The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-24
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Attention IL being directed oil through
this country 10 the manufacturing, mining
and other industrial possibilities OF the
South. The exposition at Atlanta has con-
tibutcd much TO this end. People are be-
ginning TO comprehend that here on
these southern fields, where the flcocy
King each summer rcars his coronet Of
white, Is the place, the true site for its man
ufacture into all the goods possible from its
ibrc. They are beginning to understand
that here, where the Merino and the Cots
void are raised 80 cheaply on living grasses
the whole year round, is the
true place to make the. wooden goods
that our people wear. Mr.. Atkinson, in
his address delivered at the Atlanta Expo
sition, well says "There is nothing in
the world so important to you as the reduc'
ton OF the cost of moving, baling pressing
and disposing of your cotton. 1t is of the
utmost Importance to all that the cotton
shall pass from the farm to the factory al
| the very lowest cost. What we need most
| is middling cotton at ten cents pound OF
less and what you need most is that the
biggest part of the ten cents shall go into
| the pocket of the man who raises the cotton
When middling cotton is nine cents Q
pound in New York, drills can be profita
bly, made and soldat seven cents yard. If
| then, wide market is open at that price
the point at which the grower OF cotton
should aim, would be to diminish all the
intermediate charges between the farm and
the market. What are those charges
| 1. The costly and wasteful sys
tenn of ginning and baling witt
| an old-fashioned country press. 2
Heavy expenses for getting your cot
ton to a railroad. 8. Comprising and
| factors charges. 4. Freights to the prin'
cipal markets twice or three times as high
as those which prevail between East and
West What portion of the 10 cents in
| New York do these charges absorbP
quarter? Yes-a third? Yes, often. And
at every point on the way, in the gin, in the
press, on the wagon and on the rail, your
cotton is deprecated. The only thing that
saves you is that you possess the only land
yet open to civilization which can produce
the staple needed. Egypt, under English
| rule, which may be near, could equal you
even at that. If the Northern Italians,
who are now moving in force, 10000 last
year, mostly to the Paraguay and Parana
rivers of South America, should take up
cotton growing, they may possess land
fully equal to your own. No -monop-
oily can long be sustained on
the face of this earth, and even you
must be prepared for competition. "
These. are words deserving all seriousness
of reflection; We have here in this section all
the materials, in richest abundance, the min
erals, the timber, the soil the climate,
every thing with whichnature can endow
us. Surely with all these things
in view, there is every reason to be-
lieve that the money-making mind of the
north will see. it as we do
to-day. that here Us, the place for
remuncrative investment whether the capt.
tai be placed in large or smalHamounts.
Upon the completion of the road to Califor-
mia, too, we shall expect to see the flow OF
immigration to these parts. Here in Texas,
THE miner of California will find ores of the
richest sort, and here the farmer and the
laborer will find lands as magnificent and
as productive as those of the Golden State.
and at prices that are merely nominal.
Here, too, are railroads permeating now,
and still further to ramiiy through every
portion of the South. And here too is a
cosmopolitan people that welcome into
their midst all people, regardless of polit-
cal or religious complexion. Let
them come to Texas if they will,
and as We prefer, or to any
of these States of splendid clime,where the
workman can work on his farm each day in
the year, where the railroads are never
blockaded and the trains stopped by
snow-storms and snow-banks, and where
house and store building may go on unin-
terruptedly in all the winter weeks. The
time approaches rapidly when for all these
facilities, the industries of the North must
bow in subsection to our more than sue
cessful competition.