The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-26


D by extending its road from Denton to Fort
I Worth, why, then Dallas can return the
= compliment, and flank the Texas & Pacific
4 and the Missouri, Kansas q Texas by patron
4 izing exclusively the Chicago, Texas & Mex.
lean Central road to st. Louis and Chicago
. Suppose what has been stated of these roads
! going to Fort Worth be true, what then
! 1t is fact that roads crossing each other and
! going on through are, alone, Of no material
value to city. We have but to instai ce
Hesrne and Mineolo, and Dallas her
self, TO prove this. Moneola and Hearne
are both but little villages, aud will remain
SO, so far as the roads that cross each other
in their corporate limits wlhelp them, and
, Dallas has never received any SPECIAL ma
terisl benefit from the mere fact OF the
crossing of the Texas & Pacific and Houston
u Texas Central railroads in her corporate
limits. Dallas is the natural commercial
centre of north Texas, and the trade of this
section gravitated here in the first instance,
and the liberality and enterprise Of our bust
ness men have kept it and increased it.
The time has come, however, when we must
build railroads stretching out into the country
to collect together the trade, and to distrih-
ute our business, and We are doing it. 1t is
folly, the vain gnawing of q ille for any other
town in north Texas to attempt to compete
with Dallas so long as she is true to herself
and claims her own. AS we before said we
congratulate Fort Worth on her pluck at
least, if not on her judgment in giving
money to secure the G. 9. & S. +. road, but
when We look at the figures it
has cost Cleburne and Fort Worth
to secure the prize, which in the end
may prove barren one, $1,000 does it
not seem like folly as far MS concerns her
Why, that amount of money is over half tho
sum that it will cost to construct a twenty
eight mile railroad between the two places
"a road that would have brought trade to
Fort Worth aud not have carried it away
from her to Galveston. And, hence, why
did not the Fort Worth and Cleburne people |
build road themselves that they would own
and could control themselves? And Gle. |
burne ought to recollect that it is not at all |
necessary that the Chicago, Texas S Mexican
Central shall 90 to Cleburne. To 90 through
johnson county would be sufficient for our
and its purposes. A to could, and in GER
tain contingencies will be, built five or ten
miles north or south Of Cleburne In view Of
all these things it would seem TO DO to the
interest Of that town to tender her $4,000
to any road that shall first reach her just rs
Dallas declines to give money to any one
until 1t shall enter Johnson's capital. What
say the Cleburne and tho johnson county
people to this view Of affairs
In five years time Dallas will DO the CEN
ire of perfect network of railroads perme-
ating all sections of the state, and it will then
be seen that we have demonstrated the rail
road problem Of north Texas. Dallas is now
and will ever be the great commercial en-
trepot for all north Texas and all efforts to
the contrary arc futile, are puerile. We are
glad to See Fort Worth and every other town
hereabou,a - q urish and grow, for their
prosperity is the prosperity of Dallas. A
rich and STRIVING country will give to them
their life blood and they will give to Dallas
her riches and thrift, for hither it must come
as tho grand focal point for distribution.
And now by way of resume we say: lst.
To the Cult, Colorado & Santa Fe railroad
company directory, ifyou prefer to ally your
fortunes elsewhere than with US, we will see
TO the securing Of other seaboard outlets, one
of which is offered us by the Trunk Line
through Palestine to connect with the Inter
national, thence on to Galveston or TO New
Orelns, or to Sabine Pass as a hsrbor for
north and east Texas. ID. To the people
of Galveston, we must look to Sabine harbor
to New Orleans and to St. Louis
and Chicas2, while we extend our
most sirlduous support for
fair divide Of any appropriations Of Texas
harbors in tho interest of Sabine 3rd. To the
Texas Il Paciac railroad and the NJ. X. & I.
railroad companies, that if after what we
have done for these routes il is proposed to
flank us east and west then We must have
direct short line via Paris to St. Louis and
Chicago, as proposed by the Texas 6 Mexi.
can Central 4th. To the people of Fort
Worth, that the construction of cross roads
does not make city, as above shown, and
that the G.. G. 4 S. +. viii draw
from johnson and adjoining counties
for the long haul to Galveston, the
business that would, without such drain, be
secured to them. 9th. To the people OF
Cleburne ana johnson county, that it would
seem best that they give their subscriptions
to the road that shall reach them first, and
that Dallas is the best trade and railway
centre for shipments to any part Of all this
region. 9th. To the people of Dallas, you
see the situation, be equal to the emergency.
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ter signed by MIR. james Howe, editor of the