The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-12-15

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s sis1sroaa Sc Decatur DaI,ns ~. Fort
worth.
Wise county contains come " Use
men, aud they have finally eonvinc-
cd the bre3.i-horns that Il is fool
aud suicidal 10 continue to expe nd
wagon road rates of freight when the
I adjoining counties have or are ahout to
: receive ths advantages Of railroad
r',tes, and the consequent enhanc e-
meEt Of value in real estate. therefore
[ Wise county l. determined to lave a
railroad. Negotiations were opened
with the Fort Worth people, u meet
ing was held and committees were spN
pointed TO draft articles of organ IA.
ton and Incorporation for the I 9rt
Worth aud Decatur marrow ggage rail.
road company, aud TO solicit subscFip-
tioDs to the capital stock OF the pro-
posed company. The meeting then
adjourned till the evening Of the 18th
instant to receive the reports OF the
committees and perfect the organi1a-
ton Of their company. In the mean
time some of the Decatur delegat on
were interviewed by Captain Lemons,
and induced by him aud Captain
Work to visit Dallas and ascertain
what arrangements they could make
with the Dallas and Wichita railroad
company 10 construct its road to Deca-
tur before they committed themselves
to the Fort Worth project. Accord
ingiy part OF the delegation called
on President CASTOR on the 18th. An
informal meeting of directors and oLh~
the road was called, and the following
proposition made to the Wise county
delegation
PROPOSITION.
The Dallas and Wichita Railroad
Company propose to the citizens OF
Decatur and Wise county:
lst. That if they with hold and aus
pend their subscriptions to the pro-
posed Fort Worth and Decatur Rail.
road Company for thirty days from
date December l2,) that the Dallas
and Wichita Railroad company will,
within that time, survey the Route
from Denton by the way of Decatur TO
a junction with the Denton Creek
route at or near Buffalo Springs.
I'd. That If the citizens OF Decatur
and Wise county will secure aud do
nate 10 the Dallas and Wichita rail-
road company the right OF way one
hundred feet wide through Wise
county on the route selected, and do
nate depot grounds at Decatur equal
in size and location to that given or
may be given ny the citizens of Den
ton for that purpose to the Dallas and
Wichita railroad company, and also
secure the subscription 10y solvent and
responsible parties of IS, 900 to the
capital stock Of said company, to be
paid in five equal payments, AS fol-
lows When the track reaches point
i've, ten, fifteen and twenty miles
west from Denton on the route TO De-
catur, the last pay ment when the road
is completed to the depot grounds in
Decatur, then, these conditions being
complied with, and la case said route
Is found to be practicable, the Dallas
and Wichita railroad company agree
10 construct its main line to the town
Of Decatur, in Wise comfy, within
twelve months from date.
fSigned. W. II. CASTOR,
President Dallas and W iehita Railroad Go.
DALLAS, December II, 1877.
DIR. Calder accompanied the Decatur
delegates TO Fort Worth, and there
met and convinced majority of the
other Wise county delegates that IL
was to their interest To secure the con-
struction of the Dallas and Wichita,
rather than the proposed narrow gauge
from Fort Worth. He proved To them
that the Dallas and Wichita could he
extended from Denton 10 Decatur for
much less money than it would cost to
build their propo-ed narrow gauge
road, aud that the expense of trans fer
ring their outgoing and incoming
! lreights at Fort Worth would Of itself
pay their proposed subscription to the
{ Dallas aud Wichita railroad company
within three years. That il they ss.
cured the Dallas and Wichita that De-
cgtUr would undoubtedly remain its
terminus for year or more, and that
( when the road was extended 10 a con-
uect.oa with the Colorado roads that
/ they would be on trank line, ant
able 10 ship their produce aud receive
their merchandise, 20 and from any
part Of the country, without paving
tribute TO any rival town.
The Wise county delegation having
decided to withdraw their sUhscrip-
tions, the meeting was adjourned until
January Is, to await the final decision
of the Dallas and Wichita proposition.
Now, in the absence OF Hem erson, the
citizens of Dallas will be called upon
to ii. out and pay the engineer corps
that must be put ia the field imme.
diately 10 make the proposed survey
in the required time.