San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-01-19
u, Gigantic Scheme for New Orleans.
from the New Orleans Pieayune)

Another railroad to the Pacific is not
,.r from our highly favored city.
The great Boston combination, an
.ocount of which the Picaytl1,e pub
i;shed September 1, is growing in sew
nroj directions. -Four months ago we
aid that it would probably reach Lou
;s;ana by way CT Shreveport, coming
down the western tier OF counties in
Arkansas. We did not anticipate the
nroiect, 80 much greater for Louisiana,
IF connecting New Orleans by almost
an air line with Isleta, N. M, the point
where the through line from Atchison
to Ell Paso and the city of Mexico
crosses the unfinished line from st.
Louis to San Francisco.
If the reader will draw an airline on
q map from New Orleans to Isleta, he
will see that it passes little mort of
Onelousas, La, and little south of
DALLAS. Texas. Through these places
tbe road will run. 1t viii be 1,130
miles long. 1t is to absorb the Texas
Trunk, partly constructed from Dallas
in this direction, and the Dallas &
Western, whose organization we re-
Gently reported. The distance from
New Orleans via Opelousas to the Sa-
bine river is about $50 miles. This
line will be called the Louisiana divis-
ion. The line from the Sabine via
Dallas to the western boundary of
Texas in Bayley county, (near the 34th
parallel of latitude), about $50 miles,
will form the Texas division. The line
thence, via Fort Sumner, N. NJ, to
Isleta, about $50 miles. will be the
New Mexico division. Each division
will be at first operated by separate
company, Incorporated under the laws
of Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico.
There will be three Boards of Directors,
consequently. The capital is likely to
be 1880, 900, and the bonds the same
that is, $4,000 each per mile, 100000
in all, an aggregate of $33 100000.
The Gulf and Pacific Railroad con-
sequently will form a new line to San
Francisco, neither under the Gould
system nor under the Southern Pacific,
but distinct and independent. The At
lantic & Pacific is somewhere in CEN
trail Arizona now, building westward at
the rate of ten miles per week. The
St. Louis end is completed to Vinita,
in the Indian Territory, and in Deem
Der twenty-seven bids were opened for
the construction of the line from Vinita
to the point where it crosses the Ar
kansas river, sixty-three miles. The
crossing is thirteen miles south of the
Red Fork or Cimarron river. The road
will probably be completed to Albu-
querque, ten miles north of Isleta, by
the time the Western Division is fin
ished to San Francisco. This is the
celebrated 35th parallel route, and will
no doubt be quite as attractive as any
other transcontinental line. The de-
velopments of the past year show that
the people behind these gigantic COM
binations have plenty of capital, are in
dependent, and will not be made use of
by the combinations on either side of
them.
Another advantage to New Orleans
will be the possibility of reaching Col
orado over this line. The Atchison
road is to ssuse the "third rail, which
has just been laid for it by the Denver
& Rio Grande narrow guage, between
Pueblo and Denver.
It is also possible to go to st. Louis
by this line. The st. Louis & San
Francisco is now building between
Fayetteville and Fort Smith. The dis
lance from Fort Smith to Paris. Texas,
through the Choctaw nation is 100
miles, and the lines will be completed
this year. The organization in Texas
is known as the Chicago, Texas & Mex
lean Central, and is now building from
Dallas southwestward, headed probably
for Eagle Pass or some convenient
point on the Rio Grande, and thence to
a junction with the main line in Mex
leo. The general direction will bring
it to Durango or thereabout. The COM
pany can do business between st. Louis
and New Orleans to some extent via
Dallas, as anything it can take on its
trains by this route will add to its re-
ceipts. Inasmuch as the trains will run
anyhow, it will no doubt make terms
disproportioned to distance.
1t is also possible to go to Mexico. by
this line, turning south at Isleta.
This company will also go to San
Diego, Cal. The San Diego branch is
called the California Southern, and will
intersect the Southern Pacific at Col
ton, get through San ~Bernardino
mountains by way of the Csion pass,
and join the main line in the Mohave
valley. Some thirty miles is built from
San Diego, and it is expected that cars
will run to San Bernardino by April l.
1t may be of interest to not the prom
inent officers of the lines forming this
great Boston combination.
The President of the Chicago, Bur-
ington g. Quincy road is j. N. Forbes,
of Boston. The road was built 300
miles this year, and is rushing to Den
yer. The President Of the Atlantic q
Pacific is Henry @. Mutt. Of Boston,