Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-03-27
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L. &c Y. K. w, from Mexico to Kan
sas CITY, has opened up one of the
richest and finest portions of the
State to public travel, as well as made
several thriving and beautiful towns
and cities near neighbors to Mexico,
such as Glasgow, Marshall, &c.
This railroad is probably the best
made of any vest of the Mississippi
River, and when completed will be as
we'll equipped as any in the Union.
Its depots are of uniform and
uniqae character, two stories high, of
tasteful style and handsomely orna-
mented, the upper stories of which
are well appointed dwellings for sta
ton agents.
The bridge at Glasgow is a grand
structure, just now approaching COM
pledon, and when done will be a
masterpiece of mechanical skill as
well as a monumental evidence of
the thrift, enterprise and liberal views
OF the railroad company for which it
is being built. So soon rs the bridge
is completed, through passenger
trains win be put upon the road,
which will make, it the quickest. SAT-
est and most pleasant route across
our State.
BY the opening up of this route,
Glasgow is brought within two hours
ride of Mexico, is city beautiful in
location, bustling with business and
ornarnented with costly public and
private educational institutions,
churches and ether public buildings.
An half hour ride beyond Glasgow,
out on the prairie, is Slater, a new
town of about five hundred inhabi-
tants, built up within the last year,
and in the midst of fertile and
beautiful section of country. At this
town our fellow citizen, William Pol
lock, has erected grain elevator and
Touring mill, both of which will soon
be in full operation, and from all that
can now be seen must be financial
success to its proprietor as we'll as ol
vast benefit to the surrounding coun-
try. Whether Slater, as town, shall
survive or perish,-and this is con
undrum,-still the elevator and mill
must command a heavy and constant
iy increasing business, and managed
with the usual financial ability, up
rightness and far-reaching thought of
Mr.. Pollock, must make it grand
success.
Another half-hour ride takes the
traveller to Marshall, the county sea,
of Saline county, one of the rich
est counties in the State. Marshall
is an old, well-built town of about
$500 inhabi ants, and seems to be 8
wealthy and most prosperous town.
1t has several manufactures, banks,
three newspapers, five churches and
other public buildings. The court
house, in the public square, is con-
demned as unsafe, and the courts arc
) neld in public hall. The chief at.
traction of the city to the traveller is
the Ming hotel, under the control and
management of Col. McKimm, rs
sisted by his most accomplished wife
!, There Is no house in all the tate
which, in all its appointments, is
more complete, and whose manage
ment is more attractive than the
Ming House. There are in Marshal
several old residents of Mexico, among
whom are Charles Brandriff and Col
Bell, wllilom OF the RingO House oil
this city. Marshal is i'll the midst Of
an extremely rich section OF country
peoplcd bv thrifty, prosperous ant
wealthy inhabitants, and the opening
up of the railroad through the city
has given town and county all the
throbbings of new life and activity
Our citizens would do well to mike
general the acquaintance to our new
neighbors, to whom we have been III
troduced by the push and drive o
the Chicago and Alton Railroad Com
pany.