The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-08-19
RAILROAD NOTES
T., and ~. T.. Frogrc-s..DeIds
Roads apd Fast Freight,

The Texas and II Louis narrow gauge
road has been completed tna point forty
mile beyond Waco. or within six miles
Ot Guie.Nillc, Texas. On this end of the
line tpck-laying has reached the Red
liver. twenty tx uilrs from tcNArkana
BY sept mbrr !, the road Will be in iun-
ming operation from Pine Kun Ia Cam
den, Arkansas, and from Clarendon, on
" hiic river. 10 % point thirty miles north
OF urnklel, ~ hich latter place II will
tn'crsoct trc Memphis and Little Rock
road. ON ur before the same date the
line from BirI's Point, Missouri Ia Jones'
botO, ArktDsn., viii haNe been finished,
distance ui 10 miles, mukingnll told ato-
tai mileage ui Il2 IN l"- IN running opera
ton by september J. That much Of the
road IL practically completed now, and
uuck-lHying j, going an at the rate OF %
or 90 miles per month. The whole OF the
grading In Arkansas will be done by o.
tpbcr !. ihrec hundred men ure Ut work
at Bird. Point on the incline and yards,
which are To be- finished toy Sep cub, : IL
a depot has already h,cn erected there,
ant the ruurd.housrs are now being built.
lhc cattle yards are also being made there,
lot ri Birds Point the Transferring viii be-
done. under the traffic arrangement with
the CAIRO Short Line.
The owners and officials are paying cs.
pcCial attention To- the welfare ant
COMFORT OF THEIR sgcrr0N MEN,
and are building tor them nice tNo.'toiy
houses along the line. l'igh locations are
being selected tor these dwellings, AMI at
points where there Is plenty OF good
water, The company iu mi. naltDr rcCog-
nilps lac fact mat tu Ietaln good, faithful
and competent scctiO men, they must he
qtuyllcd tor, II they are to remain pcrtna-
ncnuy rus i-t matter which very irW
roads srcn 10 Guyr taken into cunsidela-
ton.
The section OF country along the Mar
tow-gHugc Is being r,pdly populated
Before the road Was commenced lands in
Thu part oi fhc state could bee purchascd
a. low NJ 90 cents nn acre The same
lands are now being sold nj from 50 to -
per acre.
To show the development since the
road has been operated II can be- stated
lint along The Texas portion there have
been started 30 sawmill-, and over ~ new
ones aiC m operation along the line In the
states OF Missouri and Arkansas The
timber At diierrnt points is pronounced
fine amt abundant Parties who have
been over the territory SAY that after one
| gets 70 miles south OF Birds Point he
sees one continuous cotton hcld. The
/ opening up Of the road has given that pant
/ Of The state
~
| when Is feadily dis'crhihlc to anybody
| who iIuncycd through the country u
year OF two ago.
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lrxAs ROADS AM VAST puui.ur ,urNrs
Ills Icurn,d TINT tn. T,.xns lin,s ,r, mo-
going 10 nlln,y nnv of tho G,si frci,,h,
agents in tho stute thIs ycor when fb,
cfous begin Ia move T6e ,n,naycrs n
the Texas roads claim that they hnyo ia,