Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-12-25
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A town u nov being laid out Al ihi.
place, by Kansas men, called Flor
snee, al old Ralt Creek station on
He'd River, Just west Of tho upper
Cross Timbsrs, equally distsat from
fmts Arbuekls and Sill, The
AlehinsOn and Topeka Railroad Of
Kansas. now under contract 10 Em-
pOrla in the Neosho valley, aud To-
Gated 10 tho Usage lands on Valiant,
il is expected will como 10 this
place, connecting with the Memphis
and III Paso Road, at or near old
Fort Bslknap. This road is now
completed from Topeka, Kansas, to
Burlingame and the work Is being
pushed 70 Emporla,
The St. Louis and south west
road ofMisouri via Springfield aud
Fort Smith, will come 10 the same
point. The first Legislature will
TO asked TO charter a company to
build road from Florence across
Texas 10 Preside del NOrte, on the
Rio Grande, at the mouth Of the
Rio Conohos, In time this road
will cross Mexico TO the Gulf Of
California, We suppose here, that
the Central road will soon DO built
TO Dallas, and also that the Shrsve.
port and Marshall road will DO ex.
tended TO Dallas. We are already
contemplating n read from here,
down Denton and Trinity TO Dallas,
a distance, | am told, Of l25 miles
This road will be extended via Hen.
ristta TO the Copper Mines in Arch
err county, or the Mineral regions of
North western Texas. Thus you
will have an eastern and northern
outlet to Chicago and direct con-
nection with Mineral regions OF
North western Texas. We have al
ready, in connection with other
mail routes, asked = tri.wcokly mail
to Dallas, connecting here, with
mails to Forts Sill and Arbuckle,
OF course, We expect in short
time, . Commercial City hero on
Red River. With our road to st.
Louis, also to Topeka, tho capital
of Kansas, connecting with roads
to Chicago. We must control the
cattle and cotton trade Of Western
Texas. With our road to Dallas,
we shall be in connection with
Shreveport, and over the Central
TO Galveston and New Orleans. Our
road from "Florence" up, via Hen
rietts to the Mineral regions, will
also secure Us connection at Stur-
man or some point on the Memphis
and FL Paso road, east. 1920 acres
Of land has been secured, for our
town here; 900 Of il to be laid out
into town proper, tho balance into
10 and 20-acre lots. Reservations
are being made for schools. Ono
fourth Of all lots are TO DO gwen to
actual settlers.
The balance is divided into 80
shares, each share to contain so lots
in town and 40 acres in out lots,
part timber and part prairie, each
share is to be made as near equal as
possible, and sold at $500 each, cur.
rency, $3.50 down, 500 LIST Of June
next, S125 in ono year, and SIPS in
two years; the 500 on let Juno goes
to build, q $4,000 school house. !
write you this hoping we shall have
the active cooperation OF the Poo
pie of Dallas in securing o mail
route to your city, and also q rail
road from Dallas to this place, and
thence to tho mineral region North
west.
I am your obod't serv't,
s. N. WOOD.