The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-28
THE COMING METROPOLITAN
CITY OF TEXAS.

uIe Vi COLIOn cups, lasI year anu Inls,
not only In the fields but in the worlds
markets, has diverted industry into
channels unknown before, and that ten
acres in many districts of Texas are
Row devoted to cereals where only one
was thus cultivated twelve months ago.
Morgan's steamers have given Texas
facilities for the transfer of hogs and
cattle to the West Indies never known
till Clinton, Morgan's commercial en-
porium, sprsng into sudden importance.
Still greater forces operated in this di-
rection when Morgan assumed mastery
of the mighty Central road and its
branches. The whole moral and COM
mercIal force of this railway was di-
rected to the production of commodi-
ties that would enrich Morgan's steam
ship lines. Therefore we find farmers
everywhere along Morgan's roads rap
idly devoting their wealth and toll to
| the production of commodities which
Cuba and Eastern cities most demand.
Gotten loses its crown In Texas, and if
the crop be as great In future as in past
years it will be because of the States
unprecedented growth in population
and in the augmentation of the area
cultivated. AS railways stimulate I'M
migration, even so do they direct the
course and define the character of pop
ular industries. They have established
factories by conveying their products
and the raw material at special rates.
They have induced farmers to grow
cattle and swine by transferring these
animals to Cuba at the lowest possible
rates, and now this same resistless force
In trade, industry and in commerce pro-
poses to create new city in Texas.
Because of the direction given to all
these forces governing the industries
of Texas, it is stated that Texas will
produce, during the current year,
thirty millions of bushels of wheat,
and since the quantity of corn now in
barns is simply enormous and not
worth transportation to market, the
number of beeves and hogs next year
and their weight will be unexampled.
Therefore we hear it stated that the
Morgan and Mallory lines of steam
ships, the latter now landing at Gal
weston, finding that the productions of
the State will be greater than either
line can export, have agreed upon a
plan of consolidation, and Mallory's
steamers, forgetting to rest at Calves
ton, may soon lie at Morgan's magnif-
cent wharves at Clinton. Meanwhile,
Galveston's capitalists and property
holders have succumbed to destiny.
They decline any further struggle with
the vigorous old sea king, Morgan.
The Galveston and Santa Fe Railway,
designed to garrote Clinton and main
tain the potency of Galveston, is no
more. The effort to build this road
was the writhing, we greatly fear, of a
moribund city when crushed by des.
tiny, and Clinton, if Morgan were not
an owner of Houston by owning $780,
600 of Houston's bonds, would now be
the most progressive commercial city
in Texas. Morgan is the most terrible
of cyclones to Galveston, and Houston
has been manacled by the same remorse-
less king of the coast and commerce Of
Texas, He is very old, but very
strong, and boasts of Sa1aa mems IN SaRO
eOrpOre. He would not crush Houston
while praying to be delivered of those
bonds. But the end is inevitable.
Even now, while Houston prates mild
ly about the impossible extension of
the ship channel from Clinton to the
kitchen of the Hutchins House, there
are endless lines of freight cars forever
moving, through the day and night,
from Houston to the wharyes at Clin-
ton. Every pound of freight moved
over the Central road must soon find
its way to Clinton, and the Interna-
tional railway itself will be driven by
resistlcss laws of trade to the same
secure haven, which Morgan's millions
dug, that Galveston and Houston
might be entombed. Little narrow
gauge trains daily whistle in and out
of Houston. Houston built these
roads; but even these confess the ne
cessity for terminus at the upper
terminus of Morgsn's canal. 1t can
hardly be extended to Houston, and |
Houston must go to the ship channel. |
Sick as the ancient capital of the COM
monwealth has become it must take up |
its bed and walk, Morgan works the
startling miracle. The newspapers of |
Houston and Galveston rarely advert |
to these painful facts, They see them
as we do, and therefore vague rumors
are borne about by the winds that the
NeScs seeks new resting place, and
Houston property has lost half or even
two-thirds of its value. Meanwhile
Clinton attracts, as never before, the
AItantinn of sneculators and tradespeo-
pie. Men begin to inquire, if Texas
must have q great commercial mart at
the point of conveyance of all the
railways of Texas, whether that mighty
will be at Houston or Gal
weston or Clinton.