The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-16
psours. ELLIOTT q HALL.
WHAT WE NEED.

The HERALD has repeatedly taken
occasion 10 present in general way, the
importance of manufactures TO Texas and
especially to our own section of the state.
This is question worthy OF serious oonsid1
Grafton and earnest study on the part OF
every citizen, whether his means be large or
small, whether he be rich or pennless AS
Captain Veal suggests, there is no light
80 valuable for guidance Hs that OF experN
fence, and what we may lack in experience
ourselves we msy make up for in the exper-
fence of others by close observation ard the
application of what facts aud details we may
acquire shrewdly to our own surroundings
and circumstances. New England was the
birth place of manufactures in our country.
They were an outgrowth of necessity. A
barren sol and a bleak and uncongenisl CHI
late made agriculture an impossibility as a
means of sustenance and wealth. Nature
had been bountiful in the supply of water
courses and water power, and there was no
recourse left 10 the energetic. strong
armed, strong-brsined people OF
this region of QUE country but to draw upon
the more favored sections of the union for
The raw material for manufactures of
every kind which they could sell back to
them at profit. Thus, nature making ag-
riculture an impossioi'ity, offsets this def
cheney by giving water.power which SUCCESS
ted its own use, and while the middle, south
ern and western states have grown to COM
pe.ence on the products OF
their soil New England has been
the busy hive of cotton mills and other
manufacturing iaterests, supplyiDg.the wants
of the people 10 these respects, while these
other sections have furnished
- tho raw material, and the
bregd stuffs and meat stuffs on which
our New England brethren have lived. But
New England isno longer able TO supply
the demand for manufactured goods and
wares. Not only has she utilized every
available stream and spot provided by
nature for water power, but has also brought
TO her aid art and created power by bring.
ing small streams together, and thus null.
plying their volumes, and by the erection
of dams to husbacd her water and by the
use of steam as motor, and still, though all
her hillsides are teeming withmanufsctories,
and the music of machinery is heard from
early morn till dewy eve" on all
sides and every where, end thousands
upon thousands OF skilled persons, men and
women Toll early and late OF the various in
dusiries that engage the attention o. the
New England people and in which they
have their money invested. Still New
England cannot meet the demands at home
and from abroad for American manufactures
The consequence is that we see like indus
tries in Pennsylvania and various other
states, and of late they are taking foothold
in the south. No danger that the business
will be overdoue. Every year in our own
land the need for every character and de-
scription of thing manufactured OF
cotton, of wool, of silk, of hemp,
of iute, of wood, OF
iron, of steel, of leather, of paper, of horn,
of bono or gutta percha and the various
combinations of these articles,no to mention
innumerable other descriptions of manufsc-
lures are increasing, and growing des're.and
call for them from every civilized and semi
civilized coun.Ey on the face the globe is
witnessed eve'y year. We say that 1t Is
pleasant TO know that manufactures are
taking a fast hold on the south. For wears
and years this section has been the great
basis Of supplies of the raw maie-
rial fer the cotton mills OF other
sections. 1t has sold its staple fresh from
the gins to buy It back in thread
and cloth to the extent that it was needed,
a three-fold advance 10 price over the raw
material, or in other words, has given three
pounds of raw cotton for one of msnufac-
tured cotton. She has opened her eyes TO
the f.ct that she can manufacture her own
cotton and 90 on the market with 1t, and
thus vastly increase the value Of her great
product. Ia Georgia the problem Of cotton
factories has already been demonstrated 10
most satisfactory degree, and we bear OF new
mills being sreeted there, End of this class Of
in Iusiry springing up in various states aud
localities ia The south. What csn we here
in Texas say in behalf OF manufacturing en-
tefprisesl Whist fzcilities bsge we for their
saccsss;ul operstiobi We have but TO pstfe
aad Look about Us and consider = mVment 10
fbd the answer, and . satisfactory answer
too. Il is true that in tue matter Of water
power we are not 80 blessed As the New EGG.
land s,sies, still our advantages in this
respect are far from inferior. Our Colorado,
Upper Brsz-s, Gas1slupe, COmsl, San
Antonio and Upper Trinity rivsrs tffJrd vast
facilities for The utilizstiOn Of this character
Of power, 10 say nothing Of innumsrsble
smaller ctresms- TeEss. in the plsriituds Of
her magnificent endOvmsnh BY M
ture. h not restricted TO COZ
Ton msnufacioriss. Our prsi-
res are tssming with sheep that yisld
yesrly millions and millions Of pounds Of wool /
ths, r.,ss with The bsst N quality on The sasi-