San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-02-09
Gulf and Pacific Railroad.
New Orleans Picayune, Goth instant.

New Orleans Picayune, 10th instant
Another step has been taken in the
matter of the organization of the Gulf
and Pacific Railroad, the name of the
now Boston road, from New Orleans to
the Pacific, via Ysleta, N. M. 1t will
be remembered that the short route
building from st. Louis to Mexico by
way of Fayetteville, Ark, crosses the
Gulf and Pacific at Dallas. The name
Of this short line in Texas, is the Chi
cago, Texas and Mexican Central, 1t
has been decided to have the north end
of this line Called the st. Louis and San
Francisco build the portion through
the Choctaw Nation, from Fort Smith
to Paris, Texas, and the Chicago, Texas
and Mexican Central (Which is COM
pleted from Dallas to Cleburne, south
west, where it entersects the Gulf Col
orado and Santa Fe) will build north
east no further than Paris, or possibly
to the Red River. The Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe, which is the largest
factor in the complex Boston system,
has already assigned passenger agent
w. FL. Holabird) to Texas, with head
quarters at Dallas. Economy of adj
ministration requires as few organlza-
tions as possible in such system, and
it is intended to consolidate the Gulf
and Pacific with the Chicago, Texas
and Mexican Central. A large party OF
Northern, Eastern and Texas capital
lists left Dallas Saturday night for the
East, to try and perfect arrangements
for the consolidation. This is the COM
bination to which our special dispatch
from New York this morning refers.
The information in our New York spc--,
Gals is always found trustworthy, and
our readers have been advised in adj
vance of several of the recent great
railroad combinations, such as the
Southern and Texas and Pacific juno
ton and working arrangements, etc.
The title of this new road, the organic.
alton Of which is not yet perfected
but which is going in with the Chicago,
Texas and Mexican Central, is not
Mexican Gulf and Pacific, but simply
Gulf aud Pacific. The mileage OF the
company now proposed (Which, OF
course, lies in the State limits of Texas
will be about as follows:
From the Red River north of Paris, Texas, 10
the Rio Grande, at Eagle Pass, about o5o
From the Sabine River at Newton county,
Texas to New Mexican line, in Bayley coun-
ty, Texas, about .--.....'....------.'''" o'o
1,o+a1 MICS in Teyas about ................1,1 $50
Morgan's roads have excellent pros
poets of harmony with the gigantic
Boston system. Morgan's Texas Cen
trail is to build northeastern extern
sion to Paris, Texas, from Whitney
ION its Waco and Albany line) by way
of Ennis Con it's Sherman llne) and
Kaufman (where it will cross the Gulf
and Pacific, and Terrell (where 1t Will
cross the Texas and Pacitic.) The st.
Louis and San Francisco will then
furnish an outlet to st. Louis and the
East for the Boston system, Tor the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fee, now
completed from Galveston to Fort
Worth, and for the Texas Central sys-
tenn. all these roads being independent
of Gould's syndicate, and allied to each
other by bonds of mutual antagonlsm
to the Gould polypus. Morgans Louis
lana and Texas touches the Gulf and
Pacific at Opclous2s. 1t will be seen
that there is not the slightest danger OF
New Orleans Texas, Mexican and Call
fornia trade being swallowed up either
by the Scylla of the Texas and Pacing
or by the Charybdis of the Southern
Pacific. The great combination COM
ing in between them is as strong as
either of them.