The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-01
Railway Notes.

ine railway thNcltc, OF thH 10Th ultimO,
contains information Of the laying of track
on now railroads as follows; Chicago, MI.
waukee ~ ST. Paul,--rhis companys Da.
Venport Line Is extended from Fayette, H.,
northward TO Hawkeye, 10 miles. Louisiana
Western. Track extended from point nire
miles west of Lake Charles, La., west 10
miles. This is II total of 20 miles of new
railroad, making 1853 miles thus Gar this wear,
against al miles reported ut tho same time
III lo'2' Tho Gazette Is badly posted in re-
gard TO tho progress made in Texas. We
nave built more than 20 miles ourselves.
As we understand 1t the Georgia Western
IS TO DO built from Chattanooga TO Ma,on in
opposition to the State road aud the Central
and their "ealangling alliances" with the
new Cincinnati Southern. The Western
Will be constructed by the Louisville 81 Nash
vile and all that that implies.
epecial correspondence OF the Chicago Trib-
une.
Dallas, March 22,--Never since the State
ceased to be republic has the spirit of in
ternal improvements been so rife as now. The
construction company of the Jay Gould syn
dicate have mountain Of iron, ties, bridge
tlmbers and other material already piled up
at Fort Worth, with which they will push the
Texas y Pacific through to FL Paso in
twenty-four months, and there meet Hunt
lngton coming from California. The dis
lance is 7OOmiles in round numbers 100 of
which has been put under contract, and 800
more will be before midsummer. Although
the bond stpulates tho LIST of January, 1883,
for the completion of the road, the head
centres Of the company say tits possible for it
to be finished by the LIST Of September, 1881,
or just half tho time they are bound for. They
have tho money, can get the labor and
material, and therefore have every incentive
to prosecute the gigantic task in hand with all
available vigor. And as the road will traverse
as fine a country as lies between Chicago and
Cairo, 1t will quickly draw after it an immense
stream of people, II is purely agricultural, is
never visited by what you call winter, and yet
has lain dormant during the lapse of all for
mer ages. In addition to this enterprise, there
are GOO miles of new roads In other portions
OF Texas under way. One is called the Texas
Trunk, running from Dallas to Sabine Pass,
on the East gulf coast, distance of 26O
miles, and which is being built by a Massa-
chusetts company. Another line, and part
of the Houston u Texas Central, is being
built northwest of Waco and which will lay
down 100 miles of track by next New Years
day. There is brigade Of men at work up.
on the narrow-gau roads--one between
Texarkana and Waco and the other Houston
and Shreveport. The International is EXTEND
ing its line from Austin to San Aptonio, and
Jay Gould is all ready to bring the NJ, X. & +.
from Denson through Gainesville and Den
ton to Dallas, and from here strike out south
west toward the Rio 1rande. He also will
extendit from Denison to Palestine on the
east of us. When one travels over the rich
lands everywhere to be seen in Texas, lying
idle and just rs they came from the hand of
the Creator for the most part, he will not
wonder at these enterprises of to-day so
much as he will marvel that they were not
undertaken long ago Much of it for
fertility will equal ANYTHING living
between Chicago and Pttsburg, Cleveland
and Kansas City. But, however slow they
have been in the past, the people caught the
earliest spirit and mounted the first wave OF
the boom which recently set in, and now
have the satisfaction of knowing that their
country has at last ELECTED the attention of
the capitalist of the word-all that was ne
cessary to quickly send theirs to the front Of
American States, AZ least in population. For
If Texas had the population to the square
mile Illinois has, she would have 20,0000OO
inhabitants. And were all her available cot
ton lands cultivated, in that staple she would
annually send 100000 bales to market,
She last year produced 100000, or one fifth
OF the total crop, and which has and is now
selling for sol, 100000. Has ever yet Stats
tician properly estimated the agricultural
capacity Of the United States Texas alone
can clothe the world in cotton fabrics. The
eyes which will look upon it in 1880 will be.
hold grand sight, and what contrast will
there be between the map of this day and Of
that
The Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe Is expect
cd in BRENNAN next Saturday night.