The Dallas Daily Herald

LIGHT AT LAST.

Every arrangement has been made for the prompt recommencement of work upon the Wichita road, and that supremely important line will now be rapidly pushed into the great and fertile Northwest. By December first twenty-five miles of iron will be laid down and locomotives running. Ere Dallas knows it, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas will pour her freights over this line into her marts. The completion of the gap between Palestine and Dallas will then be but a question of twelve months' work. That road will certainly be built.

With the Wichita striking the immense semi-bituminous coal beds lying northwest of us, that article of fuel can be delivered in the city at three dollars per ton. That being the case, St. Louis itself cannot compete with us as a manufacturing center, and five years will develop a population in this growing and beautiful city of not less than 60,000 people. They are coming now, by the thousands from the North and the East, but the building of these great lines, all centering in Dallas, will lift her forward so wondrously fast that our own people will marvel at her progress. Light is breaking at last, and The Herald is glad of it.