Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-29
GREAT TEXAS.
New Englanders in the Empire State of
the South.
What Distinguished Northern Hen Say of the
Lone star State and the SOuth-What
DenisOn is Doing.
Boston Herald.

Daily Herald, under the editorial man
agement of Mr.. George B. Goodwin, has
just made its first appearance here. This
Is another enterprise in which Mr.. W. p
Rice is largely interested. The Herald
makes a most creditable debut, and the
Denison people say it viii be a success
from the start. In its first issue the
Herald prints a series of remarkable let
tiers addressed TO Mr.. Goodwin which
must be interesting to hundreds of New
England people who are financially in
terested in this thriving New England
city of the South. The following are
brief extracts:
Governor Ross of Texas: ''The gov
ernOr offers his best wishes for the sue
cess of your enterprise. and has no
doubt of your wisdom in choosing your
location -
Levi P. Morton: ''I am pleased to
hear that you are about to issue live
daily newspaper, which is to be devoted
chiefly to the interests of benson. The
opportunity for personal observation Of
your enterprising city is a pleasure which
l look forward to in the near future, but
the vast resources and natural advan-
we'll known, and will, l trust, continue
to attract enterprising settlers and in
vestors. -
Secretary of the Treasury Window:
"The development of the Southwest and
the possibilities from the natural adj
yantages of the rapid growth of DenisOn
are subjects the treatment of which
would require an elastic pen. trust the
Herald may meet with abundant success,
and presage a continued steady advance
of Denison IN material prosperity -
Charles A Dana: "Texas is a sur
prising state, and from what / learn of
Grayson county, it is not only geographic
caIIy that it belongs to the top tier.
Denison S situation ought to make it a
great manufacturing center. Coal and
iron are close at hand, energetic people
hard at work on the spot, and dollars
pouring in for investment from the
North. -
Alexander K. Mcclure writes from
Philadelphia: 81 beliye I was the 6Tst Of
Northern journalists to advise the tide OF
immigration to turn from the West to
the Southwest. You of the empire state
of the South, and soon to become the en-
pire commonwealth of the Union, have
everything to stimulate Advancement and
TO invite capital from every section and
cline. In establishing the Herald you
are about to do the best work that can be
done for your state and section, and l
wish you abundant success.
Hon. Charles Z. Bartlett Of New
Hampshire writes: ''I never saw Deni-
son but once, and it was case of love at
first sight. Nature has endowed Deni-
son with charms to the last degree of ex-
travagance and prodigality. Man has
been tardy in getting in his work, but
he will get there just the same. There is
nothing that civilization requires of ma
tive product that cannot be grown or
made in and around benson under con-
ditions and advantages as favorable,
upon the average, as exists anywhere in
the United States. Manufacturing is
Denison 5 great necessity. / do not ex
pect she will be overwhelmed by an army
OF new industries all rushing in upon
her at once, but do not expect to see
coming, one by one, two by two, and l
do expect that in the near future her at
mOsphere viii become vocal with the rat
tie and rumble and roar Of her multiply !
ing Industries, and that the time will
come when her sick and sensitive people !
will have 10 ill their ears with cotton or
flee, even to Kansas City, for quiet and |
rest. -
L. H. Edmunds, editor Of the Balti- |
more Manufacturer Record, writes:
1.-THE great iron ore deposits tributary to |
Denison, the countless supplies Of pure |
Bessemer ores III Lian0 county, and the |
vast but yet undevelOped coal fields of |
the state are commanding the attention |
of Northern capitalists. The coal |
and iron of Texas viii be the foundation |
upon which a great industrial develop |
ment will be built, and this will be sup |
plemented by cotton and WOODEN mills |
and a diversity of industries which viii !
be a necessity to the millions already |
living there and the millions more that !
are to be added to your population. The |
tide of immigration Of men GEd women |
has already set IN from the North, |
East and West TO the great !
Southwest, and North Texas will !
soon see a steady stream flowing /
that way. Reverent!y, / may say of your |
section, as Frederick Taylor, the New |
York banker, lately said OF the whole
new South: 1T has every advantage |
that God could give. A new era dawned !
upon your state when New England cap |
Rice, commenced the development OF |
Denison into an industrial city. New
England money has followed lr. Rice by |
the millions into the West. and it will
follow him now into Dpnison, until the
city becomes the center of vast manu-
featuring business, with its great steel !
and iron works, cotton mills and other
ministries -