The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-11
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Progress he Road Toward III Paso- oni!
$50 MileN to Build 80 Character OF TIM
Country West of the Pecos-Throusi
Trains for san Francisco, january LIST
1859.
From Captain W NJ Johnson, enginee
in charge of track-layinS ON the Texas
Pacific extension, who has been in the cit,
for several days, a HBRALD reporter yeSter
day learned the following information con
corning the progress ofthe great sntsrpris,
Of building that line;
The end of the track is now on section
$50 or $50 miles from FL Paso and 49,
miles west of Dallas.
This puts the terminus at present at 4
point halfway between Antelope and
BorachO stations, in the Lymria noun
tains. Zoo feet above the sea-level, or
1900 feet higher than Dallas.
The track-laying progresses at the rate o
from ten to twelve miles per week, ut which
rate III PaSo will be reached before the
LIST of January, 1882.
The grading is all finished through the
mountains, except few miles in CarisI
Pass, which will be done in three weeks.
The bridges 0l0 in number) between Sar
Martin and the Eagle Pass are being put il
as fast as the track approaches, and Messrs
COwen & knOwclOn have large force al
Toyah framing,
Tho scction-houses, depots and round
houses are put up by Mr.. A. Brownlee a.
fast as required, and he is working over ont
hundred men,
The water-tankS are put in every twenty
miles and where water is not found a. such
springs as the Pctriken, San Martin Ante
lope and Eagle Springs wells are dug b,
steam machinery and an abundant supply
obtained.
The track-laying force is still kept up t.
800 men and fifty teams, and they lay
about sixteen cars Of iron and forty-twC
cars of ties per day,
The telegraph line is kept up with the enc
of the track and an operator i
located in Captain Johnson's office on The
boarding train, Mt the end of the track
The weather has been delightfully."- coo
and pleasant, and in the mountains the ali
is cool and light, insurins good health t.
everybody,
one of our old citizens, Mr.. l.. NJ. Spen
Ger, is the meat contractor along the line
and keeps a herd of 100 fat beeves on tn,
prairie within easy distance of the dilleren
gangs ut work.
The Lymria mountains, spur of thu
GaudalOupc, are found to the south of tn,
railroad at San MARITIME, and extend ssutl
into Preside county to the north of tn,
PccOs river, and arc covered with the ricl
gramma grass and the hill tops are shade,
with large trees, such as buckeye, wilt
cherry, oak, cedar, pine, cottonwood anC
walnut. The stone is a volcanic, or igucou
rock, but 50 far no coal or minerals hay,
been found.
South of San Matthias the Mexican colony
of Victoria on Taylor Creek where irrigation
is practicsd to large extent, and mum
Der Of farms cultivated for corn, oats, barley
and melons.
There are no cattle on the range west o
the pccos except 10000 belonging to Col
W. +. Hughes and John Simpson, and they
are confined TO the banks of the PecOs
while there is range west Of them biz
enough to feed all the cattle and sheep ii
Texas.
In the mountains are to be found the an
telopc blacll-tail deer and the cinnamon
bear; the Mexican lion can be found with
out looking for them,
No Indians have been seen and heard o
anywhere along the line of the railroad, al
though there are plenty west of the Ri,
Grande, and in Colorado.
ON the first of January, 1882, through
passenger trains will be put on this lin
from Dallas to San Francisco and all point
in California and Oregon.