The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-23

of what IL known as the black land country of
Texas, the best grain and cotton land in the
state, and which, for depth of soil and fer
tility is unsurpassed even by the rich alluvi-
al deposits along the immediate banks of the
lower Mississippi.
Tha Chicago, Texas g. Mexican
Central railway commencing
at Dallas and running northwest to Red river
and southwest in the direction of the mouth
Of the Pecos river on the Rio Grsnde, will
run q greater distance through this rich
black belt Of country than any road now
built or contemplated, three hundred miles
of which is already in fine state of cultivs.
ton and settled TO great extent by farmers
from the western states.
Through the beautiful Indian Territory
and Texas TO the Mexican border, distance
Of more than seven hundred miles. bold riv-
ers and limpid streams, broad prairies and
fertile valleys lie directly in your path. You
need not fear; the soD will sustain and
give your road an immense carrying busl-
ness in freight and passenger traffic locally,
to say nothing of the possibilities before
you for business from our neighboring re-
public of Mexico. There can beno question
but that your local trade will be immense,
and considering the fact that your road will
run ONE $50 miles through Texas, suppose
you only control the trade for thirty miles
on each side Of II, (but no doubt you will
control a much larger trade, this will give
you an area containing 2l,l20,000 acres
Should only One.fourth of this DO planted in
cotton, and produce but half bale per acre,
II would yield 100000 bales; and if another
One.fourlh was put in wheat and produced
only ten bushels to the acre, it would be
62,S00,0O0 bushels. 1t would require $4,000
cars annually TO remove the cotton crop,
allowing each car a capacity of thirty bales,
and 1t would require $4,000 cars annually
to remove the wheat crop, estimating
600 bushels at car load. This would
take 10 daily trains of 25 cars each, 1855 days
in the year TO remove the wheat and cotton
alone, to say nothing of the thousands Ct
car loads of cattle and other products.
When you have established your connec.
tions with Chicago and Mexico, you will un.
doubleday have the most val
liable railroad property in the
south. 1t will traverse lands annu-
ally yielding an enormous wealth of cotton
and grain, cattle, wool and hides. Your
road southwest of this city will pass through
the richest mineral country in Texas, con-
sisting of iron in unlimited quantities, silver,
copper and other ores, and country no
doubt rich with coal. There are also mex.
haustible stores of marble, granite and other
building stones the marble being of the most
Superior quality.
l have been familiarly acquainted
with every part of this country
and Enthusiastically proclaim that for health.
iulness, picturesQueness and inviting quail
tics Of every character and description to
the immigrant it canno! be surpassed in the
universe. Its scenery is good, its productive.
ness marvellous, Its climate the most genial.
Magniilciently watered and lying in gently
undulating sweeps of prairie and wooded
heights, 1t is tho paradise of the agriculture
alist ms we'll as Of the stock man.
Much Of it still lies in its virgin purity and
as 1t came from the hand of the creator,
Awaiting your touch to generously respond
to all human wants, and you need not fear
dense populations following wherever
you may lead, nor need imm-
grants fear that nature will
abundantly reward those who toll.
As was beautifully said at the breaking of
ground to-day, there will be no retiring
ebb" from the flow along your road. There
is everything to attract, nothing to repel the
Immigrant. twill only stop when it reaches
tho Pacific. 1t requires no prophetic eye to
look from Red river on the northern bound
AIRY OF Texas along the iron artery which
you have this day commenced building, to
the Rio Grande and SEQ beautiful famlets,
well cultivated fields, Aourishing towns and
rich cities. This generation will not pass
away before all these things shall be.
And you, with other railroad builders
are to cross that stream, and arouse the once
mighty but now slumbering gisnt beyond
the Rio Grande. You are to rekinde the
fires of his furnaces extnguished centuries
ago, to relight his civilization, to once more
place him among the enlightened and pro
gresiive nations of the earth