The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-23
halfway Notes.

TucSo0, tha point to which the Southern
Pacific was completed on last Thursday, is
town. in Southern Arizona, seven hundred
andJlfty murs from San Francisco, ana ON
direct lire, two hundred and fifty miles from
III Paso. This then leaves only two hundred
and fifty miles OF road To be built 10 rcnch
tho present Elective point, rs the Texas &
Pacific vii mcet 4 there in less than three
years. Tucson ia mining town with more
than ordinary .tulGit ON, and has promised To
grow mn0lrtoly intn n big place after the
railroad got there. There Is no doubt Hun
tington val 30 ~ III iHso MS soon, if not bo.
fore our rcNys y Pacific and there is not II
doubt tlA the treat Southern route wl
be opened for traffic and travel
from Marshall to San Francisco in
lessthln three years were. Although three
years were nominated in the Texas Ccn,lruc.
ton compeny's bond to reach III Paso, it cx-
pec!s togot theron II little over half thrt
timo
There viii be u great city at El Paso one
of these fine days. Three great roads are
making directly for it--tho Southern Pacific,
the Texas 4. tactic and tho Atchison, Tone
ka y Santa rs In addition to these assured
lines, two roads are projected frcm these
into Old Mexico, and another from Austin,
the capital Of Texas And, besides, El Paso
8 iust about athousand miles from any other
city and therefore has plenty of elbow room
It's present population consists of all the in
gradients mixed in the cau'dron by the
witches of Macbeth.
There will be an end to the Dallas &
Wichita Legal complications as all things
must have IN end. But the sooner the
the road IS out Of the courts the better il will
befor this CITY md everybody living along
the existing Wd proposed line. Were t
clear OF these difficulties, the NJ. X. & II cars
would be running to Dallas by tho LIST of next
January.
The construction forces of the Texas Cen
trail extending tho Waco Tap are ut work six
miles beyond Morgan, in Bosque county.
The road IL surveyed and located to Easthnd,
and 1t Is supposed, from thence will 90
Northwest, crossing the Texas Il Pacific a,
SONS poat in ShSckleiord county. Though
Eastland is the present objective point it will
certainly DC pushed until it taps the Pacific
not far 81 rom that point.
The inU lions are very favorable that in
year or tWp The commercial relations be.
tween TIM United States and Mexico will be
10 present. The Santa Fc
hi which has suddenly taken
ran great corporations of the
ceuL, III, is nlans are successfully chr.
risdeh, On 10 laying its track across Mex.
leo to Guaymas, on the Gulf Of California.
is ntte than probable that MS soon MS this line
is completed branch lines will be extended tc
other points in Mexico. The Mexican Gov
ernmens has shown great liberali,y to the
Santa Fe company, and will no doubt con
tinue is liberal policy TO that or any Other
company which undertakes to bring tn,
United ; tate and Mexico into closer com
nercial elstiors by mean, of railroads.
The Isl day of July, "if not sooner" i.
now ilXe0 upon to run a through train from
New Orleans to Houston. As only abou
thirty miles of track remains to claid down
with all bridging finished and nearly all tn,
worst grading done, it seems this day is pu
cf too long. 1t won't take three months t,
put down thirty miles Of iron, and not owe
enc really, if the road-bed is all ready for il
"a paper in Leadville, Colorado, says tn
Age, 'raises a cgy for Legislation tina. shall
protect our people from the grasping selfish
ness of the great monopoly that even no,
has Its grip upon the State Seeing that tn
railway has not yet reached that Camp hi
is certainly taking time by the forelocL
Meantime the Leaaville folks are pawn
about twenty-five cents per mile for stag
are, and proportionally for freightage s
the mule teams that slowly drag their wa
over the mountains and are cursing the raj
way companies that ara finishing their line
toward that youthful city for not maxim
more haste with their 2rasping monopolie
which have already vastly reduced the tim
and expense Of transportation TO and fro,
thM newly discovered region. Verify huma