The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-17
TUESDAY, JULY II, 1888.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC SYSTEM.

The rapid progress made in railroad build
ing in the Southwest, and the many combina-
tons and changes in the management oil
great thoroughfares, have caused the public
at large to take for granted any new departure
or innovation in the railroad business and
ask no questions as to the general results, OF
the practicability of the movement. When
the Gould syndicate first took hold of the
Missouri Pacific, it was simply line through
Central Missouri, practically managed and
well equipped, but he very soon began to
put his magic fingers on connecting lines, one
after another, and then the public walked up
to the fact that the road proper had suddenly
bound all the cities Of the great State of Mis-
souri, together by an iron band, from St. Louis
to Kansas City, and from Hannibal to Joplin,
and was corporation with but one equal in
the West, embracing in what is known as the
Missouri Pacific system and leased lines, the
Iron Mountain, and the International and
Great Northern in Texas, and number of new
and smaller lines in Missouri and Kansas, and
has rapidly absorbed about all the bust
ness within reach.
Ancient mythology tells US of an old-timer
by the name of Midas who turned everything
he touched into gold, but the future his torian
will speak of Gould as the man who, in a
measure, discounted Midas Of old, by develop
ing II vast amount of systematized business, and
instilling active life into new regions, and who
bought new lines of railroads with as much in
difference as he would morning paper, while
the great amount Of material development
and enterprise. that preceded and followed his
iron tracks told most plainly how much his
ventures were desired and needed, as the new
lines that were taken in were managed as II
they had always been of the main line, and
the new territory embraced was as carefully
protected as il it had known no other interest.
In Texas the value of the Missouri Pacific
is felt in the old M. K. & T. line dow N
through the Indian Territory, entering the
state at Denison and endiAg in fact on the
eastern borders of Mexico, at Laredo. by the
International and Great Northern main line.
Railroad travelling has become so luxurious
and easy nowadays that the public take as a
matter of course comforts which only a few
years ago were scarcely thought of, and this
leads us to speak Of the fact of the recent
enterprise OF the Missouri Pacific, where its
trains run out Of ST. Louis via Sedalia and the
Indian Territory direct to San Antonio with
out change. This is the dining car route OF
hotels on wheels, which for comfort and ele-
gance are unrivaled, and where the bill oil
fare, by reason of the wide range given for
selection, does not fail to please the most
fastidious. Cars leave San Antonio at s
O'Clock in the morning and land in ST. Loui,
in 48 hours, passing through the most pleasant
and beautiful portion OF Texas, and the grea
Southwest. The same time is also made b,
the International and Great Northern and tn,
Iron Mountain route, thus giving to tn,
traveller and the tourist the choice Of two mos
agreeable routes to and from St. Louis, viii