The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-15
TIE DALLAS HERALD. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE u.s. 1. !,

abound with tanning materials. Therefore
wooden mills and leather manufactures of
every kind we can have 10 every community
Our eastern hills are full to overlooking with
iron ore unsurpassed in quality on the
face of the globe or anywhere within
It's bosom, while all TO the west and
northwest of Dallas are inexhaustble
coal fields to fill the fuel banks of furnaces
and foundSies and rolling mills with their
needed supplies. We have timbers of M
m rous varieties suitable for furniture, for
tubs and buckets and barrels, and for wagons
ana carrisges. Wehave siex for glass man
ufactories and clsys for tho potter, while
kooin for the finer qualities of queensware
can be had in ample abundance. These facts
being true, who can gsinssy them'
All these things, along with our cotton right
ia our front yards, "a i: were, tell
US why manufacturing will not pay
10 Texas? And above all, why
should not Dallas become a great
manufacturing city, Why should not the
CHATTER of water wheels be heard on our every
hand? Nhy should not the heavy clouds Of
black smoke from the chimneys Of rolling
mills and f1undries and furnaces and car
shops and innumorable other similar indus
tries rise daily above our city to rest like a
coroLet MS it wero 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
world of water in the Trinity river,which if
properly utilized would be worth millions TO
us to run the machinery of countless mills
OF every description. Now for 100000
hydraulic cana, can be started five miles
above this city and brought right into GU
corporate limits, concentrating the waters of
the Trinity that will furnish the power for
the machinery Of manufactures that it
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 divi-
dends to great stock companies. We are
slumberrg upon our advantages. Weare
negligent of our facilities, We arc resresnt
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 tho fullest advancement Of all
our interests, when we would be great and
strong in wealth and commercial importance
and power, when we would DO an empire in
ourselves in all material things, and welding
an influence upon the destinies of our coun-
try commercially and politically that nothing
could bend or resist. Our state, and especial
ly our section hare, would be a Hesperiden
garden filed with golden fruits indeed. 1t
would be land of riches, of comforts,
Of happiness and contentment
a land Of beauty, of splendid homes, land;
with all the embellishments and identifying
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 in
tho railroad improvements going on all over
the state, aud va havs but by intelligent
endeavor to seize the opportunity to glide or
with that flow to an enduring prosperity,
IfDallas sits supinely now, gazing on like
some dreaming Hindoo maiden beside "the
gurging Ganges" until the tide turns, sho
will ever after DO Juggling at the oars sgsins,
the force of the ebb, even to hold hsr own