The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-31
GREAT WESTERN TEXAS.

A wonderful Countrywide Progress
Of the 4. q r. RailrOad-Unprece-
dented vegetssiOn-kich soil aud
magnificent Flora.
From Governor John G. Brown, vice.
presideut of the Texas g. Pacific railway
company, who had Just returned "from the
'front.'" HERALD representative learned
Yesterday that no had accepted on Saturday
forty miles additional of the road. This
makes running distance Of S03 miles from
Dallas, within 25 miles of thu plains. and
lust ono half the distance between this city
and FL Paso. 1t is estimated that this latter
place will DO reached sometime between
the lst and 10Th of January next Materials
of ties, iron, &c, are being regularly and
rapidly placed in position to be used as fast
as the grading progresses. Track is being
laid at the rate of 900 feet per day, which
is nearly two miles. Governor Brown says
that he has never seen mora excellent
track anywhere this side of the Mississippi
river, and the road, if continued in the future
as in the past, will te one Of the finest for
smoo,hness, accuracy a thorough finish in
the entire country.
He is enthusiastic over the loneliness of the
region through which the line is now and
has lately been passing. Here are all the
varieties of grasses, the buffalo, the mes
quite, the regular prairie, all..growing in the
grandest of luxuriance. Here too are the
various kinds OF soils, from the light saud
to the rich sandy loan, and the wsyy, the
black and the mulatto, and the yellow clay.
As far rs the eye can compass across these
graceful and gently undulatiDg pillows of the
land, scattered here and there are flowers of
infinite variety thst vic with the iris in the
gorgeousness of color and the Gplendor of
their hues. Here vegetables and fruits grow
in rare abundance with the slightest cul,iva-
ton, rivaling the historic fame of the Cali.
fornia species; water melons, for instance,
the cultivatora say, grow to weigh as much
as rs to so 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 flourish "a
10 the northwestern states, and it is stated
that the cotton growth on the Brazos quality
of land there is as prolific as in our section.
Nolou COuuty nus stleCttu CWeelWhler rs
couRty seat, aud the T. g. P. road will pre-
sent check for $500, as partial contribution
for tho court house, in Taylor county, Buff
falo Gap, is the capital; and Colo>
RADIO, OF Mitchell; while Big
Springs, will doubtless be organized
a, the county seat for Howard
There are nov but three more counties in
the state Of Texas for the Texas & Pacific
road TO traverss ere it reaches the Rio Grande
anil lays the last spike for the connecting
link that will bind us with tho rich occident
end proclaimiDg to tho world tho grand
highway that ligaments the bue waters o.
the Pacific and the golden sands of Califor
mia, with the tide waters Of our great sin.
land sea-" the Mississippi. Thai next new
years morn will announce the Joyous story o,
such delightful consummatiou, rs realized
to the full, this whole section must say SC
mote Ii be.