The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-05-30
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The Iron Horse Harnessed for An Hun.
drcd Nile Heat.
The Dallas and Wichita Railway In tho
Hands Of Moving, Pushing Men.
Grading Commenced and Iron
en- Route.

II Ia with more than ordinary salts
faction that The HERALD announces
the final settlement OF the yexed Dali
las and Wichita Railway matter.
Yesterday contract was closed with
Messrs. Henderson and associates, OF
NJ. Louis, TO h,iild the road and the
following dispatch viii show that the
contractors mean work aud business.
TELEGRAM.
ST, LOUIS, May ~, 1876.
To Q. II, Harrison, Lamar Hotel, Dallau,
Texas
Have Scurry commence grading I'm.
medlately aud crowd II. VIII send
tie contractors tomorrow TO yet out
forty thousand. VIII put the whole
line through TO Denton under contract
Immediately, The iron will be loaded
tomorrow. will leave here by We'd
nesday. NJ. HENDERSON.
1t Is hardly necessary to add that
this intelligence viii be most welcome
TO our people. From the beginning Of
OF the enterprise to date, there has
been one long series OF efforts to place
II on successful basis but In vain.
Now that there Is every prospect OF
the road being put all the way through,
our people can congratulate them
selves upon soon having large and
rich country opened up. The Dallas
and Wichita will run through one OF
the richest, most populous and produc-
tive portions OF the State and reach
one OF the greatest mineral regions of
iron, coal, copper, silver and other
metals In America.
The commencement Of work to-day
on this railway more than offsets any
fancied detriment that the extension
of the Texas aud Pacific railway might
have. On the first Ave miles built
trade will begin To come In, and every
mile thereafter will draw trade, cotton,
grain, hides, wool, hay and cattle.
The road TO Denton, and far beyond,
Is lined with highly cultivated farms
teemlng with produce ready for trans
portation. This road bids fair TO be
one OF Dallas most important feeders.
1t Ia highly probable also that the road,
will be extended southeast from here
to Palestine, thus afiording us another
line to the great pine region, and an
important link toward more railway
communication with New Orleans,
and the Atlantic States, as well as
Houston and Galveston.
One of the most important sources of
wealth, however, which will grow ou.
of the construction Of this road will be
the tapping OF the great iron,
copper, and lead region Of
Texas in the northwestern cor
ner Of the State. SO soon as the
road reaches there, fresh impetus
will be given to the establishment Of
iron works and boundaries. There Is
enough OF the few metals mentioned,
and coal, to supply the South and
West, when once fully developed.
Already some OF our most sagaclous
cattle men are establishing large
ranches In Clay, Archer, Throckmor-
ton and Baylor counties. The.Messrs.
Mlllet have fifteen thousand head on
their range in the latter county, and
some Of the extreme southwestern
men are thinking Of driving their
herds up into that magnificent grazing
country, where they are already COM
parstively easy OF access to railways
and will be more 30 when the Dallas
and Wichita Is pushed on out there.
Another advantage to he derived by
the construction OF this road will be
that II may at no distant day
be pushed on towards Denver, and thus
bring us into shorter communication
with Colorado, Nevada, the great
Northwest and California, to say moth
ing OF the road now stretching out to-
wards New Mexico, which has trade
that will enrich any city that can
share It. sw
II Is believed that Messrs. Hender-
son and Scurry and their associates
have made all the necessary arrange