The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-07-20
TRONTlER SETTLEMENT.

Everything p0inllnB 10 HphN'l n''
Element this season, is fall OF promise
Already tho lido Of immigration Is set
Ting strongly in that direction Every
train arriving from the north and cast,
brings its quota OF prospeotors, and
from this point they take their dies
parluro for all parts Of our extended
line of frontier settlements, The class
Of people coming in'now, ~ a rule, Ia
better than those Of n few years since
Nearly all Of them bring the means nee.
essary to purchase and III up n small
farm, They have evidently come TO
stay" ~ our vigorous frontier yernacuN
lar has il, Tho old rooltrce has been
taken up and tondcrly tronsplantcd to
Texas--to the better part Of Texas at
that--our own beautiful and Iourishing
frontier, We have an extent of rich
soil on our frontier line as yet all un'
cultivated, the extent Of which il but
little known, and certainly but little
appreciated outside, Judging from the
fact that as yet so little OF ii, compara-
lively, has been appropriated, The va
riety of soil climate and production is
great, as is the capacity of the
country, The immigrant coming
from tho everglades Of Florida
or the forests of Canada, from the
far east or farther west, or any inferno
date point will find locality someS
whore on our frontier, which will just
suit him in every particular, All tina
is needed to mako the country bloom
and blossom as the rose, is the applca
ton of muscle directed by intelligence
Nowhere on this continent can cheaper
more productive, more healthful an,
satisfactory lands be found or wher
more delightful homes may be built Il
80 small cost. The blessed gospel at
tended by her faithful hand-maidor
the common school marches IN the val
of our ever extending line Of frontie
settlement The border homes ofTexa
are instinct with all the progress of tn
age, and as they grow older, even tn
graces of ultra civilization are ioun,
thickly scattered among them, Tn
settler from the far east who has mad
up his mind to rough it for the remain
der of his life, among tho Doors OF tn
rancho, is agreeably surprised to fin,
| intelligence and culture, instead of yul
| gority and ignorance, piety and purity
instead of profanity and immortality. Ii
this respect, the frontier of TeXa
differs from that of any othe
of tho border states, and ever
stranger who settles there or visits tn
region Of which we are writing is earl
and strongly impressed with the cir
cumstance all the more so, indeed, be
cause the actual truth is in such stron
contrast with the reports he has beer
hearing since his determination to set
tie ON the Texan frontier has beer
known.
The reports of lawlessness and Grim
which reach the outside world are no
made of the frontier settler proper |
is of the desperate who is a fucitiv
from justice from all the states, an,
who only seeks shelter on the frontie
because its sparse settlements enable
him to ovado the pursuit of the minis
ters Of the outraged law The peopl
themselves the actual settlers, have n
inylnclblo n ropugnance to lawlossnes
as have those of tho oldest settlement
in Now England There is a district I,
the west and south of Dallas, compris
ing the counties of Hamilton, Go
manche, Brown, Coleman, Erath
Shackleford Eastland, and per
haps dozen others, equally good
which for all the purposes of set
Element can not be excelled on tn,
continent of America, and the germ o
the population already planted ther,
is sound in all its parts. The ruling
people, they who give tone and charac
ter to the settlements are the better
classes from all tho states who have
sent out their sons to mako footholc
in the new land of promise, Texas is
justly proud Of her noble frontier and
its people, and all the protection and ia
cilities which it is possible for the state
government to extend to them ought
to be extended. No second asking
ought to be necessary. To this end the
present frontier force for protection
ought, and will, we doubt not, be main.
tanned until the necessity passes away