The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-11

be a city of fifteen thousand inhabitants.
These railroads brought population to the
surrounding county, too, end now all north
Texas, tho thickest settled portion of the
state, is tributary to Dallls in commercial
sense, this point being the entrepot for the
trade Of this entire section, embracing a ter
ritory, we may say, Of some fifteen thousand
square miles. As the commercial interests
of our city have grown and expanded, inter-
ests Of an industrial nature have in a
measure kept pace, though scarcely
to that extent they should have done. To
the stranger, however, visiting Dallas, much
can be shown in this particular that will in
terest and fAvorably impress him. First,
because perhaps the most important in point
Of capital invested and benefits resulting, is
the cotton seed oil works. There are but
three cotton seed oil mills ia Texas, the one
in Dallas being the largest In Mississippi
there are eight of these oil mills, and yet
Mississippi this year has an acreage in cot.
ton, of only 2, $4,000, to 1871 900 in Texas,
and if eight mills will pay in Mississippi
whore seed are, comparatively speaking, no
moro abundant than in Texas, and perhaps
not as accessible, why will not greater
number than two, why I'll not eight, in
fact, pay in Texas? Our Dallas oil mill
furnishes employment to quite number OF
men, makes market here for the surplus
cotton seed of the farmer, and assists to
make Dallas cotton market. 1t puts in
circulation in this city and county every
year many thousands of dollars expended
for material and labor, and thereby
adds to the general prosperity of the city
and community. Next are the Touring mills
of the city. OF these there are three, all each
yer converting into -four that finds ready
sale at home and abroad thousands of BUSH
els of wheat. These mills give an impetus
to grain growing in north Texas, for they
supply u market AT hand for all the wheat
our farmers raise 10 sell These mills give
our city reputation abroad, and they give to
Texas wheat, too, an added importance
Wherever the flour they make finds sale.
They aid in the advancement of the city,
for they attract here many farmers who, if
they were.not here to buy his grsin would go
elsewhere, and every man who comes TO Dali
la' to sell his produce, also makes his pur-
chases hero. They make Dallas better
wheat market than it would otherwise
be- for creating market in so far rs their
necessities go, they cause other buyers to
enter the field, and thus they have made bus.
mess for two elevators instead of one. Dallas
has four ioundries and machine works and
each one finds employment for numb of
hands and an increasing demand for its work
A fine cotton and grain country, North Texas
b IS need for engines and machinery Of all
descriptions and foundries and machine
works are necessity. Casting about us to
see what Dallas can boast in the way of in.
dustrisl enterprises other than those enumer-
ated, We find bluing mandatory; tive
broom manufactures; tiSe brick manufac.
tories nine carriage and wagon'manufactories
q stoneware and pipe ,manufactory; two
cigar manufactures; two cooper
establishments; two cornice manufactures:
an cs mandatory; nm ink manufactory;a
liniment mandatory; mattress manu-.
factory; three planning mills; two pump
manufactures; five saddle and harness manu-.
factories; n showcase mandatory; two soap
boiling establishments; q soda water manu-
factory; trunk manulactory; two wagon
manufactures and one yeast powder manufac-
tory Besides these, there are many blacksmith
los, contractors and builders in wood, stone and
brick, silyersmiths, tailoring establishments.
tin, brass and copper workers, gun and
locksmiths and artisans Of various kinds
All of these industries provi 10 work for nu
merous employees and 60 far to swell the
trade and strengthen the commerce of this
city. But such enterprises as these are but
in developing process. They serve to show
the possibilities of Dallas as a man
ufacturing point. They go far
to demonstrate tho fact that
Dallas, as the commercial centre OF all this
fertile region round about her, must become
also the manufacturing CENTRE North Texas
now growing and prospering, and with its
wants and necessities yearly increasing, must
have all those industries that 60 to make
country rich. This s'ction cannot much
longer afford to do without cotton mills, the
various manufactures in iron, wooden mills.
tanneries, boot and shoe marufactoriss, print
establishments, sugar rehneres-in fact,
must for its own prospect ty and " elfare have
in its midst every description of mandatory
that can reasonably be conducted in this 10.
calty. Can better point be- sell, cted as
the centre and principal of such enterprises,
than Dallas? We have the railroad facilities,
the fuel easy of access, an abundance of wa.
ter in our seemingly useless river, and why
should we not have a thought for the devel.
opment Of these sources of wealth!
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