Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-03
TO HOUSTON.
Proposition to Build an Air Line From
Houston to Fort Worth.
A Short Line From the Great Northwest
TO the Coast,

recent issue of the CenterVilie
Democratic Farmer contains this I'M
portaut and interesting communication
in reference to q proposed new Inc Oh
railroad from Houston to Fort Worm.
The road, if built, would doubtless
prove of inestimable value TO THIS city.
The letter says:
There has been of late considerable
talk in the county about "A raiifoau
through it, north and south, and. as !
am In n measure responsible iof tne
agitation of the question, feel III ~
hut proper to place before the people
the exact status of the matter,
During the past summer a
friend OF mine, resident in Gal
weston, Il prominent business man
that city, who is the pres
ident of a land and securities syndl.
cate, incorporated under the laws OF
Texas. and having n branch office IN
New York, went North, aud | wrote
him Mt length, setting forth the nd
vantapes of n railroad line beginning
at Houston and running by the near
est possible approximation to an air
line to Fort Worth, and asked him TO
Law the matter before his local mana
ger in New York, with a view TO cali
ms the attention of the railroad men
and the capitalists of the North to the
de sirableness OF an investment III
such an enterprise.
He complied with my request, and
the ylce-president and manager III
New York of the syndicate above re-
ferred to wrote me at once tlrat the
nronosed line seemed to him the most
desirable and feasible now open IN
Texas. and urged me to write him lul-
| lv about the character of the country,
distance, population, and all other
matters concerning which capitalists
would desire information, stating that
he would at once call the attention OF
! New York and Boston capitalists TO
wrote him fully and specifically
upon every point and considerable cor
resnondence Ell sued, and the substance
Of NV adyices is that If along the line
local aid is given in fairly liberal
manner, aud the proper interest mani
tested In the enterprise, there Is a
very strong probability thatthe neces-
sary capital TO build the road can be
secured. ] gather this more rom the
Ueneral tenor of letters received tnaii
from any positive aud unquailnsn
statement made therein, ana am .ne
more convinced that such is the iact,
from having received from New YORK
within a few days past map OF IeAas
with the line indicated on II, accom-
panled by a letter urging me to WORK
IN the enterprise with the utmost LOS
sible dispatch. A. ,.ss a
have explained that the mass o
the people along the line are not rlG u, !.
aud not able TO pay money toward
railroad, but nearly every perso.h,, VIM
owned any considerable quahti.y -
land would not only give free rign, 2
way and depot grounds, out Woua,
, make donations Of land conditlone. no.
) on the road being built within GEL
tam reasonable time, and tlat ioca
aid would be given the enterprise y
: The full extent OF the ability oil TN
, people. 80, IN oneratlo,
9 in Texas were built mainly ny w
state, but that aid being no longer ca
tended, capitalists demand sue
amount Of local aid as will manifest .
: the part OF the people SUI sIan.n
:. Interest Ia aud desire to have the ron RON
: for il must be remembered that !. last
money, and much of 1t, to ouila ~