Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-18
THE RAILROADS.
The Contractor on the Fort worth g.
Rio Grande Hard at Work Pre-.
pairing 70 trade.
Fort worth IL Headquarters Tho Taylor
Bastrop q Housion--Fort worth
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The trains did better last night; they
were all In by 1880 o'clock.
The pay-car OF the Texas Pacific was
here yesterday and paid out consider
able sum Of money.
T. II Thorp, travelling passenger agent
ofthe Vandsliaaud Pennsylvania lines, was
In the city yesterday.
James NJ. Means, travelling passenger
agent Of the Piedmont Air Line, wss in
Fort Worth yesterday.
The Fort Worth Western took another
step toward being full 1edged road yes
day. The surveyors began work.
IL Ia said that all the railroads center
ing IN Fort Worth will lend all possible
aid in making the Southwestern Inter-
state Exposition u Fort Worth grand
success Five or six great highways can
make. a superb display bythemselves.
All along the line OF the Fort Worth &
Rio Grande the 10 wns and cities are re-
iolcing over the coming OF the road
StephenvllIe, Comanchc, Dublin and
brentwood are ready and willing TO do
their part. Granbury has alre idy done
hers.
The Fort Worth e Rio Grande and Fort
Worth Western machine shops and round
houses Will be located In Fort Worth
this Is already settled The headquarters
OF the Fort Worth & Denver aud the
Southern Kansas are now located here;
that Is also settled.
Messrs Eastwood and August in
formed a GAZETTE reporter last night
that party Of Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy surveyors were In the city and
had rooms adjoining SommervlIle & |
Chase. Tho gentlemen did not know
their exact business here,
J.P Hughes, who has secured con-
tract for grading forty miles Of the Fort |
Worth Rio Gunde, was very busy |
man yesterday Before night he had pur.
chased 100 scrapcrs, had twenty teams
ready, had site for camp seleCteo, aud
a number Of supplies purchased. Mr.
Hughes says ho IN anxious to give Tar
rant county and Hood county farmers all
the work they can do on the road and also
that Fort worth will be his exclusive
base of supplies. This morning the engl-
neers will begin TO cros3-section the
work and by tomorrow morning bright
and early dirt will be broken on this oud
OF the road. Mr.. Hughes says his orders
are TO put on all the force he can work to
advantage and the road VIII be built UNI
der high pressure
A morning paper in Dallas few days
ago gave IL as the statement Of someone
that Fort Worth had offered bonus OF
100000 TO have the Gulf s. Pacific start
from this point. Yesterday another gem
tloman said this city was becoming 80
frantic about II that SlO0,0 900 might be
offered for the road ~ Is not
difficult In this city TO tell who the fifty or
sixty citizens are who would make such
an offer, and an Interview with them fail
cd TO discover single one who knew
anything about II or believed It. One
citizen said he understood the motives
for the statements. There were two.
First, Fort Worth was being used az !
n lash 20 goad the unwilling
and hesliaiing In Dallas to give TO the
scheme. Second, II was an fort To
ALLEVIATE the good will Of the Fort Worth
& Denver There must be woiul lgno-
rance In Dallas OF the true situation OF
affairs In this city, or no such silly at.
tempt would be made. Fort Worth rec.
ognizes aud IL always ready TO acknowl.
edge the great aid the Fort Worth & Den.
YER has been In the upbuilding OF this
city, and the relationship between
the road and the city IL too
close TO be shaken by any such effort.
Fort worth would not give go cents for
the Gull & Pacific, We have the Fort
Worth 4 Denver to Decatur, more
dirott llno than the Gull 4 Pacific would
be-, and Fort Worth X how preparing 70 d
build TO J0cksboro, Graham aud Seymour; /
thence TO Albuquerque. Fort Worth does
not put up for roads covering exactly the /
same territory, The other por- {
tion Of the territory covered-on
paper--by the Gulf Pacific {
will be reached by either the Missouri /
Pacific, Frisco, or st. Louis, Arkansas & /
Texas by road from Mckinney through {
Grapevine Fort Worth already has con-
nection with Denton; what then can she (
possibly want with the Gulf & paciac9
Let Dallas build horroad. There Is room
for all, There Is no jealousy In Fort 6
Worth az tho securing OF railroads by
noighborlpg towns. Can giant be zeal.
Gus Of plgmy2 Let Dallas build her
road 1t will be aaother feeder for Fort
Worth, /