DALLAS. A city and the county-seat of Dallas County. Tex.. 33 miles east of Fort Worth, on Trinity River, and on the Gulf. Colorado and Santa F6, the :Missouri. Kansas and Texas, the Texas and Pacific. the Houston and Texas Cen tral, and the Texas and New Orleans railroads (Map: Texas, F 3). It is in the great grain belt of the State, and has large manufacturing and commercial interests. The industrial estab lishments include many factories of cotton-gin machinery, saddlery and harness, cotton and woolen mills, grain-elevators, flour-mills, meat packing plant, lumber and planing mills, cotton compresses, cottonseed-oil mills, nurseries, etc.
Dallas is one of the largest distributing centres of farming implements and machinery in the United States. The city contains the Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of Saint „Mat thew, Saint Paul's Sanitarium, With acconninala tions for 200 patients, a city hospital, Carnegie Public Library, a court-house, erected at a cost of $300,000. a Confederate monument, and nu
merous public and private educational institu tions. Dallas has a number of public parks, City Park and Oak Cliff being of notable beauty. The State Fair and Dallas Exposition is an annual event of more than State-wide reputation. The city is governed by a mayor, elected every two years, and a city council, in which rest the appointments of auditor, city engineer, city sec retary, secretary of water-works, and city elec trician; all other important offices are filled by popular election. The city's annual income amounts to about $750,000: expenditures to $575,000, the main items being about $40,000 each for the departments of police, fire. and water-works, and about $90,000 for schools. Population, in 1890, 38.067; in 1900, 42,638.