The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-03-24
HOW THE MUSTANG LOCOMOTIVES
WILL GET ACROSS THE RIO

WILL GET ACROSS THE RIO
GItANDE.
Speaking of this narrow gauge
railway system from which Texas
expects to derive such benefits, it
may be well to show exactly what
may be expected of it, when COM
pleted by showing what is to be its
future in Mexico. The Mexican gov
eminent has granted very liber-
al subsidies to the projec-
tors of the enterprise, who have
organized under the name of
the Mexican National Construction
Company, with Ex-Governor Hunt.
of Colorado, as manager, and Gen
eral w. j. Palmer and James Sulli-
van occupying high positions. The
road is to be known as the Mexican
Central, and will be practically ex-
tensions of the Denver and Rio
Grande, and the Texas and st. Louis
railway, although under a different
organization. Under the provi-
sions of the grant the Mexican Ma.
tional Construction Company is re-
quired to build the first interoceanic
lire from the City of Mexico to the
Pacific ocean, passing through Tolu-
ca, Maravatio, Acomboro, Morelia;
Zamara and Capudad to Manzanillo,
or between that point and Nativi-
dad; the second international line
from the City OF Mexico to the
northern frontier, commencing at a
most desirable point between Mara
vatio and Morelia; thence through
San Louis PotOsi, Saltillo and Mon
terey to Laredo on the Rio Grande,
or between that point and Eagle
Pass. Although the grant was is
sued last fall but few, if any, of the
details have yet been published.
The company is required TO COM
plete two hundred and seventy
seven miles ofroad every two years.
The interoceanic line must be COM
pleted within five years, and the
international within eight years
from last September. Under the
subsidy proper, the government
gives the company $11, PCS per mile
of the roads constructed on the line
from Mexico City to the Pacific, and
$10,460 per mile on the line to the
northern frontier. The government
will begin to pay the subsidy on the
completion of the first nlnety-lwo
miles on the line from Mexico City
to the Pacific. To indemnify the
government against failure to build
the line by the parties asking the
concession, James Sullivan has de-
posted 100000 cash in the National
Monte Depledad, which is to remain
on deposit until sixty-two miles of
the road from Mexico City to the
Pacific are completed. The amount
can then be withdrawn, and an equal
amount in first mortgage bonds of
the company be substituted there
for. The entire line, when COM
pleted, will be about 1000 miles |
long. 1t is stated that the
connection at Laredo or Eagle |
Pass will be made within two years.
The northern line is now COM
pleted to Santa Cruz, New Mexico.
The purchase of the Corpus Christi |
railway by this company was made |
for the purpose of securing an early |
on the Rio Grande, by
which heavy shipment of iron and
other material for construction could
via the Gulf of Mexico
instead of being compelled as now to
get these supplies delivered at great
expense over long lines of broad
guage railways. There will ultimate
ly be three water termini for this sys-
tenn, one on the Gulf of Mexico, one
on the Pacific ocean and the other
upon the great northern lakes, via the
Texas and st. Louis and the Cairo
What Texas may reap
from this system may be readily
seen. The productive fields of Mex
leo will be opened to its people over
cheap railways, and the same may
be said of the Northern and West
ern connections, but, above all,
7ast ocean trade will pass through
he Gulf of Mexico to the Texas
coast, by which Mexico and
these home counties viii be vastly
benefited in a cheap import and
export business between many cOun-
ries, the transfers being beneficial
20 Texas.
THERE are those who would
nave the law, relating to the build
ng of the State Capitol, so changed