The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-10
KIND WORDS POR TEXAS.

10 speak dlspsrssingly oil Texas, 10 cbatac
terize the people as being outlaws and cut
.hrosts, bsrbarisns and iguoramuses, the sol
IS worthless, the climate as horrible and it
agricultural advantages as dolusious, that i
IS real pleasure to read after correspondent
who does us Justice. In the St. Joseph, Mis-
souri,, Herald, of the 4!h inst, We find ,
letter written by citizen of ST. Joseph from
Texas, which is so fair, so just, SO truthful
hat we take from it the following extract,
ARRIVING at Dallas, the most thriving city
Of Northern Texas, at II o'clock, We find
growing, prosperous city Of some eighteen
thousand people, waller works, gas works
street car lines, and fine buildings going up
all over the city. Elm street is lined with
retail houses far shead of st. Joseph in all
lines of goods; one firm here, Sanger Bros,
occupying a room 8Oxl40, extending from
Elm to Main street They sell about mil
lion dollars worth year, consisting Of
dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, hats
caps aud clothing; having in their house at
this time l03 employees. Dalla, seems behind
in Wholesale houses, and in this connection
| am informed that Mr.. Rsnney was here
last week, with view Ees abb ,bing a
branch house of Nave, McCord e. Co.
On the tram coming down were two
young farmers from Missouri, on their
way to Strawn station, on the Texas Pacific
railroad, to receive three hundred head of
cattle, Tor which they had previously con-
tracted. They paid seventeen dollars and
fifty cents for the pick of three and four year
old steers. They have made arrangements
to herd them one year in the Indian territory,
paying for this forty cents per head. They
expect them in that time to weigh 1000
pounds and then to sell them for three and
half cents, which would be just thirty.Gve
dollars or double what they paid for them.
On taking the train at Dallas for this place,
am surprised 10 SEQ so many people going
west, and expected TO find passenger car at.
tached to freight or construction train, but
find three fine coaches and a sleeper are full
of people. The great railroad boom for
Texas is at once seen, camp after camp of
laborers and teamsters, car load after car load
of railroad material and men going to the
front. l do not find the country west of
Dallas 80 well settled as l expected, but the
Inhabitants claim for their 50 il all the farmer
could wish for"
! This correspondent also has some pleasant
to make of the HERALD, for which
we are duly appreciative and thankful. AS
this correspondent truly says, Texas has a
railroad boom. Taking Dallas as centre,
there is no direction one cannot cast the cy )
without seeing railroad building in active
operation. Ii We look north ward we sec At
Gainesville. a road soon to be pushed On
the Westward, and at Denton the Dallas &
Wichita, TO be carried on through the pro-
ductive lands and rich coal fields of Wise,
and thence into the Pan Handle with lis
broad praires, its tilovalleys, its luxuriant
its counties. thousands of cattle and
its inexhau,tible mineral stones. To the
eastward wo observe the Texas East Line,
just finished to Greenevile, and
heading in this direction, while
between Mneola and Greeneville
the Southwestern e. Sabine Pass road is
rapidly progressing, and At Jefferson active
are being taken for the construction
OF road from that city to Memphis, South
ward Of Dallas the Texas Il St. Louis road
has just crossed the Houston Il Texas Contra,
at Corsicana, and as rapidly as the strong
arms OF mon can carry it forward, il is
Advancing toward the Rio Grsnde. To the
westward the vision is greeted with tho
Ioiling throng' on tho Texas Il Pacific
reaching out for FL raso at the rate Of mile
and two'ihirds Of track laying pcr day. The
Texas Central, traversing the country from
Bremond on the Houston & Texas Cen,r al
Wis Waco, in a northward direction, also
claims tho attention. Southwest of Dslla. the
Missouri Pacific from Red river, con.
sidering only that p,rt of the
road which is in Texas, ia completed through
Deni,cn, Whitcsbo.o, Pilot Point and Dem
ton, and somo thirty odd miles beyond Dem
ton, and is being speedily built on to the
point in Williamson county where it will in.
tersect with the International road. The
Cult, Colorado 4 Santa ia road, flashed
from Galveston TO Bolton, is also coming
straight ahead toward Dslls., large force of
men and teams being at work. These are
tho roads round and about Dallas in course
Of construction, all Of which arc to al
vantage north Texas, and therefore our
city more thas any other point in this region.
The railroads whose lines run through our
corporate limits are the Texas Il Pacific,
traversing tho stats from ess, TO west;
tho Houston n Texas Central, reaching from
tho northern TO the southern extreme Of tho
state; tho Dallas Il Wichita, which is to
carry 1t, length through tho nor,hwcs, 70 =
sion; the Texas Trunk line with moro than
.wohty miles in running order, its iron srriv-
ing and great gang, OF msn grading, ,iciug
and bridging straight in tho direction of
Sabine Pass, and the Chicago, Texas Il
Mexican Central. now IA course of construc-
lion. which will roach from Dallas 10 P.ri.