The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-05
RAILROADS AND RAILROADS.

Elsewhere in This issue We pub lab an In
t,'es ina article from the Galveston News
entitled The Possibilities of the Santa Fe
rad" which gives a hint of what has for
some time been suspected by certain psrt,s
to bs the design Of this splendid Texas enter
prise. Galveston has not been altogether
easy uader .he constant threats and taunts
about the Sabine psss competitive PROPOSE
lions, aud she now Looks to the Santa Fe rail,
road company to relieve her from all future
fears in that direction. Running through the
'ichest section Of the state in . north
by northwesterly course, forming connec-
lions with Dallas, Fort Worth, Weatherford,
via Oleburne, the ambitious AID wealthy
corporation is reaching out toward the pan
handle, and through the heart to the north.
orn boundary Of that rich region, New Mex,
leo; it 10 not BY any means content, but il 10
looking to early communications for tho pen
etration Of eastern Texas, with its pineries,
minerals, etc. AS we understand the future
OF that road, it is proposed st some
early day TO carry its western sections to
Shreveport, where it will form direct
connection with the Texas i
Pacific, and the Texas & New
Orleans roads, the st. Louis & Ii n
Mountain, etc. This enterprise is owned
aud controlled by Galv' Ston capitalist,
gentlemen whose business qualifications, In
tegrity, honor, sbil ties anu resources wou
do highest credit to any state or city. Ithss
been fortunate for Dallas that connect, n
with them was effected by the Chicsgc,
Texas q Mexican Central railroad company
some couple OF months sgo, whereby line
would be completed from Oleburns via
Dallas to apoint on Red river to connect
with and find an outlet through the
St. Loui, i San Francisco road TO the great
west and east. The entire project met with
the mort hearty approval Of our people At
the time ii became known /! was agreed on,
and their views and hopes appear to be real.
lied BY the report which may be found this
morning in enc of onr local columns, setting
forth the things already accomplished. Had
this consolidation of interests not
been contaminated with that present
Andprospectively powerful corporation ofthe
Island city Dallas would doubtless have seen
isstrong arms nanking AID cutting US off BY
the Cleburne ext nsion to Fort Worth
alone, thence on TO Mckinney, thence to the
Rsd river line; and all this by the only road
toat TexA could call excu,ively her own.
There have for the past thirty days been
rumors saost that the St. Louis &
San Francisco road was dsllying with
MIR. Gould, and II has sometimes
occurred to us that this suspicion,
or fact as the cass may be, has arrested what
Was currently stated and believed to be tho
early intention of the Houston & Texas Gem
trail road, to put surveyors in the field to co.
lect route for quick completion of line
from Whitney via, Dallas to Paris or there.
sbous. For should Mr.. Gould secure con.
troll of the FRISCO road, then tho Santa Fe or
the Texas Central would be ct such point,
exactly posi,oned ss tho latter WAS
at Denison when the NJ, X. &
t. road passed into his possession.
Wherefore it is only a very stale and avery
general news item to announce that all the
people must now, in the light Of new devel-
opments, believe that the Chicago, Texas &
Mexican Central railroad company, Ac,itg
in the fullest harmony with tho Santa f.,
has had the ample,t assurance, in the inter-
est of our people, that they will have an in.
dependent line a. contemplated, as prom>
i,ed, and as in good faith arranged for with
our Galveston friends,