The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-02
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A wonderful Country fhe Progress
Of the q ~ Railroad -UHprece-
dented Vegetation -Hich soil and
magnificent Flora.
From Governor John q. Brown, vice.
president Of the Texas a. Pacific railway
company, who had Just returned "from the
front" HERALD representative learned
yesterday that no bad accepted on Saturday
forty miles additional of the road. This
makes running distance of 303 miles from
lpa ., within 25 miles Of the plains, and
III one half the distance between this city
a.d III Paso. 1t is estimated that this latter
place will be reached sometime betwetn
the lst aud 10Th of January next Materials
of ties, iron, o C, are being regularly and
rapidly placed in position to DO used as fast
as the grading progresses. Track is being
laid a. the rate of 5000 feet per day, which
is nearly two miles Governor Brown says
that he has never seen more excellent
track any where this side of the Mississippi
river, and the road, il continued in the future
as in the past, will to one of the finest for
smootbness, accuracy u thorough finish in
the entire country.
He is entbu siastic over tho lovelness Of the
region through which tho line is now and
has lately been passing. Here are all the
varieties of grasses, the buffalo, the mes
quite, the regular prairie, nll,growing in the
grandest Of luxurisnre. Here too are the
various kinds OF soils, from tho light sand
to the rich sandy loan, and the wayy, the
black and the muatlo, and the yellow clay.
As far as the eye can compass across these
graceful and gently undulatiDg billoWs of the
land. scattered here and there are flowers of
Infinite variety th4t vie with the iris in the
gorgeousness of color and the splendor Of
their hues. Here vegetables and fruits grow
in rare abundance with the slightest cultiva-
ton, rivalipg the historic fame of the Cali
fornia species; water melons, for Instance,
the cultivstors say, grow to weigh as much
as IS to 80 pounds. There is ample quantity
of rainfall for all agricultural and pastoral
purposes, and water is constantly being
discovered in springs and streams
heretofore unsupported of existence
The cereals, corr, wheat and oats fl lurish as
ia the northwestern states. and it is stated
that the cotton growth on the Brazos quslity
of land there is IS prolific as in our section.
Nolan county has selected Sweet water IS a
couety seat and the T. 81 p. road will pre-
sent check for $780, as partial contribution
for the court house, in Taylor county, But
falo Gap, is tho capital; and Colo>
RADIO. OF Mitchell; while Big
Springs, will doubtless BIO organized
as the county , seat for Howard
There ere now but three more counties in
the state of Texas for the Texas u Pacific
road to traverse ere it reaches the Rio Grande
and lays the last spike foc the connecting
link that will bind US with the rich occident,
aud proclaiming to the world the grand
highway that lgaments the b ue waters of
the Pacific and the golden sands Of -Cslifor-
MIA, with the tide waters Of our great sin
land sea-" the Mississippi. That next new
years morn will announce the joyous story OF
such delightful consummation, IS realized
to the full, this whole section must say so
mote it be-.