The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-04-05
CHICAGO AND DALLAS.

OIihNEANlO AM hPAAANAA%Aps
Their Grcas Similarity Former
the Garden cay of Ihe Northwest
the IntieF the Queen of the Trans
MisstssIppi.
Chicago, it has been said, was born
by an accident, Notwithstanding that
she has risen to an Importance second
to no city in the Union, and holds the
key to the great grain region of the
upper Mississippi valley. Purified by
fire, she rose from her ashes to an
architectural magniticence which now
creates the profoundest admiration of
the world, and is to-day a city of
palaces. Into her granaries pour the
golden treasures of the harvest field;
along her docks the mighty monarchs
of the forest are condensed to piles Of
lumber; her rolling mills and fur
naces with their devouring flames,
render into pliable masses the iron
ore ofLake Superior which take shape
and became the servants OF the peo-
pie, 1out of the coal'beds of Illinois,
the bituminous mineral is mined and
find ready sale in her marts; her
stock yards afford shelter and sale
rooms for the countless thousands Of
cattle brought from Minnesota and
the Rio Grande; her wholesale dealers
extend their customers North and
South, East and Wcst--in q word, the
name OF Chicago is known through
ont the world as q synonym for AmerN
lean enterprise and pluck. This has
all been accomplished in a few years,
and the reason Is chiefly from the To-
cation which she possesses.
Dallas'is in great degreelike Chica-
90. But few years ago she was little
hamlet of no particular significance;
to-day she stands the unrivalled city
of Texas, and all the country around
and about pay her tribute. Like Chi
cago, her growth has been rapid, and,
like Chicago, Dallas is noted for the
pluck, enterprise and energy of her
business men. To conceive q mer
camille or industrial idea is to carry it
out, and the result has been the
building up of city in the last three
wears which stands to-day the Queen
City of the Prairies. Let us look at
the cause of this. Dallas is located on
an elevated plateau, in climate
which for c.2lity of temperature
cannot be excelled; no severe fIosts
that crack the earth, and for many
months lays its icy hand on vegetation,
but Ia climate where all seasone
verdure, bright and green, gladdens
the eye; in summer cool breezes,
waited from the Gulf of Mexico, and
moistened with its waves, cools the
air, and makes the nights y pleasure
and a boon; located in the centre OF a
belt of country, noted for its fertility,
It il the store-house for the harvests
gathered on the rich grain raising
prairies of Northern Texas, and like
Chicago, the wheat maker of the
great Western district, finds market
here; oats, barley, rye, corn, all grow
to the utmost perfection around and
about her, and bring In Eastern mark
cts the highest price; cotton luxurlates
in her black loan, and the receipts of
this staple alone has so increased In
the last two years, that they bid iiir to
rival the great sea coast cities, who
claimed supremacy; her railroad ia
cilities are the best in thoroughn6ss OF
arpointment-thre trunk roads in
active operation, and more in course
Of early contemplation. Dallas reaches
out, and gathers in the wealth OF the
empire of North Texas, and the new
West: into the Wichita district, rich
with lite ore and coal, she viii lay the
iron bands that will bind the treasure
ofthat country firmly to her MARYLAND
when the direct connection is made,
and soon it will be, with New Orleans,
her facilities for shipping will be un-
surpassed; already three different
rontes to ST. Louis are offered her, and
of the active competition she takes
advantage. Industries and msnufac'
lures are sprlnging up in her portals
that will soon do away with the neces'
sity of sending her raw material to the
North to buy 1t back, at triple its origi-
nal value. With city of eighteen or
twenty thousand inhabitants, COM
posed Of the flower Of the land, having
firm faith in her future greatness, aud
each one putting his shoulder to the
wheel, it will be no wonder, then,
that like Chicago, in few short
years, she will take her position as
the Queen City of the Southwest.
Even at this writing her name has
gone abroad, ard visitors from all the
States have poured in to see the place
they have heard SO much about-the
place where the penny Is quickly
turned into the dollar.