Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-08
JAY GOULD'S OPERATIONS IN
TEXAS.
A city with Two Mayors and Two
Codes The RsilroHd Powers
GrasIIng at Ibe Valley Trade.

/ PARIS TEXAS. November 2).-Paris is Just
Low the Athens Of Texas, and besides her edu-
cationsl interests, is the most enterprising city
/ Of about 500 inhabitants in Northeast Texas.
| Her location is beautiful by nature, and she is
on The line OF an important railroad. Street
cars add 10 ihe convenience OF her citizens, and
her tTade from Texas, Indian Territory. Lon
isiana aud Arkansas is fl lurishing. Just now
! her citizens are much interested in the vast
raj fOsd projects which promise a network Of
| highways over the State, and will bring greater
progress TO our city. TIE force now employed
| in railroad building in Texas By the Gould,
| Rogers, snd Morgan & Whitney syndicates
| outnumhers the United States army Since
the colonial days, when the great Mississippi
| va ley began TO be peOpled BY the white race
the value of The trade Of this rich etiOn of
the Union wa~ fOreseen. and el gible outlets to
foreign ports we're problems to our statesmen.
Tn iUng Allegheny ridge y as barrier 10 di-
rect lines TO the Atlantic seaboard, and
he frst highway OF trade from The
valley Usnt around the head of this
ridge, terminating L New YORK. Whos4 fine
baTb1r invi Ell transit TO EurOpean nations
The Atlantic cOasr, fr IA It's prog nifty TO Eu-
pope. 5 better commercial outlet for thlS trade
than even the natural outlet OF New Orleans,
of the far distant shores OF the Pacific slope.
ur mOnied msguates are Yaging war as to
u b ch seaoOsrd. the Atlantic or the Pacific
han " IN the wealth OF This great region. The
pe1p e Of eX are watching with jealous eyes
{ { completion Of The line belog built from At
ltnta TO the &liSSisslppi. whlcn will open the
ports Of Savannah and BruuswicS to an
m re &c grade AT the same time We have Mr..
,Iouid Wa ism Rogers. OF st LOui and Nor
gan Whitney. Jr., OF New York, pushing rival
lines fro the heart II thA valley trade,
thr, ugh exas San Francisco
The Gould s. Indicate is running through
fseignr lice called the Texas and Pacific Raj
roa direct fr- m st. LOUIS. through Texarkana,
SOU Aes5 across the state TO FL "aso, ia the
-authN esterH pGTsloq or the state on the lSlO
Gtanda snd from thence 20 San Diego, CalIfOr
MA mis- ia- j. Completed 20 b1Ihin forty
niles # El Paso. where the work - nog
often impeded by raids from hoslie lnoians SO
that tn IRON feoiers OF this great creep ng ROAD
along the Prcos eud Ri Grande. Dut out their
Il e. slowly. although surely, for four hundred
miles west OF r OFt Worth. This line began a
rev road at Texarkaua, whcn Is CITY party
in arkansas ana partly in Tex s, on the border
Of the two State>-a bros street being the
buu iaIy line. Th- laws emo ced In one halt
tie town NOT binding 10 the other hair and
the town has two Mayors Its peculiar .situa
ton. with the great amount or travel through
It. Is cJnduciv- TO crime, and it Is ne unusuai
cit cumstsnce for traveller to be ROBBED,
murdered. thrown Into the river, ana
Ihs assassin e>cape simply by crossing
a street into another state Arkansas made
severe enactment in orcer TO reach this evil
against toe sale Of firearms, whereupon the
dealers moTed thrir stores into Texss. where
the sale of Urea ms. ike their use, Is Tree. Inc
Arkansas May iS,led proclamation against
the sal- of I9uOr on he sabbath This gave
the. Texas la iOr dealers the advantage until
the Ark mas reSideTs emigr ted TO the Texas
side AID regaiH their customers.
L competition with the Gu road, whose
8 -ockholders are principally New YORK cspi-
TzIfs : i the Sc Louis and san Francisco
Road. with Wm- Rogers, Of 81. Louis, as Prtsi-
dent and the stO-khO ders BALTIMORE and BIS
ton capital sts.
Fort smith, Kansas, thT' ugh the Choctaw In
dian TerrdOrS. which is in the eastern portion
of In ian Territory. 10 our oiIy, Par S. Here It
will meet the Morgan whitney Road, called
he Tsxss CentTai, which starting al Galveston
rms noIth 10 Paris and laps the IuternatloA-a al
and treat Nor hern Railroad. thus securing oy
this line an outlet 10 the Paclhc Ihis latter
line the International and Great Northern.
- uesriy completed to Lsred ,, further south
an the Rio Grande than FL PaSO, bus there has
b.sen A lars. arbitration of these rival roads Dy
,,hich il is hOuz ht tn lntrrna lonai ano 6reaC
NOrThes n mas secured the use or 6oulds hne
70 III Pas0. fr, m point about 1rty miles souin-
tasf OF 81 Paso. where the International now
The II Iouis ana San Francisco Road had
some trouble getting their charter from the
Choctaw Legislature, as Gould agenls were
acIlye lUbaylng against lh Ioe Choc1aM LIS
Isiature meets at Armstrong; Academy. Inc
Governor Of The ChocJaws is JACK Curtain. an
in ELI ent alr-6reed, whose lnuuehce cOun-
terarteI the lobbyists
Both the rex4s Pacific and the International
and Great Northern lines are below the lati-
tude o. snow, and will be successful great ar-
teries OF rraffic
hese railroads open to the enterprise OF
emigrauts the hitherto unexpiored regions OF
mineral and sgricu tuf al wealth of the State
Mucn of Northeast exas Is trayersed by long
lines # hills almost solid iron The north
ern D 4ft Of the State is great corn and wheat
grssisr, Tse c-ntral portiTn vast Drairies OF
aIluvial soil OF fabuiOgs fertility, the richest
c tton country he world. and in the sou b.
srn section a-e ex eDsive coal lands. These
neV ads rtsn IN Ougl thee regions. many
mile OF bioh re public lands. that can be
b ~ fee foe the sstEsing, and living upon them
five years
The Texas and Pacific ana the International
are am st pa silel dues from 81. Louis TO
where they will In by arbTra1 N.
The litG c ehAnties along the lines OF these
roads Z iyertise: ',0ne meal. 25 cents; square
meal, 81 cents; 0orae, Is cents BIO.