The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-02
DALLAS RAILWAYS.

The citizens of Dallas, and the people
Along the line Of tho roa1 projecting south
westwardly, have made certain promises
based on certain conditions, and tho question
of their fulliilment is ono Of serious impor.
lance. The benefits likely to arise from the
construction Of this road is so obvious that il
is not necessary to detail them. 1t il believ-
eithatevery rejecting man in Dallas will con.
cede that these benefits are simply me2surlo.s
The result failing to construct this roa / may
be best evidenced by citation of cities and
communities that have relied Oh natural nd-
vantages and thus lost forever their CONNER
cial pre-emineIce, For instance, compare
Jefferson, Texas, with Marshall; Green Bay,
Wisconsin, with Milwaukee; Monroe, Mich
igan, with Toledo, Ohio; Michigan City, In
diana, with Chicago, Illinois; st. Joseph and
LeayenworIh and Achhon with Kansas CiIy,
and we have before US comparison between
cities relying upon natural advantages, indc -
lence, mastery inactivity, and thus resping a
muuilcent crop Of dry.rot, and those com.
munties which are active, swift to seize &C.
Casions, and that are ever awake to the truth
of tho aphorsm that eternal vigilance is the
price Of prosperity, dominion, wealth and
power Surely tho business men of Dallas
should appreciate these comparisons and act
with that spirit and energy which has char
acterized them in ether walks of life.
1t there be failure in these great enter
prises now knocking at our doors and invi'-
ing our cooperation, who shall be blamed
unless it be those who dominate tho
tincial interests of the city, and can command
at a word that $4,000 be- paid? The fact
may not be generally known that the build.
ing of the Chicago, Texas Il Mexican Ger
trail railway is not the only advar-
tago gained BY the city and
county of Dallas. Tho Anglo-American
immigration company, of which Mr.. Hale
l. president, company controlling over
$4,000 900, is even now making its selection
OF lands in Dallas and Johnson counties for
the purpose of pouring in upon them the
bot class of Scotch, Swede, English and
German immigrants. All along this line in
Dallas and johnson counties will be located
these great colonies, looking to and depend
dent upon the city OF Dallas for supplies
and rs market for their product ions. On
the business men of Dallas DO obliyious to
these advantages? Not only will the sma Il
subsidy of $4,000 secure great southwest
ern road, opening out for Dallas
a magnificent, fertile and prosperous
country, but it will giva us a
line direct to Paris, thence to Fort Smith,
and thence by a road soon to be completed
on to Chicago and St. Louis. Instructions
have been forwarded to Dallas directing the
attorney Of the company to proceed to the
Choctaw nation, and to present before the
council Of the nation, now in session, the APP
plcation of the company for proper con.
cessions and rights of way THROUGH that
territory. A permanent locative line is
daily being made at an expense of 81 500 per
month, and the surveyors will soon reach
johnson county with their forces
All that a company can do is being
done to fulfill their pledges, while the prom
i.es of Dallas remain unpeAformed, and the
worst of it is that there seems to be no res-
son given for this non.performance. Insc-
ton and apathy never yet erected great
commercial metropolis; we certainly cannot
rely upon 1t 70 build up, beautify and enrich