Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-21
THE RAlLPn Us.
Tine Receivers and other Officials Of the
Texas & Pacific Hold an Importsnt
Meeting at New Orleans.
Huntington at El Paso-The Burlington
Road-Ths Frisco at work at Paris
Home Notes.


Fort Worth is now headquarters for
three roads-Fort Worth & Denver, Fort
Worth & New Orleans aud Fort Worth &
Rio GraDde.
The Fort Worth & Rio Grande may now
be In nebulous state, but It will soon be
the bright particular star Of the young
giants destiny.
Samples OF refrigerator cars TO be used
| In filling the English contract have been
received In this city and examined by the
gentlemen in charge Of the work here.
Some day this week Superintendent C.
l., Frost Of the Fort Worth & Denver
will inspect the route Of the Bowie,
Montague Burlington road, in prospec-
tive.
Work on the bridge by Hattie street
by the railroads is progressing fairly.
When built, the street cars will cross 10
the east side and 1t will in other ways
be great convenience TO our people.
There Is one big iron in the fire now
for Fort Worth and 1t should be struck
80 often and such healthy blows that 1t
will soon be welded into the Fort Worth
Rio Grande road. There Is millions In
IL, In fact and In truth.
There Is some hesitancy on the part of
owners Of property in the vicinity Of the
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe yards to sell,
for they feel that, ia all probability, a
grand depot will be erected some place
on the tract when the Atkinson, Topeka
Santa Fe makes good its through con-
nection.
IL exchanges which write Of Polobampo
and Polabamps Will look al a map OF Mex
leo, they will fnd 1t reads Topolobampo,
that 1t Is the finest harbor In the known
world, and will soon be the ocean terminus
OF road from FoIt Worth. Topolobam-
po bay is land-locked by the state of
Sinaloa, Mexico.
When the committee soliciting for the
Fort Worth & Rio Grande subsidy rested
from their labors last night, S2l 900 had
been subscribed or was In sight. The
gentlemen will go to work again to-day
and make a strong pull for the balance.
number OF citizens who are ready to
subscribe had not up to last night been
called upon.
AS q sensible business investment, It
would pay the good city of Fort Worth to
offer reasonable inducements 10 the Texas
Pacific to do more for this city than 1t
is doing. II would pay to remove as far
as possible that unfortunate error ABOUT
water made on transformation, THE
GAZETTE has heard q prominent Official
OF the road speak on the subject.
All the higher officials of the Texas &
Pacific are in New Orleans, and word
comes that Governor Brown while in New
York made all the arrangements for steel,
locomotives and cars needed to thoroughly
equip the road. The Texas & Pacific will
be power In developing Texas and Fort
Worth Is Its natural center, being the per-
petuai western terminus OF the trans.con-
tinental division.
The following is taken from the Rail
road Gazette, and shows that the stock.
holders Of the Fort Worth & Rio Grande
mean business and have faith In their in.
vestmert: "Fort Worth & Rio Grande.-
Mr.. w. b. Parsons, Jr., has been APP
pointed chief engineer Of the road, with
headquarters at Fort Worth, Tex. He re-
talns his connection with the New York
District railway and his Office at S5 Broad
way"
Mr.. Huntington Is on tour OF inspec-
tlon Of his roads, and will probably take
run over the Houston Texas Central,
OF which he will soon be In possession.
Naturally Mr.. Huntington will run up the
Fort Worth & New Orleans division TO
Fort Worth, and see how the land lies for
the extension into Jack and Young coun.
ties. When the railway king obtains
sight OF our city he will quickly take ia
the possibilities, and determine that the
extension must quickly be made.
Gigantic railroad projects are now be-
ing considered and put in motion by the
capitalists who have their money in rail-
way enterprises. Primarily these schemes
are originated and worked out to bring
trade TO several metropol of the north
and east, but secondarily they are In
tended also to build up great cities In
the south and In Texas. The eyes of
these magnates are on Fort Worth as the
great inland city and peerless railroad
center. Here will converge the mighty
systems of the Missouri Pacific, the
Atchison-Santa Fe, the Denver, Texas &
Gulf, the Houston & Texas Central, the
Texas & Pacific, the st. Louis, Arkansas
& Texas, the St. Louis & San Francisco,
and our own Fort Worth & Rio Grande.
He was wild-eyed enthusiast, vision
airy dreamer, who ten years ago predicted
what is now seen in the city OF Fort
Worth, but it hath not entered into the
brain OF the ten-year-ago prophet to tell
that in 1890 Fort Worth will have 90, 900
inhabitants and S20,000,000 OF taxable
values. On with that $4,000 subsidy
ard 1t shall come to pass.