The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-09-22
DALLAS, TEXAS.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING :; SEPT ".
-MNNUFACTUREs !, MILLS-TIIETRUE
INTEREST OF DALLAS.

from commerce alone. ms Is so
from necessity. In an age OF rail
roads, commerce is dill'usive in the
country, and when it concentrates
ut all, concentrates generally ut the
seaports, and at other centres with
peculiar surroundings and advan-
tages for trade. New Orleans, Sa-
vannah, Galveston, and cities sim
larly situated have grown and are
growing TO BIO great commercial
marts. ST. Louis, Chicago, Cincin-
natl, with similar advantages, sit
mated on great rivers, are common
cial cities Of great magnitude, yet
g they owe most of their prosperity
TO manufactures.
The flourishing cities Of from lil-
teen to fifty thousand inhabitants in
the northwest and in the interior of
Now York and Pennsylvania, do
not owe their prosperity chiefly to
the trade relations which they sus.
tain to the country surrounding
them The density Of population
in their tributary regions affords,
. Of course, n good denl Of commerce,
> but their rapid and permanent
growth is due almost entirely to
their mechanical and manufactur-
ing industries. The interior cities
alluded to are generally close neigh
bors, and if they depended on the
TRADE Of the surrounding country
alone to build themselves up, each
would be check upon the other,
and no one Of them could
expand to the dimensions o.
II large city. Tho inhabitants
fully appreciate this truth, and
they avoid the error Of depending
on commerce and trade alone. They
diversity their labor, and run their
capital into various channels.
In our own State illustrations of
the same results may be found. We
have no manufacturing cities, strict
ly spc aking, and hence we have, rs
yet, no large cities in tho State, Gal.
weston is n commercial city with
peculiar advantages in that limo,
and IS growing rapidly. Jefferson
ut one time occupied an admirable
position for the commerce of an OK
tended scope of country, being at
the head Of navigation; but rail
roads came IN her rear, diflused hcr
( trade among many other places,
and carried great deal Of it away
from her. Her importance as II
commercial emporium consequently
declined, and she is now looking
forward to regain her former pros.
pcrlty in that channel alone, through
which all interior towns must hone
to flourish. Iron and cotton flcto
ries will make hor II great city vet.
Dallas is an interior city, with
few peculiar advantages as n great
commercial mart over some of her
neighbours. Situated as her rail
roads are now, she has an extensive
back country tributary to her com.
merco, which is building her up
to fair Dimensions as a mart of
trade. Our people must, how.
ever, profit by the experience of 9th
ers. Railroads are great cqualizers
and much of this back country will
ut some future day trade at othor
I points, unless our people soon be.
gin to prepare tie means and the
'cdy to retain that trade. Can it be-
done BY simply keeping ourselves
ina condition to offer them goods
for salo2 Other depots, com.
munities and centres can do this az
well, and the trade may with us, as
~ mas done with others, be diffused.
The country tributary to Dallas
ID both a grain and cotton country
well suited for the latter but better
Tor tho former. Collin or Ellis
county may each raise a million or
more bushels of wheat and ten
Thousand bales of cotton. Is there
any reason why the producers in
tnose Two counties should take their
wheat and cotton to Dallas any
more thanlto Mckinney or to En-
nisF II wheat is to BIO shipped
abroad in its natural state. why
should tho Collin county wagner
or'ng 1t to DallasP And may not
inc same reason, upon the extension
a VI ra'iroa,is west, be askcd In refer
ence % Tarrant, johnson, Denton.
fSrker, and tho others lying west
" us, from whence we derive much