The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-01
MONEY AND TRADE.
DALLAS WEEKLY MARKET REVIEW
The Years Business-How baH"s IN
booming state Of Market.
this week. and To'D"y-f"e's
In FiaTres - Notes ana
Preswnt Quotations
DALLAS, Tuesdsy Afternoon,
Alfpnet "A 1881.


with to-day the commercial year comes to n
close, and tomorrow, septsmhe lst, begins
our new fiscal year. In heabsenesoi beard
of trade, 1r chamber OF commerce, or even
cotton exchange, where regular statistics are
kent. II is impossible 10 tell the amount OF
business transacted within this psTiod. To
do 10 with anything like accuracy would re-
aulre the oyei hauling OF all mercantile books
IN town, and to this more than half the
owners would object, We know, however,
from obsei walton that the gross amount has
been far in excess OF any year in the history
OF the city. Prosperity crops out In solid I'M
provements ali over the city, especially In the
center OF town. Ten ora dozen years ago the
town began It's career In wooden 0oxe'
shipped up from the last stand made by
merchants on the Central railroad'
Subsequently good many Of these
were replaced by brick one stories
from thirty TO 1fy fee. deep, ami many OF
the original shanties still stand, nuisance,
IRE traps and eye sores, which ought TO 10
condemned aud removed, During this year a
new departure has taken place, IN hat many
magnificent store rooms have been erected,
running from htlttl W th'' ~ "AeN 49, "'h'''
IL 10 relief to pass the little sweat boxes anu
"litile holes IN The wall'to these splendid,
airy and roomy establishments. They not
only stand as an ornnment to tue ~ out as
incontesiible evidence Of ~ advencementand
prosperity. We have not reper cent enough
Of them.
Dallas Is q little city yet, hut II Is dead
game Ith sreached that point rs railway
csnter where no new road projected can AFFORD
10 pass within MY miles without coming ny
II. A railroad builder would make mistake
In doing so His stoekholders, who under
stand the traffic and travel conVefging here
from all points OF the compass would not per-
init II.
asa wholesale market. Ne have jobbing
houses In every important division OF trade,
houses which carry stocks equal
to those OF @ S,sy o, ts mer ersaa
population anu greater pretensiops. IRON.
uozsn country stores, carrying from $500 10
$4,000 In stock, strung around tne court mouse
square IN $50, we ha,e expanded along two
main streets nalfa mile distant In either, and
along either side OF each are solid blocks hlled
with the fabrics and productions Of the word,
and valued NJ from SlO,N0to 80 1900 IN cash.
But better than all this y an aonndauceof con-
ndence In the mind ~ every sensible
man OF business in town tLat Dallas
Inns lust got stare, and thn
the next decaae Will show lye times the pro-
gress we do now Like PAU Jones when his
decks were red with blood, ull his mSstS shot
away, his ship sinking, only few guns not
dism0uEled and q few men left o,e'te them,
he replied 10 the summons of
the Englishman To- snfrSnoer
with The enemy he look h'm prisoner, We
are not In the condition OF the ship, Bon
Homme Richard, ont we do say with us i'm
mortal commander, 1--WE have lust hegun the
Aehtn fora position among the Grst cities OF
the United States.