San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-29
TEXAS TOPICS.

TEXAS TOPICS.
Three million more shad are TO ID
placed in the rivers OF Texas.
An appropriation of $4,000 passe'
the House June 18th, for government
building at Dallas.
The cotton crop Of Texas in $50
sold for s3,2OO,O00. That OF 1877
brought 25,33l, 700, showing an increas'
of about million per annum.
Austin Statesman: Mr.. Patterson
of the firm OF Iglehart & Patterson, ha'
thirteen acres planted in tomatoes
With the favorable season he will gath
er an immense crop from his almost
countless vines. He has just received
car load of $4,000 cans with which to
preserve his fruit.
"A prospectus of the Rio Grande
and Pecos Railway of date Of June /,
1882, which sets forth the many advant-
ages and benefits to be derived from
the construction of the proposed line
along the valley of the Rio Grande. In
it Gen. w. II. Sherman, by letter to
its president, Gov. A. @. Hunt, states
that he has mo hesitation in writing
that railroad from the mouth OF the
Rio Grande, Brazos Santiago, along
its VALLEY up as far as San Felipe, will
aid the military authorities in main
tanning the peace which now prevails
there, and which tends to fill Texas with
an industrious, thriving population.
Ell Paso Star: The air isfuil OF ru-
mors of important railroad movements
The long trains loaded nth wheat,
which the Southern Pacific has been
bringing from California through this
point and dispatching east over the L.
g. P, ceased to pass over the line some
days ago; and it is said that the South
ern Pacific company is now shipping its
wheat over the Central Pacific and the
Union Pacific roads. This is the one
absolute fact upon which the rumors
appear to be based. The Southern Pa
cific folks say that the change was made
in order to take the freight from the
Texas g. Pacific and thereby force that
road back into the pool from which it
cut loose on the I'd of May; and that
now, as the latter road has again enter
ed into the pool and put it's rates back
to where they were before, the wheat
will be turned in this direction again.
The T. & P. folks explain the change
by saying that Gould has secured the
New Orleans Pacific from Vermillion.
vile to New Orleans and will not lit
the s. P. into the city. Rumor says
that the T. &. P. is to run into Ell Paso
over its own track, just as soon as the
iron can be laid, and that material has
been ordered to the junction, at Sierra
Blanco, ninety miles east of here, for
that purpose; that the two great cor
porations-the Gould syndicate and the
California syndicate-have declared
war, and that all pools and combina-
lions are at an end; that Gould has
outwitted Huntington and will now
'orce the latter to seek his outlet at
where the bar at the mouth
If the harbor prevents deep sea vessels
rom entering; that heavy reduction
n the Texas g. Pacific freight tariff will
low take place, and rates between this
,ity and the east be put SO low as to en-
lble Ell Paso merchants to supply all
southern New Mexico and that, in fine,
his city IS now to receive the full ben
fit which she ought to derive from
having three competing lines of raiload
her with the eastern mar
tets. In corroboration of these reports
t is stated that the Texas & Pacific of
ices for the transaction of all Ell Paso
business will shortly be removed to the
JUNCTION.
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