The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-10-19
WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE DOING
TEXAS RAILWAYS.

The inherent force of Texan progress and
power is illustrated in the condition of our
local system of railways. Within the week
new influences have begun to affect the for
tunes of the Austin, Lampasas and El Paso
Narrow Gauge road. OF this hereafter
But that the road will be built we do not
doubt. Meanwhile, Tom Scott is pushing
the Texas and Pacific beyond Fort Worth
to WeatherfOrd, sixty miles, and there the
road ends till Congress may ena-
BILE him to gather as infinite wealth from
the Union as from the State. Huntington's
road, that costs the people no, hing and is
built by the rich California system of high
ways, will soon enter Arizona to connect
at Ell Paso with the roads of Texas
Whether Congress will give Hunting
ton the "right of way" or Tom Scott $40, =
per mile, is the question we wish settled in
Texas. OF course, Scott can pay most for
the congressional charter, such as he asks.
and we would only have Texas influence
give no encouragement to the mighty
plunderer of States aud of the Union
The Galveston, Harrisburg and San An
tonic Railroad, commonly known as the
''Sunset Route" is completed five miles
west of the fourishing town of Seguin.
From the river to San Antonio the distance
is thirty miles, and along this entire DIS
tar the road is rapidly building.
The entire line of the Texas and New Or
leans Railroad, between Houston and Or
ange, on the borders of Louisiana, is now
completed by President Terry, Judge Cros
by and Capt. Hayes, of Palestine. This
route gives access to the best lumber and
sea island cotton district. of Texas, and a
railway route from Austin to New Orleans
The Galveston, Brazps and Colorado Mar
now Gauge Railroad Company now run two
regular passenger trains, and the Texas
Western Narrow Gauge Railroad, from
Houston towards the Brazos river, goes
bravely on.
There is vital force in the Corpus Christi
Narrow Gauge, designed, we believe, or it
may constitute part of direct road from
the Gulf and from Vera Cruz to St. Louis
The president of the company writes from
Philadelphia: 81 have bought twenty five
miles of iron to-day. Will commence ship,
ping this week"
The Texas Transportation Company has
completed its short line of eight and half
miles OF new railroad, connecting that great
IN ha
Central, with its five hundred, and the In
ternationars six hundred miles of opera
ting roads, with Morgsn's ocean steamships
at CliAton, on Buffalo Bayou. Five steam
ships per week now enter the trade and
unite the interior of Texas by rail and
water with New Orleans and New York
The Houston and Texas Central Railroad
is now surveying, locating and grading the
Northwestern branch beyond the growing
city of Waco to Wtsthe, ord, eighty miles
dIstsnt, in Parker county.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road
is progressing rapidly from Galveston to
meet Huntington's road from California,
and the Denver and Rio Grsnde from
Pixies Peak. Within four years Galveston
will have these two perfected routes; one,
TO Denver; the other to San Francisco
Paul Bremoud and Horace Gone, of thu
East and West Narrow Gauge, haze pro
vided for the construction and equipment
| Of fifty miles of their road from Houston
towards Shreveport, and despite conf agra
tions and thieves and market houses and
destruction, Houston, while such men live,
will grow great. Houses Narrow Gauge
is an extension of Bremond's towards Aus
tin. This last will soon be completed
forty miles to the Brazos and of this high
way the Austin and Lampasas and Belton
road is designed to be an extension. To
induce Mr.. House to bend all his energies
to the completion OF his road to Austin we
need only build twenty-five miles of the
same gauge towards the northwest and so
,rifing is the sum required that even in
the midst of au age of unprecedented
scarcity of money it can be gathered from
our people.
The Tyler Tap is wisely and energetlcally
managed and each day adds to its pro-
gressive length. Even so Of the East Line
Road from Jefiersoa designed to resus-
citats moribund city. It win