The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-01
The March of Power and Capital.
The Texas q Pacific,

The March Of Power and Capital.
The Texas q Pacific.
This immense line, with its terminus two
or three years ago but so or 60 miles west o
Dallas, in now 700 miles further on with 1t!
present terminus at Eel Paso. 1t Is one O
the great highways Of the continent, and
the chief line in the Gould southwestern
amount of rolling stock of every descrip
ton, but this has ever been found made
uuate to handle the tremendous business oil
the great and growing country through
which the line passes During the past few
months of the present year and last fall an
immense amount of corn, cotton, cattle,
wheat and freight of every kind has been
ately large.
The mileage now controlled, owned and
operated by the Texas q Pacific company
may be briefly set forth as follows: Tex
arkana (the initial point of the road con-
Meeting with the Iron Mountain system) to
Ell Paso, $50 miles. practically a due east
and west line on the 32d parallel OF latitude,
Gass, Marion, Harrison, Gregg, Upshur,
Wood, Rains, Van Zandt, kaufman, Dali
las, Tarrant, Parker, Pale Pinto, EastIand,
Callahan, Taylor, Nolan, Mitchell, How
ard, Martin, Tom Green, Pecos, Preside
and Ell Paso; Texarkana to Fort Worth, pa
miles; embracing the counties of Bowie,
Red River, Lamar, Fannin, Grayson, their
divides that portion of the state from the
Indian Territory, thence southwest to Fort
Worth through Cooke, Denton and
Tarrant counties, tapping the main line, as
it is generally known, to principal points in
all directions; Marshall, Texas, to shreve-
port, Louisiana. 40 miles; Shreveport to
New Orleans, 207 miles; total, 1,8O miles.
divided into three divisions, viz: Eastern
division, Texarkana to Fort Worth, along
the Red River counties to Grayson and
southwest, and Texarkana to Fort Worth,
including Shreveport branch, along the
counties first named: Rio Grande division,
Fort Worth and 81 Paso;. New Orleans di-
vision ,s shrevepOt Louisiana aaan, via Mans
to the city Of New Orleans. In
September, 1881, the company had in
operation 922 miles of road against 504
miles the previous year, and were construct
ing west to Ell Paso, with all possible expe-
ditlon, there TO connect with the Southern
system to all points on the Pacific slope.
This gap of 23f miles, was closed in Deem
lished. In addition to this the Texas & Pa
cific company, has built the line from
Shreveport to New Orleans, which will be
in full operation in few weeks from pres
ent date, although for the.past three months
traffic has been maintained between the lat
ter named cities by agreement Of the
Texas & Pacific company and the
company are at Texarkana with the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain e. Southern, and the
st. Louis harrow guage; at Jefferson with
the East Line & Red River; at Longview
with the international & Great Northern
and Sabine Valley; at Mineola with the
Missouri Pacific and the International d
Great Northern; at Dallas with the Hous-
Gulf; Colorado & Santa Fe and the Texas
Trunk; at Fort Worth with the Missouri
Pacific, the Cult, Colorado &, Santa Fe and
the Fort Worth & Denver City; at Cisco
with the Texas Central; at Sierra Blanco
with the Galveston, Harrisburg San
Antonio; at Ell Paso with the
New Mexico, Arizona, California and else.
where, and with the Atchison, Topeka d
Santa Fe. Besides the above named rail- !
road connections, the many stage lines
divergipg from the line along its entire
length, make close connections with trains.
These advantages, together with its splen-
did steel-laid road-bed, modern equipments
and successful management, render 1t need |
less to say that this great tIanscontinental
highway, traversing as 1t does, with its nu- |
merous tributary lines, the very heart OF
the richest portion OF Texas |
is IN full possession, even beyond the antidc |
ipatioDs OF the most ardent projectors and |
friends, of business heavy, renumerative
and rapidly increasing. The construction |
of this road has tended more TO develop the |
hitherto unknown resources and possible
ties OF Texas than perhaps any other ele-
ment in the history OF the state. Up to the |
time OF its extension TO the Rio Grandc, the |
entire west of Parker county, except in
rare instances, was given up to grazing; [
with practically no thought or hope, even
among the most credulous, of becoming |
anything else in the near future. Now, in
stead of large herds, roaming over the face
of the country, and as natural conse-
quence very sparse population, can be
seen many aell-Lilled farms, with CoIilOrta-
BILE surroundings. producing cotton, corn,
small grains, vegetables and fruit, and
population of intelligent and prosperous
people Stephens, Callahan and adjacent
are noteworthy examples, where
but year or two since they could but
enumerate their population by the hun
dreds. Now the figures will reach well into
the thousands. and q steady and rapid in
crease in progress. Much of thu is due to
the liberal policy Of the land department Of
the road under the management of Com
nhsoiVhtA aOhosho'
have been established at various
points along the line, which have 4
proven eminently successful and demon
strated beyond question the capability
Of the soil of this hitherto-believed I'M
productive region, 10 be among the very
best for general agricultural purposes. "A
result highly satisfactory, and astonishing
10 many Of the old settlers Of the country,
who never tested the soil. has been demon
strated by this years efforts Of the farm
ers.
To give an idea Of the vast quantity Of
lands owned by the Texas * Pacific COM
pany, which are now in market at prices
ranging from 81 10 IS per acre on easy
terms, attention is directed 10 the follow
ing figures, showing the amount owned by
this company IN the counties named:
1ountiesL Acres Counties. Acres.
ltovfe ~ q77 Jack .......... 80
Red River ....... 6f5s PalO PintO....... 2S3s
I,amar 81 stephens. ....... 2, OzS
Tennia. . ~ Fastland ..... 500
Rains. .....-.... 2452 Corhanche ....... so
w.. zsn6t 1,5IO Brown ........ 66sO
Collin .......... rs Callahan. 1900. 79,6.s
r,ertou - CO.'S TAYLOR .......... - So
rr.ote .. 1geI Jones .......... n n
yvIse -. ZIG BAYLOR ......... $50
CLAW .......--.-. "a ~ NilDarger. ...-. II 100
arrant .---.----. hlD fishtf ---.-..-.-- 49,
Parker ......--.- Nv , iiAn $500. ~ ~
'fIffheii ..... .if7. 30 Howard. pa 81
!, srfin ......- ASA scurry .......--. blO0
The shove c1unfies are all On or near the
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