The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-06-15
The Texas and Pacific Railroad,


the columns of the hundred news
papers in every section of the coun-
try that advocate its construction
and in the imagination of Colonel
Thomas A. Scott and its strong
body of supporters in Congress,
and in all our representative com
mercial bodies. An advertisement
has just been issued from the com
pany's Office calculated to dispeI
this illusion. 1t reads as follows
"The coupons of the consolidated
bonds of the Texas and Pacific
Railway Company maturing June l,
1916, viii be paid in gold on and
after that date on presentation at
the Office of the company, No. 275
South Fourth street, Philadelphia. .
This is an exceedingly practical
way of convincing the country that
the gentlemen who are at the head
of this vast enterprise mean exactly
what they tell US in their speeches
and promises and prospectuses,
namely, that we shall have a com
peting line of railroad to the Pacific
ocean, better built than the present
line, passing through a richer coun-
try, tapping a more productive re-
gion, free from obstruction of every
kind from one end of the year to
the other. But the company is not
only paying the interest on its
bonds, without the aid or assistance
of the Government, but, what is
more remarkable still during this
season of commercial and financial
| depression, it is pushing on steadily
and firmly toward the completion
of the great work it has set before
it 1t is now building from Eagle
Ford to Fort Worth, and from Tex
arkana to a point nine miles east OF
Paris, which will aggregate about
one hundred and twenty miles to be
completed during the next ninety
days. This will give an unbroker
line from Shreveport to Fort Worth
from Marshal to Texarkana, and
from the latter point to Sherman
1t is the best piece of road in Texas
and passes through a region which
is described as perhaps unequaled
and certainly not surpassed in th'
world.-B Baltimore Gazette.
These facts in the history of tn
Texas Pacific railroad, which vii
he new to many Of our readers, ar
very significant and encouraging
Elk Governor Jno. c. Brown, of thi
S.ate-who is Vice President Of tn
Texas and Pacific Company, an
now Immediately in charge of til
work-has established his headquaE
ters at Marshall, Texas. Throug
private advices, we learn the sub
stantial fact, stated by the Gazett,
that he expects to construct u
additional miles of road within tn
next ninety days. When at Chat
tanooga, the other day, we learner
from Mayor Chamberlain that thi
company is now filing heavy order
for the iron necessary for the worl
When we consider that since tn
panic of 1873 railroad building ha
been almost at a stand still, tina
capital has sought little or no in
vestment in purely speculative Ell
terprises, except where the return
were large and well assured, an
that roads whose bonds were at
premium have defaulted their intel
est and dropped into financi;
depths from which they have hardl
emerged, we are certainly prepare
to agree with our Baltimore cor
temporary that the wonderful vita
ity the Texas and Pacific Compan
has shown, and is showing ever
day, ought to convince the who
people that the Government coul
not possibly lose anything by len'
ing to this road the endorsemel
asked for by the company. Wit
the aid the road seeks, it can be fiji
ished in a very short time. Wit
out that assistance, its complete
must, IN the very nature of thing
he delayed some time, but there cs
be no doubt of its success in Il
end. In view of the great beneI
!, the completion Of the road wou
confer on SO large a portion of &
country-in fact. upon the who
= country-would it not be wisdo
and policy and craftsmanship
help an enterprise which has shos
itself so abundantly able to he
, itself? We have faith that Co
= gress will take a sensible and liber
view of the matter next winter. Z
+, the people of this section no pT
jected enterprise is more importai
-KnogviHs Tri4une
se---
o Somebody has been trying to f
n ure out on paper, to Ben Butler,
/ Republican victory because of d
,e sension in the Democratic par
r and Ben says: Il always think
the cat story when I hear Of fgf
ie in the Democratic party. Cat figl
IN simply result in more cats"
A. John Overton's farm, ne
~ Nashville, recently, sixty-one bloc
ed colts were sold for S11,721, av
age price $IS2.3I. In addition, tn
~ were sold nineteen head Of Be
z shire pigs, at an average OF sI4l
also eleven head of Cotswold she
at an average Of S1z per head.
tai amount of sale SO, ,22S.
as---
al Taf,f Kfra's rancho at san e.