Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-04
TO BE BUILT.
Completion OF The Denver & New
Orleans Railroad an AS
sured Fact,
Interesting Address by Gov. John
Evans TO the Chamber
and Board.
Unanimous Vote Of the New Organ.
ixation 10 Support the
Enterprise.
Denver Tribune,

InenNer Tribune.l
The auditorium of the chamber of
commerce and board OF trade Ia city
hall was crowded last evening with
the business men o! the city who had
assembled for the purpose OF hearing
Governor John Evans deliver his adj
dress In behalf OF the Denver 4 New
Orleans railroad. The assemblage was
composed OF representative men of
every mercantile line and profession,
and the enthusiasm displayed gave ev-
idence OF the interest taken by Denver
in the successful completion OF the
road.
At halfpast S o'clock Secretary
Daily called the meeting to order and
on motion Mr.. Jacob Schefer was se.
lected to preside.
The minutes OF the previous meet
ing were dispensed with, and Gov.
Evans was requested 10 mount the rns-
trum and deliver his address. In re-
spouse Gov. Evans complied and de-
livered the following:
MIR. President and members of the
chamber of commerce and board OF
trade: heartily congratulate you
upon the final consolidation into one
harmonious and, trust, homogeneous
organization OF the business men OF the
city of Denver. We are all members
of The chamber of commerce, and all
members OF the board of trade now,
and | hope that henceforth there will
he no distinction among us that united
we Will stand and work shoulder TO
shoulder, to build up u great CONNER
cial and manufacturing city, to devel-
op all the varied natural resources
which the Almight has laid at cur
feet, and To foster all OF One interests
and industries which 40 to develop n
great and prosperous,
RICH AND ENLIGHTENED STATE.
feel sure there will never again be
any hestancy in giving encourage
ment to those who build up for us COM
peting factories, commercial houses,
hotels, smelters, and even railroads.
Aud this brings me TO the main
question of this evenings delibera-
tons.
Do you want the Denver & New Or
leans road extended 10 u connection
with the gulf of Mexico?
If you do, IL IL necessary for you 10
say so, and To let your expression be
clear and emphatic. Applause
The projectors and promoters OF the
Denver and New Orleans enterprise
started II TO give you direct access to
THE COMMERCE or THE ATLANTIC
OCEAN.
They have realized what IL requires
to make commercial city. They
labored first to get the Denver Pacifi,
road. 10 yet the Kansas Pacific, the
Boulder Valley, and these broughtover
Colorado the Central and encouraged
the commencement OF the Denver x
RIO Grande. They projected and built
under great opposition, the South
Park, and together these gave you TN
other road. They got your city made
port of entry, aud would now, 10y a
short route to the gulf, fill your bonded
warehouses with the imports con-
sumed in the entire Rocky mountain
country, by bringing them to you
cheaper than they eau be procured by
any other route,
THEY HAVE FAITH IN ruR ENTER.
PRISE.
As an important one to the city and
state, aud one that will pay largely
when completed. and they have proved
ID by putting over $1,000, 900 OF ColOra-
do cash into IL, and by hanging on 10
the property in the face of the most
desperate efforts to ruin, to get control
of 1t for the purpose OF suppressing. its
construction. They hoped for relief
from the courts, but find that none can
be had without further legislation, rs
assured by the supreme court OF the
United States In It's recent decision.
They have yet the absolute control OF
their property, Notwithstanding the
long effort 10 break II down and get 1t
away from them. (Applause).
SHALL THEY GIVE IT UP,
and have II abandoned and It's build
ings suppressed? Or shall we hang on
and build IL TO connection with the
gulf? These are the questions that
confront US tonight. IL Is utterly
false that any of the men connected
with the road contemplated its sale TO
its competitors, when IL was projected,
as Is asserted by some OF those who
have sunk enough oftbe value Of their
own railroad property to have built II
all the way 10 New Orleans, in trying
to break down and suppress II. And
we will prove the falslty Of such pre-
tense II the people OF Denver ard tne
state Of Colorado viii awake TO the
importanc old, finding us from wrong,
and OF protecting their own highest
interests. My address TO the board OF
trade last fall pointed out its impor-
lance to Colorado, and the injustice
being done to the Denver d New
Orleans company, which have never
been denied. But tonight the ques-
ton Is
MUCH MORE SERIOUS THAN TT WAS
THEN.
VIII You consent 10 forego the extern
sion OF the Denver Il New Orleans
railroad, or will you come up squarely
10 It's support aud defend iis right to
against Injustice, detrac-
ton and abuse in your own city. III
you will, ] shall be strongly tempted
TO accept the very liberal contract Of
fefed me aud my associates by the
company, to complete the road 10 n
with the Gulf OF Mexico,
and give your city direct through cars
to and from Denver and the ports OF
New Orleans, Galveston and Laredo.
A contract cut Of which am conf
dent great deal Of money can be made
Iegitimately by the parties VINO build
the road. But do not propose to aus
sumo such responsibility, such labor,
and such anxiety In the face OF such
treatment as has been accorded the
enterprise In the past. ] have myself
paid IN cash
OVER HALF A MILLION poLLAFS
into the enterprise, and my friends,
without solicitation, have put IN 81
900 coo more. We have labored faith
fully and earnestly TO sustain the road,
xghfla ti.a nIty and state have quietly