Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-13
THE RAILROADS.
How Work Progresses on tile Extension
Of Tho Frisco South Of Fort
Smith, Arb.
The Grand Trunk and Baltimore = Ohio
want Revenge ON tho Chicago s. at.
lantic--ToYminal Facilities,


Missouri Pacific at Kansas City, is In the
city.
w. j. Sherman, assistant chief en-.
gineer Of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe,
was IN the city yesterday,
As soon asa new supply Of piping ar
rives the Texas & Pacific ertesian well
Will be sunk many feet deeper.
j. G Harris, division freight agent Of
the Texas & Pacific, Is extremely busy
now, the movement Of freight being very
heavy.
Both north and south bound trains on
the Missouri Pacific and west-bound on
the Texas & Pacific we're late last night.
The south-pound came In last.
The contractors on the Gainesville ex.
tension OF the Gull, Colorado & Santa Fe
are clamoring for hands, and wo aid give
100 men work to-day II they could get
them
President Paddock Of the Fort Worth s.
Rio Grande was at the depot last night
waiting for the south bound, TO meet one
OF the magnates Of the new road who lives
IN the East
Larry Stanton, transfer clerk OF the
Pacific Express company at the Union
depot, who has been very sick for some
time with typho malarlal fever, is slowly
recovering.
j j. Mullane, agent OF the Santa Fe IN
Mis- city aud secretary Of the Southern
Kansas Of Texas, Is kept extremely busy
now. When the road Is completed 10 Red
river he Will be the busiest man IN the
city.
President w. b. Strong aud YicePresi-
dent @. w. Smith OF the Atchlson, To.
peka & Santa Fe, with a number Of Dl
rectors, arc at San Diego, Cal, looking
after the interests OF the road, and ar
ranging for local extensions of the Call |
foinia Southern.
Work Is progressing rapidly on the
Gs'osvllle, Henrietta & Western railroa d,
and graders are at work over forty miles
west of Gainesville. w. b. Stinkney has
been engaged the past week getting deeds
TO the right Of way from the west line OF
Montague county TO Henrietta, Tex, and
reports work well along, and but two or
three condemnation proceedings neces-
sary
The gross earnings OF the St. Louis,
Arkansas & Texas In Arkansas and Mis-.
souri, for the fourth week In October were
$40 ,b26.22 for the same period IN 1885
they were S34, 480.24, an increase OF Sl2,-
lOt 49, The gross earnings In Texas for
the fourth week in October were S24,-
al 20, and for the same period In 1885
they were Sl9,284 So, an increase OF &c.
20G "a. The business with the line is so I
heavy that twice the number OF cars
could be utilized n handling the traffic. |
The United States Express company,
taking warning from the late robbery Of
an AdamG Express company car, has I
placed In lis cars new nre and burglar
proof safes, which are bolted to the car {
The express messengers do not carry the ]
KEYS or have the combination to these !
safes, and cannot be opened by them or '
any one else on the train. They are
only opened Mt leading stations by |
the station agent, who gets on the train
for that purpose and locks them again
safely before the train lea> es the station
BY this arrangement llcollusion between {
dishonest messengers aud express l
robbers Is prevented, and the {
safes cannot he forced open without {
consuming longer time than would be {
necessary TO successfully carry out the
deed. 7
Fort Worth Is, indeed, great railroad
center. So many roads are now here, and
so many more wish TO come In that the q
question OF terminal facilities is some \
what serious one, 1t is known that the /
Fort Worth & New Orleans road :
WAS compelled TO build Its depot :
near the edge OF the CITY.
and. that tha- 4resscontlnental, Mis-
souri, Paoidc and Fort ---yypreff9
4 Denver all reach the depot on the same ,
track, Now the Fort Worth & Rio Grande ,
Is looking around for way TO come ia
aud cannot see II just at present, Some ,
time ago President NJ G. Hurley Of the ,
Fort Worth & New Orleans saw !
this and proposes the following
corporation should be
formed to bnild belt line ,
about this city, say mile in any dlrec- ;
lion from point IN the center OF the city. /,
From this belt line let several tracks Ia ,
20 common property run to the Union ,
iepot When train was ready 20 IL ave /
I would pull out on one OF these common
racks To the bel track, aud around this 4
intil the track Of the particular company !
VAS reached, and then proceed ON /,
rs way On this belt line |,
VI trains could be made no, h
loln passenger and ifrignti IND wnVuT :
'eady, hauled 10 the desired track and
urned over 20 the locomotive awaltingis
rhls viii probably be done, aud then al J,
iieht the Fort WORKMAN can stand on the y
courthouse and see twelve or fifteen !
rains enclreling the city, waiting to pull !
n over hali-dozen tracks, An Inspiring
light, but Il viii come.
Montague southwtstsrr.