The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01
DALLAS.
THE EMPORIUM OF NORTH TEXAS,
The Business Of the City-Its Manufacture
Ing Interests-Its Railroads-rts Publio
Building, Public and Private
Enterprises.
aus Claims as Great City and It's Pros
poets for the Future. with a few
Words About the Surround
ing Country. n


II is on the Trinity river and at the intersec
ZION OF the Texas IL Pacific, and Houston
d Texas Central.
RAILROADS.
The first traversing the state from cas-,
70 west, and the other from north to south
the two being equivalent to four railroads
as they bring the trade and commerce O.
north Texas from four different directions tC
Dallas the commercial centre entrepnt and
outlet of the commerce of all north TEXAS
BESIDES these two great railroads, it already
has the Dallas& Wichita road heading for
the northwest, that Is the Pan Handle dis.
trlct OF the state with its rich coal fields. IFS
copper mines, its countless head of
cattle and other stock and lis
other products of the earth, vet 10
reach untold millions in money; the Texas
Trunk line, completed to the town of Kauf
man, the county site of Kaufman county. IA
miles away, and heading for Sabine Pass on
the gull to traverse the rich timber region of
southeastern Texas This road is being
putt as rapidly as men and money can do IT,
the greater portion ofits line being graded to
Palestine or thercabouts, where it will cross
the international ~ Great Northern railroad
the IRON arriving for it each month as needed
ana trains running to Kaufman. The Chi
cago, Texas d Mexican Central railroad
passing through its corporate limits from
!he southeast to the southwest, to connect
IN Arkansas with the st. Louis & San Fran.
cisco road, now being rapidly constructed
and to go on to the Rio Grande where il viii
connect with the Mexican system
OF roads. 1t is graded between Dallas and
Cleburne, the iron for that defiance
has been purchased together with two en-
glnes and the necessary cars all which are
enroute, and by January next it will be
completed between. Dallas and Clobume.
me Gulf Colorado e. Santa Fc road is now
nnished between Galveston and
Cleburne, and this road has formed a combi-
nation under which tho trains of the first
will pass over the road of the latter from
Cleburnc through Dallas to its eastern ter
minus Chicago, and the trains of the latter
VIII pass over the road of the former to
galveston from Cleburnc, thus giving DIAL
las another outlet to Galveston and giving
us virtually the Gulf Colorado e Santa Fe
road. The Texas d st. Louis narrow guare
has contracted and agreed to build branch
OF its road from Mount Pleasant in Titus
county, to Dallas, to be completed in twenty
Jour months, and from hGro it will be
extended westward to the Rio Grande, to
connect with the narrow guage system of
railroads in that country being built by
the Palmer& sullivan cor ,Hv, of which
system it is part This Texas & ST.
Louis marrow guage coming here will bring
also, the Texas East Line now built from
Jefferson to Grocryi'le, and recently pur-
chased by Mr.. Gould and be changed to a
standard guage. We can then say that BAL
las has com!cted and in course
d construction. actually seven rail
roads and four OF them passing and to
pass through the city to drain
The country of its trade on each side of tLe
city as theyrun, it makes it the same as
though We had eleven railroads. This
makes Dallas the railroad centre of north
Iexas, the great concentrating and distrib-
lting point for its trade and commerce.
Nature has done much 20 aid Dallas in be.
coming great city. 1t is near
THE GEOGRAPHICAL CENTRE.
Or the populated and there
pre-, the now. productive portion
7 !, north Texas. Since it was first laid
II ana founded, 1t has been
zee central ana important point, easier of &C
ION OF country is concerned, than any other
ONT. ITettier, more convenient site for
ne building OF IA o,.y uas never selected, as ,
IS situated upon the eastern bank of the
rinity river where there is bold bluffex- !
'nding some three miles up and down the ,
Ity, the bottom land of the river for this dis
moe being on the opposite side and il is !
cry narrow bottom. The city is in the tim y
err reaching to the prairie mile and a I
ALI from the river bank, and is ON rolling, :
lily ground, supplying natural drainage &,
nd therefore, in so far as rainfall is CON !
,rned and the natural facilities for sewage, =
healthy situation. Dallas was founded by !,
he late John Nicely Bryan in ISL n
THE FIRST HOUSE i
cling but log cabin erected by i
i'm. The first settlers of the 3
'wn and the county being, principally from $
entucky, and few from Indiana and some q
her states. A few of the first settlers ofthc g
F., y still remain here, honorcd and respected 8
izcns, while in the county the pioneers "
their dcscendants-many of the fathers n
at mothers having gone ~ the summer q
nd--stil remain, nearly all well 10 do and
'ninrtable, and all worthy, good people,
uoylng the esteem and confidence of their n
llow-men. As We before stated, Dallas d
unity Il the second IN the state in popula- ii
IN, hay'ng5,OO0inhabitants, and better, h
Ter oouy OF land than this county in its en- N
ISe'E was never seen. II abounds in SPLEEN il
nns aud corn being the principal ptO- Is
Tets, and maSpiicen. ciSir, OF tnc,,, ,,,..;;;. n
iscd every year. Ali tho veretailcs and Il
ails ggow hyrc, aha ,h6y are raised in The G,
catest abundance for home consumption, q
,mc aud foreign markets. The county ii
sing so thickly populated there 10 but little II
open land, that is OF open land in large n,
dies for common pasturago, therefore Il
ere are no large herds Of cattle, or bodies h
other stock, but there Is an abundance of a
10 stock, especially of cattle and horses. 0,
he city Of Dallas, according TO the census Q
port OF 1880, had then but little more Il
IAN l000o inhabitants, but this enumen-
~ was made Tor the corpsratc limits, which
4 very circumscribed, alone. In the sub "
Tvs, actually and really part of the city, II
& census report shows nearly 6,0UO inhabi- "
nts SO, that according to the census re. II
lrts, the city has population of 5000 q
IS few hundred. Since this report b
~ taken, now fifteen months, tho popu- C.
ton has increased fully twenty rer "
Mt; and Dallas can truthfully say q
lc has q o
PRESENT POPULATION y
1000. Prior to 1873 when tho first railroad, Il
II Houston & rcns Central, reached the c
ace, II was but a county town doing only r.
10 county trade and Boosting no wholesale i
buses Its population did not exceed 500 d
I'd the quietudc of its precincts, the lazy G
nj unenterpiising air all about Il rs COM p
,rcd with the hustle, the stir and the ac- II
Vity Of this day and time, Is saddcning, Is 81
,palling to contemplate now. hut rail- Il
nd facilities gave the town new life. Poo n
e began 20 flock 10 II from all quarters. Il
lpiial came, and energy, and its limits be- o
N TO be extended. What had been bnt q
ouls and waste places bocan to be re- Ii
aiinpd. and being laid of into streets and 4,