Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-24
THE RAILROADS.
A Magnificent Field Of Superior Coal
Found on tho Texas 4 Pacific,
Near Sirawn.
what Fine ArtssiaB We'll VIII BrinE
Port worth y Hio Grande--A Great
~. A. q. Scheme.


giueers has raised Chief r. M. Arthura
salary to $4,000 year.
ID W. Price, chief clerk Ia the passen-
ger department OF the Texas & Pacific,
was 10 the city yesterday.
Col. l.. l.. Keller, superintendent of the
Rio Grande division OF the Texas & Pa
cino, was In the city yesterday.
Missouri Pacific freight buslness for
November viii show n decided iucreaee
over the corresponding period Of last
year
II rs estimated that tho new railroads
projected In Georgia Will give employ
mcnt 10 1000 men for period OF three
years
President Paddock d The Fort worth
e Rio Graudc, Is now a. his home near
the city, and his friends expect TO see
him nblU 20 be out IN few days.
The Houston & Texas Central continues
10 improve its track and property g0nof,
ally, and with short period more Of Mr.
Dillingham's ma agement the road VIII
DO q model.
The Southern passenger agents have
issued circulars 10 ticket agents In tile
North Withdrawing all commissions on
all tickets sold over their respective lines
These tickets como periodically, and Tue
ticket agents take II that they will remain
IN effect no longer than before.
The news Of the death OF II. M Hoxle
was received by railroad men hero with
genuine sorrow. There was but one OK
preston, aud that was that great cxtcu.
tive mind was gone, and that Jay Could
had lost his rlght.hAnd mao Tho opinion
prevails here that W. H. Newman Will be
Mr.. lloxie's SUCCESSOR
great dcal 10 Fort Worth depends
upon the Texas & Pacific nrtosian well
now being sunk near tho round'house,
TnE GAZETTE has 10 from high authority
that, II good How VI water IL secured,
caf-repairlDg shops VIII DO built here,nuw
machinery put In, and 80 men In addi-
tlon 10 those nov NJ work employed by
the company. Fort Worth wants that
artesGu well 20 how whole river.
The Fort Worth Western engineering
corps Is rapidly leaving Fort Worth be. |
hind, md II Ia said this far splendid |
route has been secured. There IN talk OF |
q town being established ON tract of |
land ten miles out owned by our county |
treasurer, W. r. Ferguson. There will |
probably he two other good little towns |
between Fort Worth and Sprlngtown In |
Parker county.
II Is said again that tho Fort Worth & |
Denver Is preparing to build It's own |
track Into this city from point above |
Hodge IL IN claimed this will be- done |
NJ once as q necessity, the Missouri Pa. |
1itlc business being 80 heavy that the
Fort Worth & Denver trains are delayed,
and when construction OF the extension
10 the Canadian begins the present delays
vii cause great loss.
a locomotive for the Fort Worth &
Rio Graude IL now In tho yards II tho
Missouri Pacific, and will DO ready for
business In few days, Fort Worth & |
RIO Grande looms up on II Ia big gold /
etters, number Of fat and box cara |
viii soon be here ready 10 use In con. |
and two ships are now being |
oAded In the East with stoOl rails. The |
Fort Worth & Rio GrRnde IL strictly bust. |
ness.
AZ present there are three ways pro
posed for The Fort Worth & Rio Grande
10 get into the city. The Texas & Pacific
s willing To have II come In over ITS
racks aud tho Gulf, Colorado & Santa
20 N also willing to have IL come IN over
hal line, The third route Is along the
lily, with Ia depot and side tracks somd.
yhere Ia the nelghborhood OF West Bluff
ltrCCt.
Within the next twelve months the re
lelscrs OF the Texas & Pacific will az
good as build q new railroad several nun
fred miles long. They have now cou-
.rnotcd for nearly q million ties, TO bo
delivered between now and September
j. 1881, and VIII lay no miles OF steel /
rails between Fort Worth and Colorado
CITY, aud 100 miles on tho New Orleans
division, besides fity mica u bo nut
down ut once on the Trausconllnental |
ltNlaIOn Give the receivers time and the |
Texas s Pacific viii 90 magnificent road !
Men aud horses, plows and scrapora
wore busily at work Yesterday near pral. |
ne Chapel On the grade OF tho Fort Worth |
\ RIO Hraude, Contractor Hughes was
~ huey rs a bee, and will augment his
Iorcts az quickly 80 ho can get men and
leans Cross scctIoning is completed
zen miles from tho city, which gives the
graders plenty OF work for tho present.
TrackIaYing VIII commence az soon az
possible, and Will keep well up with the
grading. u VIII not be many days until
'all aboard for Granbury" will be heard.
vast bed Of splendid coal has been
discovered by johnson Brothers two
miles IRON Stfawn, on tho Texas & Pa.
olhe road, The vein Is twenty.e,Rht
Inches thick and certainly extends over
5000 acres Of land In Palo Pinto aud Erath
counties, how much farther II may 20
cannot be Estimated There IL enough
coal TO require over 100 years to mine at
the rate OF 1854 bushels per day, Col L,
u, Keller, superintendent OF the Rio
6rande division, has toated a car.
load IN locomotive ON his dlyla.
Ion and tho engineer reports 10
him that he desires no better coal. The
coal has been assayed In Ht. Louis, aud h
pronounced superior to Indian Territory
,oal and second only to Pittsburg coal.
A strong company viii be formed 10 work
The mlues extensively, and the product
VIII be offered for sale In Fort Worth |
The Texas \ Pacific viii probably build /
spur To the mines. AT last Fort Worth |
has a chance for cheap fuel and factories
may now be secured Tor our city, Super. !
attndeut kellor says there can be no
question of the superior quality OF the
GOAL ana OF the quantity TO be obtained.
REVOLUTIONS OF Respect.
Az meeting held at Fort Worth, Tex !,
:, p. N November "a by tho employees