The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-10
DALLAS 4 cLEBURNE RAILROAD.
Dirt BrOKen Yesterday in the Pres
ence eta Large CoBcOurse
OfPeople.

: OF PeOpie
Yesterday evening late, the engineer corp
Of Dallas, Uleburne 4 Rio Grande railroad
company, having run and staked off half
mile Of line, the directors and COMMITTEES
from the board of trade went down and brok,
dirt The gentlemen connected with th,
road now in the city, aud whose names ar,
familiar to our readers, with committe,
from the board of trade, Messrs. II. S, Ervsy
DR.. +. L. Hughes, j. S. Daugherty
and George j. Dexter, and {
number of citizens as spectator,
repsired to the junction of the Dallas and
Wichita railroad with the Texas and Pacific
railroad where the beginning had been made
This point being reached Mr.. Smith gen,
tleman from Scotland, connected with the
enterprise and representing syndicate o.
capitalists, drove the first stake, having pre-.
yously whitfield it somewhat that being M
Am'ricanism he has already acquired. He
and Mr.. Hale, from Chicago, another gentle,
man connected with the undertaking, then
simultaneously broke dirt, throwing up sevo-
raj .hovels full of good solid earth. In doing
this Mr.. Smith remarked
SCOTLAND AND AMERICA
Join hands in this enterprise and Mr.. Hale re-
piled: I'm union there is strength This
was the baptism, the christening If the road,
and if the chrism of energy and enterprise
be poured out upon il, it will be magnih.
cen, success. Mr.. Smith then INDUCED in
TBw REMARKS
saying in substance: "Tbis is the OH dsy
of September, 1880, and o'clock in the
afternoon. We have met here to break dirt
on the Dallas, Cleburne Il Rio Grande rail
road, great enterprise, grand undertsk-
ing. He hoped that the small beginning
just witnessed would end in rye results.
He hoped the road would be completed and
bring wealth to Texss. Mr.. Waite, the
chief engineer, was gentleman of ability,
of energy and full of resource for the com.
pletion Of such worthy enterprise as this,
and he had his best wishes for An eminent
success in his lJbors in this behalf. He re.
turned thanks for tho privilege he had en-
joyed in participating in the imitation of this
enterprise. 1t was IN epoch in his life an
episode that he would pleasantly remember
while time lasted with him. Mr.. Smith
having concluded his remarks,
MR.. HALE
was loudly called for. In response, he
said Scotland and America, or rather
their representative, have put their hands to
tb, pbnynl aud ba li,t mn
Clehurne Il Rio Grande railroad had been
broken, and they had commenced the work
to build this road He had not much to say .
He hardly knew what they were going to do,
what the people particularly interested were
going to do. He himself entered into the
work heartily and with firm faith, and he
would strv diligently with all his power for
the success of the undertaking, He wanted
to see the road success for the benefit Of
the stockholders, for tho benefit of the people
along the line of the road and for the benefit
Of Texas. He looked forward to the time
when, this road being completed, the people
would express their gladness that the Anglo
American company had b on formed and had
directed its attention to Texas The object
of this country was to people Texas with a
good class of immigrants and it was
in furtherance of this object that it
had been led into this enterprise. He looked
forward to the results to accrue from tho
building of this road as important to all the
best interests of Texas and rs important TO
the efforts of the company in bringing inn
migrants to the state, immigra' to who will
prove of lasting benefit. he had no more
talk to make, leaving the balance to sction.
Mr..
j. s. DAuGHERTY
wa. then called upon, and said that in behalf
of the citizens of Dallas he would saw that
they feel deep interest in this enterprise
There bad heretofore been a vast deal of
talk about the building of this road, and the
people had subscribed literally without any
results, and there were many here still will
ing to aid in the work, but from the expert.
ence of the past they must see something
done before they will respond and
be convinced by actions that all will
be right, The citizens of Texas
have hearty welcome for
all immigrants, for all the people this COM
pany will induce to come to the state. Our
pleasant climate, and generous soil will cause
all who do come to invite their friends t.
come too. The country along the proposed
line of this road for two hundred miles Is as
fine as any country can boast. It's fertile in
all productions peculiar to the country, and
speaks for itself in all particulars.
Mr.. TRIP
In reply to call said he had no remarks to
submit, further than to make reference to
n part of MIR. Daugherty's remarks He WAS
sure the road would be built. Like Cincin-
natus, the company had put their shoulders
10 the wheel and would not turn back, but
the proposition it made to the citizens of
Dallas and johnson counties was not fri o.
lous one, and the company asks that the
money $4,000 heretofore subscribed, be re-
newed.
The party then dispersed. Mr.. r. j. Kill
patrick, u railroad man, and contractor on
the Texas , Pacific, provided the spades,
now two historic implements, for the break
ing Of the dirt, and was an Interested spscta-
tor of the ceremony. All of Dallas and
Johnson counties now have their eyes upon
this enterprise. The engineer corps are in
camp, dirt has been broken, the work has
been commenced, and we trust will not be
stopped until Cleburn is reached, not until
the echoes of the locomotive fresh from
Dallas stsrtles the hills and valleys of the
Rio Grande and challenges the admiration of
the vacqueroes Of Mexico in their vain at
tempts to lssso it.
AT s o'clock last night, the committee of
| the board of trade met the gentlemen who