The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-07-12

rival of a friend before turning my
steps eastward. Idon'tknow whether
your readers are acquainted with the
locality of this place. If not, they are
informed that
FORT GRIFFIN
is located on the Clear Fork of tho
Brazos river, in Shackleford county,
about thirty-six miles southwest from
Fort Belknap, and is now occupied by
four companies of United States cav
airy and one of infantry. Two of the
former are of that class who fought sc
nobly in our late onpleasantness. They
look well when on parade-in the
rcar but when advancing III line to-
wards you, you wonder why it don't
rain immediately--the clouds are sc
black.
Taken as q whole, this is a beautiful
section of the State. The valleys oil
the Clear Fork and other tributaries OF
the Brazos are uneXcelled in the pro-
auctions of the small fruits, but the
rains are not sufficiently regular here
to produce corn well, or any other crop
which ripens III the late summer OF
autumn. In May and June of this
year the farmers had, like those OF
Dallas county, more rain than
they needed, and numbers are now
specializing rs to the prospects of II
good shower. ] hope they may get it,
for they are deserving, and the rain is
needed.
As with the majority ! have met on
the road up, the Fc6ris oi9 Fe,Ti is the
prevailing epidemic here. Each per-
son is confident in his opinion that the
Texas and Pacific Railroad will be
built on the line which he, the said
individual, has selected in his own
mind. AT Weatherford, the road was
sure to go through that place. AT
Palo Pinto, they were hopeful but not
confident, as the said town is hard to
get to or from.
Al Pickettville, in Stephens county,
near its centre, they kn0w the railroad
will ruin them by running right
through their main branding pen! /
expect to hear from other points, with
in two degrees of latitude, that said
Texas and Pacific railroad will run over
and spoil. There have been several
lines run. through the country west of
the Brazos, and engineers are still at
work. My own opinion is o what
it always has been, formed from a thor
ough topography Of the country here
tofore, viz: That one branch of the
road, (which one / cannot say), will
run from Fort Worth up the West
Fork of the Trinity, to n of the creeks
running into it, from the west thence
up said creek in a westerly direction,
to the Brazos, near to or at the mouth
of the Clear Fork; thence up that
stream to either Elm Fork, or Paint
Creek; thence up the valley.o one of
them to the Staked Plain. BY this
rout the road will run through a rich
section of country, and through the
centre of the coal region Besides this,
certain landed interests will be bene-
fitted, but the railroad company will
receive the most benefit.
The country on the frontier Is rapid
ly settling up, the line Of emigration
extending from Red River, in Clay and
Wichita counties, southwest, through
Archer, Throckmorton, Shackleford,
Jones, &c, and these settlers seem to
have come to stay. Lands are worth
here now, from s2to SO per acre, but
the land owners, who are mainly nom
residents, among the Peters Colony
lands, seem 10 be indisposed to sell. \
notable exception, however, l. Colonel
Graham. who Offers a large quantity