The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-23

miles With Tia dsd freight sod pvsoopor
trains rnuoirG II Ia A5ed, bridged md
lod from Cois'cana % AGO, aur It's cara
viii sin TIM, city in ~ " wecks Mt most.
II has ihousahds Of non at work between
rexarkana and Cairo, Hin, TO- # isbing ts
Iiuc TO TINT point, and II contracts to build
It's branch from Mount Pleasant TO Dallas
inside OF eighteen months If certain stipulas
tions are complied with, which have been
agreed 10 by The people of Dallas. Is there
any reasonable question then about these
roads?
Has not Dallas right to claim them as
part OF that system Of roads centeriug within
her limits. We see now how Dallas is situs.
ted, how che is in the very heart of a region
OF country unsurpassed on earth
for its advantages, its fertility,
Its geniality Of climate, its resources, a
country with every railroad facility go news
country could hope for, and we have seen
how tnis city is the center of that system.
We have sshown what Inducements north
Texas offers for manufactures and for the
investment Of capital ia this line Of enter.
PRISE. For all this region with its wealth of
products and trade, there must be some CEN
trial poiof Of commerce, some metropolis
from which trade aust radia.e in all direc-
tons, and to which the products Of the peo-
pc must tend. We ask in all candor and
reason, is not Dallas thst point? Has not
n'urs and Fortunate circumstances brought
a'o1a that end? La tho first place. immed-
ilely a:onCd he city, lis own country is
region thickly populated, Dallas
county being the second in
population in lhs state, and its local trade
therefor" is very large. From 1872 to the
presenHtime, period Of little less than
nine years. Dallas has grown from q little
county town of ono thousand inhabitants,
to its present status of fifteen thousaod
citizens. Then it iad eight or ten retail
stores OF iitierent kinds, and no advantage Of
either kin tina. city affords. Now it has
one hundre and seventy five business
houses, nine y-lige Of which are wholesale
and twelve sc ools of minor grades, gas
works, water W ,rks, the best and completest
fire department in the state. 1t has sides
walks. sewers, .1dsome and substantial
business houses, of brick and stone, two,
three and four stories high, sle-
gent private res fences, ornate and
stylish public building, an effective police
force, light taxes, small debt and pays as
it goes all its current expenses and debts.
The credit of the city A in financial mark
cts. 1t has two powerful )t,on congresses,
two lage grain elevators, cotton seed oil
mill, two planning mills, two foundries, a
broom factory, soap boiling works, chemi-
| cal works, three large c.rrrge and
wagon manufactures, four daily pa
pers and nine weekly papers. TIE taxable
vslues of the city in round numbers amount
10 81 500, 900: and assessment values are
always small. The trade of the city for 1880
the yea endlng August 3ls., was but few
thousand dollars short Of S. 900 600 and for
the year ending the 31st of next August it
will be. handsomely in excess of this.
Already its trade is second IN out one city in
the state. R,al estate is active, end build
.ngs and improvements are going up on ev-
cry hand. From Jinuacy the lst, 1881, to
the middle OF May last, buildings for bueiS
ness aud resident purposes had gone up al
we're in course of building, to the value of
bat fraction less than 100000, this being
some $i7 900 more than the cost of the
entire buildings erected in $780, and still the
! city is growing and expanding so that there
s no doubt that by the end OF the year the
cost of improvements OF this kind wi Il foot
up over half million. There is not vacant
business house of any kind in the city, and
cottages and residence houses IRE in such
demand that there is well nigh clamor for
them. These are but plain simple facts
which every enc can verify for
himself by coming here to sec. Ra.es Of
insurance are less in Daias thsn in any other
town or city in the state, foJ the reasons that
business is brisk, boomi ind ed, the build
ings are solid and substaut al, and insurance
companies Glass our FIRE depar ment as the
most prompt md ficient il all Tezss. \ g,
Not only will Dallas continue to progress
and dew lop as commercial city, increasing in
D pul.tion and busine.s every year but il is
destined 10 become q great manufacturing
city. In decade il will be the Milwaukee
of Texas in point of manufactures, the
Indianapolis in the matter Of railroads. end
the grand commercial metropolisof al North
Tsrss. Tue waters of the Trinity river run
ming to waste now st our very feet. will be
utilized by hydraulic canals, and
will turn the wheels of myriad
mills; the coal from the mines of the west
ard Of Wise county, will supply fuel for iron
works and car shops and various other msn-
uractories. The prosperity Of north Texas ia
the pros perity of Dallas. and therefore W re.
i1ice 10 see every hamlet every village,
every town, every city End every community
10 al the region round about Us. sud 10
re.ch Of our rsilrosds prosper and thrive snd
wax strong This is tie terTitnry from which
our strength is 20 come ard " u Is weak we
must be wssk, lift stands still. we must sssnd
sin: " il becomes great ard foUrshIng. We