The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-17
DALLAS EXCHANGE AND COIN.
COMMERCIAL.

DALLAS. November l6-Thc growth of n
city depends upon the amount of business
transacted within its limits. A city with
no business to push her forward is city
finished, which will gradually fall into de-
cay, and age and decrepitudc, with their
concomitant.i ills, will subvert. its .vigor and
progress as such, as surely as they retard
and destroy the enterprise and usefulness
of an old man in his dotage To demon.
strate the increasing business of Dallas II is
only necessary to refer to her growth dur.
ing the present season. We will not at
tempt to determine the number of houses
erected here since the first of March last
but we can give near esti-
mate OF our advancement by
recountng the quantity of buldini,
material used in this city since that date
BY enquiring we learn that over ten mil.
lions of brick have been manufactured. and
that this large amount have been laid i'm
walls in this city. In addition to this the
stone, used in the erection of houses and
foundations will aggregate fully onc-hall as
mneh more 10 demonstrate more fully. q
building, such as Schneider n Davis have
erected, consumes about three hundred and
tifty thousand brick, and 4. L. Marsnlis
fully rs much more, This amount of brick
ana stone would erect fifty houses of the
dimensions of those named or would build
over I'VE thousand feet of two.story build.
ings, were they erected continuously
along any one Of our streets.
Then We have received during
the same time over five thousand carloads
OF lumoer, which have been used largely In
Improvements IN our city not only for
business houses, but Tor residences. Should
lhis DC added TO the brick and stone, il
would be enough to build city of rcspcct.
able dimensions in any State In the West
or south, This of itself gives evidence of
the business prosperity of Dallas, and that
100 IN season when our agricultural In.
dustries have been cut short by drouth and
when other causes have TRANSFERRED to brinc
dependency and retard progress In manv
other localities in our State and In lin
South generally, Next year our prosncrilv
will be greater than it has been tho
present one. New. railroads will be
lnaugurateu manufactures will be
established, new business houses
opened, and new trade will como 10 our
city, as in the past, almost unsolicited and
unasked. No one living to-day can fore.
shadow what the business of Dallas will
be in five years from this time, but Il IL moi
extravagant to predict that she will bo the
largest aud most important city In the
South west of the Mississippi river She
has already attained to distinction all over
the country, and no outside influence can
retard her growth or her manifest greatness
asa commercial centre.
business has been fairly active In all
wholesale lines, and there Is instead of A
lull, which usually occurs about
this season of the wear. nm
Increase in every branch of trade. The trade
OF Dallas extends west with the building
: of the Texas & Pacific road, and every now
town laid oifand started adds TO the num.
. Der ofcustomers Of our wholesale dealers.
Our retail trade has also been lively mud
all in oil there never has been more bouy.
ant feeling among business men than AZ
the present time. We have no chnnres In
note In prices, and the market Is pcnerally
steady. Meats arc very firm with ten.
ycncy OF on advance, Flour Is also steady.
NV as yet there Is no change 10 note nj,
smnugh dealers anticipate a fisc soon. 4,
wn no, probably not 90 much higher anti
S w's, he holidays, and may then meet
WV uccl,ne instead of an advance ''''
"farish' Of Leon Springs, Dcsar coun.