The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-01-02


Orleans they get no more for IL than II
II came from Mississippi or Georgia or
any of the other southern states. In
time am satisfied that every pound OF
cotton, grown within the bounds of
this state, will find its way out through
Galveston. This is already coming to
be a demonstrative fact. Only yester-
day consignment of four hundred
bales came here from Shreveport, and
/ understand that more is EN- route from
the same point. The people over
there on Red River with water trans
portation find it to their advantage to
send their cotton to Galveston instead
of New Orleans.
The total receipts here this season
are over go, 900 bales more than at this
time last year, being 199,l7O against
1885 The total foreign exports 80
far are "a, ,793, against $3.50 the same
time last year. Total coastwise 4O,904,
against 2S,793; the total exports both
foreign and coastwise being l15,77S,
against G2,673 the same time last year.
From these figures you can get some
! idea of the increases of Galveston's
business. The streets look brisker
every year, and Galveston, as the true
commercial center and natural seaport
of Texas and the great southwest, is
growing steadily and surely with the
growth of the country, which looks to
her and depends upon her.
The artificial stimulants which have
carried, the trade of a portion of Texas
in another direction cannot last, and
that whole country will finally come
back to its proper centering point. 1t
is true there are some things in the way
besides the superficial inducements
which st. Louis and other cities may
offer to the trade. The railroads of the
state have done much to injure Calves
ton by determinations in the cost of
freight. The railroads have it in their
power to prevent any section of Texas
from buying at Galveston by simply
putting up the tariff so that the mer-
chants can not afford to pay the differ
ence in rates between this city and
other points. The railroads can force
every merchant in the state of Texas to
go to st. Louis and buy, and should the
same roads find it to their interest to
patronize New York they can force us
to go to New York by putting up the
rate from st. Louis to such point that
we can get our goods here from New
York cheaper than from st. Louis. So
you see, as matters now stand. we are
in the grip of the railroads, and 1t is
only a question of how hard they will
squeeze.
There are many kinds of goods,
however, which the Texas merchants
can always get in Galveston cheaper
than in st. Louis or any other inland
city. These are the goods of a heavier
class, such as machinery. Messrs. w.
l.. Cushing & Moore, probably the
most extensive dealers in machinery
in the south, having houses both here
and at New Orleans, have little or no
competition in this state with st. Louis
firms, for the reason that they can
bring their goods around by water,
making the freight so much cheaper.
They also ship in such large quantities
that they have been enabled to make
arrangements fot a special tariff with
the Morgan line and the Mississippi
river steamers. They can thus hold
the trade in spite of st. Louis. 1t il !
with such goods as groceries and pro- !
duce that the discriminating tariffs do
the most injury. Dry goods and no
tions and goods of such 4 character do
not feel il so much. The freight on |
goods of the first namld character,
from New York to Texas 10y water, is F,
generally about ten per cent of the
bill. On dry goods ETC., only about four
per cent. Now, when a merchant from !
the interior goes to New York to buy |
and has the goods shipped through, the
pro rata of freight charges from Gal
weston to the point of destination lis |
about half what it would be if he had
bought the goods here. This makes |
quite difference where the tariff
amo mts to ten per cent rs ON grocer
les, but when it comes to dry goods etc,
it is hardly considerable, and does not i
overbalance the benefits coming from
the increased accommodation Which
The interior merchant gets at Calves
ton over New York. The Galveston |
houses, such as Leon d III. Blum, Green
leve, Block & Co, and Others have
such facilities for getting goods, hav-
ing special agents all the while in New
York watching the markets, and,
moreover, buying in such large quanti-
ties and on such terms that they can
afford to sell as cheap as the interior
can bring them from New |
York.
The talk about Texas-the grand
empire state she must he in the course
of ten year-doing all her trading at a
point six hundred or fifteen hundred /
miles away is out of the question. She
must have trade center more conven-
lent, and the necessity of that will
build up grand commercial seaport |
here ON the gulf. TFxIAN.
THE BOARD OF TRADE.
The next regular monthly meeting |
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