The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01
Y SOME LESSONS
THIS SEPTEMBER ISSUE TEACHES.
AZ You Read Carefully, You VIII Quill
Them and They will he of Value tn
y You Both in the rreseHs
and In the Future. 3

Texas, a brief outline of what the state is,
with suggestions as to its capabilities, some
Useful lessons can be culled from its col
nmns by careful perusal thereof and com
parison with facts and the statistics of other
states, and especially of the great trade CEN
tiers. The balance of trade, it will be seen,
is i'll favor of the towns in the interior Of the
state as against our own coast and
other pretensious cities. This is owing in
great measure to the fact that every ten or
fifteen miles along our 1900 miles of rail
road, there is to be found station putting
on at least the pretensions of hamlet and
proposing to do the trade and traffic of its
own immediate neighbochood while MANY
of these stations, in fact every twenty-five or
thirty miles we find one of them, aspire to
be towns and young cities gilmore than local
Importance and seeking to do the commerce
OF large radius Of country. This brings
to every mans door almost, a market for
his products and a supply depot where he
can lind such merchandise as he may need
or as his pleasure may dictate to
him to purchase for self or fam
ny Slavery having been abolished
there are only tenant farmers in the land
that Is to say tenants of the owners of the
land either by lease, rental or monthly wage
hire, and all these are consumers, all huytrs
oil the various articles of merchandise the
merchant RAY have for sale, and they have
products too torwhfch they desire market.
These products, small in quantity they
cannot afford to ship off to some large CITY.
hence they sell to the nearest merchant.
This scatters the trade throughout the land,
and 1t Is q fact that III the more important
OF these towns cotton and wool and hides
and grain briag as good prices as they
do in the larger cities OF the
state: This is better for the
people as whole because it is not only
more convenient for them, but it secures
them better prices for the labor of their
hands. There must of course be one great
city in each section Of state so large as
Texas, ana with interests so diversified, and
yet those interests are dependent upon each
other, and we see upon our coast Calves
ton, q sea port growing into great COM
mercial point. Near by and attempting to
rival Galveston Is Houston, which is des-
uned to become mighty manufacturing
point. In the west is San Antonio, the
beautiful city e. the prairies, already doing
an immense deal oftrade and yet to become
the central commercial point of all western
Texas. In north Texas we find
Dallas growing at wonderful rate and in
creasing its trade in n iraculous manner,
with the commerce of this splendid region
tending to II day by day in spite of all OBJ
position and effort that is and may be made
to the contrary. In eastern Texas, either
Jefferson or Texarkana is to be a central bust
ness point, Jefferson being the place in our
honest JuG 'ncnt for reas' already given
IN our comments upon TIE present and the
future OF that place. These cities being the
central commercial mart Of their respective
sections, will Supply the smaller towns and
hamlets with their imports and receive
the products of the adjacent country to
to them, collected by them, and sent
in quantities to those great
entrepots. There is another point that
must attract attention. The great metro
politan cities of the eastern and western
states numbering inhabitants up into the
hundreds OF thousands, as is well known
supply the domestic imports of our larger
Texas cities, receiving therefor immense
sums OF money yearly, yet Boston the great
city tina. supplies but few OF these imports,
scarcely any indeed, Is the one city
from which comes the bulk of the money
now being expended in railroad construc-
lion AMI other material developments in |.
Texas. II is true that New York capitalists /
lro furnishing some Of this money, and ON /
.he Texas & st. Louis narrow gauge some
money from st. Louis is being expended |
md small percentage of the capital being
Invested in the Chicago, Texas
Y McSican Central railroad comes from
Chicago, but II is the moneyed men of Bos-
on who are giving two dollars to one being
expended from all other sources. The idle .
money is to be had in this great city.
Honey is wise, and, being so, comes to this
great state Tor safe and remuncrativc invest
ucnt. The other great cities, NewYork, Phil
lelphia ST. Louis Chicago, Louisville and
Cincinnati, and we may say New Orleans,
90, while they reap fully eighty per cent.
If the trade and traffic of Texas, are holding
closely on to their money, doing next to
nothing toward the development of this
Mighty field with its abundant harvest to
De SO immensely increased by devel-
Ipment. Like Oliver Twist, they cry for
more, but do nothing toward the produc-
ion of that more. There is equilibrium for
Ill things and this will adjust itself, for
reyas in a few years will have its groat
atics, metropolitan in all respects and as
Independent Of these cities as they are of
'ach other. In reviewing the sales of wear
ng apparel, dry goods, boots and shoes, etc, |,
millions OF dollars in the year
lat, 1t must be apparent that no better
ELL can possibly be offered within the
Iroid limits Of our union for manufactures
i every character and description Espe-
tally will this be manifest when in the
anne connection the production of the raw
material, in Texas, its hundreds OF
thousands of bales of cotton;
Is millions OF pounds of wool, \
Is countless numbers OF hides and pelts. {
Is tons Of zones and horns its exhaustless i
torres ~ iron ore and other metals; lis !
abundance Of coal and wood fuel its facili- {
les for tanneries; its matches timbcrs and (
lnrivaled water power advantages, together {
Nth lis already vast and constantly enlarg- |
ng railroad system. Texas has scope
nd productions enough TO become tho j
,reat workshop and commercial region for {
he continent, with TRANSPORTATION accom- !
nodstons ample for and convenient 10 two :
epublics TO say nothing OF the water COM {
nunicAtion by ocean steamers and sailing ,
essels from the gull ports with tho foreign 4
'orld. The question may naturally arise ,
A the minds OF the reader that II Texas Is
uch great wheat and small z;rain producing /
ountry why II does not only bread itself hut /
ave heavy surplus to send abroad-whyso
luch OF wheat ard flour Is import
! into the state. Tho reason
4 this Is obvious TO every citizen o, |
he stat. who Is vt all informed or who has
1ycn the subject any thought, and Il Is !
ut proper that We state the reason or
easons. is mainly duo TO impcr-
sct cultivation and too great o neglect OF
his interest In attending 10 others. The
lrmsrs o. the great wheat region of tho
iato pursue agriculturally too much 10
nat policy OF running with tho hare and
Gliding With the hounds. They arc too
luch welded 70 cotton TO the detrimcnt Of '
heat; They plant oil the cotton they can {
ossibly attend TO and manage, and when
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