The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-18
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Anew Points from Dir Tom simpson. Just
Returned from the End of the Texas 4 Pa
cinc ExtaYsioo

Anew FONTS from Dir Tom simpson. Just
Returned from the End of the Texas a Pa
cifc Extension.
A HERALD reporter met up yesterday
with Mr. Thomas Simpson, who has lust
returned from trip out to the end of the
track ofthe Texas Il Pacific Railway.
He found the ;rack-layers at Eagle Flat
section % from Fl Pasol, 53S miles west of
Dallas, and in full sight of Mount Blanco
on section 50, where the junction will be
made by the Texas & Pacific with the
Southern Pacific Railroad.
This junction viii be made by the first of
December and the Texas & Pacific trains
WI run into III Paso over the
track OF the Southern Pacific railroad
How long such an arrangement can bc
amicably preserved between two such rival
ana competing roads, no one Knows hut
Jay Gould and Huntington. The track
iiaylhg iorce VIII return to Fort Worth and
De employed in laying the trek ON The
Iexas extension OF the Missouri Pacific rail
road from Fort Worth, via Ava
rauo ana Waco to GEORGETOWN
ON the international railroad
Already passengers begin to travel over
this Texas 4 Pacific route to f. EaSo. on
tnelr way 10 the mines of Colorado and
New MEXICO and to California The first
through passenger from the Mississippi
river to the Pacific ocean over the combinrd
lines of the Texas Il Pacific and the South-
ern Pacific Railroad was Colonel Caleb
dorsey, OF stockton, California, formerly of
Louisiana Missouri who passed west
on November 10th. TRAVELLING
over this gap of tbirty.iye
nllles IN an open wagon, and the first
through passenger from the Pacific To the
MISSISSIPPI river was Colonel Duff of OK
iord, Mississippi, late Recorder of Memphis
tennessee, who came east the same day'
Inc country around Eagle Flat is 5000 feet
ABOVE the sea, yet the air, he says, is warm
and balmy, while the peaks of Eagle. Cariso
anu QuiLman mountainsare all covered with
SNOW me ascent OF CanSo Pass is by nine
inlIes OF maximum grade, with an unend-
ing series OF curves, simple, compound and
reversed, displaying great engineering skill
ON the part of Major Petriken, the locating
engineer. The Southern Pacific railroad
VIII pass within five miles OF Cariso
ana Eagle Flat, siding on the Texas & Pacific
railroad then turn more southerly toward
the mouth of the Pecos river, and thence
easterly toward San Antonio. The gan be.
tween the two railroads is being lessened
daily, and hack now conveys passengers
between the two, so that the trip can be
made without danger or difficulty. And
by the 10th of December next the reg.
ular passenger trains will run daily
between Dallas and Ell Paso, and
baggage be checked to Tucson, Yuma, Los
Angeles and San Francisco. The com.
pletion OF this grand highway between the
Trinity and the Rio Grande will advance
the interests and promote the prosperity of
Dallas and only confirm her position AS
the great railroad center of
the Southwest. He reports that
Captain William Johnson, engineer in
charge OF The end of the track, hale and
nearly and sayssthat the captain treated
him every courtesy, besides impartinp To
INN information concerning the road.