Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-28
THE RAILROADS.
The Contract for the CIeburne Shops
and Round House Signed at
Galveston Yesterday.
Tho strawn Coal Mines Being worked
From Fort worth 20 Aransns Pass.
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Mr.. DoIlman, civil engineer on the
Gulf, Colorado G Santa Fe, was In Fort
Worth yesterday.
Col. II. E. Mo tgomery OF the Fort
Worth G Denver went south last night on
railroad business.
Count Meyer, one of the Oldest civil
engineers IN the state, is now located az
Fort Worth in charge Of the vast quantities
OF material stored here.
The Texas & Pacific continues to lay
steel on the Rio Grande division as rap
idly az cars can be furnished 10 transport
the rails to points desired. IL will not
be long until the track is all steel to
Baird.
v. II. whorf, superintendent OF the
Tampico division Of the Mexican Central
railroad, passed through on the Texas q
Pacific this morning, en- route to Boston.
Work will commence Immediately on this
important division and be pushed WI h
vigor until completed. Tampico Is the
finest harbor on the Gulf, and tie com
pletion OF this branch will seriously affect
the trade at Vera Cruz.
by January | Contractor Hughes will
have twenty-five miles Of grading ready
for the ties and rails. He has 200
teams at work, and purchased 100
scrapers in this city when he began
work which supplemented what he al
ready owned. The grade is an easy one,
and to see twenty-three miles OF II
stretched ous cannot fail to convince any
one that railr- ad is being built very
rapidly.
a gentleman who claims TO know
whereof he speaks says IL is down on the
cards that the Fort Worth & Rio Grande
will build as quickly as possible to Brady
City In Mccullough county to connec-
ton with the San Antonio g. Arkansas
Pass railroad, which will give Fort Worth
q very nearly direct line to another deep
water port. This Information does not,
hover, come from the officials OF the Fort
Worth 6 Rio Grande.
From Hon. Frederick Dunn, American
consul at Durango, II Is learned that
In every direction in Mexico the rail
roads are building. The Mexican
National is gradually closing the gap
between Saltlllo ana Mexico city. The
Mexican international (the Huntington
liue) Is rapidly filing the space between
MonclaVa and Laredo on the Mexican
Central, and the Mexican Central is
building her Tampico branch to be com
DltAtu III vNtubl lubhthNt uhh hNi
aiorsa branch to be completed In twelve
months There is too much natural
wealth in mines, lands, timber, ETC., for
Mexico TO be neglected any longer, and a
now era has dawned for good.
The Texas & Pacific has commenced the
work of putting In track from Strawn,
eighty.one miles west of Fort Worth, to
the recently discovered coal mines from
two TO thee miles from the main track
The mines are now being worked, sixty
miners being employed, and when the side
track ~ completed and market open for
the coal, IL is the intention to employ
AGO miners. Yesterday one lump OF
coal was mined which weighed 4SC
pounds, and 1t was in truth black
diamond. The people at Strawn are
using coal for all purposes, and the Texas
4 Pacific has contracted to take vast
quantities Of IL for locomotive use. II
will not be long until the coal will be
sold in Fort Worth
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Be will be
completed 20 Gainesville to-day or to-
morrow, and on Sunday, January ?, trains
will be run TO Gainesville and a new time
table go Into effect. There will be O
north-bound accommodation train leav.
Ing here at O'Clock Il. M, and arriving
In Gainesville at 1 l 80 a m. The through
passenger train which arrives here al
night will leave at 9;05 p. M, and reach
Gainesville at II 90 p, IN. Going south
the accommodation leaves Gainesville al
$3.50 p. m, and arrives here al
8 O'Clock p. IN. The through
passenger will leave Gainesville
at o a, m, arrive here at $3.50 a. m. ant
leave for the south at 010a m. fast
freight viii be run from temple to Fort
Worth, reaching here at p. M, aud
fast freight carrying passengers viii
leave here at 7:l5 p, nj. running as far al
Temple. II will be noticed from thi
that the time of the passenger trains be
tween Gainesville and Fort Worth
two hours aud nifty minutes.