Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-21
ON TO TULSA!
The Gods Consplre To Favor Their
Loved City, Fort Worth, the
Young Giant,
Probabilities Are Strong That the San.
60 wan rStnnd by the Denton.
,n,yoonnl%,,sssioner In. Route.
History =
The Paris, Dallas, Greenyiile People Are
Afraid of Many Things, SO Haven't
Raised the Money.
sneclnl to tho Gazette.


Dallas day before the Santa Fe directors.
Late trains last night brought the follow
ing railway delegation from Dallas: I.
| l.. Marsalis, wholesale grocer w. H.
| Lemons, of Bowser 6 Lemons; Alfred
Davis, OF Snyder & Davis, and w. II.
! Flippen, the banker. From Greenville
Judge j. Sherry, county Judge OF
| Hunt county; w. Ii. Bach, vice president
| First National bank; A. Cameron, capi-
talist, aud w. Beckman, prominent
business man. Paris Is represented by
Judge G.. IL. Scott Rockwell has two
1 delegates, Messrs. w. b. Wade and WI.
| Brown, both leading citizens. Cooper,
| the county seat of Delta county, sends
! two delegates In the persons OF Il. T.
/ Pullman, capitalist, and Edward II Bennett,
prominent attorney, while the thriving
/ little town OF Commerce, in Hunt is
ably represented by w. w. Rutland and
j. ID. Steele, two of its leading spirits.
! The Farmersvile delegation whose inter-
ests In this matter are opposed TO the in
terests of Greenville, Rockwell, Cooper
and Commerce comprises DR.. A.
| IL. Netherly, u. II. Pendleton and p.
A. Church, all gentlemen of prominence
in their section. About 10 O'Clock this
morning ColGresham met the delegations
4 in the parlors Of the Beach and held a
long informal talk with them on the pro-
posed extension. In the afternoon a ma
/ jorlty Of the delegates came into the city
and occupied their time visiting the lead
ing business houses and meeting the indi-
vidual members Of the Santa Fe
1 directory At6 O'Clock they gathered in
the directors rooms of the Santa Fe
| building, where they were met by the fol-
] In >, ba Of bn I'd ~
I ors: President George Sealy, Messrs
] Davis, Willis, Gresham, Blum, Kempuer,
1 Wallis, Hutchings and Brown. The
board was better represented at
this meeting than at Mon
day evenings meeting, when
/ the delegates entered the directors room
! they saw on tho table large map OF Tex
I ms, and In heavy lines the following route
1 was traced; From Dallas TO Rockwell,
to Greenville, 20 Commerce, to Cooper,
/ thence to Paris and due north to Red
river The sight of the drawing greatly
encouraged the Greenville and Rock
wall delegates. There were two
other routes noticed, one from
/ Dallas to Farmersyille and Ladonia,
I thence to Honey Grove; the other from
! Ladonia to Paris. The two latter routes
were greatly oveTshadowed at the meet
! ing tonight by the advocates for the
< Greenville route. The Dallas delegation
took no open part in the matter OF
/ the conflicting routes, but pri-
yately, to a man, were in favor of
I the Greenvile route because they think
1 it is the one that will pay TO build and the
directors know it, Each town submitted
propositions offering handsome DO.
nus. The Greenyille route adj
vocates announced they already
had subscribed $40 900, including OF
course the subscriptions of Dallas
aud Paris. President Staly, speaking
4 for the directory, informed the delega-
| tions they should be given an answer
touching the routes by the LIST of Febru-
| airy, and gave the advocates of the Green
Vile route to understand II in the mean
! time they increased their subscription to
| 100000 and the right of way, they
might feel assured the company would
build that way.
II is now almost the settled opinion Of
many OF the individual members Of the
/ directory that the extension from Fort
/ Worth via Gainesville aud the Nation,
/ and that via Dallas, Greenyille and Paris,
will be projected and put through at the
same time, but with this vital diff
| ference, the Gainesville extension will be
pushed through Immediately TO connect
with the st. LoUis and San Francisco,
whereas there are no indications what
ever that the Paris extension will for sew
eral years be completed beyond the coal
fields in the Territory. IL is true the
st. Louis & San Francisco road talks
about building from Fort Smith to the
Red river, but the Santa Fe directors don't
seem to place much reliance In an early
connection with that line, via Fort Smith.
They argue that st. Louis and San Fran
cisco is more likely TO push the extension
OF its main line from Tulsa than the branch
line from Fort Smith. From certain
OF the visiting delegates 1t is learned
that the business men of Paris are not at
all unanimous IN seeking the Santa Re
extension. They fear the Santa Fe will
build through 10 the river and there estab- |
lush another city twenty-One miles from
Paris which will rival that city just
as Denison does Sherman. Speaking |
OF this to large stakeholder tonight, he
smiled and said "TheIe's heap OF
danger In that; II Is very tempting am
told IL Is magnificent location for city |
along that section of the river"
An informal attempt was made at the
meeting by certain delegates TO get the
promise OF couple Of influential
directors that in case the required $780, |
600 was raised the road would build be-
yond the river and not lay out town |
at the river, but the directors would |
make no promise. The delegates think /
the bonus asked OF them Is exceedingly |
large aud some OF them doubted whether /
the amount could be raised unless Dallas
Increased her subscription very ma
terribly. Most OF the delegates VIII re- |
turn home IA the morning.