The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-04-26
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l. il want OF enterprise upon the
part OF Waco business men. that waco
doe, not control all the trade upon the
Texas Central rocd from Waco 10
Albany? l. there any excuse what.
ever for allowing Fort Worth mu
Dallas 10 do one dolla. OF tins trade:
knowing the natural advantages o.
Waco for doing the business Of the
towns along that line of road, and the
comparatively small portion Of 1t
done, we supposed it must be due 10
some fright advantage, over the
Texas Pacific which were not pos
sc-scd over the Central, and with a
view 80 finding out the facts upon
this point, an ErAMISER reporter
called upon Mr.. Donald Alien, super
intcudeut of the Northwestern divi--
ION for infoi nation. That gentleman
very promptly denied the statement
that the Texas Pacific did or could
give any advantages IN freight- to
towns on his line. He SAID
he had some time sine spokeu
with Major Waldo in regard 10
to this trade, and that Major Waldo
had fixed the Waco frcight- to pro-
rate with those of Fort Worth aud
Dallas, that those towns possessed no
freight advantages over waco, aud
that the Central would meet all com
potion, and would lend every assist
ance to luild up Waco's trade on her
line, contributing her full share "a
bring the commerce OF the load to
our doors If Waco merchants failed
to capture the trade OF the northwest
il must be attributed to olh'r causes,
than TO railroad advantage. lhA,
Waco had the drop on that -cotr, not
only were trcights prorstcd with Fort
Worth and Dallas, making transport
alton cheaper to all points on his lin
from Waco than from iis rivals, hu
/ that any merchant could make his or
der to Waco and receive his goods
/ any time within twcuty-tOur hours
That goods placed on his wharvcs IN
the evening reached any points thi.
side of Cisco in less than twenty hour
and Albany IN thirty six, while il
could not hc done from either ths
Fort or from - ,llas. We are on Tia,
same line o.: road and there is II,
transferring Of ircights, aud there l.
no reason in the world why Wac,
should not only do the trade of town.
on the line, but also ui Hamilton
Comanchc, Sipa Springs, Brown
wood and other smaller places of IL,
road,
This is An important question
which we submit to the citizens Of
Waco. We may not hc able to say
ourselves, but certainly the -hrcwd 4
business men of our town should
know why his field OF trade j. not
controlled. The cnmac or cau,c-
should be discussed aud removed
To mention all the causcs would pro
long this article to 100 great . length,
but we eurmisc that many OF them
are small things that can be removed
without pcrcrpiiblc expense, aud by
simply foregoing a few selfish and un-
profitable habits that we have fallen
INTO. and which those who have them
would he gladly rid OF, and hya hltlr
judicious advertising, not in the new
papers alone but in n thousand way,
some OF which will be discussed ia
to.morrow's issue. We tear that our
whoirsnlc meu have fallen INTO the
fatal error that n Wholesale business
does not need dvertising, We vii
venture the assertion that no whole.
-alo house ever grew tu extensive
proportions, or even hvod TO ANY
length Of time without * cu.iyc hd
Ncrtisiug in som" term.