The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-30
A NOVEL INDIGESTION.

An interior correspondent of u Galveston
paper Pravely urges rs means OF curing
all the ills about public roads aud lare
pastures, that two lines be centrally drawn
through the state from east to west ara
south TO north. Then begin at the central
point Of Junction aud seo,iouizs the Whoe
Al Ate. Alter this IL done make public foH's
sixty feet wide on every nun
section line Ia each direction, thrn'
by In effect creating square blocks i've
miles each way, being % sections To pei
sons fresh from the sec,iohiEed states oi
the west, this may seem pretty aud plau'''
HE lint 10 one who understands the tls
tenn of land grants and surveys IN Texas u
il The essence OF nonsense and impraoiiot-
biliiy. lis nonsensical, MS a moments re-
Election will show, TO survey into sections
standing north, south, east and west, the
prlysie lands OF the multitude whose lines
are run at almost every point Of the COM
pass IN different parts OF the ststc, because
the owners retain their original bounds.
neither gaining nor losing ny the opera
ton. Take, as one OF ten thousand similar
surveys, the league OF land on which
Dallas IL chiefly built. II 10 In a
square, but the lines run at angles
of IS degrees from the cardinal
points. II contains n shade over seven
sections OF land. But, by the plan pro.
posed. every section line through 1t would
be diagonally aud It would present the
uniaue spectacle OF four sections and eight
triangular shaped fractions, each having
but three corners and one sharp point.
| They would cut into ILL., ,hapen fragments
the lands, the fields, gardens and even the
houses of the owners. so far Us that could
| be done by cnain, compass and maps, ana
when shown on maps In connection win
the actua controlling lines If owners, the
confusion would equal that OF cyclone
wrecked forest. This fancy part o; the
work might be tolerated as silly past
time by land owners, but when the
road feature should be attempted,
by actuality, from one extreme OF the state
! To the other every five miles apart both
WAYS, cutting highway OF sixty feet
hiagonally across farms, orchards, gardens,
barns aud residences, not only the men but
also the woms n Of me land would rise in
such universal rebellion that no person or
thing would be left to rebel against.
The cost of such work, II at all practi-
cable. would be several millions OF dollars
for turyeying and many more millions in
paving Tor rights OF way and damages Ter
removing houses, fences. etc.
The PLAIN truth is that the only value at
tiched to sectionalizing country Is while
II is vet n Wilderness and owned by Il e
government. When 1t Is thus done II 10
the finest system known in the world. In
( ct no other country has ever had such
s,stem. IL Is American in origin and o.
so recent a date that none OF the At
laatic states or those east of the Ohio ever
had It's benefits. 1t Is confined to the west
era states and territories, and II this wild
chelne were attempted in either one OF the
original thirteen states rebellion" would
be too mild a term to describe the public
ceilings from the st. Mary's to the ST.
Croix, from the Atlantic TO the Ohio. In
| little Rhode Island, alter dedlc'ing Nara
sanse,t Bay and coves, and the railroad
rights OF way from its area, such additional
d ple,ion as this plan suggests would ABB
s,-b hat the truck patches in the RET I'm
All inaugurate n state OF ei'airs beside
W ,ich the "Dlrr Rebellion" of forty years
ago would be nil.