The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-17
A GRAND RAILROAD SCHEME.

the deepest interest to every citizen and
friend of Dallas and of north Texas. IT
will be seen that the Anglo-American COM
pany composed Of British and American
capitalists, are about to commence, and i'll
deed have alresdy begun the building of a
railway from Red river, in Lamar county, to
the lower Ris Grande, in Kinney. The OK
treme length of this line cannot fall short OF
seven hundred mile4. 1t runs through tie
very heart of this great state and
through what are already and what will in
all future time be her richest and most
densely populated counties. Arrived at the
Rio Grsnde it will connect direct with the
Mexican Central, now being constructed from
the City Of Mexico to Laredo on that river.
From Red river it will pass through western
Arkansas TO Poplar Bluif, or some point
where 1t will have mn outlet to New
York ind Chicago. And thus
1t becomes MS any one looking
at the map can see, great Trunk through
line from the heart of the Mexican republic
TO the heart of the United States. But few
of our own immediate citizens, right where
the gigantic enterprise has given birth, are
aware offs magnitude. We think it is fully
as import Mt as the Texas d Pacific, as il will
be of us grea! length, and at Dallas, will, this
north and south line, cut that
east and west line, at right angle.
Ia its very necessity is found the absolute
assurance that it is obliged to be built. All
other roads going toward Mexico will either
entera side or back door. The Chicago,
Texas IL Mexican Central will walk dire tly
in at tho front door. The roads coming down
west of US from tho territories to I'll Paso
and along the coast of Texas toward
Mexico are well enough for specific and sec
tional purposes, but this will be the great
central msn line from Mexico to the estab-
lishea trade centers of the United States,
Take your map and look at it. You will there
see oil we say to DO true and, you will also
agree with US that no greater railway project
Is now, or can ever engage the attention Of
American capital. Mr., j. Duncan Smith, Of
Edinburgh, who was in Texas few days
since, quickly saw the situation and
at once poiLted out and urged
and insisted upon his American associates to
begin tho undertaking, And in his home in
Scotland will not only furnish material aid
in its immediate construction, but will lend
his Influence in directing u tide Of imm-
grants to flow along and populate the now
sparsoly peopled country through which tho
road will run for many hundreds of miles.
his speech to the Dallas Board of Trade
he said if his countrymen only knew the OPP
portunity Texas presented TO their attitudes
Of farmers that no man could number would
cone here. He was astoHnded at tue rich.
ness of our soil, the balminess of cur climate,
the cheapncss of land and its wonderful
p;oductyeness. 1t would be difficult to
mike them believe tho stories he intended TO
TIL about Texas when he arrived home, md
yot he would oXaggerate nothing. Mr.. Smith
sails from New York on the ID of October,
and will MS soon rs be can got them together,
despatch five hundred Scotsmen to Texas to
work upon the road. Each Oft these if he 50
wills, can select his farm along the line and
retire to il after his work is done with enough
m )ney accumulated to well stock an equip
it. Itis needless here to say that the Scotch
rs a race Nre the hardest, most Industrious
and thrifty people in Europe, nor to
intimate the incalculable advantage they
would be to Texas if wo could induce them
TO immgrgte mere in large nul,bers. The
shops, the headquarters and all the
main offices of the Chicago, Texas IL Me1i-
can Central will,as they ought IT, elocatod In
Dallas. 1t will be seen that in the nine dircc.
tioUs chosen Dallas is complimeuted with
five, 81 minority. But it is not our city alone
to be congratulated, We think all Texas
has jus, cause in this great continental iron
artery to rejoice. 1t will link the two Re-
publics together, bind them with hooks Of
steel, cause n free interchange of commercial
and social relations, break down existing
prciudces enligbten both, develop the
counties and rebound to the glory of TIE
whole North American continent.
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