The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-10
lCAPTAAN MARSHALL's RETURN.
His Trip through the Territories and
~ visit to Old MeNicO-El Paso
ns "a Railroad Point

A HERALD reporter had the pleasure of
meeting on the streets yesterday, Captain
Ed. p. Marshall, formerly of tho law firm of
Williams e. Marshall, of this city, who has
Just returned from an extended tour through
tho western states and territories and part
of old Mexico. He has seen much of the
west and expresses himself as delighted with
his travels and what he there saw. He first
took in Kansas and her principal cities, and
next Colorado and her wonderful mining
camps-her grand canyons and magnificent
mountain scenery. Thence he passed down
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
across New Mexico 10 FL Paso, Texas
and old Mexico. He speaks of New
Mexico as heretofore being mere cypher in
the galaxy of western territories, and as a
mere abiding place Of marauding bands of
wild Indians, but now since the advent of
railroads she is beginning to take rank
among the foremost of the western terrific.
res. 1t is claimed that her mineral resources
are rs great Us those of Colorado, and that
the ores, such as gold and silver, are far
richer than these of Colorado and Arizona.
Already capitalists are seeking investments
in her mines and introducing mining ma
chinery preparatory 10 the development of
her mineral products. The completion of
the Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe railroad to
and down the Rio GrHndo valley, opens up
TO ready access the richest mineral regions
found for centuries rs the source from which
the Montezumas drew untold wealth.
He speaks Of the Rio Grande
If No
Mexico and the great vineyard of the west.
II contains fruit trees resembling forest trees,
the pair tree actually attaining two feet in
diameter. The amount Of fruit which can be
raised and wine made in this valley, no says,
is simply beyond calculation, and there can
be no doubt that the completion of railroads
TO FL Psso will develop revenue in this line
which is never thought of at the present
time.
The captain has Just left FL Paso, and is
pleased TO style it the future great interior
city of the southwest" Says that Hunting
TONS Southern Pacific and the Atchson
Topeka & Santa Flo railroads are straining
every energy to reach FL Paso first
The Southern Pacific has lis road completed
to within twenty miles Of the place, and the
Atohison, Topeka e. Santa Fe has its track
completed TO within six miles Of the town
and the remainder oftho way already graded,
and inside Of six weeks both roads will have
reached the place. One of the peculiarities
of the building of the Southern Pacific is that
the company does all of It's own construction
by means Of Chinese labor having employed
about three thousand Celestials, all under
the management of the company, without
letting contracts as is usual. For this labor
they pay each Chinaman ST per day, out of
which imsll sum they pay their board. At
this introduction Of Chinese labor there is u
widespread dissatisfaction among the
American laboriug classes. He
says that slready the employment
Of Mexican laborers has TO q great extent
demoralized the labor system of that section,
and it is feared that tho panic will be com.
plete when that region is overrun with
Cinnamon.
lie speaks of III Paso as being at present a
modest little.town situated on the American
or Texas side Of the Rio Grande, opposite
from I'll Pasv, Mexico, which isa considerable
Mexican city of some six or eight thousand