The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-10-13

Fl, II stands to tho manufacturer ia cents
difference in favor Of the south Of over 10
per cent. or say dollarspcr bale. There are
nearly $50 cotton mills in the north as
shown by the late census returns. These
consume nbout 100000 bales annually
which is equivalent to II saving, in the mat
ter OF transportation alone, to some o.
OOO,CO) dollars, which is 10 per
ccut ION u capital of -GO,0o,0oo dollars.
But this is not all. The average annu-
al wages of hands in the north for such fac
tories is $40 dollars, while in the south they
can be had for 100 dollars, being therefore
50 per cent higher in the first named sec
ton, which would hence swell the yearly
saving to over 100000 dollars. And yet
another important fact to which New
Orleans contemporary has called attention
is that our mills get two cents per yard
more for goods manufactured from the
same grade of cotton than do the northern.
And still another advantage is that in GU
climate. and with the raw material on the
spot. we can work for longer period and
with greater regularity than can our north
ern competitors. AS living, practical
evidence and demonstration of all these
things, we observe the mills in Georgia
paving Is per cent. annual DIVIDENDS
as against the smaller figures by northern
mills BY this long delay in this all i'm
portant bssiness, we are burning daylight
after an astounding fashion. There have
been mainly three objections urged against
the proposed investment; one, the price OF
fucl with us, another the quick and salts
factory Yields which certain speculations in
a new country are supposed to bring, and
the other the general Encouragement caused
bv previous failures. But since coal beds
are now being discovered all through the
south and made of late easily accessible
by the railways the objection will
no longer obtain; or the thousands
of miles of streams that flow unfretted to
the sea all through our land could be
utilized and made as productive OF the re-
ouired work as any rill that ripples
through New England hills or FLASHES its
spray on their sides, making rainbow OF
hope to cheer the manufacturer IN his
labor. and these are to be found crossed
here and there by the iron and steel rails
over which transporting trains continually
run. AS for higher interest or larger re-
turns, Gcorgia's solution puts to shame all
further persistency on that score. Past fail
ures were due to nothing in the principle
hut to defective methods, extravaganza ex-
penditure or ignorant manipulation or
management So by all means let us have
these cotton mills at the earliest hour, and
not be burning our candle at both ends as
now, by paying freight, ETC., on the raw
material over three thousand miles, and
then again on the manufactured product
over the same routeto us. What applies to
cotton is equally applicable to WOODEN goods,
the iron industry, beef and pork packeries,
fruit and vegetable canning factories, etc.
OF one thing we may rest assured, that no
country. no section of it, and
no city or town is secure of
its position until the mandatory thrives
in its midst. Without it, it will be only
precarious drawer of water and newer OF
wood for it's better neighbors. These OBJ
servations are of especial concern to this
good city of Dallas, at this juncture in her
fate. With rivals energetic and ambitions, all
around her, she must look to not merely
retention of her laurels, but to the actual
of her growth in this peculiar
day, when railways and railway kings make
and unmake cities at their will. Let her
beware, and be wise in time.