The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-12-12
TEXAS PACIFIC RAILWAY.
Its Completion to the Pacific Assured
Within Two Years.
philadelphia Press. ]

will sign-on behalf OF the road-with
q syndicate for the building Of $50
miles west from Fort Worth, at cost
of &c, 600 q mile. The entire sum Of
the contract, for all purposes, with the
syndicate is $4,000, ,OCo, as large con-
tract as has recently been heard of. In
regard to the road, Colonel Scott said
in an interview: sThe road Is devel-
oping rapidly, and Is already produc- |
Ing trade beyond the expectatio rs of
Its friends. Last month its business |
was the largest In its history, showing |
its ability to take care of all obligations |
and to provide for its Immediate ex-
tension to the West. The seven hum |
dred and fifty miles west of Fort Worth |
will be finished In two years, connect |
Ing 1t, at the western boundary of New
Mexico, with tho Southern Pacific |
road, which Is the western part of the
Texas Pacific. This connection will
form another through line from st.
Louis to San Francisco. Our line will
develop on immense agricultural, rs
we'll as mineral, field. The line, the
Texas Pacific, will be from Fort Worth
to Ell Paso, aud from there to the
western boundary Of New Mexico, aud
close to the boundary of old Mexico,
and tapping all the larger states of old
Mexico, which will be greatly bene-
fitted by the line. The mineral re-
sources of old Mexico are vast and
we'll known, and they will be rapidly
developed when the road Is completed"
elbow long will 1t be before the road
is Completed through so that a passen.
ger can run from st. Louis to Califor-
MIA by the Texas and Southern Pacfic?''
s'The proposition of the parties Is to
have 1t completed In two years from
the signing of the contract referred
to. BY the time we get to the western
boundary of New Mexico the South
ern Pacific will have reached that point
coming east"
"Will that route be any shorter than
the old one ?'
HAbout one hundred miles. The
great advantage will be that the terri
| tory traversed has temperate climate,
lower submits than the other road,
and is entirely free from snow, 30 that
the road will be open all the year
round. Texarkana will be the eastern
terminus of the main road. At that
point we connect with the Iron Noun
tain road, and at Denison q connection
will be made with the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas. Thus through direct
connection will be made with st.
Louis by two lines"
"On our part of the road, the Texas
Pacific, the cost will average about
thirty thousand dollars a mile. The
whole South will be largely benefited
by the new road, and New Orleans and
Memphis will particularly receive an
impetus OF trade by the completion of
the Southern through line to Califor-
MIA"
In reference to the foregone state.
ment one of the principal directors of
the Texas Pacific road said last even
ing that the probable cost of building
the extension had been ovcr-estimated,
but did not state on what terms the
contract would be drawn up. The re-
ported understanding on this subject
| between Col. Scott and Q. Il. Hunting
ton, ESQ.,, attorney for the Southern
Pacific railroad of California, being
mentioned to this gentleman, he said,
Mt once and with emphasis, that al
though he could not speak positively
as to what might or might not have
been suggested by directors Of the
Texas Pacific road in their individual
capacity, he was quite certain that no
design had ever been entertained of
substituting for SaE Diego any other
western terminus; and that no union
with any other line looking to the
abandonment of any portion of their
chartered route had ever come up for
discussion before the board. Hc added,
in order to show the extreme improba-
bility of the adoption of any measure
of that character: "Our company holds
besides other valuable franchises, a
land grant of Is, 900, 900 acres, and this
can only become available through the
construction Of the road clear through
to San Diego before the year 1884, and
would be wholly and Immediately for
feited by any final change of route
made in the meantime.'