Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-30


on the road TO SprIngtown.
THE GAZETTE congratulates Cleburnt
on her good fortune, as told in a dispatch
TO this paper In Sunday mornings issue
General Manager 8. II H. Clarke, II Is
said, will make trip Of inspection over
the Missouri Pacific system at an carly
day.
The engineer who has been going over
the grade and route OF the Fort Worth,
Bowie & Red River viii be ready 70 make
his report In q few dsys
President Paddock and Chief Engineer
Parsons Of the Fort Worth & Rio GrAnde
went over TO Dallas yesterday to see the
Tex S & Pacific officials on railroad bust
ness.
Less than seventeen miles Of track re-
naIned % be laid 10 connect Fort Worth
with Gainesville when the men stopped
work on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa 10
last night.
All the news from the Fort Worth &
Rio Grande tells Of activity, Contractor
Hughes bad upwards Of 100 teams al
work yesterday, and the line Of grading
begins TO show up,
Fort Worth and Grapevine will be
asked 20 give rig t-of-way through this
county for railroad TO be built through
Grapevine 10 this city. Grapevine and
Fort Worth will respond literally to the
request
A change Is looked for soon in the run
ming Oi trains on o Houston & Texas
Central 10 thls city, by which Fort Worth
will get two regular passenger trains
daily, IN place Of one passenger and one
mixed train each way, as ut present.
The Fort Worth & New Orleans con-
tlnues TO Improve It's terminal facilities
In this city and will IN a short time have
all the conyenlences necessary IN the way
OF slide trucks, etc, 10 handle tho afge
business even now being done In It's
yards
The headquarters Of Mr., John Howard,
travelling passenger agent Of the Mobile g. |
Ohio Railroad company, has been changed
from COrinth, Miss, to Jackson, Tenn
Mr.. Howard was formerly Texas agent Of
the Bao line, and Is well known In Fort
Worth.
1t was stated yesterday that commit.
tee OF gentlemen from along the toute Of
the 81. Louis, Arkansas & Texas between
Greonville and Fort Worth would be in |
Fort Worth ina few days, to interview |
our citizens on a matter OF Importance |
Preparations are being made to receive
the committee, and tho conference will |
doubtless be satisfactory.
The question Of the Fort Worth & Den. |
yer building Its own line into Fort Worth |
from Hodge or some point beyond, will |
probably be settled when Gen. Dodge |
pays his visit TO US at an early day. The |
great necessity for this move Is the vast |
amount Of business now transacted on
this three miles Of track overcrOwds II so .
that ila Fort Worth Il. IlnntJar IN tu
at times delayed
The east line OF the Missouri Pacific TO |
make It's connections all that they should |
be and AT the same time get great deal
OF business will doubtless In the fullness
OF time push from Mckinney to Fort
Worth. There will be necessity for
this Fort Worth extension when
the Fort Worth & Rio Grande
aud Fort Worth Western are built.
Mr., w II. Newman Of the Missouri Pa.
clic, who In ono Of the foremost practical
railroad men OF this country has seen, II
~ eaid, the ACCESSIBILITY Of this ex enslon,
and he win probably urge that 1t be built. |
In making Fort Worth It's base OF sup
plies In the work OF constructing tho OK
tension TO Gainesville and through the
Indian Territory, the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe has gwen a number OF men en-
ployment here which mas swelled It's nay
roll IN this city TO good-sized pronor.
tlons The yards are sui flied with ma
torial, aud this is added to daily. The
yards here show great activity for the
work of building thousands OF tons of
rails, hundreds OF thousands Cf ties,
bridges, timber aud orhor material, ls a
task MOTTO be accomplished without stir,
aud WORK means money, and money
circulated means prosperity.
Albuquerke, Santa Ne and Denver are
all now dl.cuSsing their connections
with Fort Worth, aud eacn seems anxious
to get here nrst From present indlca.
tons the Fort Worth 4 Denver will have
through trains running to Denver before
another twelve months rolls by, and the
Fort Worth Western aud the South
ern Kansas Of Texas will not
be long behind in reaching
Albuquerque aud Santa Fe respectIyely
4 very prominent ofllclal OF the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa fe informs GAZErrE
reporter that II will only be short time
until the Southern Kansas begins work on
the Texas line from It's initial point and
headquarters, Fort Worth,
The Texas & Pacific IL doing a heavy
business now which IL constantly on the
increase. Its vast yards are crowded
with cars, and the repair work done In It's
shops here keeps number OF men con.
stantly engaged, This road, the arst
Fort Worth secured, is marching steadily
20 the front 10 the list OF good roads, and
II Gov. Brown, the receiver and his
able lleutenants, Col Noble, Col. Weller,
Messrs. Thorne aud Anderson are con
tlnued In power, which is very probable,
the Texas S Paeinc VIII ,oon be the great
transcontinental highway It's founder
Tom Scott, intended II should DO. The
discovery Of the vast bed OF coal along
It's Rio Graude division VIII aid consider.
ably Ia making the Western division
pay, and will help all the towns
on the lino from Fort Worth to
ToYah TO fuel at reasonable prices, Fort
Worth Is now alXlously waiting for the
day 20 come when the Texas & Pacific win
lay this coal at her doors.
Twelve hancs Tap.