The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-05-10
DALLAsAND wIcmIrA.
Arrival Of Railroad Mngnaics -Enlhu.
S'as'ic Railroad aseiing- EaII, Com.
pleiiOn oil ihe Road Promised.

hlAstic Railroad Meeting EafIy Com.
pleiiOn oil ihe Road Promised.
Denton MoaltoEl
Last Friday Colonel W. j. Clark.
President OF tne Dallas aud Wichiui
ltallroad Company, A. +. Obenchain,
Director, NJ Henderson, contractor
aud Colonel ;. j, Adams, Director ar.
rived III the CITY VI Dentol, and stop.
ped al the Trans.ConlInenta Hotel,
Tor the purpose Of ascertainIng wheth.
or the keople Of Denton were disposed
10 do anything toward ASSISTING The
completion OF this important enter.
prise. On Saturday at | o'clock a large
number OF our leading citizens assem-.
Died al Tie Presbyterian Church, Can.
tam 4, w, Daugherty rs Chairman
addressed the meeting In regard To the
Importance To Denton of this road
and introduced, In appropriate terms,
President Clark, who stated 10 the
meeting that In few days the Dallas
~ Wichita Railroad would be finished
Tor lVe miles, that two locomotives
hau been purchased, together with thlr.
W cars, aud twenty miles Of iron; that
The road would be completed TO The
Denton county line by the first of july;
That LewisvIlle had taken $1,000 In
stock, with the promise Of five thou
sand more, aud that the road would
oe completed to that village by the
hrst OF September, and that II Denton
would subscribe fifty thousand dollars
III Stock payable on the first of No.
VemDer, 1876, they would have the cars
running here by that time; that If they
Jailed to run the cars here by that date,
the subscribers would be released
from the payment of the stock sub.
scribed. He said he had contracted
with Colonel Henderson, representa-.
i've OF the Iron Mountain road, TO
build II from Lewisville to Denton at
9lOO,OOO, provided Denton would do |
her part in stock, and that he had al.
ready arranged to pay 100000 of this
money, and that he would make other
arrangements for the $4,000. Colonel !
Clark then delivered strong argu. |
ment In support Of the necessity of |
this road TO the people OF the South
west, and especially to Denton and
Dallas, He said he was no railroad |
man himself, but many Of the people
were acquainted with him, and that
be pledged his word upon the honor of
a man, that the road would pe built to
Denton by the LIST day of November,
1876, II our people would take stock IN
II to the amount of $4,000,
Colonel Adams then addressed the
meeting endorsing every word Of Colo
mel Clark's speech, and made one of
the strongest and most reasonable
railroad speeches to which we ever lis
tened. He called attention to the brief
time since which the entire property
OF Dallas was not estimated at but
ABOUT two hundred thousand dollars,
and now the assessment rolls footed
up four million five bundled thousand
dollars; said that Denton was worth
about the same now that Dallas was
then, and that little effort on our part
to encourage railroads, the latter
would do for Denton for what they had
done for Dallas.
The Monitor notes the speeches OF
Colonel Henderson, Captain Daugh-
erty and Judge Hogg speaking well of
ALL and concludes its very well written
article with the information that
through the efforts of Captain Daugh-
erty's soliciting committee twenty
thousand dollars had been subscribed.