Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-12
THE RAILROADS.
Pour NJ the Arbiiraiors to Determine
Between 81. Louis and Chicago
have Been Selected.
The Trinity pridRe Being Built--woriE on
tho Frrt worth a io.Grand Pro-
Erossing-Homo Notes.

Home Notes.
Il. II. Kingsley, Texas passenger agent
Of tie Loiusville & Nashville, is In the
city.
tits understood that the plans for en-.
largement Of the Union depot In this city
have been drawn and will soon be car
ried out.
A California excursion train OF seven
/ coaches arrived here last night from st.
Louis bound for San Francisco. Several
accessions TO the passenger list were
made here.
| There Is said to be great activity at
headquarters of the Denver & New Or
leans, and some also in Fort Worth 4
| Denver circles. This means that steps
are being taken TO make that junction
very soon.
The Texas & Pacific has reached a
vein OF water with its artesian well, which
gives a slight flow above the surface, but
they are pushing still deeper III order
10 get full and free flow of the excel
lent water obtained.
Mr.. Deal, who has charge of the con-
struction OF bridges on the extension OF
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, Is in the
ing the construction of the iron suspen-
sion bridge over the Trinity. Some few
pieces of the iron have not been received
yet, but enough Is here TO cause no delay
in the work.
President Paddock OF the Fort Worth
Rio Grande returned from trip to
Granbury yesterday evening. He reports
twelve miles Of right OF way secnred
from Granbury and grading going on.
Work has also commenced on the bridge
over the Brazos. President Paddock is
working like Trojan and lets no grass
grow under his feet.
well known and well Informed rail-
road official OF this city said Yesterday
that the extension of the Missouri Pa
clhc from Taylor to Houston settled the
fact that the road from Denison to Fort
Worth would for all time to come remain
the main line of the road. With this
branch built the Missouri Pacific has
direct communication between Fort
Worth and Galveston.
Word comes from the Indian Territory
that Jones & Carey are working large
force aud pushing things. Several miles
OF grading are now ready for ties and rails,
and the Territory contractors are anxious
to see the Gainesville extension com plet-
ed. Track-lsying between Fort Worth
and Gainesville Is now going on rapidly,
and II Is said that by December 10 trains
will be running to Red river.
The abroad bridge over the tracks of
tho three lines running south is well under
way and will soon be completed. AS
soon as fBshed 1t is said the Fort Worth
Street Railway company Will build ITS
tracks over TO connection with the track
laid months ago near the Boaz school
house. This will be great convenience
to the people OF that nelghborhood, and
when the track Is extended to the Union
depot this line will belt the city.
Ticket Agent Lusk, at the Union depot,
Is now selling excursion tickets from
Philadelphia TO Antwerp, Paris, France,
and London, England. The tickets are
good only on the steamer Switzerland,
which leaves Philadelphia ON November
"a. The steerage rate Is, Philadelphia TO
Antwerp, round trip, S25, to Paris, each
way, $40 20, to London, each way, SI5 %.
Certainly cheap travel for such distance.
The regular west-bound Texas & Pacific
and the California excursion trains, four
teen cars in all, came from Dallas last
night drawn by one locomotive When
reaching the heavy up grade east of the
CITY the lron-horse gave out and
after half hours trial to pull
the train in a second locomotive was
sent from Fort Worth and the two got
the train to the depot. The excursion
train was cut of from the regular train
here and both proceeded West about 2
O'Clock this morning.
The Southern Kansas is now building
from Kiowa in Southern Kansas south.
westwardly to Las Vegas, N. M, and the
Southern Kansas OF Texas will begin "a.
build to Tascosa or some point neayssSy
as soon as the iormeE road
strikes the Panhandle of 4Ne state
This line VIII give passengSE and ship
pers from California, Ax,,f5na, New Next
co and extreme NortkNest Texas a direct
line to Fort Worth and close connection
here with the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
to the seaboard, and with the other lines
to all points In the state. To Fort
Worth will come thousands of passengers
and millions Of pounds of freight. Here
then will the Atchison company build a
large Union depot, freight-house and car
sheds, and, with proper encouragement,
possibly car and machine shops as we'll.