Year: 1874

How TINS correspondent cOllu ailfln


that "Dallas has passed her zenith, ~


and IL retrograding Is more than Te


can conceive, except on the hypothesis


that he had never visited the city, and


that he derived his information from


persons with whom the wish was


father to the thought. IL is true that


during the prevalence Of the severe


drouth in August, and while business


was stagnant, as 1t always ~ in that


month, there were some croakers even


here who saw in the anticipated short


crop the sure and rapid decline Of the


prosperity of our city. But under the


influence of "the later rains" and the


stimulating effects of an active fall bu-


siness, these croakers have Ind to hunt


their holes, and we hardly think an in


telligent man could be found in the
city of Dallas, one who has ordinary


information about the business that is


being done here now, and the basis OH
which that business rests, who would
not scout the idea of any backward
step in our march of progress, and who
does not confidently look forward to
the day as not very far distant when
Dallas will not only not have any peer
in the southwest, but will claim place
by the side Of the oldest and proudest
oitiao Of fba onpfipont NNifh;n ,,,,
hundred yards of the HERALD Office
the buildings that have been compile
ted within the past month and those
that are now in course of erection, will
not fall short of two hundred thousand
dollars in their cost. And as it is i'm
this part of the city, so it is in every
other part. Building and improve
ment is to be seen on every hand. The
saw, the hammer and the trowel are
heard in every quarter of the city. So
far from their being any indication of
Dallas having "passed her zenith," all
the indications are that she is just
herself anew for the race.


On the question of the healthfulness
of the city, the readers of the HERALD
may remember that some time ago we
published a carefully prepared state
ment from the pen OF DR.. John S. Car
showing what the total NOR
tality Of the city was from July, 1878,
to July, 1874, and how that mortality
with the rate in other cities,
north and south. From that statement,
compiled from the official rec
ords of the city cemetery and from 9TH
ar sources, the total number of deaths
within the period above designated was
one hundred and tifty-seven. Estima-
ting the average population of the city
during the same period at ten thous-
and, the per cent of deaths was less than
that furnished by the official mortuary
report of any city in the union. There
Is no doubt that the well and spring
water here is strongly impregnated
with lime. Such is the case in every !
part of north Texas, and all the prairie |
regions of the United States also, if we
are not incorrectly informed. The pc
,uliar diseases to which the Times cor
alludes are not more fire.
luent here, nor of n severer type, than
N Kentucky, Tennessee and other
ime regions, as we are informed by
practising physicians of extensive ex-
)erience.


No one who is looking for home
should allow himself to be deferred
rom coming to Dallas hy fears of find
ng an unhealthy atmosphere or an un-
cline. Situated, as it is, on
he rolling lands rising rapidly from
he bank OF the Trinity to the high
Hills of the prairie, it is thoroughly
and there is no local or atm0s-
)heric cause of disease whatever.