The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-30

Tho world "a OBLIGED 10 RtlinulkIP them 10 lut
last degree. That civ war demonstrated
that cotton at 81 per pound was the
cheapest thing with which the world could
be clothed. Il was cheaper than WOOL flax,
silk or hides OF animals. They saw Southern
agriculture has made little or no progress
since the war, and point to the immigration
of negroes as proof of the assertion And
vet. in cotton alone, we have from $780,
600 bale crop in 1866 increased to 500, 600
in 1879, and will reach 100000 in 1880, or
more than double in the brief space of
thirteen wears. Progress in this dire ton
will only be limited BY the law of demand
and supply, or else at this rate of progress
we will in thirteen more years be producing
-. 600 600 bales.
Although we have not increased to that
extent in The cereals. the reason has been Il
want of TRANSPORTATION facilities, ana conse-
uuently lack of foreign demand. There are
millions of fine vet untouched. and virgin
acres living in the valleys of the hundred
streams in Texas, which are awaiting the day
when they will produce their billions Of
bushels of corn. wheat. rye and barley. That
dav will be when RAILWAYS traverse Texas us
thew now do Ohio and Illinois. Secretary
u
that three wears ago Texas Welded barely
enough revenue to meet current expenses
whereas. without increasing the rate, the
SURPLUS for March and April last amounted
TO $25. O0O. 600. and there is every reason to
suppose that the total surplus for the present
wear in that state will not be less than SlO0,.
100000. The tide of financial prosperity in.
dictated bv these figures must enrich the
farmers and ranchmen us well as the treasury
and the capitalists.
The extraordinary rise not only Of Texas
but of the whole south, is attributable to the
latent energies of her people. If they in
other DAYS showed ample refinement to en-
ioy wealth when in possession of it, thew have
since exhibited sufficient Ia t, skill and in
dustry TO re.acouire it when lost. And how
quietly and without murmur have they
gone about this. Diminishing the disturbing
issues which led to the civil war, and rele,
eating the past to bool.makers without
giving them scarcely A word of advice ms to
how thew should make up their records, the
great body of the South dropped the sword
and seized the plowhandlcs IN 1865, with
what result will be shown bv the census
statistics now being compiled Enough is
now known to every intelligent and
observant man among us to know that the
footings will astonish the world, and that the
contrasts which will be drawn between the
figures, vital and material of 1870 and 1850
viii staggcr belief. 1t will be shown that
we have doubled our production of cotton.
thribbled our manufactures. that our stock
of horses cattle, sheep, and hogs are twice
AS Great, and that from being importers
from other states of grain. we now make
enough to supply us with the exception of
wheat and flour in few states. had the
census been taken in 1881 instead of
now Texas woud have furnished enough of
corn. oats and hay to supply herself and at
least three other Southern states, MS she will
show the production annually of enough
live cattle to supplv her own markets and
those of New Orleans, Hayanna, st,
Louis. Kansas CITY and Chicago.
and Directly and indirectly furnishes
New York and Boston with enough hides to
manufacture so per cent. of all the leather
they use. When the question is suggested
TO our statesmen "From whence come our
sources of wealth" they must in all can