Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16


With few exceptional days our
people could go about the streets
all winter long in their shirt
sleeves, during the daytime, and
would rarely feel the need OF
an overcoat at night. Will these
statements stand true of Dallas? II
they will then Mr.. Cabell is not far
wrong in instituting the comparison
he has instituted. If they will not,
then the comparison falls to the
ground, and Mr.. Cabell is playing the
role Of fool who speaks of what he
does not understand. or that of the
falsifier, who makes misstatements in
order to mislead.
As to the value of our land, there is
no land sold here for 81 500 which is
fair to compare with any land sold
anywhere for $40, the price the Meas
puts on Dallas property. Land sold
anywhere at $40 is for agricultural pur-
poses pure and simple, that sold here
for 81 ,5O0-we speak of unimnroved
property-is prospectively fit for
business or residence purposes. Now,
as to any land in Texas being as
good for agricultural purposes as the
poorest of our tillable soil, this is a
statement which will not bear the test.
We have thousands of acres of fine
land which is held at $50 to $3.50 per
acre to which for profit no land in
Texas can be compared. For all We
grow here we have ready market at
our doors, and always will have.
Home markets always insure fair
prices. 1t is too we'll understood here
that our lands produce from two to
six crops a year, to need discussion.
Tomatoes, peas, cabbages, potatoes,
and innumerable other crops, mature
here all the year round. Crops of hay
are cut six times year. All our
farmers know well that alfalfa mead
ows will yield per acre s1C0 worth Of
hay. If there is any $40 land in the
Long Horn State with such record,
then Mr.. Cabell is an intelligent
and truthful person, and his
statements are worthy of all
credence; but if there is not
enc acre in Texas which will yield one
tenth of that revenue per annum when
see ded to hay, then Mr.. Cabell can
not be at the same time intelligen
and truthful. Either his wits or his
veracity have gone to disastrous de-
cay. When we come to grape crops
that pay 500 per acre, to raisin
patches that yield $3.50 per acre, or to
oranges whose revenues will run to
$500 per acre, then where is the SIC
land of the Lone Star State, then what
becomes of Mr.. Cabell's intelligence
and where is his reputation for truth
and veracity? In view of sucf
facts-w hose correctness we all know
whether Mr.. Cabell does or not-his
$40 land sinks out of sight, his wits
are wool-gathering, and his state
ments are false as Cressid.
/ AS to things being over done-how
can that be when we have ranches o
80, 600, $4,000 and $1,000 acres each
and coed land, all lying under winter
less skies, where snow is absolutely
unkno wn, and yet on many of these
great tracts there are not fifty souls
How can things be overdone when we
import all our manufactures? How
can they be overdone when
we import butter, eggs, cheese
and potatoes, because oul
increase in population has been sc
phenomenal that we cannot keeK
pace with it? How can things be
overdone when every house in the
county is rented before it is finished
when rents, material, labor ant
money are all much dearer than in
any other section of the Union? Sucl
facts carry their own comments, they
are all indices of prosperity and O
growth. The Ne,Us snd its cabals
are ont of place in their discussions.