Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-29

water ports wouldo't be very bad thing
Tor Fort Worth
General Passenger aud Freight Agent
Newlln Of the Fort Worth & Denver, be-
gins his work on Saturday.
II. A. Lewis of Henrietta, who has been
very active In securing railroads for his
city, was in Fort Worth yesterday.
The Denton, Decatur & Jacks orc road
seems 20 have lie and activity In II. IT'S
well, the road will doubtless be built
The splendid iron bridge OF the Atchi-
son-Santa Fe over the Trinity river at
Fort Worth Is very nearly completed.
Robert CowardIn, travelling passenger
agent OF the Nashville, Chattanooga &
ST. Louis railroad was in the city yester-
day.
Contractor Hughes, of the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande has gone back to the
front, and the grade keeps piling up on
the way to Granbury.
Buy your tickets direct from Fort
Worth to Kiley, Krum, Sangers, Iiullng,
Valley View aud Gainesville. The air line
runs from Fort Worth.
The Fort Worth Western has asked our
people TO name the amount they will give
10 secure the road via. JacksborO.--
[Jaoksboro Gazette.
When the AtchIson. Santa Fe is built
into the Indian Territory the sacred soil
of the noble red man will be only little
oyer three hours ride distant, and there
is very nice trade In that country.
The Texas & Pacific Will be ready In
good time to bring the Strawn black
diamonds TO the confines Of Fort Worth
Sturdy men are digging the treasures
from the . bowels Of the earth that will
bring factories to us.
The last spike In the AtchIson.Santa
Fe Fort Worth Gainesville extension was
driven yester ay, aud on January 2 the
tirst train bearing Fort Worth's pioneers
OF trade will leave the depot In this city.
IL Is now on to Arkansas City.
Chief Engineer Blssell Of the Fort
Worth & Denver was In the city yester.
day He thinks II will not be possible TO
complete the road to Qnanah by the 10th
Of January, but IT will not be many days
thereafter until the road reaches there.
The Fort Worth Western engineers still
30 away from Fort Worth, locating the
road through magnificent country
Graham and Jacksboro, too, are ready
10 do something handsome to get railroad
connection by this line with Fort Worth.
Aud now they say the Chicago, Rock
Island 4 Pac lc Is back OF the Fort
Worth Western, but from what THE GA
ZETTE can learn, some go, 900, 900 of hard
dollars in the hands OF men OF brain and
enterprise are the foundation stones OF
this road
civil engineer representing a power
ful railroad corporal on WAS yesterday
trying to buy some llne real estate con.
tiguous TO line of railroad which does
vast business in this city. The gentle
man said his road might soon need the
land In It's business here.
1t ia not many days now until the
stockholders Of the Southern Kansas OF
Texas, main office, headquarters and ini-
tial point Fort Worth, will meet in tnis
city md determine on that mortgage.
Then II will be on to Santa Fe and on to
Albuquerque at the same time.
a half mile of track was laid by the
Texas & Pacific yesterday on the road TO
the Strawn coal mines and the entire
distance will be covered as quickly
as possible. In the meantime
sixty miners continue TO pile up the
chunks Of coal better than the McAllister
article.
The gentleman who says the Fort
Worth & Rio GIande IL TO build to Brady
City and connect with the San Antonio &
Arkansas Pass road has not been contra
dicted yet, hut on the contrary an official
OF the railroad, looking at THE GA
true.tO-liie railroad map, said
''You might as W, Il extend thai line from
Brentwood forty miles beyond"
The Fort Worth & Denver will build to
a point five miles north OF Quanah or 200
miles northwest of Fort Worth, and then
the Panhandle Construction company will
take up the work, Its contract calling for
point 200 miles from Fort Worth. 1t
was supposed, probably, that Quanah was
200 miles from this city, and the steel was
bought To lay fiity miles OF track from
Harold, which carries the road five miles
beyond Quauah.
Several sub-contrators on railroad
work were Ia the city yesterday With
teams and scrapers, and gentleman who
had conversed with one OF the men says
the contractor told him they had come
here to so to work on the Fort Worth
Western. Inquiry at headquarters only
elected smile and a non committal au-
swer. The GAZETTE gives the facts for
what they are worth, Men are here with
scrapers who say they came TO work on
the Fort Worth Western.
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