Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-07
Dallas In Danger.


1t must be particularly gratifying 10
the progressive people OF Dalias 10 con.
template the prospects OIL speeuy
/ construction OF one on Two failWay
lines to connect Dallas with couhties
that have large business patronage
for their merchants. IL Is pelns con-
coded now that we can rest upo. our
ears no longer, but must plunge tnein
Into new drifts and seek new points
OF traffic for our facilities. as was
clearly shown in the mershants' eN-
change on Monday, there lie 10 ihe
northwest of us not only magnliceht
farming regions filling up win Tue
very best and thriftiest OF population,
but which are full OF those articles
which always make fich ana
populous the immediate Vicin-
ties, rs well as the city where me sup
| plies are drawn, viz coal anu IRON
Pennsylvania and Missouri ana rem
nessee understand well the meaning
OF the existence within their limlts ol
this mineral and this metal. Phila.
delphia and st. Louis are attestlhg ana
prominent witnesses us to the out
comes of their development. Alabama
has more recently come to comprehend
the singular significance OF her black
diamond deposits, ard her Birming-
ham jumps along from little village
of q few years ago into an important,
thriving city of several thousand souls
to day. The passing through of the
railroads disclosed the treas
ures of iron ores in close prox-
unity. and so added hundreds Of
thousands of dollars in Alabama
.,f ri IN hn
neighborhoods. In our proposed line
from Dallas, as stated, travelling fur
Their west we reach the cattle country,
which will open up additional bust
ness i'm the live stock interest. But
these are all flaming facts, well known
TO our citizens. To the southwest and
inviting in their prospective values
but Of the highest moment for perfect
compensatory realization. We had
Santa Fe railroad company
would have aided us as
the transporting agency in these latter
reckoned without our hosts. Is IL not
possible that they may yet be induced
TO cooperate with our people and put
good of all parties?
There is one thing, however, that
the sooner we conform TO the better.
Indeed 1t is an absolutely indispensable
factor. We mean hearty, united ac-
ton. We must pull together first
for Dallas. Having secured something
| for Dallas, we may scramble n little bit
for sectional selections. 1t is pure child's
| ,aln Cf IN tn
gether and merely resolute themselves
into glory. The visionary does this,
The poor man of over sapguine tenn
permanent. sits in his closet and
dreams plans of n fine house in ease,
mapping out precisely the location
and size of his Intended rooms, drafts
on fine plat of gorgeous grounds,
with here an arbor, and there a
fountain, and yonder n conservatory
lof dollhouse plants, with here
a stable and yards for his horses and
blooded cows and poultry; but his
wise, alert neiehbo is at work digging
the soil and sowing the seeds for prac,
teal plants while the idler dreams. 81
equally vicious and foolish is the do.
nothing policy Of the miser, or him
who waits for others to SOW that he
) may reap. Dallas has too long dreamed
that she was secure and beyond sue
cessful reach of rivalry. Again, there
are some in our midst who own prop.
, critics here, and who in all honesty, ii
/ not from patriotism and local pride
ought to contribute their quota of the
Q needed funds or labor, from who's,
workings themselves will he proper
4 tionately benefited.
IL. And IL MIGHT we'll la gnfI .iua