The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-14
RAILROAD NEWS.
An Extension Asked.


Amidst all this whirl of railroad build.
ing and excitement which appears to be
overwhelming Southwest Missouri, the
Missouri Pacilic's interest appear to be
neglected. For fifteen years past il has
had virtual control of all the traffic he.
tween The Missouri river south till the
line OF the st. Louis K San Francisco
road Is reached AT Springfield and Car
image. IL has had control OF the great
gram ana stock raising counties of MIS-
souri,. Its Missouri, Kansas * Texas
division from BoOnvillB southwe
through the counties OF Cooper, Pettis,
Henry, st. Clair, Bates aud Vernon,
and its Lexington and Soutnorn divis.
ion from Pleasant Hill through the
prosperous counties of Cass, Bates,
Vernon, Barton and Jasper, have prac-
tically controlled the southwest. But
the proposed new lines from Kansas
City to Springfield, by way of Harri-
sonVille, Ciluton, BrowuingtOn, HUI
Evansville, and Bolivar threatens to cut
OH some OF Its most valuable trade.
The tributary counties of st. Clair,
Hickory, Cedar and Polk VIII probably
throw nearly all their shipments to the
new line, aud leave the Missouri, Kan
sas " Texas merely the traffic OF the
counties through which it will directly
pass.
The Missouri Pacific has the oppor-
tunity, at "A small cost, OF holding 10 it,
sell all the best trade of these counties
The extension of the Sedalia, Warsaw a
southern 10 the south would give not
only one of tho stIaightest lines To mar
ket Tor the great counties named, but
would pass through one of the most pro-
ductiye sections of Missouri. II any
one Interested will take amdp aud toll
low the route propose To outline they
VIII AT once agree that this is correct
81 atement.
The Sedalia, Warsaw & Southern has
been completed to Warsaw, on the
Usage river, for u number of years, and
has proved valuable feeder for the
Missouri Pacific. AT Warsaw it would
cross the Usage, and would have a good
line out of the hills by way OF the
Pomme de Terre valley, crossing that
stream aud the Little Pomme de Terre
q short distance above the mouth Of the
latter, and passing up the valley
Oh the latter on nearly level land to
Wheatland. From Wheatland TO HUI
Evansville the road would pass through
the twenty-five Mile Prairie" one of
the best pieces OF couutry In Missouri,
and as level as floor, almost, anlsno
streams to bridge. At Humansville il
would cross the Kansas CITY IL Spring-
field road, and would build up u fine
town In q productive country.
From Humansvillo the natural route
would be. up the Potts valley, a beanti.
full prairie country, with no hills, no
streams or other impediments to cheap
and rapid building. Near Orleans the
road would cross the east iork of the
Sac river, and from there to Greenfield,
the county seat of Dade county, would
be through a fine high, rolling prairie,
very thickly settled. From Greenfield
the road would 20 to Carthage, to con-
meet with the Lexington and Southern
division of the Missouri Pacific. or to
Pierce City, to connect with the Frisco
road. Or II could be built from Orleans
TO Ash Grove, on the Gulf road, twenty
miles west OF Springfield.
have thus outlined route that would
convert the Sedalia, Warsaw i South