The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-10

and recommend it 10 the consideration
OF citizens who do not fully appreciate
the advantages to be derived from small
investments in printers ink, Il, scriptiye
Of our town and county:
MR.. BROWNS LETTER
Mr. 6. r. HOGAN, Ennis, Texas:
DEAR SlR-lnanswer to your esteemed
favor OF the 10Th inst, enclosing neat
little pamphlet descriptive of Ellis
county, Texas, with a history of Ennis,
you ask if l can haye 400 of them dis
tributed. Why did you not say $4,000 a.?
answer, yes. can distribute them
and will do so with pleasure, and |
thank you for making the request. 1t
is exactly what the people of the North
and East want. You are perhaps not
in position to realize the enormous
amount OF requests we are daily reccv-
ing from people who are greedy for in
formation respecting yourglorious State
1t may seem like fish story but it is
nevertheless fact, that have received
in ono day as high as 800 names of peo
pie. Farmers, mechanics, etc, who
asked for Information concerning Texas,
with maps etc. Day by day there leaves
my office IL one horse wagon load of out
gong mail matter, and it is laughable 10
see the clerks i'll our Sedalia post office.
They are kept, to quote slang phrase,
"rpd hot" and wonder if the business
will ever "let up" General Robertson
supplied me with thousands of his
pamphlets, which were formerly pub
lished by your State, but | almost dis
couraged him by my requests for more
more have been compelled to pub
lish, ut the expense of the Missouri
Kansas and Texas Railway, pamphlet
similar to the one General Robertson
issued though ours are nicely illus
trated, and We are mailing hundreds
daily; they are not thrown about to be
lost or destroyed, but are sent direct to
persons who ask for them by postal
card or letter; each package costs us
three cents, as we include II fine colored
map and some other interesting reading
matter. OF course, when your PAM
phlets come shall include them and
| this is what want to say we want
Just such pamphlets as you have got
out we want them by thousands not
one will he wasted would he glad / I
this request might reach every editor
and every county officer, every land
owner, and every merchant IN the State
of Texas. General Robertson and my
self are working hand in hand in the
great work. My incoming mail being
so enormous, send it to HIM
after | have filed the requests,
and he then corresponds with the
parties and mails them valuable
reading matter and maps. You have
but u faint idea of this great work
Texas is yet to be the king of all the
great States of our Union but n few
passing years will prove it, The Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railway, has its
shoulder to the wheel, and though we
are spending thousands OF dollars each
month in disseminating our information
vet the demands increases. The future
is grand to contemplate and this fall we
will make your hearts glad the great
caravan is coming be patient; we have
now in our employ nine travelling
men whose duties are to travel contlnu-
ally throughout the United States, each
one having certain States. These men
ara supplied by us with immense guam
titles Of our Free Guide to Texas, ana
our county maps OF Texas,
Aswe are now controlling three news
papers whose issues each is from ten to
forty thousand copies per month, and
which are shipped by the ten thousand
. lots to our travelling men to distribute
fully among the people, such papers be
ing directly in the interest OF the great
: Southwest, you can, | am confident se'
some idea Of our work, yet we have
broad shoulders, and we ask for more
Send along your newspapers, YOU
e pamphlets, and youf CIRCULARS, anything
= that il to the interest OF Texas, we VIII
l. cheerfully and freely place 1t lht
y the hands of capitalists, bankers
9 merchants, mechanics and farmers o
\ the Northeast you cannot send US to-
7, much, we want every county and tow
l. in Texas to send us the printed iniormi
ton that they may get out. You ar
Is Mt perfect liberty to publish this, for
Is have for some time been anxious to n
T. ceive Just such q letter as you hav
IS written me- and if the press OF ysr!
good State Ito whom we are under OBJ
U rations) will make this request know
&c es thew only can among your peopl
d, the results am confident will be toy OF
u glorious country. ! sort OF enthuae o
O. h;s snbiect / feel like was gettlr
~ to be one OF you, regular Texan, an
rs Won must excuse my tedious letter,
,d J IN. ,dverti'
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