The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-03-30
The DALLAS AND WICHITA RAILROAD
SEEKING CAPITAL IN BOSTON,

The DALLAS AND WICHITA RAILROAD
SEEKING CAPITAL IN BOSTON.
About the first of January. or rather
in the early part Of that month, most
remarkable pamphlet was printed in
Boston by Mr. Henderson, contractor
and general manager, as be styles him.
self, Of the above road For dosur;ph,
Denaacity and shameful misrepresent-
alton OF facts. il jus. surpasses any
thing 10 that line NE have ever seen.
The design of the precious publication
Ia 10 attract capital to The enterprise
sufficient to build it to point where
they would be entitled to good
amount OF bonds Evidently the book
was not intended for circulation here.
notwithstanding it purports to have
been published with the sanction of the
directors. yet We know many of the gen.
temen whose names figure under the
list OF Officers of the company" would
blush TO see them attached to such a
tissue of falsehoods, even to secure the
building of the road to the very heart
OF the Wichita mountains. We would
regret, if any capitalist, either at
Boston or elsewhere, was to be
mislead and induced TO put
money into the enterprise under
the deiusion that forty miles were
graded and bridged even now, three
months later, and after DR.. Rec had
struggled all winter to reach the high,
lands west of Elm Fork, while the con,
tractor and general manager and his
select coterie have been expanding their
almost superhuman energies to retard
the work. He says further, that the
road has twenty-five miles of iron laid
and the track well ballasted and freight
and passenger cars daily passing over
it. At this day. March 20. there are but
eighteen miles completed. This pre-
eious pamphlet continues Track
laying is progressing, and Denton, forty
miles from Dallas, will be reached by
April next" Some lively work will be
necessary to build twenty-three or
t@enty-four miles of road almost entire
ly out of the rough in seven or eight
days.
In the city Of Dallas We have over
seventy acres of depot grounds.
and have over three miles of main and
side tracks within the City limits"
Commodious depot buildings
aud unusual length of sheds and plat.
forms. We might go on almost
indefinitely, and quote from this
elaborate tissue of misstatements,
bat We have given enough to indicate
the plan by which Mr.. Henderson pro-
poses to attract capital to the construc-
/ ton OF this important road. The plan
Is such as no honest man can approve
of Dallas. for one hundred thousand
inhabitants would not sanction the
misststemants and deceptive conclu
sions drawn by this enthusiastic pam,
phleteer
The road has enough OF clearly I'M
derstood and fairly acknowledged adj,
saiitages, to warrant Boston capital in
joining an honest and responsible home
management in the construction, but
such statements q. those made in this
remarkable book, will not induce
cautious capitalist to embark, but will
rather repel him. We want TO see the
road built, because we are satisfied there
Is enough IN it to prove very remuner
alive to the company and great adj
junct 70 the city. But we are not vii.
ling to tell the Boston people that the
road Is located one hundred miles, forty
miles graded and tied, and TWENTY-FIVE
miles ironed and in successful operation,
and that it has seventy acres for depot
grounds and three miles of track inside
the city limits.
So soon as the people of Dallas, Dem
ton and Wise counties abandon and
cut loose from the present incompetent
and reckless management, we may ex-
pect legitimate capital to drift this way,
and not till then. Let us have the road
gentlemen, but let us have it upon de-
cent, fair and lawful terms, or not at all.