Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-20

The Change of Gauge on the SC. Lud,s,
Arkansas q Texas Delays Trains
Less than One Hour.
Whnt Railropd Men Think OF the Fort
Worth 4 Rto Grands Rond-- Denison
News Home Notes


mono NOteHs
j. II. G, Pitkin, prominent official OF
the Texas & Pacific, was in the city yes.
terday,
ID. X. Grove of Marshall, general road
master Of the Texas aud Pacific, was In
the city yesterday.
II P. Hughes Is doing some work for
the railroads here, opening streets and
putting In side.tracks.
-Four miles Of the Gulf & Pacific have
been graded, and fifty teams are now at
work on the line six miles from Dallas
II. S. Douglas, master mechanic of the
Rio Grande division Of the Texas &
Pacific with headquarters at Big Springs,
was In tbs city yesterday.
Work goes steadily along on the extern
sion OF the Fort Worth & Denver from
Vernon to Quanah. In short time this
road will be 1874 miles long.
The business done by the Houston &
Texas Central office In the city is improv-
Ing daily. The public recognizes the con-
yenience OF this new departure,
Several Of our citizens are talking
about meeting Gainesville half way in the
celebration OF the completion OF the
Atchison-Santa Fe connecting the two
cities.
The Fort Worth 4 Denver will have on
sale at all stations on their line, from
October "a to November 8, inclusive,
ickets to Dallas and return at one-half
the regular fare.
News comes from all along the prcpos.
ed line Of the Fort Worth & Rio Grande
that the people are anxiously watching
the movements OF Fort Worth, and ready
to aid us in building the road
Mr.. Mccullough, formerly in the ticket
office here, has resigned his position and
gone to Ohio, whence he escorts his
mother to California to spend the winter.
MIR. Mccullough leaves many warm friends
in this city
Walter McDougall, chief engineer of
the Gulf & Pacific, was in the city yester.
day from ten miles west of Decatur, to
which point the survey has been made
and profles forwarded to Col. Henderson
at New York city.
President Paddock of the Fort Worth &
Rio Grande informed THE GAZETTE yes
terday that the committee had not gone
to work yet, hut that three or four men
had given $4,000 without being asked.
The old Fort Worth way.
There is one fact in connection with the
Fort Worth Rio Grande worthy of note,
and that is that to a man, officials Of other
railroads say the Fort Worth & Rio
Grande would oe the greatest road Fort
Worth could now secure Railroad men
know
There are several towns near Fort
Worth which desire the Brentwood road,
and one Of them, Cleburne, is willing to
put up for it. What would be good
thing for these towns would certainly be
a greater and better thing for Fort
Worth.
prominent railroad man SAID yester-
day that the building OF the Fort Worth &
Rio Grande would surely bring the ST.
Louis, Arkansas & Texas to Fort Worth
from Sulphur Springs, So, when work
ing to secure one road, it means putting
in ticks tor two.
The Frisco Is hard at work making for
Texas, but has struck two tunnels which
will consume some time In building. The
Frisco must build through the Territory
before coming to Fort Worth, where it
will make it's great junction with the
roads now centering here.
More teams and men keep pushing to
Red river to work on the Jones & Carey
contract, but more are wanted. Not
many months of 'S7 will have gone
when the elegant coaches of the long
trains of the Atchison & Santa Fe will
pull into grand depot in this city. Kan
sas City products will be laid at our doors
cheaper then.