The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-23

norton of north Texas, showing the Vaiiou'
railroads centering at d alas, and lraversine
the country around and about tine ci'y' LII
injection with this map, it ia not inappro'
pirate to give brief outline of what norm
Texas is. what its facilities and inducemeh's
are. what pro spects it holds out to the imm''
grant and possesaor of capital seeking sale
and remunerative investment. Win TINS
outline. as q natural sequence, goes some
facts relative to the importance, The advan-
tsges. the prosp ,rity and the future OF Lar
las, the great railroad center OF all th''
sple ibid region, and the entrepot ana outie'
for its trade and commerce. oai
man shows in reality but about
thrse,fifshs of that section of the state prop
erly known as north Texas and embraced
in that region of which the trade ana pro-
d lets naturally tend toward our city. Bu'
the principal object is to show the various
lines of railroad having focus here, and Inc
directions they take, it answers its purpose
and will give the reader an accurate idea OF
the country they penetrate. North Texas
we may say, is that scope of country lying
north of line rushing from the east TO the
west through, say the town of Mex's, or
about the central part Of the limestone
country and extending from the eastern
boundary ofthe state, to say the western
boundary, but for all practical purposes in
50 far as trade is concerned, let as say to
line running north aud south through the
eastern limits of Cuncho county. BY refer
ence to the map of Texas it will be seen that
this embraces al area of territory larger Than
almost any two states in the Union, and it
likewise embraces the most populous per-
ton of the state, that is to say
that portion of it which Is
thickly settled. A large number OF
counties in this district we have outlined
are yet but sparsely peopled and are given al"
most, if not entirely. TO pastoral purposes, im>
menae stock REACHES being found at all con"
venient points on the water courses with
their multiplied thousands of cattle, TO cay
nothing of the sheep that roam over the
broad prairies Contiguous, and live the year
around on the nutritious grasses Indigenous
to the soil. This belt is the gr lat granary
Of the state. Here the cereals are produced
in abundant quantities, and in quality equal
to the very beat. The climate and the soil
are both we'll adapted to the cultivation OF
grain, aud already Texas wheat is taking
a It md in the markets and commanding
most remunerative prices both for its excel
lence and its early date. But north Texas,
in the matter of production, is not restricted
to grain, for here in this latitude is the
habitat of our grand southern product,
cotton, the faecy monarch of commerce 10
whom all nations and all people acknowl-
edge allegiance and psy court. Our splen-
did black waxey and black sandy and
rich bottom slluvial lands yield
bountifully of cotton, giving to
thu Be-. industrious husbsndmsn from
one to two bales per acre to reward him for
his toll and his care.
Aud not only is the cotton yield immense,
but it is Of the most superior grade, the
staple being long and fac and creamy in
color, making il priz ID by all manufactures.
Ali the vegetables known to our country, all
varieties of uits all the grasses peculiar to
latitudes, are produced to perfecN
ton, aud our forests and prairies and hill
sides and valles abound with rare and beau
tiful q IRA and ferns, moses and lichens.
When this magnificent scope Of country was
evolved from the prolific bosom of nature,
Ceres and Pomona, with gladstone hearts IN
hsppiest mood, smiiisg upon II, marked 1t
for their own, and the wood nymphs. and the
nsisds too, throughout all its extent in us
sylvan shades, and beside its purling. waters,
reared them temples sni grottoes Tor their
fetes and their sports. With lie blue skies
"A bright and besu.eous as ever were bendsd
above Italy; with its mild. yet brscing
winters: lie springs all Genealogical and
vresthed 10 faowers, tonchsa by the magic
fingers of Iris; its summers genial, KIND,
clsa in zepbyrs. and lite autumn. glorious in
Their rich gsrniiure Of russet sud yellow
crimson and brown, and their fond memo
ries Of the summer jlst gone, their gentle re-
minders Of the winter son TO come; its soil
90 rich with the fsiness Of fertility, so lAvhh
in lie gifts, 20 varied in its ofsrines, north
TEXAS Is the Hesperidss Of al our sOuthlsnd
Already fairly populous il ia rapidly becom-
ING more %. Rsilr1Ais now built and IN
curse Of construction trsserse il from iis
one limit 70 the other, aud are rapidly form
ing I. network Of highways snd byWays tyr
ia p-educss and lie commerce. Looking at
tb. Tex.. q Psci6e rsilrOsd already built
and completed 70 pOiot m5re than three
hundred miles vsss Of Dallas and for one
hundred ssd seventy miles eastward 10 The
I,ouisisna line aud thsncs on 70 Shreveport
tvert,-tuo miles further. and approaching
II Peso At rate Of one mile Per day OF iron
lsia. vs see that il goes thrcuzh ihs heart
Of porth Tsrss and il econ 70
became a. imnsuss ArisfT, "A sorts
n commerce fo- NE spseey passage Of ne
t-.s. Of The osie1t and TIE
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