The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-12
IIONEYED MEN.
Grand Reception 10 the Maine Capt.
taIists ON an Excursion i'm Texas
What was Said and Done.

at the texas " RACINE uepOL Dy cOHlullttee
composed of members of the board of trade
and other citizens, and escorted 10 the
Windsor hotel, where they were dined
On their arrival at Texsrksna they became
guests of the Texas &c Pacific railroad, and
we're taken charge of by r. w. Thompson,
jr., the popular general passenger agent o
that road, and brought over the
Transcontinental road to Sherman,
and via the Texas Central to this city
While al the hotel they we're called on by a
large number Of citizens, and the meeting
resembled very mueh thst of on inform a. re-
ception, there being o free exchange OF ideas
and views upon various subjects Inc re-
source, of north Texas were never, perhaps,
more thoroughly discussed in converse
tional way in SO brief space of time. II ia
evident that the visitors are business men,
and their trip smscks but very little of pleas
ure, for they are giving the
country thorough inspection, with
the view of learning where il is
best for them to place their money.
They expressed themselves one and oil as
much pleased with what they had seen Of the
state, and especially her great timber re-
sources, which only requires the requisite
amount of capital and enterprise to utilize it.
AS stated in yesterdays HERALD these
gentlemen compose corporation with a
capital of 100000 with power TO increase
to $l,000000. and their object is should
their prospecting tour prove satisfactory, to
purchase areas of timber lands and
TO secure water power privileges, to
erect mills and manufactures; aside from
this, others will make individual investments.
AT 1870 O'Clock they were,given reception
at the rooms of the board of trade. AT the
hour mentioned full house had
assembled, comprising the most PROM
inent business portion Of the community.
The visitors numbering twentyfour oecu-
pied seats on the eastern side of the build
ing and to themselves. Just opposite them
was the speakers stand, and the remainder of
the room WAS crowded with local visitors.
Fronting and in near proximity TO the guests
was lsrge table, the surface of which was
ornsmented with on extravsgant quantity of
Krug, Cognac brandy aud cigars Doc
tor Hughes called the house to order at
about o'clock, in short and very pleasant
address, introducing Mr.. McEnnis the pres
ident Of the board of trade of Dallas, That
gentleman, in return, very modestly stated
that he was no speaker, and introduced
Colonel Simpson, who delivered the follow
ing chaste and appropriate welcoming adj
dress
Gentemen:-As member of the board of
trade of this city, | am charged with the very
pleasant duty of welcoming you to Texas
and to the city of Dallas. No formal utter
ance is requisite to convey to you our well
come; indeed it we're impossible that 1t could
be formal, since but short time before our
assemblage here was requested to thus
welcome you, and to present to your accept
ance the Inequalities of Dallas We have
state here gentlemen, tcodden by you doubt
lees for the first time, grander in its proper
tons and in its possibilities than any other in
the republic. Texas is more than seven
times as large "a Maine, mora than four
times as large as all Of Nav England, indeed
greater than New England, with the states
of New York. Pennsylvania, New jersey,
Delaware, Maryland, the two Vir-
ginias and North Carolina added.
You could lay seven such states IS Maine
within our borders, and the entire middle
states and New England are not adequate to
the task of measuring our area.
The pine lands of Texas, soon to be pierced
by railway now building from Dallas, are
even more extensive than the state you hail
from. You are cutting in Maine to-day lum-
Der at the rate of hundred million feet a
year. We are eauslling that product under
the overwhelming demand from railways
now constructing, and we have and are only
touching upon the outer edges of our meas
ureless pineries. 1expect to live to see the
day when, assisted by the energy, experience
and capital of Maine, we can rival Bangor
in one part at least-in the manufacture and
shipment of lumber.
That energy, gentlemen and that expert
ence and capital we need in Texas; and we
here now invite it to come to Texas, not only
to open our lumber regions, but to establish
on our rivers and streams, in our woodlands
and upon our prairies, manufactures Of cot.
ton and wool. We have water power here
in the Colorado, the Wichita, the San Saba
riveres and their tributorles rivalling hat of
the Kennebec and Andrascoggin in your own
state, We have the advantage of our
waters never freezing, of the ability TO run
every week in the year. There is no reason
why our cotton and wool should be shipped
to Lewiston, Auburn or Saco We raise in
Texas 600 900 bales of cotton year; we have
raised and shipped within the last five year,
Sl50,000 900 worth of cotton and nearly
$50. 000,000 worth of cattle. We wish II
least a portion of the proceeds of this cotton
to be manufactured among us. 1t can be
done, If gentlemen like yourselves, the rep
resentatives of the capital and experience OF
your aourishing state, will come among us.
We invite you here most sincerely. We
commend to you our cotton fields, our fine
savannas, our salubrnus and genial climate.
We take your hands as friends and brothers,
citzans of our great union, living under one
flag.
cannot enter into details on this occas ion
respecting our mineral wealth; suffice it to
say that we have almost every known mineral
within our borders.
The Trunk road, whose representatives sill
here to my right, will soon penetrate series
of iron hills, in the bosoms of which repose
messureless quantities of the finest iron. To
the north and west of u.s. some one hundred
and fifty miles, lie the grandest coal beds in
the southwest. In the same direction lie
copper fields of exhaustless richHess, and |
would that could present to you a sample OF
these wonderful mines now in my Office.
In the Pan Handle of Texas there is gyp-
sum enough to plaster the United States
OF the soil of North Texas you must be- the
Judge, for you have seen it. Nowhere upon
the face OF the globe can you find its supe.
rior; the valley of the Nile is scarcely it:
equal. Describe circle Of hundred miles
around Dallas, and she lies in the centre Of
this fertile plain.