The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-15
WHAT WE NEED.


The HERALD has repeatedly taken
occasion 10 present in general way, the
importance of manufactures to Texas and
especially to our own section of tho stale.
This is question worthy OF serious consid-
GRAFTON and earnest study on the part of
every citizen, whether his means DO largs or
small, whether no be rich or penuless As
Captain Veal suggests, there is no ligh,
so valuable for guidance as tina. of exper>
fence. and what We may lack 10 experience
ourselves we may make up for in the oxper-
fence of others by close observation and the
application of what facts and details we msy
acquire shrewdly to our own surroundings
and circumstances. New England was the
birth place of manufactures in our country.
They we're an ouigrowth of necessity. A
barren sol and bleak and uncongenial eli.
mate made agriculture an impossibilty as a
means OF sustensnce and wealth. Nature
had been bountilul in the supply of wster
courses and water power. and there was no
recourse left to the energetic, strol G.
armed, strong-brained people of
this region of our couatry but to draw upon
the more favored sections of the union fer
tho raw material for manufactures Ct
every kind which they could sell back 10
them at profit. Thus, nature making az
ricu!ure an impossioi'ity, Offsets this def
cency by givinga water.power which sugges,
I'd its own use, and while the middle, south
ern and western states have grown to COM
pe'ence on the products of
their soil. New England has been
tho busy hive of cotton mills and other
manufacturing iaterests, supplying,the wants
OF the people in these respects, while these
other sections have furnished
the raw material, and the
bread stuffs and meat stufls on which
our New Eogland brethren have lived. But
New England isno longer able TO supply
tho demand for manufactured goods and
wares. Not only has she utilized every
available stream and spot provided BY
nature for water power, but has also brought
to her aid art and created power by bring.
ing small streams together, and thus multi.
plying their volumes, and byi tho erection
of dams to husband her water and by the
use of steam as motor, and still, though all
her hillsides are teemiug withmanu factories,
and the music OF machinery is heard "from
early morn till dewy eve" on all
sides and every where, and thousands
upon thousands of skilled persons, men and
women toll early and late Ut the various in
duslries that engage the attention o. the
New England people and in which they
have their money invested. Still New
England cannot meet tho demands at home
and from abroad for American manufactures
The consequence is that we sec like indus.
tries in Pennsylvania and various other
states, and of late they are taking foothold
in the south. No danger that the business
will DO overdone. Every year in our own
land the need for every character and do
scriplon of thing manufactured of
cotton, of wool, of silk, of hemp,
of jute, Of wood, of
iron, of steel, of leather, of paper, of horn,
of bone or gutta percha and tho various
combinations of these articles,not to mention
innumerable other descriptions of manufsc.
lures are increasing, and growing des're,,and
call for them from every civllzsd and semi.
civilized country on the face OF tho globe ia
witnessed every year. We say that it Is
pleasant to know that manufactures are
taking fast hold on the south. For years
and years this section has been the grca,
basis Of supplies Of the raw mate.
rial for the cotton mills of other
sections. It has sold its staple fresh from
the gins to buy 1t back in thread
and cloth to the extent that 1t was needed,
athree-fold advance in price over tho raw
material, or in other words, has given three
pounds Of raw cotton for one of msnufac,
tured cotton. She has opened her eyes IL
tho fact that she can manufacture her own
cotton and 20 on the market with it, nnd
thus vastly increase the value of her grea,
product. Ia Georgia the problem Of cotton
factories has already been demonstrated TO 9
most satisfactory degree, and We hear of new
mills being erected there, and of this class Of
Industry springing up in various states and
localities In the south. What can we here
in Texas say in behalf OF manuf featuring on
terprises? What facilities have we for ,hei,
successful operations We have but to psus,
and look about us and consider moment e
fnd the answer. and satisfactory answer
too. II 10 true that in tho matter of wstel
power we arc not so blessed as tho New Fog
land states, still our advantages In thi,
respect are far from inferior. Our Colorado
Upper Btaz's, Guadalupe, Comal, San
Antonio and Upper Trinity rivers afford vas,
facilities for the utilization Of this characse,
ofpower, to say nothing Of innumerabl,
smaller streams. TEXAS, In the plon,itude o.
her magnificent sndowmen,s BY ma
sure, 10 not restricted 10 cot
ton manufactures. Our prsi
rles arc teemipg with sheep that yielt
yearly millions and millions Of pounds Of wo 0
chat rates with tho Dos. In quality on the ess,
srn markets. Our countless horde Of cs,,l
Afford hidea enouvh IN MI vnoro tarc..,.