The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01

a ian-Naru ana hdl worked Tor tllItY-tYC
years at The business ke was greatly dc
/ lighted with the material, and looked upon
| il rs hC ag the best he ever knew.
The rrrgvng statement of facts | feel
1 fully f.lcd to make, from my own OH
seryuuuu and experience. | do not feel
| that they give anything more than truth
/ FIJI view OF the merits of the mesquite | am
/ fully satisfied it offers TO Texas anincyhaust-
able source of wealth; and it should be a
source of large profit to DR.. Park, who has
| bruugh, it out to Il knowledge of the pub
| lie and has placed il before the couutrv.n
Thus it will be seen that we havc the iacili-
/ ties for Thinning hides and pclts into leather,
and why should we not do it; that we may
| have boot .nd shoe factories, trunk factories
and saddle and harness factories at the
! doors ofour tanneries, to supply ourselves
and everybody else with what they NAV
need in these lines7 Ifthc farmer makes
his own bread, his own beef, mutton and
hog meats, raises his own poultry and eggs
milk and butter, fruit and vegetables, what
he receives for his cotton his surplus corn
wheat, other small grains, fruit, vegetables
milk butter eggs and poultry and meats is
pure gain less the cost of labor and the cost
of those things he can not raise and actually
needs. So it is with state that raises and
manufactures all il needs. Manufactures
everything the farmer can raise and
the manufactures in addition to
their home markets have foreign
markets. The money that is made at home
is kept at home, and other moneys brought
from abroad to go into circulation; hence,
everybody is prosperous, everybody has
money, and the state, as Il whole, is pros
porous and happy and wakes strong and in
iluenta commercially, and wakes strong
and influential politically likewise.
THE OPERATIVES
for manufactures can live nowhere more
chcaply than here in Texas. The climate
is so mild that it costs little for fuel and
clothing in winter. Everything is raised
here that anybody wants to eat With the
best endowed free schools on the face of the
earth, there is education without money
and without price for their children. Then,
all these things considered why will not
manufacturing, in all Of its branches, pay
in Texas?
Now We will consider of the
wATER-PowER
in Texas. We take it that wherever there
is stream of constant running water,
patcr-power can be obtained This premise
granted and the facilities for water-power
of New England, or in any of the other
states of the Union. In western Texas,
commencing with the Colorado river and
proceeding westward, we find some streams
with as fine natural water-pOwcr as ever
turned a mill-wheel. From Bastrop, on
the Colorado, on up that stream as far as
We have any knowledge of it, and that is,
by its winding course, some hundreds of
miles, there are numerous falls and still more
numerous rapids, where no artificial dams
would have to he resorted to. On the Blanco
river, u short, rapid stream rising in the
mountainous regions extending through
| Blanco, Gillespie and other contiguous
counties, empties into the San Marcos river
not far from the town of San Marcos, in
Hays county, there are innumerable poir is
afiording splendid mill sites. Three miles
| above the latter town, thirty miles west of
Austin, and on the international railroad,
the San Marcos river bursts forth from the
side of q hill, from an opening in the bold,
rugged face of a rock, in volume of water
that is twenty feet wide and four feet deep,
going with velocity like to an arrow, for a
mile or more, when it tones down to a
much less rate of speed Of current, and on
| it rushes to the point where it debOuches
into the Guadalupe, some siyty-five miles,
or thereabouts by the windings of the
stream. The water is as clear rs crystal
and as cold as the coolest spring throughout
the year. From its head to its moutlt~this
river is filled with splendid sites for manu-
! factories of every kind and iii were in New
England, where manufacturing enterprises
engage almost exclusively the attention OF
the people, il would be worth n countless
sum of money. Twenty miles further west
ward on the International railroad we come
to New Braunlels a German town in Comal
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