The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-02

We learn from the best authority
that tho question OF IN open highway
through the Southwest to the Pacific Is
as good ~ settled. A satisfactory ar.
mngonent has been contaminated be.
tween Colonel Thomas A. Scott, Of the
Texas and Pacific, and Mr. Huntington,
of the Southern Pacific OF California, by
which the lattor is to construct his line
without delay eastward from Fort
Yuma, through Arizona and New Mexi-
90, to within hundred miles OF Ell
Paso, there to meet the Texas and Pa.
cilic going west. and thustorminga great
railroad thoroughtare from the Mlssis-
sippi to the Pacific, The two roads are
TO prorate with zach other, and their
tariff OF charges for freight and passen.
gers to ROMAN always subject 10 revision
and alteration by Congress, This CON
esslon to the government 10 IN consid.
Grafton of its guarantee of interest on
the construction bonds OF tho road. BY
his arrangement the two traus-conti.
mental roads, on the forty second and
thirty-second parallels respectively, will
both have abundance Of work, and each
will exercise y wholesome influence
upon the other to prevent exorbitant
charges, discrimination, and other kin.
dred evils
The assurance Of the work being
speedily executed, by having two east.
ern and Western sections, will be apt to
secure prompt action on the part of
Congress, and this government sanction
or guaranty once granted, the now
Pacific railroad will be pushed through
from tho Mississippi to tho Pacific
coast more rapidly than similar work
was ever executed before, Ten thou.
sand graders and trackmen on the main
line between Fort Worth and Fort
Yuma, and ten thousand more in the
furnaces, rolling.mills and machine
shops OF tho country would build and
equip the road by the frat of January,
1880.
And what would be the legitimate
result OF 30 glorious a contamination
As already intimated, it would give
employment to many thousand hands
and food to many thousand hungry
mouths In cities and towns il would
give us the music Of machinery with
the anvil chorus" in place OF the bub-
bio, bubble Of the daily soup kettle
which dolcs out its thin broth to the
starving multitude.
TO the Southwest tho completion of
this line OF railroad would be of meal.
culable advantage. 1t would develop
agricultural and mineral wealth in
Northwestern Texas and Southern New
Mexico and Arizona quite beyond our
present comprehension 1t would
transform large districts OF country
from q wild waste or savage wilderness
into the homo Of millions Of civilized
men. 1t would solve the problem ofre.
by sending 10 the mint mil |
lions of wealth in gold and SILVER bull
on to be coined and redistributed
thu country also by inyt.
ing millions Of foreign gold to be in.
vested in mines and manufactures or
IN the purchase Of railroads lands.
II would solve the Indian problem by
the gospel OF civilization from
a thousand locomotive headishts--,nis.
,'onaries that have never failed to tpme.
into friendship or terriiy into obedience
: e,wild tribes Of the west
Asa measure Of economy, 1t would
save annual millions to the government
IN border protection aud in the trans
portaation Of troops, mails and general
supplied In fact this m easure IN Mi ia
bearings seems so FREQ FROM jobbtry and
70 fun Of benefits TO the whole country. !.
hat one can hardly doubt such prompt
md liberal action OH the part Of Con. |
Jrese AZ will give II early and oonaplsts
Loiis RspubLean.