Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-27
THE RAILROADS.
A Modest Move Made BY Fort Worth for
an Additional Road, the Fort
Worth 4 Northeastern.
OIeburne wide Awake on the wsaiherford
Propositioo-strawp CoaI-santa no
Notes.-The Gulf ~ Pacific.



his hours IN this city. He returns Il
Dallas to-day on railroad business.
The Texas & Pacific is the old reliable
on time again. for foufldbys II got tribe
behind, OWING 20 its connections, bni
now the trains are on the dot and make
good time, too.
II IL no threat, but prediction, that IN
few days TnE GAZETTE will have rome.
thing 10 say about alleged railroad inter
Views, and there will DO no mlstaklng tho
facts In the case.
Gen. Dodge OF New York city will, in
ten dnya, pay visit 70 his many friends
In Fort Worth, who will be GLAD TO see
him Gen. Dodge Is stakeholder In the
Fort Worth Denver
The belt line around this city, FIRST pro-
posed by President NJ O. Hurley OF the
Fort Worth g New Orleans, Is spoken Of
frequently now, and but little more agita.
ton will cause IL 10 be put on dirt.
Reports from the Strawn coal mines on
the Texas & Pacific are all OF ono tenor,
that the coal stands every test and IL first
class throughout. The Texas & Pacific rs
TO BIO congratulated on this 1nd
The graders on the Jones & Carey ll5
miles contract on the Atchlson-Santa Rs
In the Indian Territory, are now nearly
to the l00.mile post from Red river Sur
facing has begun on part OF the grade,
@. H. Frost, superintendent OF tho Fort
Worth & Denver, has his road IN splendid
order, and tho officials z nerally congrat-
ulatc themselves on tho smoOthness with
which the road 10 operated, An accident
on this road IA an almost unheard Of
thing.
There Is no desire TO startle tho people
OF the state whom the statement Is
made that yesterday tho flrst steps for tue
building OF the Fort Worth & Northoast-
ern were taken. Grapevine, Mckinney,
Whtewright and lonham will probably
be Interviewed in fow days.
The Hrst contract for Ties for the Fort
Worth q RIO Gfande for 100, 600 pine ties
has been let 70 Eastern Texas mills.
Other contracts will be made In few
days. The grading forces are doing we'll
on this road, and the contractor added
number Of teams TO his oulrl yesterday
The bonds between tho Houston & |
Texas Central and Fort Worth grow |
stronger and stronger aud business TO |
points on the Central better and better !
The Central management has been pre-
cisely Just aud fair 10 this city, and that
Ia ali Fort Worth ever asks from any one
The Fort Worth, Bowie & Red River s
very near the reality stage. The plucky |
and live citizens Of Burlington, Montague
and Bowie are working to make good
their pa OF the work, when Fort Worth
will send out the steel aud operate the
road, which will do the three points first
mentioned vast amount OF good.
1t WAC stated by a brother OF II. Il. Mad.
dox last night that the latter gentleman
had sold 800 acres Of land Immediately
adjoining the city Of Fort Worth to the
Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe railroad COM
pany. They may want II, and will Ger.
taluly need some land for few side
tracks. The land Is very desirable.
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Ia con.
stantly adding TO its rolling stock, new
HAT ana box cars being received every
few days. Tho ten splendid Mogul loco
motives received In Fort Worth some
weeks ago have all been placed IN use and
IL is aaid another lot OF ton is now being
made AZ the factory, TO be completed in u
short time.
The Fort Worth Western surveyors
are nearly twelve miles out and report
10 received here that the route along the
West Fork Ia oil that could be wished,
II runs with tho streams and ridges,
which Will make heavy cuts, bridges and
trostllng Of no necessity. The character
OF the country traversed Is said to be
magnificent.
We would be pleased to note that truth
IL treated with more respect IL hereafter
the Dallas News railroad roustabout viii
allude 20 tho northeastern extension Of
tho Santa Fc MS the "Parls oxtensiunu In.
stead Of tho "Dallaa extcnsion.n Dallas
IL quite too dip. The Sante 70 has now
5000 miles of it's own llnea west OF the
Mississippi. lt has become an active,
aggressive competitor OF the jay Gould
systom. One OF It's lines, and Ia shortest
line 10 the northeast, runs through Paris
Comment 10 unnecessary - Paris News.
The Southern kansas OF Texas, Initial
point and Headquarters at Fort Worth,
now has man out recording the arst
mortgage IN the counties through which
the road VIII run, and the company was
employing men yesterday for work on the
line, probably TO 10 with surveying
corps. IL IL said the Southern Kansas OF
Kansas Is rapidly completing lts work ON
tho Kiowa Oldham county line, and
that the forces VIII DO divided whom that
county is reached, one force building
south toward Fort Worth, the other
building north from thls'clty,
Tho Wabash route has novel adver-
tisement In the shape Of mans head.
Ga ono side Ia smiling face with Wa.
bash scarf pln. On ordinary occasions
this Ia alone exhibited, but should
any one DO guilty OF chestnut,
the card Ia reversed and
the astonlshcd yarn teller boholds
a head devoid Of hair, with the legend,
"That was bald.headed 100 years ago,
but the Waba h route Is no chestnut. y
Meesrs, Lusk aud Williams AT the Union
depot distribute these cards 20 tray.
elers without money or without price,
jim Koebert Is telegraph messenger
boy. Some months ago IL NJ, Hoxle, dc.
ceased, was In this city and Jim had some
messages for him, Entering tho car Jim
said Ills tloxlo INF" Mr., Hoxie's clerk
who was spoken to, said ''llave you any
messages for Mr., Hoxlep | will sign for
them,N Now II Is an order OF the telegraph
company to deliver messages into the
hands of the person addressed Il possible,
80 Jim remarked, 81 want 20 see MIR.
HoSle MIR. Hoxie, who was seated
near by, spoke and said 81 am Mr.
la ' a. I