The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-13
ROUTE N0RTHWESTWARD.
MONTAGUE MAN RUNNING LINES.
A Project That Promises Prolific Prosper
ity for Its Promoters How Dallas
Could Pocket the Immense
Trade of Vast Areas


Montague TO q citizen Of Dallas is pub
lished ON account of its interest TO tho
people Of Dallas at the present time;
81 see that the papers OF Dallas are
talking railroad, and we people up here
are watching you with no small degree
Of interest. It's true we have net got
very much money, but we have some
thing better to offer you and that is the
very best territory for railroad in the
state. Now it does seem TO me that if
Dallas will build a road to Montague
that from there she can get an outlet
that viii be of vast importance to her.
In the first place you want a good
county TO run the road through and
then you want 10 build a road so chat IN
the future you can control The coal
fields OF Montague, Jack, Young, SJ5ph-
ems and Shackieford counties and at
the same time get the control Of the
trade Of those counties; then you want
10 20 into the cattle region for the cat
! tie trade, and then You want the
trade OF the Indian Territory and
auout lot through the nation to Kansas,
| Now, IL you people would build q road
| from Dallas by way OF Grapevine and
OUT through The southwest corner of
| Denton and the northeast corner Of
| Wise county and strike Montague at
tho southeast corner and run direct 70
Montague, you would run through ono
Of the finest farming regions in the state,
thus controlling 8 arge portion OF the
trade Of Tarrant, Denton and Wise
counties that you do not now get, and
at the same time secure almost the en-
/ tire trade OF Montague county and a
] UGnn If
ulstion OF Montague county is over 90
600, and they go now either TO Fort
Worth or Gainesville, while if the road
from Dallas came here you would got II
! all. Besides that, il 10 did not 20 any
| further than Montague, you would COM
maud the trade Of Clay county in the
northeast corner and the trade Of the
Indian Territory Tor 40 miles up and
down Red river and for 100
milea in tho interior. But suppose
that after the read was built
as far as Montage it was the desire to
branch out. II she wanted TO 20 north
she could build to Spanish Fort Bond in
Montague county and cross the river
there and pass through the territory ~
miles west of the proposed route OF the
Gulf, Colorado IL Santa Fe, which pro-
poses TO enter the nation somewhere In
Cook county, thus giving 60 Dallas a
nearer and better connection with Kan
sas than any othor city in the state. If
IL WAS thought best, she could extend on
from Montague to Henrietta, Archer
City, Seymour, and on TO Now Mexico,
Arizona and to Las Vegas, California
which would be the most direct route III
the Pacific slope. Thus she would re,
into the very heart Of the cattle ranges
Of Texas aud the copper belt OF Archer
and Knox, and at the same time be in q
condition To share Ia the trade of New
Mexico and Arizona, If IL was thought
best she could leave Montague
and run In n southwestern direction
passing Bowie In Montague county
Newport in Clay, Post Oak 10 Jack
county, Graham in Young, Albany IN
Shackleford, aud on TO Abilene, thus
cutting Fort Worth on entirely from
the tade OF Montague and The south
west portion Of Clay county, which is
the best part OF H.; also commanding
the entire trade Of Jack, Young and the
counties lying west of there. II 10 was
possible for all OF these roads to be
built II would almost ruin tue 4oasted
western trade of Fort Worth. ! max,
these suggestions to you because
know you feel an interest In the mat
ter, aud because believe | know thi'
county as well as any man in il.
seems to me to DO the utmost folly to be
. talking Of building rom Dallas TO De
catur In order to got into the coal field
, of Wise or Young counties, when by
! building to Montague You can got tht
whole trade of Montague,
large portion OF Wise RnC
can then pass through the Goa
: deposit al MONTAGUE county, which ar,
I equal To those ui Wise ana unto Young
Jack aud other western counties, auO
at the same time control the trade Of ,
, large portion OF the Indian Territory
We will do all we can here to help on
the road. We can give righr-Cf.wU
. through the county or TO Montague
depot grounds, and $4,000 or $50 600 %,
q a subscription, So II your people wan
a cur county trade letus hear from you
!. We are determined to have road iron
:, some place. We are not able to bull,
i" from Dallas, but wo have some friend
) who will help us to build from some
y where on the Fort Worth n Denver, pro
% vided we cannot get railroad con
e nections In any other way. wish you
L would take your maps and examine th
3 proposed route by Montague, and see
!. am not right, and lot mo hear wha
:. you have to say. NIX.