The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-15
FUTURE RESORTS IN TEXAS.
The Guadalupe ana. HUeco Noun
tnins I'll PasO and the Texas
a. Pacific Railway.
Correspondence OF the Herald.

Correspondence OF the Herald
DALLAS, Texas, June II, lsSO.
The extension Of the Texas Il Pacific road
through West Texas will unquostionably
lead to the establishment Of some Of the
most beautiful, romantic and heathful re-
sorts in the United States, both winter and
summer. Through the Guadalupe noun
tains, west of the Rio Pecos, are two passes,
through one of which the road will be con-
structed. Both have been surveyed and
found practicable. Guadalupe Pass, on the
Of the sea, and $50 miles west of Dallas,
about latitude 1850 north, and longitude
1Oi;50 west. Hurd's pass i, 4 ,496 feet above
the sea level, about fifty or sixty miles south
east of the former, and is on the lower route
as surveyed in 1923. Delaware creek,
western tributary Of the Pecos, is 5l4 miles
west of Dallas and 1903 feet above the sea.
Hueco pass, through the Hueco Waco
mountains, is 5,027 feet on the upper and
5,327 feet on the lower route, above the sea,
GA miles west of Dallas, and almost pre-
cisely on latitude 81, or about so miles south
of Dallas. Fort Bliss, opposite FL
Paso, on the Rio Graude, is
| $500 feet above the sea, $50 miles west of
Dallas, eight miles south of latitude 32' and
about west longitude l0G50 Both on the
line of the road, through these mountains
and above and below the line, are bold and
lmpid springs and rivulets Of purest water
and scenery of ravishing beauty and
grandeur. Fertile valleys, fine stone, tall and
beautiful timber-spruce, cedar, mountain
pine, walnut, etc.-abundant rains, towering
peaks, enchanting landscapes and IA atmos-
phere the most pure and exherating, point
to it as not only the future and early seat ola
Dense vigorous and liberty-Oviug
population, but rs the resort of continued
Thousands in search Of health, recreation and
recuperation. In such latitude, at such On
elevation, with such surroundings and hun.
dreds OF miles from the slightest cause OF ma
aria, all who have travelled extensively will
vt once recognize its alluring appeals TO the
Invalid, the weary and the mere lover of grand
scenery and healthfuI recreation for their own
sakes. The valley Of Ell Paso, though so
long shut in from the outer world, so far as
tested by Americans Tor thirty years and
MeXicans for nearly two hundred
is one of the most charming winter climates
and has proven its health restoring power to
many invads. Its grapes, wine, fruits and
vegetables are of the best Its wheat is
famed for its excellence. VIII not the valleys
and table lands in the Hueco and Guadal pc
mountains, so near and possessing the same
climatic peculiarities, yield similar produc-
tons?
Sulphur and other mineral springs are
known to exist in these little known noun
tains, one of the former being on or very
near the line of the railroad. 1t is believed
also that rich mines exist to be discovered in
due time. But enough is known to Justify
the opinion that the construction OF the Tex
a, Il Pacific road will open up, populate and
enrich one of the most delightful regions on
the continent, heretofore a wilderness, COM
paratively known only to savages, and
thereby add great numbers, power and
wealth to the State of Texas ii consumms-
ton long sought by our former enlightened
law-gvers, and now on the eve of culmina-
ton, with these and other glorious results,
not the least of which is the bringing into
market several millions acres Of our free
school lands. j. H.B.