The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-23
The Texas e. Pacific.
81. Louis Railroad Register


We doubt whether the magnitude of this
company is generally understood or its future
realized. We may have vaguely believed
that Texas, Kansas and the Indian territory
included q vast extent Of wonderfully rich
soil, and that it was perhsps as yet unde-
veloped, yet we have not kGown of its Excess
sive capacity and wealth. Millions Of bales
of cotton, corn and wheat without stint can
be- produced in this great basin il facilities
for transportation can DO furnished. The
leading spirits in the directory of the Texas
4 Paciic have grasred these facts, searched
out the ways and provided the means of
bringing this section into easy communics-
ton with the outside world.
The main line of the Texas & Pacific cx-
tends from Shreveport 10 Gordon, distance
OF 292 miles; it also has road extending
from Texarkana to Sherman, 1856 miles,
and from Marshall to Texarkana, go miles.
But it has already exteAded its operations so
as to make it the greatest road Of that re-
gion. From its present terminus at or near
Gordon, its extension has been contracted
for to FL Paso, on the Mexican
border, n distance of about
COO miles, thus opening up the great
Republic OF Mexico to American industry. 1t
has also arranged to secure IN outlet from
Dallas to Denison, and thence by the NJ, X.
h T. to the north. By WAY Of Texarkana all
its lines can connect with the st. L. l. N,
Il S. for st. Louis and the east. But the
greatest gain to Texas AMI all the bordering
region, and a source of largest profit to the
road, will be the New Orleans Pacific railway,
now under contract for completion and to be
owned by the Texas & Pacific, extending
from Shreveport down the valley of the Red
river 70 Baton Rouge and thence to New
Orleans, distsn in all Of about 325 miles.
The latter undertaking is one of the hap.
pest ideas that ever entered the brain of any
railway chief. Heretofore large share Of
Kansas products went east via Chicago, and
the wealth of Texas found crcuitous outlet.
The enormous crops Of sugar. cotton and
molasses raised in western Louisiana and
eastern 7 Ias were shipped by indirect
routes to New York, or, possibly, Chicago
The New Orleans Pacific gives natural vent
to this produce. 1t will all be sent to New
Orleans, and from thence distributed. 1t
will serve to develop the wonderful river
route, and double the foreign commerce of
the Crescent City as we'll us our own St
Louis. The ships that take away from New
Orleans the herds of cattle, cargoes of cotton
and almost immeasurable quantities of corn
and wheat, must bring to it the merchandise
of the old world. A large proportion of this
business will be done through and at St.
| Louis.
The prophetic eye sees the Missouri Pacific,
st. Louis & San Francisco, Iron Mountain
II Wabash become vast feeders for St.
Louis and the eastern and northern roads,
bringing the grain of hundreds of counties to
this city to DO handled, loaded into barges
and noated down the Mississippi to New Or
leans for shipment to Europe. Not little
of this prosperity will be due to men that
build the Texas & Pacific, and so put
Mexico into direct communication with this
city, and provided an outlet for the produce
of Texas TO New. Orleans 90 aiding the com.
merce Of the Mississippi Valley.
| We look for largo immigration into
Texas TO settle up the 100000 acres Of
land held by this company, and for q conse-
quent increase in the wealth Of that enor-