The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-26
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Whatevermay besad OF other business
md whatever may be true Of H. 30 far as
.he general sympathy with the stFin,
genoy Of the times Is concerned, II must
strike all intelligent observers that the
farmers Of north Texas especially are
in basket and store, When
we reflect that three years since they
were, M rule, in debt and now they
are entirely out Of debt, we can well
understand that from some cause they
have gone ahead, while our mercantile
and mechanical enterprises have lon'
guished, They are opening new farms,
improving the old, building new and
better houses, renewing their worn
fences, importing fine stock-cattle
horses and hogs-and, in addition, are
using the latest best and most costly
of the improved farm implements
These are all unmistakable and yalu.
able evidences of thrift, and should
tend greatly TO roassure the people,
both old residents and the new immiN
grants who are daily throngng into the
state,
Another valuable evidence of the
general confidence in the improved
condition Of the farmers is, that all the
first class implement dealers have cstab'
lished largo houses here for the sale Of
their wares, and every house handling
standard agricultural machines is max.
ing money rapidly, This they could
not do unless the farmers bought and
paid for the machines, and they could
not do that if their farming operations
we're not profitable. We have had
three or four years of fine crops,
and while the price has been small
yet it has been realized in every inA
stance. One dollar in hand il worth
ten out, The farmer has had his in
hand, and our north Texas farmers
know how to get everything out of n
dollar, to make every edge cut.
1t is u good sign that the farmers are
using their money in improvements
rather than loaning it out or in wild
speculation, They have learned that
money judiciously invested in that way
is worth more than two per cent. per
month, besides the added satisfaction
in the improvements, luxuries and cons
veniences of home. Take the farmers
of Ellis, Dallas and Collin counties, and
compare their farms and houses with
what they were five years since, and
the truth of what we have been saying
becomes at once apparent The strong
hold Of North Texas is in agricultural
enterprise There il more of both
money and satisfaction in it than any,
thing else. Second to that comes our
manufacturing and commercial inter,
ests, supplemented by our rail and
other carrying facilities. When all
these work together tremendously for q
common end and purpose, we can well
understand that no slight cause can in.
terrupt the rapid progress of the coun
try toward that prosperity which lies
before her in the immediate future.
Until we have much denser popu'
lation and much more money the farm
ing interests of our section will overtor
everything else In view of this per,
tectly self,evident fact let it go out
abroad that Texas wants only that class
of immigration which will tend to the
rapid opening up Of this sure means o.
wealth, only such as are able to buy
small farms and improve and operate
them. When we have added two OF
three hundred thousand more farmers
to the population of North Texas, we
will then have ample capital of our own
to build and operate manufactures.
Now If we do so, we must assiduously
court, unwilling, and, per consequence,
costly capital and perhaps we might, il
successful, be called upon to pay rather
too much for the whistle.