Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-10
oON TO SANTA FE!n
This Is the triumphant Shout that
Gen. SIocum's Texas Line
Sends Up.
A Remarkable Record In Railway Con.
struction--A New Lead for the
Capital CITY.

santa We New Mexican.
Evidence Of the fact that Fort Worth 4
destined 10 become "the Chicago OF Oh,
Southwest" Is daily accumulatlng TIT
city has most remarkable record In III,
matter OF railway construction. Ter
years ago II was a town Of 1000 inhab
itants, with but single line Of railway
the Texas & Pacific. To-day It is a grow.
ing metropolis OF 10000 people, and
boasts that IL has secured a new railroad
for every year In the past decade, having
now ten lines Of separate and distinct
road in operation. This record has
never been equaled by any city In the
world, and nothing more iorcibly Illus
trates the phenomenal growth Of the
Southwest With all her railroads, how
ever, Fort Worth has no line leading TO
the
WRIST OR THE NORTHWEST
IL IL true, she has the Texas & Pacific,
zlzzagiug toward FL P6so in sort OF an
uncertain way, but from all direct con-
nectlons with that vast empire covering
New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Montana
and Wyoming, this great mart Of West
ern commerce is at present shut out. Is
IT any wonder, then, that the enterprislng
people Of that city are now shouting "on
to the Northwest'- TO Santa Feln
This is the triumphant shout Of Gen.
Henry Slocum's Fort Worth Western.
He has now surveying corps Of eighteen
men in the field aud on the Sd inst they
had reached point twenty miles north
west OF Fort Worth, having secured a
"most excellent route" The Daily GA
zETTE emphatically says the destination
of the road is
"sANTA re, N. MI
and It's reasons for selecting Santa Fe for
It's terminus are good and substantial
business reasons based chiefly on the
fact that Santa Fe Is the recognized com
mercial and Industrial center OF that
region with which communication is
most desirable, and already has outlets
by rail leading TO the east, south, west
and north-an advantage which no other
city south OF Denver enjoys. For this
reason, coupled with the fact that
Santa Fe has been brought so near
Colorado and Utah by the completion of
the t., $. II. & N, and further, because
santa Fe Is now the only railway com
peting point In the Rocky mountains be-
tween Pueblo on the north and III Paso
on the south, has It been determined by
the promoters OF the Fort Worth Western
to push on to this city. Gen. Slocum aud
his New York and Texas associates In
this splendid enterprise are very shrewd
business men. Gen. SlOcum particularly
Is wellknown here as one Of the ablest
and most
AUCCRssFuL FINANCIERs
In New York and Brooklyn, and nothing
could give better evidence OF his fore. |
sight than that this line has been COM
menced with Santa Ee as its terminal
points for IL IL as PLAN in New York and |
Texas as II Is here in New Mexico that no |
indeDondent line OF ro0d--one not In |
sympathy with or controlled by the Atch- |
isnn, Topeka & Santa Fe--can afford TO |
build from Texas to any point in New /
Mexico but Santa Fe, simply because no |
other point has an outlet that isn't ex. |
clusiyely controlled by the Atchison, To- !
peka Il Santa Fe. Herein
COMES THE WISDOM
OF the Western Texas railroad builders |
idea which Is simply that the Gulf, Colo |
rAuo santa Fe or the Southern Kansas |
OF Texas, or some other line owned or
controlled by the Atchison, Topeka s.
Santa Fe may build west to Albuuueroue
and there exchange business with the AZ.
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe's newly ac.
quired Atlantic & Pacific line, while the
Fort Worth Western, an Independent line,
builds from Fort Worth TO Santa Fe, here
connecting with the T., S. +. & N. and
Denver & Rio GIande for the north, west
and east through Colorado, while at the
same time making better connections
with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe on
western and southwestern business than
can be made
AT ANY OTHER POINT
In the territory west OF Fort Worth, I'm.
der the circumstances above recited our
people Will naturally watch the progress
OF the Fort Worth Western with increas.
ed interest daily. The company is now
In the field with $4,000 surveying out.
III and the work of constructing the frst
forty miles begins February 10. The pro-
motors Of this line are
President, Gen. Henry Slocum
OF New York; first vice-presl-
dent, w II, IL. Lawrence OF Fort Worth; |
second vice president, Calvin Broadhead I
OF New York; secretary and treasurer,
George +. Sheldon, at New York. The
directors are Henry Slocum, Daniel But
tertleld. George 7, sheldon, Calvin Broad
mead OF New York, and Il A. Moss, II M.
Wynne. w, II. Lake, Il b Paddock, w.
W. ii. Lawrence OF Fort Worth Il. ID,
ketchum Is right-of-way agent. Il, A.
Moss ia land and town lot agent. WI.
II, Lawrence has charge OF all business IN
Texas. Main Office OF company is 50S
Main atraaf Enrt IUn,th