The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-01
Some Important Railway Schemes.

RUsK. Dec. 2s ICouespondence -
Christmas has come and gone, leaving
few t'loks In our midst Ia the way oil red
eyes, darkened faces, etc, but nothing ola
very serious nature occurred during tho
week TO mar the general flow OF good spir'
its and good cheer. Our town has bsen
quite lively beth In business and social
polnt Of view the pass week Cobhle's ele.
CANT hall was opened To the pub on the
18th instant, with grAnd uall, Anu being
such A success several Others have followed
10 its wake attnat place, besides at priva.e
houses many sociables, musithl's, ETC
Mnrrsg, have come to % too common
TO note ~ important,
II ia generally thought that business In
this section OF the country will bsdall after
tho holidays gre over rom the iact
that most OF the cotton crop has been
nlrsaGy put upon the market and the pro-
ceeds spent The crop In this country
turned out somewhat better than was ex-
pected but Is unusually short, aud together
with low prices makes money matters
close. Farmers, however, are beginning 10
20 20 wo w1Ah renewed energy Tor hs'
other year totry 10 make good tho short
age on this years crop. We are expecting
quito an Influx OF Immigrants rom tae
fence cutting regions aud eastern states th's
winter and spring. Tney will hud plenty
OF good land cheap here with abundance OF
good waite timber and everything neces'
sary TO good living
On the 81 of January the lessees OF the
penitontiary ut this place vii take iormM
control. Tnev have succeeded IN g,tting
the penilentarp beard 10 allow them 30
take only five hundred tho hrst
wear instead OF one thousand AZ per contract
because OF the want OF sufficient coal. ore
etc on hand 10 employ greater iorce 10
any advantage. Tue furnace Just erected
Is OF twenty five tons capacity per day, ana
IL one OF the finest, 30 mine men say, in
the south. The state While running the
penitentary has found some diihculty IN
getting ansportation sufficient and salts.
factory from tho railroads, Inc only rnau
that runs here is the Kansas Il Gull Short
Line, n narror gauge, In operation from
Jacksonville on the International Il Great
Northern, to Alto, south Of here, aud Will
soon be finished through 10 Tyler and to
Lufsin. making conn eciing link betwsen
the Texas 4 ST.. Louis aud BrenioDd's East
and West Texas, aud giving through nal.
row gauge from s.. Louis TO Houston. The
road ia tirst-cls q rs far AZ 1t has gone, but
we need standard road here very
much. basides ons road IS not
sufficient to transact our BUSINESS with dis
patch. When the penitentiary gets In iull
blast with 900 men at Work manuiactur-
ing heavy machinery as 70 contempia ed
with its bu,i0 ess alone. So, in view of all
lnese facts efforts have been made and are
now being made by persons money ana
influence to build stan lard roa1 10 the
international & Great Northern, tn con-
meet IN he neigh borhoOd OF the Neches
river. with the expectation OF then joining
the Texas Truck aud ,hue Swing US a d.
rect line TO Dallas and North IeXss. The
Trunk survey crosses tho International d
Great Northern at thst place, snd n this
brancb road is not first built Efforts viii ne
made to ge. I'll. TrunlS 10 build on here. Oi
course the Trunk cannot afford 10 20 10
Palestine as the road IS being
built tor the money 70 bo made
out Of IL ana line through that section
would open up no new s'noriy nor get a.
tborugh business to amount % any thlns
The business here would be Oh more value
than that OF Pslestin- and oil tne stntipFt
TO- tlty mites further on besides. Because
coming through here 1t would have hun
dreds Oftons OF lime rock from the Wes
daily $50 much has to be uaei IN maxim,
4. iron) and unless they have Thousands oil
bushels of coal tobr ing up from below aitel
!. IL passed here, asi; will require an I'm
iuense daily amount from the pinerie'
south aud east OF here. Besides tho sup
plies and shipments of merchandise to anc
from the. convict from north Texh
would OF conpss come by that route genei'
orally and this 10 u big thing itself; Thi
Ia the most direct route to New Orlesn
aud It is hoped that the road viii soon b.
built to the mutual benefit Of Dallas, ant
this, and other places.