The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-16

faco of the globs or anywhere within
liz bosom, while all 10 the west ana
northwest OF Dallas nre lnexhanasible
coal Gelds,o oil tho fuel banks Of furnaces
and foundries and rolling mills with Their
needed supplies. We have iimberS OF mn
merous varieties suitable for furniture, Tor
tubs and buckets and barrels, and for wagons
ana carriages. We have slick for glass man
ufactories and clays for the potter, while
koolin for the finer qualities of queensware
can be had in ample abundance. These lac"
being true, who caa gainssy them!
All these things, along with our cotton right
in our front yards, as it were, tell
us why manufacturing will not pay
in Texas? And above all, Why
should not Dallas become a great
manufacturing city? Why should not the
chatter of wster wheels be heard on our every
hand? Why should not the heavy clouds oil
black smoke from tho chinneys of rolling
mills and foundries and furnaces and Car
shops and innumersbe other similar indus
tries rise daily above our city to res. ike
coroLet AZ it we're unon our brow, emblem OF
prosperity, of thrift, OF enterprise and OF
greatness? Running to waste right at the
feet of our city, right before our very eyes Is
a world of water in the Trinity river, which II
properly utilized would be worth millions TO
US to run tho machinery of countless mills
of every description. Now for SSoo,oOo
a hydraulic canal can be started five miles
above this city and brought right into GU
corporate limits, concentrating the wat rs OF
the Trinity that will furnish the power Tor
the machinery of manufactures that 1t
would cost million of dollars to erect and
establish. If this stream was in New Eng
land, inside of two years it would be making
ten millions of capital pay handsome d'Vl'
dends to great stock companies. We are
slumbering upon our advantages. Wear
negligent of our facilities. We are reereant
to our opportunities and we are letting the
years glide by US, simply existing,
or at most accommodating and
developing but slowly when
we might be taking giant strides toward that
Ultima Thule of perfect growth of all our
resources and the fullest advancement of all
our interests, when we would be great and
strong in wealth and commercial Importance
and power when we would be en- empire in
ourselves in all material things and welding
on influence upon the destinies of our coun-
Try commercially and politically that nothing
could bend or resist. Our state, and especial
" our section here, would be Hesperiden
garden filled with golden fruits indeed. 1t
would be land Of riches, of comforts,
of happiness and contentment
q land of beauty, of splendid homes u land;
with all the embellishments and beautlfying
and refining and ennobling influences that
money and culture and gentleness can give.
Texas is young giant sleeping, and needs
but the awakening touch of energy and en-
terprise. The flow of the tide is upon US 10
the railroad improvements going on all over
the state, aud Wa have but by intelligent
endeavor to seize the opportunity to glide on
with that flow to an enduring prosperity.
If Dallas sits supiuely now, gazing on like
some dreaming Hindoo maiden beside "the
gurgling Ganges" until the tide turns, she
will ever after be tugging at the oars against
the force of the ebb, even to hold her own.