The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-26
A TEXAS BOOM.


nesses to-day such pronounced activity in 'h'
construction of great lines of railway 81
Texas. The eyes of the financial world are
turned full upon her, and schemes of sigsn
tic magnitude are consummated and being
consummated within her borders. The mos
powerful Of al organizations now seeking &c
pour their wealth and expend their vast en-
ergies upon Texas, is that of Jay Geuld and
Grant. This combination now grasps in Its
hand the Missouri, Texas and Kansas, the
Missouri Pacific, the Texas and Pacific, the
Dallas and Wichita, and probably the Cen
trail Pacific railways. Their plans are con-
summsted and their engineer corps ale in
the field for the purpose Of running their
line from Fort Worth to the Rio Grande,
thence with rapid strides into the heart OF
Mexico. On the east this combined
action 10 pushing lis connecting line
toward the International railroad and
Sabine Pass, and over the Texas ard
Pacific via Shreveport to New Orleans. Con-
tracts are let, men and teams are at work and
hundreds of thousands of dollars are pour
ing into Texas. This of itself would be
gratifying to the state, but it is scarcely q
beginning The great International road is
pushing with might aud main for Mexico,
urged on by men and money with unusual
rapidly. Large sums are Icing expended in
the state by this road. The Sunset road I'M
der the control of Colonel Pierce, is also
pushing for the Rio Grande, and running a
branch line across our entire western border
northwestwardly towards Ell Paso. The
Texas Central road is building right on with
the projection of IFS Waco branch, and will
soon strike and cross the Texas and Pacific
on its route northwest toward Santa Fe. The
Texas and Pacific is spending thousands
and thousands on the seven hundred
mile projection to FL Paso.
The Texas and ST. Louis railroad is rapidly
building from Tyler TO Corsicana, and is
letting its contracts from Corsicana to Waco,
distance of So miles. The Jefferson and
Western Texas narrow gauge is working on
steadily west toward Greenville, thence to
Dallas. The Texas TTu k road is laying its
iron down rapidly, and has secured ample
funds to push its line to Sabine Pass and
New Orleans. The Chicago, Texas and Mex
lean Central are running their surveys south
west from Dallas under an able engineer
corps, and have already established thirty
miles Of road The survey northeast to-
wards Paris will shortly commence, a-d the
grading will go on at both ends. The gen
oral Offices have been secured at Dallas and
ar9 now being fitted up for the company.
This exceedingly important line will
not only meet the ST. Louis and
San Francisco road Mt Fort Smith,
giving us third rail route to St. Louis.
and Chicago, but II is preparing, with the aid
of the Ango-American immigration COM
pany, to locate in Dallas county, and all
along its line, thousands OF hardy Scotch i'm.
migrants. Other smaller roads and branches
mig ht DO named, all Of which are paying out
money in Texas in the roseeution of their
enterprises. 1t is impossible 10 estimate the
amount of money being introduced and ex-
pended in Texas from the sources above
named. 1t must be enormous, But
this is not all. Ten months ago our
passenger trains were running empty and at
a loss. Immigration had practically ceased
and it seemed that emigration instead had
supervened. But to-day things have changed
as though by magic. Every passenger
car coming into the state is packed
and crowded with human freight Thor
SAINTS upon thousands of people
are coming into Texas. Immigrant cars
first class coaches, sleepers, all are crowd
cd, and still to add to our good luck there il
an overwhelming corn crop, the cotton crop
was never better, and on yesterday and to-
day the prices of this staple were steadily
rising. In the treasury Of the state there is
store up cool million of dollars, and this
sum is being hourly and daily augmented.
As state, this great commonwealth is to be
congratulated. Peace, prosperity, good will
aud a reasonable share of human happiness
seems to be ours. The futureis beyond all
calculation. Figures cannot estimate it,
We can only await the rapid development of
those instrumentalities now SO actively at
work in our midst, and let our horoscope be
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