The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-02
CHICO is A CANDIDATE
FORA RAILROAD FROM DALLAS.
The Great American Privilege OF Talking
Employed to Advocate the Route
a Rich Country and
Richer Coal Fields.

VHlco, April SOL Editor HERALpl-
! see oy frequent statements in the
herald that the subject of RAILWAYS ia
al present agitating the minds OF COR
respondents and readers. BY reference
oyour contemporaries observe the
same spirit is animsting them. II is GUS
tomary before the Inauguration and &C.
complishment OF any great enterprise.
70 indulge In considerable talk, And in
tnls iand OF glorious liberty every per-
MOI son mas constitutional right to talk.
therefore, hope you will permit me
among others, TO give little talk on the
supyecI OF railways, so that my wisdom
may help swell the volume which now
so steadily settles in the direction of
railways, for, undoubtedly, Dallas must
either have railway to the northwest
OF take a back seat, | observe general
expectation of the extension Of the
northwestern from Dallas, and note
that certain wise men are giving coun-
sci as to the route most
beneficial to the enterprise. 1t
appears to an unprejudiced lookeron
that these advisers are quite too disin-
terested in their counsel, and the I'M
seltishness vitiates their offered aid. A
anon 10 AulhD AlhAbbONA iOI ISHlUGIlG0 IN
this world who has got no self-interest
Self-sacritice was all very we'll for the
age OF Don Quixote, but it
has no business at all in
world SO practical and utilita-
rian as the present. The man who liv-
ing in Decatur advises a route thence
through Bridgeport and Jacksboro to
Seymour, is evidently too celestial to
understand things earthly, and forgets
THAT railway companies contemplate
dividends in the enterprises, and if an
humble individual like myself might be
permitted an opinion, would, without
much hesitation, forecast that in the
event of the rails being laid on this
route, the first dividend will bs paid
about Tibb's eve.
In the first place, the route from Deca-
tur through Bridgeport and Jacksboro
TO Seymour is SO excessively circui.
tous that no engineer would risk his
reputation to recommend it, and no
company of men save a committee
from Bedlam would fer moment con-
template the absurdity, much less throw
away precious dollars in the folly.
In the second place the advised route
lies through broken country by nature
rendered most unsuitable and very diff
hcult for railroad building, The cost
Wuuiu luuS 10 luCIehs6u enormously,
while nothing in the wild untillable
country will ever spring up to balance
the serious additional cost OF building
the road.
In the third place there is better
route; one which nature has evidently
made in anticipation and TO which
providence points with no trembling
finger. From Decatur to Chico, thence
by Grafton and Post Oak to Seymour is
direct route through lsvel country,
well settled by Industrious farmers and
through soil which for richness and
variety OF productive power, has no su.
perlor on the face of the green earth.
Moreover, this route.passes through
one OF the richest coal fields on the con-
tlnent. Chico is in the very center of
this coal field. II is not supposed that
there is coal. 1t is a fact proved by act
ually finding the black diamond. 1t is
coal equal to the best in Pennsylvania
or England. Nature has deposited il
In no niggsrdly quantities. The Outcrop-
ping of this field terminates in Bridge
port, and hence the more success OF the
enterprise at the village, But tho time
is not far distant when the development
Of this industry at Chico will assume
magnitude which will arouse the pres
emit sleepers and confound any who may
be skeptical. know whereof affirm.
These are some of the reasons why the
contemplated railway should not push
its way through Bridgeport and jacks
boro and should adopt the route
through Chico.