Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-26

DALLAS, Tex. March Is, 1911.
The good people of Dallas love to call
their city 1.-The Chicago of the south
west" 1t is the busiest and the most
boastful, the most enterprising and pro-
gressive city south Of Kansas City, and
more like a northern city than any other
place have seen south of the Ohio river.
Fort Worth has grown more rapidly;
Houston does a larger volume of BUSH
ness, but Dallas has a greater variety
of interests. is more cosmopolitan and
up-to-date and has recently undertaken
a regeneration movement which will place
it far in advance of all its neighbors.
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More than half the population come
from the north and they have. set the
gait; most of the business
Northern is conducted on northern
c.4<,.. capital with northern meth
S'A'' DDS. and two Of the biggest
mercantile institutions in Chicago-Sears-
Roebuck Company and Butler Bros-have
recently established branch houses in
Dallas which promise to increase the vel
ume OF business with leap. Last year
the jobbing trade amounted to $133, O0O,-
600, an increase Of $40 ,000, 900 from 1909
and $42.000OO0 from 1908. and II the total
for 1911 does not pass $175.oo0,0OO every
body will be disappointed
Five or six years ago nearly every
farmer in this part of Texas was rais-
ing cotton exclusively, but since that
time they have taken the advice of Sec
rotary Wilson and diversified their crops,
greatly to their profit. Five or six years
ago the ranchmen were still raising the
| ShiOned
steer. Today every one is grading up his
stock. is introducing short-horns and
Iierefords. and is raising forage crops to
fatten them instead Of shipping them d.
deal more than outsiders realize. because
the greater part of the profit in the cattle
business has gone to the niddleman, who
took the steer from the range and fat
luton Of the cattle business offers a very
interesting study. but it is the natural
and inevitable consequence Of the barbed
wire fence and the gang pillow, which Is
tearing up the turf of Texas by thou
sands of square miles every spring.
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There is a great demand for labor Of
every kind. Fifteen million farmers are
wanted in Texas, and
Great Demand fifteen million working
AVA tso"vA' There is demand for
mechanics and artisans of every craft as
we'll as for common labor at high wages,
and II the workmen who are crowded to-
gether in Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and other cities could realize
how much better off they would be down
here. and how much healthier their fami-
lies would be-. perhaps some Of them
might come and accept the advantages
that are offered in this section. There is
room for everybody in Texas. There Is
wealth for everybody who knows an OPP
portunity when he sees it and has the
brains to utilize it. Never has there been
such a rapid increase in population, In
trade, in building, in values and In every
other respect as has occurred in Dallas
during the last five years. Everything
has doubled.
Dallas did not actually realize her own
opportunities until ten years ago. 1he
census of 1890 showed 3a,O57 population,
and there was an increase of only 400.
or IL per cent, during the next ten years,
but in 1905 the city took start and has
been gaining impetus every month: The
federal census OF June l. 1910. showed
o.. 104 Inhabitants. an increase of 116 per
cent, and 1t Is entirely probable that :. 800
people have come In since that time,
which would make the present popula-
Gus. everything brings big prices. there
has never been a failure of crops In this
part OF the country and the volume of
business is piling up daily.
The receipts Of the post office showed
an increase of Is per cent last year. and
reached the total of $64s. 7O1. leading the
fifty largest cities in the United States.
Atlanta was second with an Increase OF
1899 per cent and Dayton was third,
with an increase of 12.39 per cent. These
were the only cities showing better than
10 per cent increase.
The real estate transfers last year
showed an increase of more than seven
millions. and the bank deposits more than
ten millions.
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The chamber of commerce has recently
issued an ingenious advertisement In the
form of a map with
Dallas circle drawn on ra-