The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-26
THE RAILROAD PROBLEM.

asked to secure the Gulf, Colorado 81 SAINT,
Fe railroad, was received in Dallas will
some curiosity and comment. At first blusl
it seemed as though this city might be some
what damaged by the building of the road il
question to For. Worth, especially as 1t wa
also stated that the Missouri, Kansas IL Texai
railroad would be extended from Denton oil
Gainesville to Fort Worth. We hardly
know whether the Fort is to DO congratulated
on the event, looking OF the situation in
practical light and for reasons herein after
to be detailed, however much we may feel
disposed to credit and admire their enterprise
and their liberality in this matter. 1t is o
compliment to their business energy at any
rate, and is an earnest of their pluck and de-
termination to do all in their power that they
conclude as furtheriDg the material interests
oftheir young city, and to speed its proaperity.
We cannot conceive however, how this road
going TO Fort Worth can in any way injure
Dallas, although it would somewhat have
been beneficial to us for i. to have come here,
AMI vastly 50 to Galv, ston. In our opinion,
Dallas has Alright to feel aggrieved that she
was not given hearing, 10 view Of the cor
respondence that had passed, between this
city and the parties concerned, on the sub
ject. 1t wears the aspect of cavalier treat
ment, TO say the least of it, to solicit a con.
sidera,ion Of the question of bringing the
road to Dallas and then to act without
giving time for conference or an answer.
And 1t bears the appearance, too, as though
the g. @. Il IS. f. railroad company had
really preferred the Fort Worth direction
and alliance rather than of Dallas
and had simply played tho latter
against tho former to attain the object.
But Dallas is all right anyhow, and in this
mater Galveston will suffer more than
Dallas. The Texas Trunk Line is heading
toward Sabine Pass. 1t is being constructed
right straight along, and Dallas has both the
money and tho inclination to further the in
terests Of that road, to aid ii materially, and
10 SEQ to it that it shall be speedily con-
structed to junction with the International
IL Great Northern railroad, which will give
us much shorter route to tho gulf or to
New Orleans, and consequently a cheaper
one, than tho Gulf, Colorado Il Santa Fe
road might perhaps have been. Further
moro, Dallas can see to 1t that this Texas
Trunk Line be pushed to Sabine Pass,
and must throw her weight and influence
and trade to build up that point as the sea.
port city OF Texas, and must urge the peo.
plo and the representatives in congress to
help build up Sabine Pass The bar there is
said by experts 10 be the best on the Texas
coast and the harbor the finest in the south. |
Water deep enough for the largest sized sea-
going vessels can DO obtained at the PAS at
much less cost, it is said, than elsewhere on
the Texas seAboard, and well directed efforts
in this line could very materially affect Gal
weston. Dallas has heretofore stood by Gal
weston and demanded that she be- given
deep water, and earnestly advocated
that she DO patronized and fostered |
and developed into great city, but if kind
ness and frien dship are to be repulsed and |
The people of Dallas to be thus treated by
asking them to consider ola proposition and
Acti II taken tho opposite of that proposition
before an answer can be made, why then, 80
be it. Galveston can have antipathy and
opposition and actual war ilshe desires 1t in
preference to friendship and fraternal feeling
and reciprocity of interests. Dial.
as has yet st. Louis and
New Orleans to look TO. The taking
If the Gulf Colorado & Santa Flo road to
Fort Worth will not materially hurt Dallas
The Chicago. Texas Il Mexican Central rail.
road, on which force is now at work in the
leld, going from Dallas to johnson county,
Will answer much the same purpose to Dali
as that the Gulf, Colorado Il Santa Fe road
would, had it come here instead of to the
Fort 1t will penetrate the same section of
,ountry as far as Dallas could have hoped,
or business and it will have here connec.
ion with the NJ. X. & T. road through the
Dallas Il Wichita, which it is not positive the
J. @. IL S. +. will ever have at Fort Worth.
1t will be built on to Paris,
Lamar county, TO form direct communica-
ion to ST. Louis and Chicago, via Fort
smith, Ark, and if it indeed be true, as is
tated, that Fort Worth has really assurances
hat tho NJ, X. 4 T. will be built from Den.
on to that point, why we can patronize the
lineage, Texas & Mexican Central, to the
xclusion of both the Texas & Pacific and
L., X. u t. roads. There are so many Ifs,
nvolved in this whole matter that ii is yet
involved in uncertainty and uureliability.
If" the Cult, Colorado 81 Santa Fe road
70 pushed forward from Bolton to Fort
Worth, and "if" the NJ, X. IL Il
which is virtually the Texas &
Pacific management, did sure enough prom
Sc to extend its line from Denton to Fort
Worth, and "if' it does do 1t, why then Fort
Worth will actually have the G. Q. Il S. +.
nd NJ. X. Il 7. railroads, that's all, so far as
Fort Worth is concerned, but it will not be
ii so far as Dallas is concerned. 1t has been
aid oftentimes that a railroad cornorot;,, |