The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-30
STATE PRESS REVIEW.

The following paragraph from the Bolton
journal involves question, the settlement
of which We leave to the Journals therein
named:
The Galveston journal 10 its daily i''nN of
the 10Th inst.. asks in large type, wv ntner
are wa driftng?" We didn't have time to
read the article, and 30 hastily ran our eyes
down the column, when 10! what should greet
our gaze but the little word "helP' in
equally prominent type. Each is caption
to different article, but 1t Is safe TO con-
cludo that the foreman of the Office thinks
be knows where tine editor IS drifting, ana
just quietly preceded to sta'e the fact wlth-
out argument.
The Brenham Banner discusses tho ques-
ton of tax assessments, and condemns the
present system, that is the modus opersndi
of the law. We have no suggestions to
make, but we would like to know this Ifs
man renders his property for assessment as
of $4,000 value when it would readily
bring $4,000 in cash, which amount he
would not take and thA swears to his
assessment of 5000, does he commit per-
Jury or not? The Banner says:
The fault now lies in the system of assess
ing taxes, the county assessor simply hsts
mans property aBd allows the man to place
his own value on it, and If the assessor Con-
siders it reasonable he accepts the owners
valuation, the law requiring the owner to
| make oath that the valuation is just and
| reasonable. Some men return their props
erty at its full valuation, while others
endeavor to get their assessment down to the
very lowest figure they think the assessor
| will take and as they are 1equire1 to swear
to it, the assessor has very little discretion in
| the matter. A fairer aud better way would
be for the assessor TO make list of all the
real estate and then to have board OF assess
sors to put valuation on it, and where prop,
erty owners are dissatisfied with the assess
ment they should have the right of appeal to
board Of equalization, whose tinding should
| be f1al. We have no fault to find with the
assessors, most of whom discharge their du-
ties honestly and faithfully; It's the system
that is at fault. Ii every property owner
paid taxes on his property at fair and quit
| able valuation there should be no just cause
| for complaint.
The man who will not fight for his own is
no man at all. The Mineola Monitor is
standing by Mineola in way that is COM
mendable, and says of that place:
"Are not these woods more free from peril
than the fretted couri? Books in the run-
ming brooks; sermons in stones, and good in
everything. 1 would not change" Mineola
adopts this beautiful language of the worlds
greatest bard, in regard to her advantages as
spending their millions in subsidies for rail-
| . Dads and machine shops, and getting empty
| baubles, Mineola grows apsce, with no exer-
| ton of her own. Three trunk broad gauges
are already at her door, and the Kansas d
| Gulf Short Lire is sure to come
| because there is business here for
her, which will be sufficient induce
ment. And now it is said that the Gould
| syndicate has purchased the East Texas
road running from Sabine Pass TO Beau
mont ard projected northward to Mineols,
where it will form connection with the trunk
| lines of the Gould system. 1t is said Mr.
| Gould has selected Sabine Pass rs his Cult
utlet and Mneola as the radiatiDg point In
| the interior. That there is something in the
| latter report, is evidenced by the extent aid
character of railroad buildings and switch
yards now under contract in this city. The
union passenger depot will be the largest
and finest railroad building in the s'qt5 Do
while the switch yar viii contain
eight tracks nearly .iile in length.
As FIJI -addRiocsi- -~eeldonue mai
Mineola is regarded as an imp or,snI point oV
the railroad authorities, we cte The ifct mat
a large body of land Just east Of tao1 hHs
been reserved by the railroads, VIII y j. ~.
for safe at any price. Upon Il hound the
near future will behold a mammoth stable
erected, in which Gould's huge iron horses
will find shelter, and the smoke arising from
the great C, ntrsl machine shops OF this
mighty combination of railroads. This will
not be the result of favoritism 10 Mineola,
but the actual necessities of the different
roads centering here. Marshall and Pales
tine msy boid these advantages little while
longer, but they are transi;ory and must go.
What is their loss will be Mineolas gsiu.
Mineola is immensely content with her future
prospects.
Decatur, in Wise county, is soon to have a
railroad ard we sre glad of It. The trade
of that section Ia immense, and constantly
increasing; md while Dallas is naturally i,s
objective point, this railroad connection will
give increased facilities for 1t. Furthermore
the coal fields up there will then be thropn
open, and Dallas will shortly need deal of
this kind of fuel. The Decatur Tribune
says of this road:
The railroad question Is at last settled.
II is not definitely known what day work
will be commenced, but il is known that
jaw Gould and Others have contracted with
The officers OF the company 10 hnish the
road from Fort Worth 10 the Canud an
river by the LIST day OF January, 1883. ln
order 70 DO this il will be necessary 70 build
TO Decatur in ample time 10 haul OF this
years crop OF cotton. The management OF
tbe road hsve agreed that II the road Is not
graded 70 Decatur by the fret dsy Of January
that the notes the people here bsve signed
will be turned over 70 the payers. rhh
looks like business, and We nov venture the
remark that the road will be here before the
subscribers are ready 10 pay the twenty
thousand dollars.
There il seeminglys bigger question 70
Te1ss involved In The suit Of the Texas q
Pacific against the Southern Pscife 70 pre-
vent Il from passing through lie forfeited
land grant IN Mes Merico than appears on
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