The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-08-04
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iaci mat On ihe flret ~ SepWmb'f we WIZ
Issue commercial edition Of tho HERALD.
IL will DO an extraordinary largo editor,
both 10 the sizo Of the pap0r aud ihe number
of copies. Sixty thousand copieo were
ordered ~ u basis for the undertaking, and
Judging from the number u orders We are
daily receiving, we exp CT the issue TO be
fully twenty thousand more. We trust we
will be psrdoned TO dovoiiDg 80 much OF
our space this morning in setting forth the
objects and aims Of this edition, es it is our
purpose fret to render rs great service as
possible TO Dallas and north Texas. secondly
to the stale at large, and lastly
as is but reasonable do something
for our own advantage as well.
We have already had something to say
about this enterprise we DOW have in hand,
bu. that our efforts and intentions may be
the better Understood aud appreciated, We
propose 10 enter more fully into the detail OF
the undertaking, "a we have stated, this
will be q commercial edition. We so style
it because issuing IL on the first Of Septem-
Der, tho beginning Of 'be business yenr OF
1881 2. it is our purpose to make 1t an
epi,ome, ia part of the commercial transoc-
tons for the past ye ear Of the entire sts,e nnd
as completely so Is possible of North Texas,
including, Of course, all railroad Develop
ments, the progress and advancement to be
met with on every hand, and those unboun-
ded resources which make Texas SO great
state, GO important factor in the ecohomy
of our country's commercial and financial
power, and its desraolity as an objective
point for the immigrant from every land
and Cline When we say THAI we will hrft
consider Dallas and her interests, we say it
ia no invidious sense, but Dallas being our
home and the most important city in the
state in our opinion, save Galveston and per-
haps Houston, and destined, as we earnestly
believe, to become the great commercial
emporium of all that region of the state
known as North Texas, as it now already
il, and with future before il that
must equal if not .surpass
the brish antlcipations of its mot aan-
guine citiz ana. it is but natural thst we should
make prominent its many resources, facilities
and advantages, saying nothing that the
facts and every reasonable calculation will
not sustain At the same time, every other
town and city. especially in northern Texas
from which we can obtaiA the necessary data
will receive full and strict ustce in every
particular Texas needs but to be properly
advertised, the world wants to kcow bat
what it really is, what inducements II oilers,
what it's capabilities are, for it to become the
attractive point of every immigration move
ment, for its boundless prsiries and spldndid
wooded laods to become 3 thickly populated,
a busy hive to industry, sending forth yearly
illimitabla stores of its varied productions to
feed and c!othe the people OF the earth
bringing back countless millions o. money
to enrich its people. Our September edition
will bs replete with this kind OF most
valuable information. If the agricultural
from a foreign land or from any one of the
states of Que union wants to find himself o
new home in land where the elements and
the soil and the climate are sll that heart
could dasire, he will get all the Information
he is 10 search of in this edition. II the bus
iness man the mechanic, the manufacturer,
the skilled laborer, the capitalist or the pro-
fessional man desires to try his fortunes
where success is sure to crown his efforts,
where ne can get home for himself ana
those who are dear to him, fad = resdy and
remunera,ve opening for his tact, his skill,
his labor, his Investments, his learning, he
will have but to examir the columns of th 8
extraordinary issue to satisfy bis wishes.
This will be an edition that the land owner
desiring purchasers for his broad acres
the fsrmer who wants ienants-
that every citizen Of Texis, no
matter what his avocstion or pursuits in
life, who desires TO see Texas grow AID
prosper. to see her populated, to see her
latent resources brought TO light and &C.
TO see her advance 10 that position,
of importance and wealth and power among
the states of the American uhion for which
nature has intended her and for tie acbiev-
ment of which she hiss provided with go
lavish a hand-sn edition that every Texan
Gao be proud OF and feel justified in sending
abroad Us a sample Of Texas newspaper
an exponent of the energy,
tbs civilization and the life of the people Of
Texas, and as a truthful and Just exposition of
the state-whst il lie and what it is to be.
A, 40 advertising medium for the business
man, /, makes no difference 10 Whist line
he may DE engsged, this edition
offers superior inducements and
Every number oftne multiplied
Of. the..issue will fall into ooe OF
more hands, and because Of the varied and
valuable Information that It will contain
such as commercial and agricultural STATIC
tics, historical geographical, geological, eli
ms,icsl, legal and industrial dsta, it will be
eagerly sousht for Of home and abroad, and
il /, the newspaper that is read, and scar