New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-07
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES
pFFIClAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
The Texas Pacific Railway

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Tavas Pacific railway" embracing the
Grading. bridging, tieing and track laying
~ zoo miles Of the above road. The Texas
Poetic road is what has been heretofore
known as the Southern Pacific OF thirty
second parallel road. The entire line has
passed into the hands Of able capitalists,
embracing some OF the most vigorous and
wealthy railway builders Of Europe and
America, and has been placed under the
control of Thomas A. Scott, Of the Penn
sylvania Central. This fact alone gives
a guarantee of success. The line of this
road extends from Shreveport, on Red
river, in the State of Louisiana, to San
Diego, California, distance Of about l4JJ
miles. Its route is near the thlrty-secOnd
parallel, passing through the towns OF
Marshall, Dallas and Fort Worth. on the
southern division, and Jefferson, Clarks-
Vile, Paris, Sherman aud Denton, On the
northern division. From Fort Worth the
line runs az direct as possible to FL PdsO,
thence along the ella to crossing OF the
Colorado river near Fort Worth, and thence
BY the most direct and practicable route
across the State Of California to San Diego,
on the Pacific coast
The seven hundred miles through Texas
is over a fine rolling. prairie country, well
watered ana timbered. As far west as
Fort Worth-the western terminus Of that
portion Of the road to be- established n
lS73-the country is tOlerably well settled,
and this year has magnificent crops OF corn,
wheat hay, oats and vegetables. Each OF
the counties along the line Of the road 10
Fort Worth has from ten to twenty thou
sand inhabitants. This road has large land
subsidies, and ten thousand dollars per
mile in State bonds, from the State OF
Texas, and from the United States forty
sections of land to the mile, along the route
west of Texas. Through. Texas, New
Mexico and Arizona the road traver5es the
richest portions thereof, in agricultural and
mineral resources, and will develop their
best silver and gold mines. II skirts
the northern boundary OF Mexico, and as
soon as it reaches the Rio sGrande
il will control all the business of the
northern States of that republic, thus
bringing to the United States the trade OF
vast, rich, and productive empire that has
heretofore flown elsewhere. Northern Texas
offers unparalleled inducements to the inn
migrant and settler. It's climate is uDex-
eeptiOnable; its soil is similar to that Of
Iowa and Illinois, and the farmer raises
cotton, corn, wheat, oats, barley and vege
tables in the same field, and in remarkably
large quantities. Heretofore the country
has lacked in facilities Of reaching il, but
now there are two railroads reaching from
st. Louis and Kansas City, extending
South, and connecting with roads built and
projected through all parts of that country
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and the
Atlantic and Pacific join at Vinita. in the
Indian Territory, thence run south to the
Red river, where they connect with the HOUs-
ton and Texas Central which runs south
through Dallas, COrsicana, HeaTne and
Houston TO Galveston. Roads also extend
north from Galveston and Houston, tapping
the Texas Central at LOngvew, also in
Kaufman county, and at Dallas on the
southern line, and at Sherman on the north
ern line. From ST. Louis boats run Tegu-
laTly to Shreveport, from which point the
Texas and Pacific road is built siXty-six
mileR west to LOngYieW. From NlCksburg
a railroad is built and running to within
one hundred miles Of Shreveport, and will
no doubt be completed to a connection with
the Texas and Pacific at Shreveport in a
very short time The completion Of this
road to Fort Worth, which, as we have
stated above, must occur during 1873, will
open vast new field Of trade to this city.
Texas ought to ship us a half million hogs
for our packeries every year, a quarter OF a
million good beeYes per annum, several
hundred thousand sheep, eight or ten mil
lion bushels of corn, three or four million
bushels of good winter wheat half mil
lion bales of cotton, a hundred thousand
hOgsheads of sugar, fifty thousand barrels
Of mOlasses,. thirty to fifty thousand hogs
heads of tobacco, large amounts OF lumber,
pig metal of various kinds in abundance,
and immense quantities of fruits and veGe-
tables of all kinds In return they should
take from us every year a vast quantity of
stoves, tinware, hardware, cutlery, queens
ware, wagons, carriages, saddles, harness
furniture, dry goods, groceries, drugs,
chemicals, glass, oils, paints, nails, boots
and shoes, Teady-made clothing, grist and
saw mill machinery, betting, leather will
low and wooden ware, ground spices, but
ter, cheese, etc.
The magnitude Of our trade with the new
country about to be opened up to us will
depend in part upon the eZertiOns Of our
merchants, and in part upon the cO-OpeTa-
tiOu Of such connecting lines of trauspOrta-
ton as may be established between st
Louis and this great trunk road. In the
outset we have the advantage over any
other competing city in the possession of
we'll organized line of steamboats, plying
between this city and Shreveport, on the
Red river, which is to become the eastern
terminus of this great road. Whenever
there is sufficient water in the Red river to
float our boats to Shreveport, we can take
the goods to this railway and bring produce
from it to this city much cheaper than can
be done by the rail connection which we
shall have via the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, or via the Atlantic and Pacific road.
Unjust steadily be borne in mind, however,
that Chicago is to have direct rail con
neCtiOn with this Texas Pacific road via
Sedalia, aud Judging by past experiences,
we may expect from her sharp COmpeti-
ton for this trade, in which struggle she
will have the usual advantage of sharp rail
way Determinations in her favor along the
line to Sedalia. From Sedalia onward we
presume there will be something approach
ing impartial rates enforced, but St. Louis
need not count upon any advantage to be
derived from her nearness to the field to be
1ol ,1VnI in, ~ fhiaufr.'a
from il. Distances by rail now, when a
Chicago interest is in jeopardy, do not ap-
pear to count much; and we find that Chi
cagO business may be transacted over n
given distance of rail way for about half the
rate charged for st. Louis business over an
equal amount of railway. Chicago papers
boast of this and exultingly claim that the
trade of Texas shall be theirs, Chicago
merchants will work hard for it without u
doubt, and their zeal must be met by more
jealous efforts on the part of our merchants,
Our goods must be marked down to the low
est figure which will afford a profit and the
expenses for selling and carrying the pro
duets Of Texas which may be offered to us
must be cut down TO a minimum figure,
Our steamboats, must cooperate by cutting
their trelghtS down to the lowest living
rate between here and Shreveport and
Shreveport and here. By adopting and ad-
herring In policy such as the above, success
would be assured.
There is one feature connected with the
proposed construction of the above road
which is peculiarly gratifying, and that is
the fact that to the enterprisng fru of
Bofnger & Pegram, of this city. has been
given a large contract for the furnish
ing Of supplies for the road These
supplies win include breadStutfs, meat,
beans, dried fruit, groceries picks.
shOvels, axes, spikes, wheelbarrows,