The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-03-24
Tales of Texas,

New York, March 16.-Gen. Eckert, man.
ager of the consolidated western union tele-
graph company, accompanied Jay Gould in
his recent southwestern tour, and gave n
World reporter to-day some interesting facts
about his journey.
"We arecsrrying the western union wires"
he said, toward Mexico and toward the
Pacific. We shall have about twelve hum
bred miles of railway and tho. same length
of telegraph lsid during the coming year,
"With what points eastward will these
lines be directly connected!"
"They will I'll center at st. Louis, but they
will be connected with New Orleans through
Shreveport, and this aconnection will be
completed before the close of the present
year."
.Did you find any important local traffic
springing up along these linesf'
"CeI lsiHly. The central belt oI Texas in
particular is the richest Gotten region, l
suppose, in the republic, some Of the land
producing, am told, two bales to the acre.
| Within the same belt the cereals also yield
abundantly, wheat, corn, barley and oats, and
Texas includes a vast area Of fine grazing
country. Avery important trade ia growing
up between the eastern portion of Texas and
the rest ofthe state. Eastern Texas is full Of
very fine lumber, long leaved pine and other
woods, which, when the rosds are COM
ple,ed, will mske very profitable return
freight on the lines which bring down cotton
and other products TO the ses-coast"
sis the country settling up with good
population"
"Yes. There Is considerable movement
OF emigration from other states of the union
and large and stssdy influx of Germans.
The census shows thst Texas is gro sing more
rapidly than almost any other state in the
union"
"How did you ind ihs city of Galveston"
"Busy and prosperous, though we were
not there in the best business se.son. witt
cd the recently opened cotton exchange, and
found il q very fine building, ~hich would
do credit 10 any northern city,"
"Did you hear much Of murders and Viz
lenoe in the ststsf"
"Nonsspse," tsid Gen Ecksrt, laughing.
I'VE found the country - quiet ~ any pat
OF the union. We found no disorder snv-
where. In fact vs did mol zee single drunk
eu man In ell TEXAS, and, now that | think
Of il, ncns Of our party saw drunken iaaD
during our journey ~ Texas and back until
We gol bach, vhsn We came upon etc just
ouside OF The ferry house"
@Did you hear much Of politics in Tenn
Little or nothing. We went there on
business, and found ths people generally al
sorbed 10 mindins their own afsirs.
~Will your nee telegraph lines cOmr1uni-
cate directly 10 kerico.7
~Yes: ths cables lad By Col Scymssr
rom Brownsville 70 Very Cruz. touching A.
Tampico. has just pu, the Western IN
system, in connsction VITA the whole hrxl-
can telegraph system. which i owned ard
vorksd by tie Nericsn gcvsfnmsnt This
sTsem sH1suds over about four thouskrt
miles. tE,1 All paris u Mexico sPsr vii , j.
extends are bor il tslssrsphic communics-
tinn WITH New 1orL"
@On the vbols yOu sar-s with ar Gould
IL ks views Ct TIE prssent and prospective
.noortancs q ms loutb ssstsrn region
4 csrtainl 7 do NJ. Gould was 20 much
iuprasss uilh shsi vs saw thst BE- n5t
orls dsciis5 b. esitbliah line q stesr ~
frUrn G.lsrsiJs - asricsu p0ris. but give
ofdars n DuIl1 brsBrh 81 ths rnain u1
L1a.lo brs Of TIE Missouri, kansss a Texss