The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-09-15
A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT.

Dallas aud Wichita railroad in Nav
last has proven a sore disappointment
! to the people, not only Of Dallas, but of
all that fabulously rich country living
north and west of this point. Indeed
{ IL IS generally known that the road is
to tap one OF the heaviest coal deposits
IN the west, and hopes wece high last
( spring that by the common cement of
cold weather this fall, an abundant
supply of coal would be had by the
Dallas and W iehit ia route. a, figures
greatly reduced from the old price paid
for coal coming over the longer and
eostiler routes leading into Texas from
the northwest. The failure TO complete
the road IN time for the fall carrying
trade has kept out of our local trade
circles hundreds of thousands of dol>
lars, and has worked a serious evil TO
the people along the line, whose best
trading point is Dallas, bat which is far
out of reach by reason of this failure to
complete the Dallas and Wichita,
Both the people of Dallas and those
along the route have been wonderfully
patient, surprisingly so, when We reflect
that the causes operating to retard the
building are SO trivial la, and of then,>
selves, that all combined would not
serve TO delay game of marbles or
disturb the equanimity of dozen
boys for dozen minutes, A few paltry
and unimportant interests which re-
main unadjusted, and which it seems |
to us, a board of arbitration could adj |
Just in few minutes, and this impor- |
tsnt road would be in operation 10 |
Lewisville in twenty days.
One disappointment follows quickly |
on the heels of another. To-day the |
road seems TO be on the verge of re- |
sumption, every thing smiles, but to-
morrow, alas we discover that some |
little fellow heretofore disreearded. |
jumps up, and swears by all the terrors
OF Olympus that the Dallas |
and Wichita shall not bulge an inch, |
shall not turn a wheel until his claim
has been secured, or its obligations have /
been fully discharged in full. Immedi, /
stely all is alarm. There is a hurrying
TO ard fro for day or two, and silence
OF death which reigns along the line of
this important highway of commerce
remains all unbroken the picks and |
shovels, as well as eross>ties rot on in
giorioasly as though no glad note of
reconciliation had ever been sounded |
through the pleasant valleys to be tap,
ped by the claim-murdered Dallas and
Wichita.
The world will go on all the same,
perhaps,t 1t is never completed, but lust
in this immediate neighborhood, and |
possibly in few other spots the blank
will never be filed. and few hearty |
groans will involuntarially be uttered
whenever luekless citizen happens to
recall the splendid opportunities thrown
away by the wranglings of the adverse
interests which sat down on that un-
lucky road and frightened trade aud
traffic from the route
Where is Colonel Henderson Where
Is Doctor Reid Where is the Kansas
City rolling mills man Where are
Pointer and obenehain 2 Where are
the president and directors, and finally |
and empbaticsily, where is Calder2 |
Why the deuce doesn't some one of |
EN- poke up his head SO that an indie-
nant patient, but suffering community
can take look at il. and gather in
spiration for unpleasant aud irritating
forbearance, while competing points
quietly lug off the trade which of right
belongs TO Dallas alone.
One good healthy toot from ballas
and Wichita engine would be worth as
much to the aching ears of Dallas mer-
chants, as were the first faint notes of /
the Scotch hag,pipes to the spirit
broken garrison of Lucknow.