Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-18
THE SANTA FE RAILROAD Ma.
CHINE SHOPS.

THE SANTA FE RAILROAD Ma.
CHINE SHOPS.
Long before the Santa Fe
railroad reached this point the
BANNER urged upon the citizens
of BRENNAN the Importance of
securing the location of the
company's machine shops at
this place. Everybody, we be-
licve, comedies the importance
of having them located here,
and now that the road is COM
pleted and opened far beyoad
BRENNAN its influence upon our
local trade is being felt. Con-
siderable quantities of cottoy
that heretofore sought ma
ket at BRENNAN and Hempste
have been handled at Belly
This of course was expected
the regular course of busin
Caldwell, on the north will
do much more business
did before the railroad 4
it. These facts should
ish our merchants, b
professional men and prds
owners that a united movement
should be made looking to the
permanent advancement of the
business interests of this city.
tits definitely understood that
the company has5not yet locat-
ed its Shops and will in all pro-
liability not do SO before the
road is completed and opened
to Bolton, distant from Gal
weston 23o miles, or Io4 miles
from Brennan. 1t is said by
railroad engineers and 9TH
ers that Brennan is just
about the right distance from
Galveston to make the end of a
division of the road, ard also
that it is the only place within
reasonable division distance
possessing the natural advant-
ages necessary for the successful
operation of the shops. The
railroad is under special obliga-
tons to no particular point and
will in all probability locate its
shops at the point offering the
greatest inducements. "Strike
while the iron is hot" is a trite
provefb and metapherically
speaking the iron is now hot, so
far as regards the much desired
shops.
We understand that a few of
our most public spirited citizens
are at work endeavoring to get
up a subscription. the object of
which is to raise a bonus sufi-
Gent to induce the company to
locate its shops here.
The machine shops at Mar
shall in this state have more than
doubled its population since
they were opened there; at Pal
estine the shops of the Inter
national road have done the
same thing. The location Of
raj road shops at Houston gave
it a start and even now contrib
ute very largely to its local
trade.
If the shops are located here
there will be an immediate de-
mand for large number of
dwellings, the erection OF which
will give employment to num-
erous mechanics, and the addi-
ton to our population of a large
number of railroad employees
will make business for our mer-
chants and boarding house keep
ers. 1t will also make a market
for all kinds of farm and garden
produce, thus bene6tting every
farmer within market distance
of BRENNAN. As we have al
ready said every citizen is inter
ested in securing the shops, es-
pecially merchants and trades
men.
1t is to be hoped that when
called upon for subscriptions all
will respond literally, money SO
paid will be returned one hun
dred fold.
We perceive by the Brennan
BANNER of the 18th inst, that
the statements of our corrres-
pondent from that town, in
reference to frauds having been
committed by the democrats in
the recent elections have been
fatty contradicted, and that he
himself has beel subjected to
personal attack in consequence
of said statements. We think