The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-12-01
The TRINITY.


The recent freshots IN the 'fdaitl |
impress loroibly the importance of dc
Using some way by which this soriou
obstruction to the trade Of Dillas may
be removed, This hinderauce SHOULD
not be measured by the fact that il dos,
not often occur and does not conlnu,
long, II ia uncertain IN time and When
il does occur sa complete barrier sub,
jecllng people who have started 10
Dallas with produce, and are intercepted
by the high water TO loss and inconye
nicnce such as they will not readily lorN
get, and such rs will turn many to
other markets The cause being per-
manont will increase the diversion
with time, until AT length Dallas will
lose the trade from the other side of
the Trinity, The flow of trade is as
subtle and as lacile rs the flow of water
and like water il errates its channels,
into which its currents flow, and from
which when once made, ii is difficult TO
divert IT, A friend of ours, who had
been large railroad builder and with
good opportunities for observation, had
given much consideration TO the subject
Of the progressive development Of our
country, told us Of an instance of two
rival towns struggling Tor the trade of n
section Of country equally accessible to
BOTH the result Of which was determine
ed by n tax of ten cents n bale on cotton
imposed in one of the towns and not in
the other The conclusion was that
the town which had no such tax got all
the cotton, and all the trade and the
other dried up,
We have in Dallas not only the river,
but toll bridge. Both of these obs
structions should be obviated. Could
not nm arrangement be made with the
Texas and Pacific railroad company bv
which side track could be built on the
other side of the river, diverging from
the railroad track and extending to
some point above and beyond high
water mark, which could be used to
bring produce and people across the
railroad bridge into the city when the
river was too high to cross with wagons
and teams. We present this subject
now, because the evil is before our eyes,
and the temporary and partial loss of
the trade from across the river is fresh
in the minds of our business men. If
our resent experience in this regard
was IshOrp, what would it be if all our
trade from the other side of the river
was cut of? In our midst and all
around us, things are in new and un.
formed condition; that condition which
furnishes large opportunities to enters
prising forecast and liberal public
spirit. DallUs has done well, and well
has she been awarded for it, but she
should weary not in well doing.
AS yet she is but at the starting
point of what she may be, il her zeal for
the growth of the city is kept alive
Most towns and cities ia new country
stop in growth, because when they
peach the level of their unassisted nat
ural advantages, the people do nothing
to press beyond that point. There is
in them, individual liie--each individ-
ual active in thepursuit of his own per-
sonal oims--but there is no community
life, and they sink into commonplace,
the mere routine whose advance is
measured by the slow increase and ac>
critions of successive generations. Dali
las has passed beyond this, animated
by laudable prides and strengthened
by faith in her future, her people have
enlisted in enterprises and manifested
a public spirit which has placed her in
the van, among the many fourishing
towns in north Texas. We have reach
ed population of near or quite, TWEEN.
ty thousand. 1t is just as easy to reach
forty thousand and thar in no long
time forty, sixty, and one hundred
thousand The emporium of north
Texas will contain one hundred thous>
and people, Shall Dallas be that ems
porium2 1t is for the people of Dallas
to answer, and in the answer to fore.
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