The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-03
.oSE no.:r YoR DALLAS"

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The new year was Jsherod in with an
other great victory forDalas enterprise Two
say Dallas enterprise, for this great trunk
Line is tho outgrowth of the enterprise Of
our own people,. Not more than Two years
ago some of our citizens, in conjunction
with the leading citizens Of Alvarado and
Cleburnc, organized the Dallas 4 Clchurnc
Railroad, with the intention of building a
narrow gauge railroad from Dallas to the
Southwest to secure the trade OF that gar
den Of the State. and they went TO work
with vim characteristic of our leading
business men and made n survey of The
line up Mountain Creek valley,
intending to make connection with the
Texas IL Pacific at Eagle Ford, and thence
over that line to the city OF Dallas; but
with the foresight Of iar-seeing business
men they soon saw that the contemplated
line covered field for trade aud commerce
which was naturally and geographically
tributary to this city, that narrow gauge
road could not control aud that their
city, at no distant day, was 10
be the centre of commerce for North Texas.
Then II was that the management at the
titiDlNO runway Dlilut u llbllbSANhu ~ WV
of our citizens, DIR. +, A, Wimans, that II
he thought his acquaintance among North
ern capitalists codld secure this capital to
build this road that they woul" transfer al
their rights to any new company
who would build and equip Il
iirst-class standard guacc road, The Dyctor
spent some weeks in Washington aud New
York. aud made an arrangement with Da-
vld II. Hale and others of TIC Anglo hmerl-
can Land Il Claim Association, n carpnrd-
ton that was handling large amounts of
Scottish and European capital, alt these
gentlemen after making n trip to Texas,
took hold OF the enterprise, and We now are
about TO reap some of the advan ages OF
our own energy; hence we of Dallas shoald
feel specially proud of its assured success,
Sunday mornings HERALD statri that
the track of the Chicago, Texas y McNiGSn
Central Railroad had been laid to the lihy
mile point, three miles distant Irom Gle
burne, and that the railroad company had
thus saved to itself the $4,000 bonus sub
scrbed by the citizens of Dallas to he paid
in the event that the track was liulshcd to
the fifty mile point by that time. The
track was laid to Il point three-quarlcrS Of
mile beyond to insure the proper dist Ince
specified The last rail was laid at 1890
O'Clock Saturday hight, and II would have
been reached sooner but for an engine
jumping the track which caused delay Of
some five hours. When the last spike was
driven home there wa; a grand
large force of workmcn aud the
engines joined in whistling loud aud long,
until the sounds reached for miles arpund.
The citizens of Cleburn heard thr'glad It'd
ing:s, for they knew full well whit it meant,
anu number of them went out to the end
Of the track to participate in Tho rejoicing
overtime successful and long.dcsrcd event,
MIR. Odell, the Manager and Chief Eugi-
neer Graham deserve great praise for the IN
ergy aud zeal they nave displayed
In pushing the line throusa Manager
Odell has for the past two weeks been
working forces night and day, and ON the
last day he told the men that ifdhcy would
reach the fittymile point before II o'clock |
that night he would give them each 50 Tor
their day labor. This stimulated theta, !
and the rapidty with which they laid track
was q caution. The management o, this |
road have had a great deal to
contend with. Early in the fail
heavy rains and the washing away of the |
bridge over the Trinity retarded tho work |
very much, and besides there WIS DELAY |
caused IN several instances by parties dis.
putting the road the right.ot-way. Yet all |
these obstacles were successfully overcome
and the linc construct ed within three miles !
of Cleburne, the roads first objective point
OF importance. Now that the fiIv,milc
point has been reached, the force will take
its. time in laying the three remaining
miles OF track TO Clcbuuc, which
will be reached within the
next day or so. BY the 18th complete ar
engagements, 1t Is understood, will he made
with the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fc Road.
by which the Chicago, Texus b Mexican
Central road will be enabled to run through
passenger, express, mail aud frelrhl trains
from Dallas via Cleburnc to Galveston and
intermediate points
Manager Odell, Chief Engineer Grabnm
Superintendent Robb and Auditor Cannon
are in the city The Board of Directors viii
meet in Dallas on January l0lh, to consider
matters connected with thsir COR.
,roration. Among other thin.s, ar
raif. gements for the running nj 'raius
will Nc perfected. 1t is expected thit hy
the 18th nGstant through cars will run fro,,.
this city TO GALVESTON. This viii uuuaubt.
edly include Hsleeping and dWwiug-ruom
coaches. The Chicago, Texas u Mexican
Central are dailT expecting three neW !. essen
ger coaches, whN,h have been huilt for the
new road al cilersonylIlc, hliana
also three neW locomotives The
forces between here and Cl.huruc
will, during the Snrescnt weeE, lnish
t." remaining short tlistnnce of tracl,.lay-
ing TO W last.mcntttSned point, surface ~
aud put II other finishing touches, II is
expecte hat the directory, in It's meeting
on the NH, will sclhlc the details for
or Red l RN9 sg'' to '''' co NJ riC,
with the st, Louis & San Francisco,
southwest through A kansas and the In.
dian Territory. 1t is altogether probable
that from LOO TO 1000 ncn will be placed
on the line Much preliminary work and
hve miles of grading have been done from
DALLAS toward Farmersvillc forty miles, to
winch place the road has been permanently
located.
70 appreciate the almost herculcan work
done on this line within the past six weeks,
one must have been on the ground When
We consider that not more.than six weeks
ago tho road had not virtually gotten be.
You'd the Trinity river, having four success
sive times lost the bridge, the rapid work
and the energy displayed by lhc manage.
mcnt, is almost Unprecedented. On
Saturday there was about 5000 ties
and something owe, 800 tons
Of iron laid, which was about TIRES ,,ilrs
laid on that day. Mr., ]. T. 0dell the GEN.
cral Superintendent, won, TO The front
about two weeks ago and remained on tho
track until he, assisted by Mr. }. NJ. Ora.
ham, the Chief Engineer drove the last
spike at the last fifty mile post During
the last week of the work the force worked
day and night with MessrS. Odel and
Graham both at the front, ami to tell the
truth, when. they arrived here Sun
gay morning they both looked AZ