The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-08-16
TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILROAD
HOPE LONG DEFERRED REALiz-
ED At LAST.

On Tomorrow, August II, 1910, tlc
Texas and Pacific Railway Company
will formally receive from the contrac-
tors the completed road from Long
view to Dallas, and within n day or
two will commence running its freight
and passenger trains on schedule time
from Shreveport, Jefferson and Mar
shall to Dallas, via Hallville, Long
view, Jordans, Saline, Minneola,
Wills Point, Terrell, Brooklyn and
Scyene.
Thus the pc ople of our city and sec
ton (after twenty-one years delay, SUI
perinduced by two financial convul-
sions and several years of anarchy and
misrule), will tomorrow realize in all
its fulness the first fruits of the grand
conception of one of the ablest, most
practical and purest men whose name
adorns the pages of Texas history-the
peerless General Thomas j. Rusk-
hero, statesman and patriot-pure and
spotless.
From Shreveport, on Red River, to
Marshall is forty miles; Marshall to
Dallas, hundred and forty-six
miles; total, hundred and eighty-six
miles. We have already connections
as follows: From Marshall to Jetler-
son, sixteen miles; at Minneola with
the Great Northern Road, which runs
by Tyler, Palestine and Crockett to
Houston; at Longview with the Inter-
national, which runs by Troupe, Jewett
and other new towns, hundred and
ninety miles, to Hcarne, on the Cen
trail Road.
These communications, within six
months Chiefly in less time), will be
extended so as to connect Shreveport
directly with Vicksburg, Jackson and
Meridian, Miss, and thereby, through
a continuous line, connect Dallas with
the entire system of roads in the South
ern States. Secondly, via Jefferson
with Fulton and Little Rock and, as
already in operation, with Memphis
by one line and st. Louis and Cairo by
another, giving Dallas three other con-
nections with the railroads of the
whole border States, the North, East
and West. Thirdly, from Jefferson,
via Clarlsville, Paris and Bonham to
Sherman, to be rapidly extended South
west to Fort Worth.
Thus connected, and our main Texas
and Pacific soon to pass Oh West to
Fort Worth, Weatherford and thence
across the high table lands of Texas to
El Paso, the valleys of the Gila,
the Colorado of the West, San Diego
and San Francisco, on the Pacific coast,
well may the living spirit of John
Neely Bryan, our oldest Dallas pioneer,
or the dead spirit of John b. Denton,
one of the martyrs of North Texas
civilization, from his unknown from
tier grave of thirty years ago exclaim,
"Velily, what hath God wrought"
Spirit Of Bryan, still spared to us!
spirit of the heroic Denton, in his un-
marked Village Creek grave! spirit of
Waco Brown, a prisoner among saw
ages here forty-nine years ago. spirits
of the numberless dead by Indian mas
sacre on our ever changing frontier,
awake! and tell us if these wonderful
developments, these miraculous trans
mutations, are for our good and the
good of your descendants in the days
to come? Teach lis to receive and en-
joy in humble thankfulness these
mighty changes since your days, and
guard us against the sacrilege of flip
PANTY treating your precious men,
ory and long suffering herOism, as
sold fogyismw Save us from that in
CRATE manifestation of disrepect and
In their day your pack
mules, wooden carts, hunting knives,
steel mills, hominy beat
ers and jerked buffalo meat were as
necessary to life, to happiness, to de-
to independence, liberty
and social enjoyment as are these
developments to your children
of to-day. Honored be your memory
among men and women so long as
Texas has a name on earth! Thrice
honored! for you blazed the unknown
and we but follow. Years
have rolled on, and in this year of
grace A. ID. 1873, Dallas, the first settled
place in all this region, has the steam
and telegraphic communications here
in referred to, with all the older States
of this union of States.
To our own people LET us recall the
fact, that in this realization OF the
dream of Rusk, sustained by the minds
of Houston, Kaufman and Pilsbury,
seized upon and kept alive through
evil and good report, through mis-
understanding and villiication, by
a worthy successor James w. Throck-
norton, we can Today point to its
fruits, aud challenge your verdict-isit it
well, or is il not +? 90 TO Marshall and
see the machine shops being erected by
this Company. Step to the Pacific
Railroad, corner Of Houston street, in
Dallas, and examine that magnificent
car, the first TO reach the Trinity on
this great international thoroughfare.
Think not it was brought from abroad
It was built at Hallsville, of Texas
good and iron, where all the rolling
Itock Of this Company is being
manufactured, and for which we
ire largely indebted to the know
,e8ge and sagacity of Major John
F. Dickson, General Superinten-
lent of the Road, now a visitor to
,ur city. Think Of the blessings to
low to Texas and her working people.
~ the establishment of such factories