The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-07
Especial to The statesnlan.l


SAN SABA, June 5.-Reliable infor-
nation has been received here that an
engineering corps of the Sunset rail-
way, FROM San Antonio, were near
Camp San Saba, about thirty-tive
miles ubove here. DR.. A. Gregg, one
of our worthiest and most enterpris-
ing citizens, went to interview them.
He met MIR. Himman, chief engineer
of the company, a very social and
pleasant gentleman. Mr.. Himman
reports that they are making pre-
liminary survey for an extension Of
the Sunset road from San Antonio to
the San Saba valley. They will reach
Camp San Saba about Friday next.
He reports great difficulty in getting
Il practical route from the line Of Gill
lespie to the town of Mason. He
thinks that the line Will eventually
be located several miles east of the
latter place. The engineer
in charge will await further orders
before extending the survey beyond
camp San Saba. If this
line should be extended it will pene-
trate the greatest cattle and sheep
district OF Texas, and will concen-
trate its trade at San Antonio.
We have had no rain since our last
report. Corn rs suffering from drouCh
very much. Wheat yielding SPLEEN
didly all over the county.
Mr.. G. G. Blanchord, a prominent
real estate owner from Concho, was
in our town several days ago prospect
ing. While here he invested in and
near our town some tive thousand dol
lars.
Especial TO The Statesman
DALLAS, June 5-Much indigna-
ton is felt here among cotton men
on account of the wholesale denunri-
alton. of the interior buyers of the
state at the hands of Kaufman &
Runge, the millionaire merchants of
Galveston. The exposure was made
late yesterday evening. A Dallas
buyer received by mail from one of
his German correspondents a copy
of the Kaufman s. Range circulars,
printed in the German language,
which that firm is alleged to have
sent Germany, and some say also to
Liverpool. The circular appears to
have been in reply to one from for
eign places. asking for information
concerning interior Texas cotton buy
ers, as the writer or writers desired to
arrange for having cotton shipped
from Dallas and other interior mark
cts direct to Europe, and avoid having
RI fhrnnrh nf
at Galveston and other ports. The sub
stance of the circular is to the effect
that the interior cotton buyers as a
class are adventures and
cheats, totally unreliable men
who have failed in the business at the
various ports under questionable cir
cumstanceS, and that they (Kauffman
& Runge) would not advise foreigners
to have any direct dealing with them.
To say that the Dallas cotton men
were angry when the contents
of the circular became known
is to express it very mildly.
1t is presumed that when the balance
of the interior buyers know it, the
authors will hear a buzzing about
their ears that will at least annoy
them. The matter has been brought
to the attention of the merchants ex-
change Of Dallas, the most pow
erful and important mercantile
body outside of Galveston, and action
is to be taken on the circular
at an early day. Representatives of
the press have endeavored all day to
get possession of the circular for lit
eral translation, but the parties hav-
ing it decline to give it to the press
until action has been taken by the
exchange. But the reporters recog-
nize the item as too good to keep for
that sort of routine, and propose
picking it while it is ripe.
The circular hurts worse on account
of the source from which it comes,
as Kaufman - Runge are among the
wealthiest business men of the state,
and head the list in the cotton fra
ternity. For years past members of
the firm have occupied the prominent
and responsible positions of consuls
for the German and Aus
trian governments at Galveston.
The Dallas cotton buyers openly
accuse them of the most unWarranted
ISLANDERS, and say the object of the
circular is to try to keep the handling
of Texas cotton at Galveston and
other ports, and discourage direct
shipments from the interior to Eu-
rope. The Merchants Exchange ap-
pointed S. j. Adams, j. Z. O'Connor.
w. H. Flippen and President A.
Oppenheimer as Il committee to
look into the circular matter.
They were to report at five o'clock
this evening to the exchange, but as
they were not ready to report no
action has yet been taken.
Much dissatisfaction and ill-feeling
exists in Dallas commercial circles
against the Gould south western syS-
tenn, because of the removal of the
headquarters of the freight depart
ment of the Louisiana and
Texas from Dallas to Galveston.
Merchants here argue that it is an
other stab at Dallas by the Gould
people, who, they assert, have always
been inimlcal to her prosperity. They
claim that Dallas is the most impor-
tant and central point in the south
western system, and that Mr.. New
man and his headquarters should
have been left here that a chief clerk
and two shorthand men are of no
account with the general freight
dSOn olu1 LILO LOdeAH ubI CO1o AOilONOu,
and that they expect to see their
chief clerk and his shorthand assist
ants quickly follow Mr.. Newman in a
few weeks, as soon as the dissatisfac-
ton has quoted down. There IS no
Disgusting the fact that this last
move by the Gould people has great
ly increased the favor of Dallas
merchants for the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe and the Texas 81 st. Louis
combination.
A movement has been quietly set
on foot to endeavor to establish a
first-class daily paper in Dallas, and
it is claimed that the prospects are
good for its accomplishment within
the next thirty days. One of the
parties directly interested resides
in Dallas and the finances are
to come from abroad The
promoters say the paper, if es-
tablished, will be conducted on prin-
ciples of the highest order. and pos
sess all the enteprising and reliable
features of modern daily Journalism
1t is contemplated to, start as an af-
ternoon paper, but change to morn
ing issue as soon as fully estab-
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