The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-12-30
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DALLAS Is the conceded com ercial ce nte,
Tor north Texas. Her growth in popula
ZION and wealth has increased her faclitie,
as Wholesale town, and white her success,
as large city is fact assured beyond a
doubt, her business men will soon learn
that to control tho trade of MANY of IN,
surrounding smaller towns she must have
direct railroad communication. Ii the sur.
rounding towns are TO be reached by n oir.
cultous route II will prevent Dallas from
competing with other wholesale points
that nave more direct connection.
uranting that some of the railroad corpora.
lions In Texas are unfriendly TO Dallas and
prefer to advance the interests of other
towns, they will find 1t difficult to retard
her advancing steps. They will find ere
long that 1t is equally as necessary for the m
to be on friendly terms and have access 10
Dallas as II Is tor Dallas to desire their an.
trance to this city. The benefits will az
reciprocal. Wo have some wholesale honse,
here now whose proportions are coloss Al
We ntte, too, the arrival of mon OF wealth
almost daily who are here TO make their
homes and seek profitable inyt stmsnis
This being the case, the day Is not far dis
tsht when our own people will begin to see
the necessity Of building railre ads to pene.
traso sections of country whose trade is now
almost Inaccessible. Some OF these towns
are only too ready to lend a heIpinr hand
In the construction OF such roads. Only n
lew days age prominent citi, en-
from Decatur, Wise county, said
that II Dallas would take hold
Of the matter and construct n rond
from Denton to Decatur, tho citizens of The
later town, he was sure would furnish the
iGht'of'way and make the road bed. Such
a road would DO OF ,noalcuable benefit TO
this city II would open up fine trade
along the line OF the Denver & Fort Worth
road aud up into the Panhandle, that bs,
hitherto been diverted from Dallas and
thrown into other wholesale towns. IL il
also known that the people of Gaines.
vile are anxious to get ,ome
immediate connection with Dallas, Only
lew weeks since some OF her leading c,ti.
1ens were here to inquire II Il were not nos.
sible to get the Trunk road torun north as
Tar at Gainesville, II there was a prospeo,
OF accomplishing this Gainesville would do
her part, and II is safe to say that it is tho
Wealthest town OF Its size In the state.
With that extension made aud then this
road which Is now Dallas enterprise
pushed forward in the direction of
New Orleans with the view of max
ing the Crescent city the southern terminus
II would be difficult to toretell what great
benefit Dallas would derive therefrom, II
will be said, We know, that the plan is no,
feasible. ltisnot so difficult irthe matter
was once taken In hand with the intention
tooarry II out. Jefferson, Texas, furnishe.
an example OF what few men OF wealth
and nerve can do. They built the East
Line road through n section of country
where for the first forty miles there were
only ten small towns and but few peo.
pie living in the country. The
work was complete success,
aud OF great value to Jefferson.
There was no speculation In construction,
but everything was done with the care that
the projectors would have given their own
business. 1t is true they afterwards sold
the majority OF the stock Of the road but
they had benefited the town and retired
from the management with small fortunes
and minority of good paying stock. There
are plenty OF men in Dallas of large means
and there Is no doubt but that the building
Of roads, at least from here to Gainesville
and Decatur, could be done not alone to the
beneht OF the town, but as an Investment.
As the city grows older the necessity OF
these enterprises, as well as that Of the cen
OF a narrow.gusge road from Dal.
las to Brownwood will be moro apparent