The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-01
The Chicago, Texas a Mexican Central
Railroad

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DALLAS, Tex. sept, 20, 1850,
To Daniel H. Hale president of the Chicago,
Texas Il NJ xic N Central rallroad, and
Mresrs, j 5, DOugherty, pr, II. II. Hughes,
John ,t0nr, Henry 5. Ervay and George j.
Dexter, Citizens railroad committee of Dali
las
GENTLEMEN: 1t is with measure of re.
luctanco that l yield to solicitations by
esteemed citizens and friends in addressing
you. But esteeming the newly inaugurated
enterprise of which Mr.. Hale is president as
of the utmost importance to our country, in
all its parts, and 10 the cause of civilization
AMI constitutional government on this CONT
nent, it would be dereliction of duty to
withhold any expression or information that
might contribute to its success
| am no new convert to the idea. Seven
and II half ears ago, as 8 representative from
this district, / introduced and car
ried through the Legislature charter
incorporating the Paris, Greenvlle ~ Gle
bnrne railroad company to build road from
Red river, from or near the southwest corner
of Arkansas wherever connection could DO
formed with road from St. Louis or Chi
cago, TO run southwestorly through Paris,
Greenyillo, Dallas, Ulobumo and on to the
RIO Gr4ude, anywhere between the mouth Of
the Rio Pecos and Piedras Negras, from
which II line to either Mazatlan or Guaymas,
~ If Of y .1iG,rnin al a., a.
City OF Mexico, was known to DO practicable
The financial crash which fell upon the
country in the autumn ofthat year prevented
any effective action under that charter, and it
expired by lapse of time.
Your charter, under a general law of
this st.,e since enacted, is u renewal of that
enterprise and renows not only my warmest
interest in its success, but recalls some of the
reasons upon which the original sche 40 was
based.
As to the Texas part of the
route enough is known to commend
IL to the favorable consideration of inteli-
CONT capitalists, Bise, ting the great stock
raising country of southwest Texas, and
trsvcrsng fol five hundred miles rs fine an
agricultural country Ms there is in the union,
say from the Upper Nueees 10 Red River,
and thence by direct connection with Chca-
so, il is bound TO b. u paying road, crossing
MS it would, every road in Texas, passing
| from the interior OF the state, the Pacific
ocean, Kansas or Colorado to our own sea-
ports or New Orleans. From their number
and magnitude it would draw an enormous
aggregate trSiilc.
Is aside from those admitted facts the
| grea. source of wealth to such road would
| spring from its Mexican connections. These
may bu tVo.fold. The one would cross the
continent some six hundred miles
to Gaaymas, on the upper
portion OF tho gulf of California,
10 which tho Atcheson, Topeka Il Santa Fe
is masking giant strides, being already seven.
ty-iiyc miles soath of Albuquerque, in New
MoAico, or ~ Mazatlan or some neighbornc
! port an the Pacific about the mouth of the
gulf named. TO either The route is practices
bic by easy grades, through the Sierra Madre
ohaln IN tle state Of Durango, whether the
Pacific terminus be in Sonora or Sinaloa,
two stats Of untold wealth in mineral,
cereals, coffee, sugar, indigo and fruit.
| bat lrN your arrival on the Rio Grande,
ut any pul,t between the mouth of the Pecos
and Laitdo, 1t seems that every impusion
would dloAte direct connection with the
| Clty OF Mexico, the capitol and financial aud
intellectual center of that wonderful coun-
I y--wonderful in romantic history and topo.
| graphical grandeur, immortalized by The
genius of Cortez, Soils Clavigero, Ixt-
! nIAochitl, Humboldt and our own
| Plescott-and destined, by natural laws, ever
10 remain so. The distance from the Rio
Grande to that city may DO stated at 275
Mexican leagues, or seven hundred Eng
, lsh miles, via Monterey, Saltillo. Catorce,
San Luis Potosi, Queretero, Dolores. San
Juan Del Rio and San Miguel de AlIende.
This is the great inland route, trayersing
tho most magnificent mountain valleys at
elevations OF four to seven thousand Gys
hundred feet above the sea level, with lateral
valleys on the right hand and the left, lead.
| lug to scores of large towns and cities, such
as Parras, Zacatecas, Aguss Calieutes, Guam
| ajuato, Leon, Matehuala, Guadalaxarn, San
Luis La P@ and many others, nestled in
/ great valleys, rich in agriculture and miner
tlS. The City of Mexico has "a population Of
50,000, San Luis Potosi near 100000,
Guadalsxara 10000, Puebls tributary 10
Mexico on the east), about 100000, and the
other places nsmed from $4,000 TO $4,000.
Ia these great valleys, from Saltilo to the
| City OF Mexico, are vast estates-haciendss
in the language of the Countrywide property
ofindividuals or families, on which dwell from
two or three hundred to one or two thousand
iaboring peasants, liberated peons,) and
where thousands of acres are cultivated In
grain, vegetables and fruits, while the noun
tains in either side are utilized as pastures for
countless herds Of cattle, horses, mules, sheep
and goats. For great distance around the
capitol city maguey (agava Americans) Is
cultivated with great profit. Its fermented