The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-02
AN INTERIOR MARKET,

III Is Just ~ natural that Texas should
build up an immense interior gram
cotton and hide market, rs that her
territory should settle up and develop
IN consequence Of tho vast numbers oi
immigrants dily arriving In the state,
The great commercial need Of the state
to-day Is u trade center accessible TO
her producing people, and with o.
moried capacity 10 handle and sell her
products to the best possible advantage
All The greater cities of the world are
in the interior Those situated on the
coast have 0ne,half OF the necessary
producing circle occupied by waste
of waters Part of this disadvantage Is
corrected by the chances Of commerce
But great cities are only the logical
points of concentration of dense pOpu-
latlons. A glance at the map of the
world makes this fact apparent to all,
The large cities Of Asia, Africa and
Europe arc found in the interior, and
simply because the interests Of trade
demand that the market should be
within easy reach Of the producer,
Commerce gathers and unitaes the diff
reront articles of trade. They are
handled in bulk and are transported ON
but few main lines of transit. The pro.
Queer takes his mite TO the nearest city
and adds IL TO the mass which the ships
and railroads whr away TO distant
markets. But in tho first instance the
trade is molecular, coming in mere
atoms to the city from ten thousand
sources The moliculo deposits ii at the
nearest point where oil the ends
he has in view, are best served. An in.
terror trade centre gives him shorter
route to market The cost in money,
time and effort, is greatly lcssened and
| if his home market is within reasons
able degree as profitable it inevitably
receives it,
Galv eston labors under the disadvan'
tage of being located alta great distance
from the producing centre Of Texas. She
can never become the real business cen
ire, however great and rich she may
become as the point of import and OK
port. For one hundred miles inland
the country will never sustain n
dense population, this fact with
other circumstances of her situation will
conhne her future growth to well
marked and distinct lines. Dallas in
strong contrast, possesses all the requi-
sites for sooner or later growing into
the first Importance as Il great interior
trade centre. She is very nearly the
exact geographical center Of the richest
agricultural region on the earth The
country surrounding her Is as rich as
the delta OF the Nile itself. There is
plenty of wood and water, cheap build
ing material, climate as healthy n
that of the Blue Ridge. She has al
ready n live, enterprising intelligent
population of twenty thousand and a
home capital nearly equal to her pres
ent wants. She has already two grand
trunks of railway Leading north and
south, east and west, and steady tide
of inning grafton pouring into the region
tributary, which must in u very few
years quintuple her trade,
DALLAS, for these reasons is destined
at no distant day, to do the
bulk of the business of Texas.
This truth is of a nature so plain
and so perfectly apparent that
even her most act i've rivals can not deny
it. However, in order torealize all this
brilliant future her own citizens should
be fully awakened to it. Every fair
and legitimate means should be used TO
secure it. This will not be best done
by pulling down Galveston or any other
competing point, but by building up
Dallas. We must take broad and liberal
views of the situation; we must provide
the. necessary facilities we must at
tract the wheat, cotton and other pro-
auctions of the country by making as
favorable market FOR them as is possi>
BILE under all the circumstances we
must cultivate not only sound business
relations with the people of our trade
bailiwick, but we must establish pleas
ant social relations with them. Trade
can not be forced, but il may be at
tracted by surrounding it with pleasant
circumstances Will our Dallas people
ponder this imperiectly written lesson
little?
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