The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-08-20

las to the st Louis Republican we
make the following extracts
DALLAS,
the county seat OF Dallas county, is one
of the remarkable towns of this cont.
nent. Its growth has been surprising,
and its continued improvement sur
passes any town in the West or South
west TIP to 1870 the town contained
but few houscs--mcrely sufficient for
the transaction of the agricultural trade
of the section Now it contains a pop
ulation of $4,000 souls, Dallas is To-
Gated on the east side of the west fork
of Trinity river, 1877 miles west OF
Shreveport 36j miles northwest from
Houston, 80 miles northwest from
Galveston, 800 miles north from Austin
City, via Houston and Texas Central
Railway, and siXty-fou miles south OF
Sherman, the present western terminus
of the 'rranscontincntal branch of tn,
Texas and Pacific, AT this point Tia,
Houston and Texas Central crosse,
the Texas and Pacific Railway
and soon the Dallas and Wichita mar
row. gauge road will form another out
let northwest, making Dallas the june
ton of three important lines OF commu
nicuion. 1t is today the city of North
western Texas, and the largest city west
of the Mississippi below st. Louis, Tn,
country around Dallas has no superior
| for agricultural pursuits of nearly every
character, The crops Of wheat, rye
corn, buckwhent, cotton, vegetable of al
kinds, and fruits are prolific, only dc
pending upon the manipulation of til,
soil. Had some of your Chester, Ian
caster, Montgomery or Bucks county
farmers the requisite enterprise, they
would sell out their valuable land,
| valuable, | mean in the a:uount o
money they can realize from the sale O
their acres) and come to this portion o
Texas They can purchase from fifty
to one hundred acres for the price real
lied from one Of theirs, and the frs
year produce more grain than they cal
on any farm in either Of the countie
named AS grazing lands, also, those o
Dallas and the adjoining counties ar,
among the finest. This growing cit,
is on the prairie lands adjoining III,
timbered bottoms of the Trinity. 1t i
laid out at right angles, mostly will
the Main street two blocks south of th,
Texas and Pacific Halfway, one hun
dred feet wide. This avenue i
crossed by Water, Broadway, Houston
Jefferson, Market, Austin Lamar, Poy
dms, Murphy, Fields, Sycamore Eway
st. Paul HARDWOOD, Cable, Preston
Leonard and Lloyd streets, There is
passenger railway on the Main street
and another line runs over scvcm
streets from the corner of Main and Sa,
Jacinto streets Both are remarkabl,
well paTonizod, and both are equipped
with the Slawsvn box, The Trinity il
crossed by a fine bridge which cost tn,
county s60,000, and which there is con
siderable noise about just now, man,
desiring that iishall be made fire.,
bridge, in the nope ofstill attraetingth
vast trade that lies west of Dallas, an,
which, now that Fort Worth enjoy
railway facilities will, in all probabilit,
seek an outlet beyond the Trinity r.
hiUN' ~ INV bIluEtN oWlV ." .Hi.H'
rorrlAnZE TuErlACE ANAzINGLy,'
For in this age people are general,
ovcrsc to paying toll for crossing bridge
believing they pay taxes sufficient /,
make all bridges public highways tn,
new courthouse is asplendid structure
Tar superior to nino-tcnths of the hall
ofjustice in PENNSYLVANIA, From tn,
steeple O grand View is obtained of tht
country for miles around. Tho religious
denominations are represented by tn,
Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists
Episcopalians, Christians" jew
ish and Catholic congregations
each having very commodious an,
comfortable buildings for public wor
ship. The Jewish Synagogue and Meth
odist Church IRE really handsome struc
lures. There are three good schools
and u female academy in the place anC
the colored population also are supplied
with educational advantages. tn,
newspapers (three in .number) flourish
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