The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-06
OUR FIRST SEPTEMBER EDITION
IL Leads she Wan ana ENeeis Ahy-
thing OF the kiSd ever Pnblished
ia the south.


thing OF the kiHd ever Published
ia the south,
We are 10 receipt OF several OF the ls'
September editions of toe various newspapers
in the ,oulh and we have examined them
with exceeding interest Tho interior jour
nails of this state, tho Waco Telephone and
the Examiner, the Gainesville Register, etc.
do not claim TO write up fully and 10 detail
either the business Of tho state at large or
their particular sections or cities or towns,
but in general way they have gotten out
most creditable and excellent issues in the
lines pursued, and We wish for them
most sincerely that they may continue
TO expand and grow in usefulness
in the lAudable direction they have taken.
The Galveston News, one If the best
newspapers in the southern county or out
e il, comes out with qusdruple sheet like
tho Herald in quarto form. As IN tho
pa,t it Ia rsplete With we'll selected and nest
admirable matter, ia printing on its second
page railway map of Texas, exhibiting the
status of the roads up to the time of its go
ing 10 pross, and combining tho balance of lis
space to description of the towns ard
cjtiAs along their routes, str tho manner
adopted by ourselves. Avid all this ii docs
Ia mos nesterly style. Like lis pledecti.
sors, this issue is "a credit TO the state aud 70
Itself ~ we'll The three Now Orleans
m ,rnius dail,Cs also issued what they TO-
spec'ively termed their champion" ana
MANN 9th" and extraordinary" editions.
buI IN these their "annusl reviews" they re-
s'rieted themselves, in accordance with thelr
immem rial custom, almost exclusively to
on exhibit of the business of their own i'm
mo''s'o city, simplifying on its specially
pursuits to the omission of much Of impor-
lance besrlpg on the balance of Loulsians'
tho building up of which through due infoI-
NATION TO the immigrant, would by just 20
much contribute TO tho increase of their
great and glorious capital city. The Dsllss
HERALD on tho other hand, sought in its
enterprise TO embrace The entire state, col
lee 'ug The data of each and every city or
town, some one hundred in number, Of any
shipping or producing importance in Il state
some seven times as large in area IS our
eastern neighbor, and six times rs large as
New York, describing the leading counties,
some 3D. this being about the number Of
p'Ishes n The "Sugsr Bowl" state. 1t gave
also the census of 1880, every county in the
Sac, over 200, rs obtained from Washing
ton chg direct; the story of our great rail
way lines, nearly A, 400 miles in length; their
status, their wonderful procy'ss and devel-
cpment, their exact locus, Capacities, routes,
&c; also distances, between all railroad
points on every line. 1t also set forth in q
general manner and by often detail of The
valuable mineral wealth, the building stones
tho agricultural and stock interest, the pc
lticsl, social, economic, sanitary and flnsn
cisi phase of the stste. 1t likewise pub
lished, by special permission, the great mar
OF MIR Edward Atkinson, showing Texas tC
lead the civilized world in area and
probable outcomes. And, therefore
; i! Is that in the abundance o.
: its mulhfarious matter, obtained
through its specially deputed intelligent
, energetic and painstaking sgents,by persona
visitation through the entire stste,ths HERALI
HI; been enabled TO furnish to its readers il
r vast variety and extent of information, AM
with accuracy, about its own state, TIL
; LARGEST AND REST COMMERCIAL EDITION
EVER ISSUED IN THE SOUTH, And !hi5 vii
do for our fret effort in such direction, yn(
. when no preparation throughout the yes,
had blon made in tho way Of laying a.id,
reference articles, nor active work beguI
, until only q few weeks prior TO tho lnal coz,
Summation for the press In veriacation o
the statement just above made as to thu
quantity OF our lat September reading mat
Tor, and for whose quality We assume sppro
val, We submit the subjonet
table Of the following papers
calling attention also to the further impor
tan. fact that ths qusdruple issues of III
: HERALD and tho News do not include, rs d
toe three Ner Orleans papers, the matte
OF tho regular morning daily, which wei,
separate issues with both papers.
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