Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-05
THE RAILROADS.
Morgan Jones and Dan Carey OBJ
b a Contract to Build 115 Miles
At Road In the Territory.
ffIhl for the Front-Tho Extension oi
,,sFort Worth n Denyer-New once
for tho Texas Central.


HE Fort Worth x Denver 10 ous!iJ eh-
ed hi its car shops here building
.nbef OF box cars.
441f laying goes steadily on at the
1lh mile day from Vernon to Qua.
onthe Fort Worth & Denver.
tater has not ecu reached yet in the
[nss& Pacific large artesian well, but
mashinery keeps hammering away at
RIhnt drill.
need surprise no one TO hear In few
A thu a branch OF the Fort Worth &
liver is under way from Bowie to Bur
.ton via Montague City. -
mo roads centerlng at Fort Worth
Idlod nearly two thousand carloads of
oht. Yesterday, which Is very fair
IhdSs even for the metropolis.
ltnr train of railroad material pulled
l4,m the Gulf, Colorado C Santa Fe
6s here yesterday for the forty-tWo
. role on the road TO Gainesville.
|lngh Burns, now engaged with Nor
Jones in building the Gulf, Colorado
anita Fe TO Gainesville, will soon go 10
|ylor 10 execute q contract for the MIS-
hi Pacific road.
Hurley & Roche Brothers, owners OF
Fort Worth & New Orleans, are put
L down more side tracks at the depot
~ to accommodate the increased BUSH
81 done by the Texas Central.
.rhe houston & Texas Central Railroad
|npanp has opened its uptown Offices IN
Norton building, where freight and
.aen,fer business win be attended to.
M X certainly move la the interest of
public.
Grapevine and Fort Worth
anxious to see that tunneling on the
|fnco completed, as the company will
Ne the towns mentioned the contem-
H. a Proposition to build through them
Fort Worth. The propositions will be
bmptly accepted.
Xaailroad men are remarkiDg at the
Iounf of business done by our mer
Ants ut POINTS considered out of Fort
BIRTHS territory. The last shipment of
N kind that excites wonder Is carload
wagons shipped from Fort Worth TO
|eeayille in Hunt county. One large
nae here ships quantities of goods TO
sns county.
Pne east-bound Texas & Pacific train
Is over four hours late last night. The
In had left Aledo on time but had not
lchod Benbrook by . O'Clock, where
lon the west-bound, which had been
iting, was ordered to pull out TO Ben
oob and wait for the east-bound. 1t
ems that freight train was Immediate
In front OF the passenger, and whether
& trouble was with 1t or the passenger,
uld NOT be learned.
|rhe Atcbison, Topeka & Santa Fe is a
|ictly business corporation, and as pre-
.e1cd by THE GAZETTE months ago,
Men N took up the work of building Its
Wat Inc through the Territory, would
sh ID with vim. The two large
dyes over the Trinity and Red River
ve delayed matters somewhat, but false
TX over The Trinity has been in some
NE. and large force has been at work
ting in temporary bridge OF the Red
Xker. while the work on the permanent
ucture continued. This false work
In soon be in, and the track from Fort
orthto Gainesville will soon be com
sted, but the Atchison company will
/ wait for that to begin work at Red
Fevin the Territory and push North
etoscay Jones & Carey were awarded
II contract to construct ll5 miles
sroad in the Territory, and at once sci
work to execute their contract. A car.
Id "a scrapers, wheelers and plows
re ordered TO be at Red river inside OF
4 days, and the firm is at work getting
kether large force OF hands and teams
push the work through rapidly. While
hfIb miles Is being built northwaro
30 teams and the necessary
mher of men are at work extending
IN the terminus in Kansas, and the two
II meet on the Canadian. 1t Is saiC
W that the entire line will be bull
me months sooner than heretofore ex
ctad# 1t is now on to Kansas City
th q Vengeance.
The following extract from last Sun
vs. financial review In the New Yort
mes Expresses the general sentiment o.
business men OF the comm uAlty. AL
iieve that the depression, which ha'
,rne 80 heavily On the industries OF the
untfy, is ended aud that buoyancy and
ogress will now be the rule. The
Ifies Bays: "lf there Is any cloud any
tefe Ii the financial skyit manages very
aroNehly to hide itself. There has beer
hintof it in the week past. Trade IL
olning; merchants are crowded by Gus
u. aud manufactures are driven to ill
sHfs booked far ahead; every man who
lnts work has it, and every dollar MOI
:eed PIP IL showing an earning power
d tarmers OF the West and the Soutf
Ne crops that pay for the frs
10 ia years; the railroads in all theil
}lory have never been called upon tt
idle such vast traffic. Illustrations
the Increased earnings OF the railroads
tho country were gwen last week. The
ne state OF things continues, with bu'
Inference that the percentage Of In
iadt Is even larger now than then. The
nit ~ unprecedented. The prosperity
i9hened reaches in every direction
peei6lly is this true OF Texas, an6
lelnesiug that railroad construction IL
nei&hborhood OF Fort Worth in the
pa extensions will be particularly
WE'VE have much to hope for.
In q long editorial in the st. Louis
llway Register, on the necessity OF
lroad companies combining, and or
ne OF the evils Of a too sharp rivalry
NJ paper says: "Why shouldi 1t be con
cred necessary for competing lines
len pool the business between compel
IL points, to pay agents OF connectine
,0s Commission on all tickets that they
II II one does 1t, all must do the
aa bach is in continual fear lest .
n mould secretly pay a larger com