The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-01
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great enterprises of the age, the Southern
Pacific Ocean, has reached the East by a
junction with the Texas & Pacific and its
connections. This result, so long antici-
pated and nccesstating such vast outlay
money and the expenditure of so much
time and labor, will be hailed by the peo-
pie of Texas with joy, as it binds them to
the rich slopes of the Pacific and opens up
to them the wealth of Mexico and the great
West, Nothing has transpired within our
borders, not even the consumma-
ton of our connection with the
East, of more importance to
us than the completion of this road to the
Pacific seaboard. BY it, in the future,
millions Of money from the mines of Cali
fornia.and the fields between that State and
this will be brought into and left in Texas
and an impetus given to the development
OF our own mines, and the building ofman-
uiactories for finishing the raw material OF
the section through which this new high
way runs. Traffic and travel in an inces-
SAINT stream from Mexico, from California
and China must inevitably, from the geo.
graphical position of the line, and its con
traction of distances to the At.
lantic centres of trade seek this route and
no other section of the whole country can
hope to reap the same great benefits from
this fact as will Texas. In this way and
otherwise it gives greater notoriety to and
better advertises the wonderful extent and
resources of our State than could any other
enterprise or circumstance. But patent
reflection and doubly gratifying feature
connected with the matter, is that this is
but pioneer, great leader in a greater
movement. The northern routes between
the two oceans are necessarily surrounded
by insurmountable obstacles during the
major portion of the year and the com.
modities of two worlds which must be
transported will be compelled, from thi.
circumstance, to require and utilize South
ern lines. Such II highway of commerce
as this has never before been opened, and
others branching from this and traversinl
the more Southern sections of Texas, will
seek an outlet at some of our own ports, a.
these will suggest themselves as the nearest
points at which the shipping for the ole
world can be reached. This immense trad,
from the East Indies, the Chi
nese and japanese empires ant
the rapidly developing and great State
ofou extreme West as.well as that from
Europe destined for those markets, must OF
the Gulf OF Mexico find a resting place,
transfer depot, great commercial en-
porium. Between New Orleans and som,
Texas port the proper place will be found
1t will rest greatly with the pc ople of thi
State as to what The result will be- or where
the selection will be made. Wehave point!
on our coast where, ifdecp water were OBJ
tanned, wonderful city would grow up, az
If by magic, and from the necessities of it.
situation and upon whose wharyes would
be emptied the commerce o.
the world, and city, too
that would carry all Texas up with it in the
magnitude and value Of its financial and
commercial transactions On the coast Of
Texas, at Sabine, Galveston, the. Brazos
the shipping of Europe can be reached with
q saving of four hundred to five hundred
miles of travel even over New Orleans, Ia
say nothing of the Atlantic ports. If our
representatives in Congress will only appre.
ciate the vast responsibility resting upon
them in this particular, do in fact what can
be done, Texas will become the
greatest beneficiary from the com.
pletion of this new line and
the branches and trunk lines cooperating
with it, and which will be certainly built in
another decade. There is no question of the
fact of the ultimate construction if the pro-
per harbor can be found OF direct line from
the Texas coast to the nearest point on the
Pacific, say Guaymas or some other port.
But along our Southern coast, and particu-
larry in Texas, we cannot hope for u great
seaport, without the. expcnditurc of several
millions of dollars in deepening the water
This money must come from Congress, and
it must come in sufficient amount to do the
work, not in paltry appropriations. In
view of these facts the necessity will b,
seen readily for the active cooperation n
vigorous efforts of the delegations in Con-
grcss from Louisiana, Texas, California
Colorado, Oregon and other sections inter
ested looking to generous appropriations by
the next Congress for deepening the water
on our gulf const, The coming Congress.
bids fair to be unusually liberal in matter.
of appropriation and the golden opportu
nifty presented to our representatives TO dc
us the greatest of all good. But iealousies
between the delegations of the different
States named must once for ever be dropped
and recognition of common interest beget
u Union powerful enough to accomplish 1t,
ends
That Cash Balance.
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