The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-11

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On Saturday the Iron Mountain route had
ont special Pullman sleeping car filed with
Young lady graduates Of the seminaries at
Lexington, kentucky, and Staunton, Vir-
GINA. They are returning to their homes in
Texas.
Within the past few months $4,000 catalpa
trees have been planted on the line Of the
Evansville & rerre tiaute road. President
Martin states that in ten years, so rapid is
the growth of the tree, those now planted
will furnish fence posts for the road, and
in fifteen years will be large enough for
cross-ties.
Caldwell (Burleson county, Register, of
Saturday: Captain Dallas, III the employ OF
the Santa Fe railway company, informs us
that the tra2klsyers will probably reach the
Yegua to-day and that arrangements are SO
made that they will not be detained at that
point more that three or four days. Inc
soil of Bulleson county will soon tremble
beneath the tread of the iron horse.
The Texas IL St. Louis road ras been COM
pl ted as far ms Tyler, Texas, distance of
i26 mil from TeXarkana, and trains will
commence running between the two points
tomorrow. The road is being built rapidly
towards Corsicana and by the LIST of Septem-
Der il will be finished to that point distance
of rs miles from Tyler. By January l, 1850,
it is expected that the entire road will be
completed to Waco, the terminus, which Is
251 miles from Texarkana.
Corpus Christi Ledger: Contractor j, T..
Nelson informs US that he now has twenty
one miles of road-bed Ton the Corpus Christi
and Laredo road) graded and in readiness Tor
the ties. III is AT present working force OF
from fifty to sixty men, and increasing the
same asopportunites offer to procure the right
kind of labor. His monthly average OF road
graded is ten miles, at which rate that part OF
his contract will be completed in about four
months. Rails for the road have been pur-
chased, and the contracts will be made IN Il
short time.
The Orange Tribune says, Major N. r
Olcott is now engaged in surveying the route
ard making estimates for the East Texas rail-
way which commences at Beaumont and ter
inmates up about Marshall. One line touch
ing within q mile of the town of Harkin has
been run, and the engineers are now engaged
in running the second line. This finished, u
line will be run east of the Neches. a large
lot of ties for the Louisiana Western were
shipped from lake Charles around TO Morgan
CITY last week, and work on the Mermentau
bridge is still progressing rapidly, Another
month will suffice, it is believed, to close up
The gap and give us through trains.
The EastIand Review says The Texas "
Pacific road is now under contract, or rather
that the second hundre from Fort Worth
west has been let out. The grading between
Weatherford and Esstland is nearly done,
and every day contractors who have finished
their contracts east of this point are passing
west. Mr.. Hartnett, who has five mile con-
tract, commencing with the depot at this
place, or with the seventy-fourth mile from
Weatherford, has large force at work Just
west of town, AS has also the culvert con-
tractor. We understand that these contracts
are to be completed by July |, and that the
track-layers expect to reach here by the 10th
of August. The whole work is being pushed
with a vigor never heretofore witnessed IN
Texas.
Cameron Sentinel: At Cameron, last Fri
day, subscription was passed and land
amounting to ten acres was paid for by sub
scripten, Tor some of which $50 per acre
had to bs paid; and, in addition to this, the
value of the growing crop upon said lands
had to be paid for, should the railroad COM
panv accept the land and determine to build
upon it before said crop is matured and gath
cred, it being the property of tenant. The
rpirit of the citizens Of Cameron, and In
deed, of Milan county, is indomitable.
They have shown themselves to be liberal,
amounting almost to a fault. in subscribing
TO the interests of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe railroad whenever called upon to
do so.
Cincinnati Gazette: A rumor comes
from New York that the European owners
of the Alabams 4 Great Southern road Will
furnish the necessary funds, if need be, to
build the Wolfe road from Meridian to New
Orleans. In that event they will endeavor
to put in the running bid for the Cincinnati
Southern for a long lease. This arrange
mept would place the entire line from Cin-
cnnati to New Orleans under one manage
ment, and give them about one hundred
miles the shortest route between the North
east and New Orleans and Texas coast points.
European capital will then be enabled to de-
vel,pe the mineral fields on the Southern
and Alabama and Great Southern, also the
immense forests of heart pine on the Merl'
dim Il New Orleans road. In addition tc
this bureau of Immigration will be esta0
lished in London, with branches in Germany
Sweden and other countries Of Europe, FOL
the purpose of setting forth the advantages
the region through which the roads pass
offers to farmers and manufacturers. Tht
operating and executive departments will bt
under the control of American gentlemen
well known in railway circles, and who have
been identified with Southern railroad
interests.
Tucson (Arizona) Citizen: Charles
Thornton, in charge of an en-
cheering corps of nineteen men, arrived IL
Tucson last night from the front. There ar
six engineers in the party and the balance Al
Chainmen, fagmen, etc, and they are On
their way to Guaymas to Join MIR. Morley
chief engineer in charge of the work in New
Mexico. They report the work progressln!
rapidly down the Rio Grande river in the dl
rection of Ell Paso, and that the grading i
completed eighty miles south of Albuq1ler
Que, and from one and a hslft two and
quarter miles of track is now being, laid pc
day. Work is also progressing on the King
man survey as far west as New Fort WIN
gate, about 100 miles west of Albuquerque
This is The route which was surveyed by Nit
hlngman last summer. 1t passes throug
The southern portion of the San Carlos India
Reservation, crosses the White River noun
Jams above San Carlos down into ella car
Yen to point few miles above Old Cam
1rsnt, and thence around the western 6as
oil Santa Catarina mountains 10 Tucson. Nj