The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-08
RATHER CHEEKY.
The Lofty Assurance of Dallas
Wholesalers.

1t Is really amusing to note the ma
!estic, acknowledgements style Dallas
assumes III discussing and treating
Texas matters, more especially com
mercial and railway Developments. To
fortify this statement the following ex-
tract is given from the Dallas Herald:
The completion of the Gulf, Santa
Fe and Colorado road to Fort Worth is
an important feature in the wholesale
interests OF Dallas. 1t will prove q
feeder to the Texas Pacific, as well
as fan auxiliary.to augment the trade
of this city. All that is
wholesale dealers should avail them
selves Of the advantages which this
outlet gives them to increase their
trade and business. The only fOrmida-
bic opposition Dallas will have as far
south as Waco is Galveston, and with
the superior advantages this city offers
there is no reason why the bulk of the
trade on that road should not be di-
rected to Dallas. 1t would indeed be
strange if our merchants, who have
heretofore been ready to grasp every
advantage thus thrown out to them,
should not send at once their travelling
statesmen on tbis road and secure the
benefits that are sure f. inure to them.
The fruit hangs ripening ready to fall
INTO +beir Inns and what is necessary
ON their mart is 10 gather the proffered
harvest that is offered them. Calves |
ton Houston and other towns of far |
less advantages than We can offer are |
already making efforts to secure a |
trade that lcgitimately belongs to Dial |
Las, and all that L. required to make |
the completion Of this road an anxil- |
iary to our trade and prosperity is an |
active effort on the part of our |
business men. Not only our |
own people, but the citizens Of the !
towns along the Gull, Colorado and San
ia Fe road Will deem IT strange If the
merchants Of Dallas do not avail them
selves Of the present opportunity offer
I'd and secure the great bulk OF the
trade on that, as well rs every other
new road that Is opened and which are
to make our city the great and most
important commercial metropolis of
North Texas. Our city Is to he benefited
more than any other by every road that
pa-Se- through Fort Worth, Mckinney,
Ennis, Corsicana, Kaufman, and IN fact
any point within radiu- Of hundred
miles Of here, and 1t L. to be hoped
that our merchants, with their merlto-
rious enterprise, Will secure every ad
vantage offered to them by these great
Of trade
The tone Of the article Is that Dallas
controls the trade of the section III
question, hut the EXAMISEK happens
10 know that the position Of the Herald
which We assume speaks
as representative Of Its city, Is not
well taken. The idea that Dallas job
bers have but to reach out and grasp
everything north Of Waco Is rather pre-
posterous ia the light Of facts, for It Is
d matter Of fact that Waco houses con
troll the bulk Of the trade to d point at
Least midway between this city and
+ on Worth ana as lar east a. tne main
line Of the Central On the Narrow
Tauge our trade extends east Of Cor
7lcana. On the main line, howeyor,our
merchants have not as get made any
attempt 10 infringe on the trade that
has heretofore gone either to st. LOUIS
'r Galveston and New Orleans, bat tins
much business Oh that line as Dallas,
FOR II Is notorious fact that Dallas
Obbcrs have made no Impression at all