The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-29

clear to the Gulf OF Mexico,
which will place Dallas at the
head ola direct waterway to the
Gulf and the Panama canal, and
will give Dallas direct water con
neotion with European ~portsfand
is bound to make this city as
great d cotton port as Houston.
Dallas has 1866 people, is the
largest city in the State and is
the commercial, jobbihgN and
manufacturing centre"of the
whole Southwest. The city has
an organization known as the
Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Club, with thousand members,
which is one OF the most indetat-
igabfe workers we have even
seen. The city has fourteen mag
nifcent school buildings for the
whites, with about 1880 chill
dren in attendance. 1t has hive
coiored schools, and thirty five
colleges, academies and private
schools. The city is right up.to-
now in charitable institutions.
churches, sanitariums and clubs,
the last OF which she needs the
fewest, for Dallas is certainly an
oasis near the desert drynegs OF
Indian Territory.
Dallas has a Carnegie library
that was constructed at o cost OF
SOC, 900. She has eight railway
systemic, running in fifteen differ
eut directions. Eighty-tour pas
senger trains arrive in the city
daily She has seventy miles OF
street railway, and an inter Urban
railway thirty-fve miles long
Her death rate is only II per
1000. She has twelve banks,
with 100000 deposits. She
has ninety seven churches of all
faiths.
Dallas claims to be the loading
manufacturing city of Texas
She has 466 manufacturing estab-
lishmeots, and with the eye OF an
eagle is looking out for more.
In these factories are employed
about 5000 people, and she dis
tributed last year nearly $75,000,-
600 OF manufactured products.
The country surrounding Dallas
is the garden spot Of the world,
and her crops-that is, wheat
and oats-are the finest in her
history. Her cotton acreage is
greatly reduced from the same
cause that reduced our acreage
in Mississippi he excessively
wet weather. The cotton is from
two to three weeks behind time;
the stand appears good, but the
lateness Of The season, combined
with the reduced acreage, re
moves the terror of Texas, to a
great extent, from the minds of
our cotton gro wers.
Dallas appears to be no pent.up
Utica. She is constantly reach
ing out for more trade, and she
is now assisting in the supplying
of a number Of the adjoining
states with the necessaries.
We go from here to Houston,
Galveston and San Antonio, and
we confidently expect equal hos
pitallty to- that extended to US
here at Dallas, for Texans are all
the same and their generosity
knows no bounds. They live in
a State that has ever been bap-
tized in blood, from her struggle
to relieve herself from Mexican
oppression to the closing days OF
the civil war. She has W d e
plains and fertile valleys, a con-
tented population and growing
cities. The great American des-
ert, that used to be the bugaboo
that scared the average citizen
awaJ from Texas, has vanished,
and in its place has sprung up
fertile farms and thriving towns.
Of course, she has had her ex-
perience with the boomers; but
they have vanished, and in their
stead has come the bona fde cit
izen, with a heart as large as his
beloved States domain. He be-
lieves in showering favors on his
guests, and be has completely
won US by his generosity. We
in the same condition as that
young Confederate soldier who,
when bidding his sweetheart
goodbye to go to tho war. emit
ted the following:
ct is hard for we'uns from you'uns to part,
For you'uns have stolen We'uns, heart.n