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

The special committee appointed by thu
Board of Trade to meet and confer with thu
Anglo-Amercan company, which purposes
TO build a railroad from Dallas to the lowe
Rio Grande have made considerable pro
gress since our last report and the com
pany have also taken some important steps
At a meeting Of the railway company thu
GLOWING officers we're elected
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
A. II. Hardie, Dallas; Il. l.. ..Msrsalls, Dial
| as; A. Sanger, Dallas; 4. A. Wilmsns, Dial
las; James B. Simpson, Dallas; d. IL. Hale
Chicago: d. X. Trip, Chicago; Clinton Is
Hale, Chicago; l.. Ii. Fritzhugh, Washing
on.
The following are the officers of the board
Daniel Ii. Hale, president; Dwight X. Trip
vice president; Clinton Is. Hale, treasurer
Asahel Il. Bennett, secretary;F. A. Wlmans
assistant secretary, George w. Waite, chiel
engineer.
The name OF the road will BIO Chicago
Texas Il Mexican Central, thus absorbing
and changing the Dallas, Cleburne " Rio
Grande.
Colonel James B. Simpson, acting as at
torney for the company, left for Austin
Tuesday night with draft for u charter
which Sc Is forth that the company has been
organized with capital of $1,000 900, with
the necessary amount required by tho statute.
of Texas paid In. And that the company
proposes TO build railroad beginning ut the
city Of Dallas, and running in q genera
southwest, direct through the counties Of
Ellis, johnson, Bosque, Erath, Brown
San Saba, Lampasss, Llano, Kimble,
Edwards Crockett, and Kinney on
he Rio Grande there TO intersect the
Mexican Central building north from the
ty Of New Mexico. From Dallas north the
road will run through the counties Of Rock
wall, Hunt, Delta and Lamar, through the
city of Paris 10 Red River. Beyond Red River
the direction has not been settled. Nor in
deed have any exact route Of course been
agreed upon and will be a matter for the
determination of tho engineers. Geo. W.
Waite, chief engineer, Is now in the field
running three lines from Dallas in the direc-
ton of Oleburne. Mr. j. Duncan Smith the
Scotch agent of tho Anglo American COM
pany who was In Dallas last week will sail
from New York October %, and will send
500 Scotchmen TO Dallas as soon as he can
get them ready to go to work upon the road,
and they will, in after time, become settlers
along the line, rs 1t is hoped they will be
foreruuners Of stream of other Scots who
will come to Texas.
PROPOSITION TO DALLAS AND JouAsuN
COUNTIES.
Vice.president Trip, in response to the
request of the special railroad committee of
the Dallas Board Of Trade, asking in what
manner this board and the city of Dallas
could serve the Anglo-American company,
submitted his answer in writing on Wednes
day night. II was In substance that
|. Dallas county give the Chicago, Texas
j. Mexican railroad company $4,000 in
cash, depot grounds and the right of way
through tho city.
2. That johnson county donate $4,000 and
the right of way.
3. That the people along the line of the
road In these counties donate $4,000.
These donations to be given in the form of
a note which reads that the signer shall pay
to the company the amount subscribed on
the LIST day of September, 1882, to bear 10
per cent. from tho completion of the road
and its reception by the state Of Texas
These notes are to BIO held in trust by two
persons, one selected by the Dallas Board of
Trade and the other by the company, until the
conditions Tor which they are given are com
piled with, when thoy will DO turned over to
the company.
D., c. & RIO aRANDE STOCK.
1t was stated at the conference this
morning that the old Dallas, Cleburne
& Rio Grande company, through its directory,
had turned over all its rights, franchises,
! Inscriptions, surveys, and other assets valu-
able and otherwise, to the directors of the
Chicago, Texas Il Mexican Central, and then
disbanded as body corporate, But as
citizens and men of business they will give
the new company all the moral and material
aid within their power, and all the more
willingly, rs it proposes to build the road
they tried to, and five or six hundred miles
besides. They will renew their notes to that
company and give them to the Anglo-Amer-
can and use all their influence in getting their
subscribers to do tho same thing That
Is all the new company asks, and with
these conditions complied with will prosecute
the work with all tho energy men and money
can give to it.
DALLAS THE INITIAL POINT.
is the purpose to run this great contem-
plated line from APPOINT on Red river through
Dallas, across the entire state of Texas to the
Rio Grande. Dallas will be the initial or
starting point from which work will progress
both ways. We have no authority for saying
so, but this city will undoubtedly be the
grand headquarters of the whole road, from
which its construction will DO directed and
money disbursed. Anyone can SEQ what an
advantage it will DO to us i'm.
mediate and for all future
time. In all truth it is tho grandest enter
prise yet conceived for Dallas, for Texas, and
for the commerce of Mexico and the
United States. The Board of Trade will use
all its influence and power in meeting the
requests of this foreign company, which pro-
poses to do so much for US and for our pros
perity.
THE TEXAS TRUNK.
An informal conference was held this
morning on the part of the railway commit.
zee Of the Board Of Trade and General
Caoe,l, Of the Texas Trunk. The General
stated that his company thought Dallas
ougnt 70 at least give them the right. of-way
throueh town, depot grounds and grounds
or their machine and work shops.
De said that unless we did 40 tbe
shops would not DO located here
and we'might set that down az axsd fact
He will meet the committee sometime Mon"
day and submit q proposition to il. balls.
has never given this road farth;no and hos
never asked for anything. II was yolnntor; aS
approached by the Board Of Tr.da ,.h,nI