Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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TAL RAILROAD.
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Washington. y. G.. July I2.-Texas
must confess Sa abiding inter,St in the
rallNsy scheme originally projected By
4. X Owen. engineer. and now ac-
celted a. a practical task uy Ex-SFna-
10; Window and his associate The
history a5l8 practical details
g. 5bf scheme appear ia an admirable
brochure prepared and Published by
Alex. u. Anderson. VINO has devoted
several years 10 iile practical study of
TIE natural Interests = the southwest
o. the resources of Mexico. Of the Mic
81 The mining wealth Of
the republic are accepted -
inai authority on ali these and kim
dresi Mexican questions. Tie Topoio-
iJainas railroad, mere discussed. begins
ii Fernandina, Florida. on the ATTAIN
tie, crosse. the sugar, pine aud cotton
regions, along the Gulf coast 10 Aus
tin and Eagle Pass on the Rio Grautie.
Thence * traveIses the rich mining re-
gions ofNor5hern Mexico terminating
st TOpoiDiaiupo bay at the southern
extremity Of the Gulf OF California.
( WHY MOST IMPORTANT TO TEXAS.
Because OF the wedge shape Of the
/ continent this is the shor est possible,
I transcontinebtal line. being bat 1886
miles from ocean TO ocean. This l.
F shorter by 1915 miles than the trans
continental line from New York u
Ssn Francisco by way OF the Union
and Central Pacific route: hence it
must become q great anti-monopoly
highway, r gulating The freigh,
charges on an trausc0ntinental road,
north oil il in the United States ana
+ Canada. IL is in every sense OF the
word The true Southern Pacific line
for 1t intersecis states which produce
TWO thirds Of our annual cotton crop.
1T cuts through the celebrated South.
ern pineries extending across Florida.
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana. and
Eastern Texas, which forests accord
itig 10 the census OF 1850, contained the
enormous total OF one hundred ana
elghty-iour billion feet OF merchant
able standing pine. 1t unites the
great and growing manufacturing cen
ters OF Georgia and Alabama With
the markets OF the Southwest and
/ Northern Mexico. In this and other
respects, each e. dof the line Is the com
PIGMENT OF the other in supply and de-
inand. 1T conforms, therefore. % the
Jaws OF business and sound political
economy. II makes short and al
most airline from one of the hest
81 southern harbors to the best bar
Dor on the western coast Of Mexico
Admitting all these advantages. HE
reader VIII naturally say it strikes the
Pacific too far south for commercial
exchange with the nations and Is
lands surrounding that ocean. Mr.
Anderson meets this point bv Stats
Ilcal diagram, showing that in the
year 1879, the total com
meroe Of all foreign nations sur.
rounding the Pacific, was 81, 755 600 Ol,n
IN value, OF which more than three
lourths was south of the latitude nf
iopolobanpo. In brief, this projected
road supplements the railway system
OF Texas and the whole south by =
short trunk lire 10 the Pacific, famine,
on It's way the thousands of silver
mines OF Coahuila, Chihuahua and
Sinaloa, which, when adequately da.
yeloped 10y modern aud improved
methods, viii add To the worlds sun.
ply OF bullion many times thar which
mas teen yielded by the bonanza mines
oi California and Nevada.
THE BUILDERS.
A list of the shareholders In III.
scheme shows that when praetil.,I
ends are to be attained Northern and
Southern gentlemen co-operate NET
generously and that sectionalities A. /
.ne product OF the struggle for public 4
piuhder among politicians. AT the |