,
II change which we had year pre-
viously, very much simplifying our
transactions among members of the
community generally, though it may
have been the cause of more prodi-
gality, it being conceded that the
masses pruverbially mold on to the
"hard roctsn much more tenaciously
than to what seems "paper trash,n to
the unsophisticated hoarders of the
heaps of the glittering metal. in sun
dry traditional old WOODEN socks and
shot bags, to be found in most every
well to do farmers abode-under The
old state of things.
The merchant who scanned well the
business horizon, before making each
seasons business plans, saw in the
country tributary to Dallas by the nat
ural advantages it offered as the rail.
road center of north Texas, which
made it most convenient rs a point
from which To radiate, for any of the
principal places even in our state, as
well as the western aud northern
narts, u field wide enough for his cap
ital, and which if controlled by in
ducements in prices which judicious
purchases and economical manage.
ment would enable him legilimately to
offer without fear of composition, would
give him trade sufficient to make a
good profit during the years transac.
tiOns, ana leave his business on "a sub
stantial basis, patent TO his creditors
and patrons. II is to be regretted that
all of our merchants did not take this
practical view OF the question, and
few, induced by the great rush the
year previous aud the hope of increased
Immigration, did livestock them
selves, and so found themselves pushed
to make
SALES FOR CASH
TO meet their payments as they fell
due, and even were tempted to sell on
credit to parties they, If a little more
independent might have been rather
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