The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-03-28
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tbe mighty Allcghenies and the new city of
Denison on the plain in the fertile valley of
tho most remarkable of all streams, Red
River: vet, Notwithstanding the great dis
tance. it requires but eighty hours to pass
from one place to the other
EaIlv pioneers of the West were forced
to travel in wagons drawn by jaded teams,
and to camp out at night, suffering untold
discomforts and hardships, while now the
emiorant can travel in elegant cushioned
coaches. with ease and comfort, in fewer
DAYS than it formerly required months to
reach a destined point.
When we say that eighty hours will suf-
fee to reach Denison from this point, the
reader will naturally inquire, where is
Denison ." In answer to this question, we
would say that it s''the terminus of the Mis-
souri. Kansas and Texas Railroad, five
miles south of Red River, in GraysOn cOun-
ty. Texas. where less than seven months
apo tie first town lot was sold, and where
to-day there is 4 resident population of five
Thousand inhabitants, and to which point
there is now flowing a constant tide of en-
igration from all the old States and from
the Old World. It is place to which the
iron horse is now running with its freight
of human thousands, from whence they are
penetrating the most beautiful and most
rapidly developing portion of our vast do
main.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail
road and Texas Central Railroad Compa-
nes united III selecting and purchasing two
thousand acres of land, and upon that land
is located the thriving town of DenisOn. 1t
is an excellent and charming site for city,
having enough declivity TO render it sus-
ceptibie of any drainage, and having upon
it number of springs gushing forth at va
rious points and a plentiful supply of good
water readily obtainablc by sinking wells
in any part of the city. 1t is headquarters
for the Texas Division of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad, and here the
Company has located the passenger depot
and erected warehouses, machine shops, cat
tie yards, etc, besides large and commO-
dious hotel for the accommodation of the
travelling public. The Texas Central is
now completed to that point, making it the
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the headquarters of that Company's oper-
ationS.
In the year 1866 treaty was entered
into between the United States Govern
mcut and the Creeks, Cherokees, Chicke-
saws and Choctaw Indians, whereby the
right OF way for one railroad through the
Indian Territory was granted to the first
Oh ha
from the north. The Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad won the right of way by
being the first to reach the northern boun-
Diary of tie Indian Territory, and pushing
its way onward, traversed $50 miles thro
the Indian Nation, crossing Red River on
a magnificent bridge and entering Texas at
what is now the populous and prosperous
town of Denison.
The Company first organized as the
Southern Branch of the Union Pacific Rail
road, but subsequently changed its name
to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail
road making a conneXiOn between their
land grant line and the great railroad cen
tire at st. Louis, by means of the Sedalia
stem, and plunging southwark through
into Texas, it became n road of wOndrous
importance to St. Louis, and the only one
that will for years to como unite Missouri
and the great West and Northwest with
Northern and Western Texas-a gigantic
road that viii richly reward its sagacious
and enterprising builders, as it must soon
become one of the most important and
a.
goal of great ambition was reached when
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
penetrated Texas at Denison.
The completion to that point of the Texas
Central road gives to Denison direct rail
rood 'IraientioIa with Houston, Gal
weston, Austin, and all other important
towns in the State of Texas, thus placing it
in position to command the trade of all
sections east and west as it now does those
north and south of it. Denison is, geo
graphically speaking, most eligibly located,
commanding as it does the trade of the en-
tire country surrounding it.
From Ebensburg to Denison there is to-
day, by way Of the Pennsylvania Central,
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago,
or the Panhandle route, the Missouri Pa
cific, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, and
the Texas Central Railroads. an unbroken
chain of rails to the cities of Austin, Hous-
ton and Galveston, making the distance to
the above named cities, and all other i'm
portant points i'll Texas, 600 miles less than
by the old route Cta New Orleans and the
Gulf of Mexico.
The Wichita Agricultural, Mining and
Manufacturing Company and the Texas
Immigrant Aid and Supply Company have
made Denison their headquarters and have
erected warehouses and comfortable quar-
ters for the reception of colonists when
they reach that point by either road, and
where ample provision is made for their
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