The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-22

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with great respect, your friend,
JOHN II. REAGAN.
DALLAS AND a COTTON MILL.
III THE DALLAS HERALD mas persi 81
emily aud consi t,btly fought for any
QUO Interest In behalf Of this city for
wears past, IL hss boen IN the direction
OF u cotton mill. No enterprise has
bsen so needed, no enterprise has
offered such magnificent returne, ard
no enterprise seemed to single Dallas
out as, par exCelleues, ita place Of hsb'
jtatton. Other portions OF the South
have grown IN this particular, and tho
communities OF the fortunate locations
have grown in poOul atom, money cir
culation and general prosperity beyond
the seuguiaa hopes of the promoters Of
tho enterprise, and yet, With greater
facilities than any Southern poins as
regards saipmonEs, cotton center, de-
nsud for tho products of mill, labor,
sudiadoea every advantage, our wide
awake Queen City" has allowed all
our talk 70 come TO nothing in tho
premises.
BuC with Dallas the day Of talt has
passed. Acion, energetic and progress
sive, in every important limo must take
the plac6 OF design hereafter and q
cof,0u mill must, and ws confidently
ex oeca rom what wo nor hear, vii
ho ono OF the DOM plotted achievements
of tho Immediate future. OsaAiged
business 10, IL sesms, directing it's At
tonhon TO This matter and when this
10 accomplished the desired results
must soon foilow. One Of our largest
firms, that OF BLANKENsHIP d BLAKE,
have called attention of Eastern capt.
TAI 90 the subject in q letter to the
Manufacturers r. cord, of Baltimore,
and tho presentation which they make
ia so pointed that beneficial results
must enaus. A portion of their letter
is worthy of reproduction in any
Southern paper, and particularly 80 in
Texas. They, among other things,
say:
awe have the finest opening in
America for Il gond cotton and woolon
mill; we have abundance of cotton and
wool, home production, cheap coal, and
q splendid Wholesale market III the
nidsb of the finest country il the
Union. We could eut up, ourselves, Tbs
production OF mil Of considerable
capacity. It. is strange to us, with such
advantages to be- found at no other
plsra in the South TO equal us, capital
ists snd manufacturers DO rot fad us,
Tne saving III freights alone would ne
a good prof to any mill. ForinsGancs:
bale cotton, 800 pounds, @SlA .....$42 80
Freight to mill, 81 10 per lou pounds. 5U
sis 70
Say 1t produces 1000 y'ds drill. freight
on same 10 return to us, 25....... 70
Total Observation-Disclosures. .So4
or clear saving to tho manufae
st Dallas Of $l2 90 per bale, or nearly
80 per CENT, which would be in ITSELF "a
fue profit, aud then sell for what tho
eaatern manufacturers goods aatu lay
cost; or we could ship Guo goo1s 20
Ne n York and sell them agalnaJ any
competitor. However, that wouid nOt
have 20 be done, AZ our market wonid
easily tago up the production of q mjll
If = milton dollars cApi5al, or "a large
"a tho Eagle and Phsnix of Coium
bug"
To this people THE HERALD has
boon uraing tbsae very argume mas
for years, but un'ortu lstsly 90, for
without any practical respDnss on the
part of capital. The fact aad figures
are iucsnuovsrtibie, Gnd offor Induce
ments to capital of the most splendid
character. We could have had no
self II motive in the promises, bat
the statements made wSra none
the leas convincing. Now shat bust
ness men directly interested in the
matter hav0 spoken, it is to be hoped
that attention, both at home and
abroad, will be conferred on the subject
and thst some practicable sad desira-
b 10 results will be ssen soon. a cot
ton mill at Dallas would uaqussblon-
ably produce two magnificent returns:
1t would add to the population and
business activity of the city largely,
1t would moss richly compensate
it's promoters and incorporaiors. 1t is,
therefore, to be hoped that this plain,
but strong business showing OF. MEssRs
BLANKrNsHIP IL BLAKE will attract
rsne we'd interest 70 the subject,
and servo to crystallizs opinion in
the premises.
A.