The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-04
VISION OF a RAIL WAY
BUILDER.

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BUILDER.
The Baltimore and Ohio road hs'
the confessed great advantage oVe
competlng lines, in the fact that Will
is grades are higher its fuel is cheap
er While the New York Central pay
four cioilaFs per ton for coal the B.lt
more and Ohio road pays only eight,
cents. This same fuel-good COAL
sold in Austin at twelve dollars an
fif,y cents per ton and cedar wood
four to five dollars per cord. II tn
New York Central, with its two doub
tracks, can hardly sustain itself, payirt
four dbilars per ton for coal. whs
musl be the fate of Texas rosdsl For
es's are few and Of narrow area, apo
the wnolc country is rapidly denude'
Of ifees T0-6e converted into cross-tie'
for new and old rosds. Forests tbs
snbsist untouched are hardly cspacion
snnngh to supply materials for home
aad timber for towns and villsge
along progressive railways. The da,
Il not distant, unless the law intrrVeD
TO protect trees and promote TIE cres-
non aud growth of forests when Their
will be fuel famine in Texas. There
forc the iLfaIte necessity. that &C.
dals on the bills west of Austin mas
be spared and that railway rates OF
.avei and transportation IN Teza' my
be lessened, for the speedy construction
ofsuch a road to the coal fields of North
western Texas as will transport tn,
greatest quantity of coal at the cheap
eat rates If the extended Wac,
branch of the Central supply Tsxs
roads with fuel at less cost than any
other railway terminus, cotton mills
win be frat constructed IN Waco, ano
a. that point will the roads of S u'h
err T, K Is seek supplies of fuel. Bd'
the irsins Of the Waco branch will no.
distribute fuel or her freight.
Waco. They will fad their central de-
po.itory OF coal at Houston and Gin
ton and 1t is only necessary for gentl
men who move go slothfuliy in the con-
Summation Of thtirpu Pose TO construc
n0rtnwestsrD narrow gauge from tbi
city 10 make Austin the great centrs
depository and point of distribution
tor coal for the C ties and railways OF
ms. whole commonwealth. The de
mand for fusl Will be so great ano
mints opened. when the coal measure,
are penetrated by the proposed north
western narrow gauge, so numerou
and the expectation snd demand 81
enormous that a single track railway
viii be Incapable of the task of sup
plying Cuero aud Indisnola, Houston
and G4lvetton aud Marshall an6
sarevepors and New Orleans with fuel
from the boundIess coal fields o.
Nnithwestern Texas. Fdel should cosi
NC wafer wuks OF this city So instead
>25 per diem. Toe runumP
yomotive on each Tex,n
ou q OFT two-thirds less anc
and cooking stoves Of III,
rer3 city and hamlet il
should consume fewe
hslf, than to-day. W
The Baltimore and 0aio, tn,
+ road. and crossing the Allegha
rand Blue Ridge and spanning
s,esns and deep gorges aud windln.
aong he course OF toriuous nven
.,,ns o. hardly leap from crsg to crsl
caeir race with tee living locomo.
tive, regulsting rates on the distanl
8 ie AID New York Central and Penn
l1lVAnis Central roads, and simply b.
conse the food abounds thtt gives lit.
and strength and capacity Tor grea
tasks TO railways. We are thus foIce'
20 confess the absolute necessity foi
ibe Immediate construction OF cheal
: htsle road, which may touch at tn,
eoalGelds OF the North west aud dis.
t>'brte among broad gauge lines COZ.
Tefging AZ this city the cheapest sne
best fuel that ever cheapened COM
neice aud made abodes of bone ty q
aAishtlul 10 winter As tAoss Of OPT
!. hence.