Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-01
THE RAILROADS.
The Schemers In Dallas VIII Lay for
Gen. Dodge with ChImerical
Project.
Cisco Holds Meeting vow tho Frisco
WIZ Come 10 Fort worth Home
Notes.


a committee 0f prominent cluzeni hut
VOL. known railroad mau VIII p obihlJ
pay their respects to Fort Worth to-day
and talk a litile railroad business. Fort
Worth is ready 20 receive them.
JHE GAZETTE learns that the Fort
worth S Denver Intends, In addition %
other Improvements being mnde, TO build
a depot near rs Naln Offices, which WI
save delays which nave worried the Off
cibls lately.
g. I. George Noble, general manager OF
The Texas Pacllc, VITO has blcp sick
for some days, q said uow 90 DO ygry
sick with no IMPROVEMENT apparent
Col NoBie'a many friends IN this city
win receive thit news with sorrow,
The gentlemen who have the Belt line
proiact "a hand VII probably meet IN q
few days fud pu Che ban 10 motion. II
is sald that as tie companies now repre-
scented here VS. roads ard others that are
coming heartily layor The scheme
The time card on the Houston Y Texas
Central HIS been 20 changed that the
m0rnlng train now arrives 40 $3.50 O'Clock
and freight from the souih comes right
through 20 Fort Worth, avoiding @ delay
Of twonty four hours as heretofore
III Port Worth cllizans who will put
Wff'ft' Ntt' NNN Wv NHi' a'NAH NFNfNAAf AFANN 80
6 u River road are ready 70 carry out
their part Of the Gourmet, ami Bowie,
Montague and Blrlugton ctlzens aro
working ~ accomplish thcir part TbrGc
plne lltile cities 90 not cNistin Texas.
The Houston G. Texas Central Wilf, ifit
cau buy tho tiRht OF way and land, buud
over the reservation aud orccta depot
somewhere on the fat botw ca Jones
street aud che Santa 30 track north Of
Frou street Whlle the location of the
depot Is o fair one, it's not all hat the
company desires
The Fort Worth & New orleans Rail
road company ~ building an additional
track IN l's yards 90 accommodate the
cars OF lumber IN brick being received
daily, which accumulate faster than they
can be un0adod. The cogch.house ~
nearly lnished and tho round.h house well
under way
The work OF getting out the stone for
the piers Of the great Granhury bridge for
the Fort Worth & Rio Grande over the
BraZos goes steadily on, while Contractor
Hughes Is plling up the dirt on six OF the
first ten miles Of the road in a business way.
liy the beginning oi next week grading
will be gOiug on fifteen miles below the
city.
The extension OF the Fort Worth &
Denver has reached point six miles be-
yond Vernon, where tracklaying was
stopped owing TO lack OF spikes, but
car load went TO the front yesterday and
work Will be pushed with yigor En-
gineer Blssell who Is In charge OF the ex-
tension, hopes to have the road built to
Quanah by January /, s87,
The Baltimore & ONO is putting in It's
lines on the new roads In Texas as rap
idly AZ possible, and when the Atchison-
Santa Fe IL built, and Fort Worth ia the
great central Office and relay point for the
Baltimore 4 Ohio eystem, all the leading
cities ia the Northeast and South will be
reached. The main Office here will, IL Is
said, then employ thirty operators
Tho engineering corps OF the Fort
Worth Western Is out twenty miles from
Fort Worth, and the cheering intel
ligence comes back that finer
route for tirstclass railroad was
never seen. When forty miles of this
line Is located a contract for grading that
distance will be let, while the engineers
keep pushing TO the front. President
Slocum and the other officers and direc.
tors will be able 10 visit Texas in May
and ride over their own road,
Bouham and Mckinney must keep
awake, for there Is move on foot, which
promises TO materlallze very soon and
which VIII make It's hrst appearance in
those cities, 30 build the Frisco from a
polrt In Lamar 10 Bonham In Fannn,
Whence 20 Mckinney and Fort Worth.
Legisyille la Denton county and White
wright sre said to De also on the line.
Lst B0nham and Mckinney keep Fort
Worth and the other places mentioned
advised. Dir, Lynch, an old railroad en-
ginscr, who " SO position 70 know, says
without cifcumlocniiOn that this is the
'Rrisco's route.
Capt. Moore, the stock agent Of the
Fort Worth Denver, ia speaking OF Tas-
cosa says Il Is q grand location for a
town, the view Is picturesque, the water
clear and pure, the climate healthy, the
valleys fine for farming and the prairies
good for cattle. Tascoss Is on the line
OF the preliminary surveys Of the Fort
Worth & Denver extension 20 the Cana.
dian, and Is also on the line OF the South
ern Kansas, now building toward New
Mexico aud there are strong probabilI.
Ties that Tascosa will be the point OF
junction for the Southern Kansas OF
Texas from Fort Worth and the Southern
Kansas from Kiowa.
In an Interview at Austin with Judge
NJ. Lynch, one OF the Oldest civil engin.
GERS IN Texas, who has been engaged for
ten years In active raj road work, was for
some years chief engineer OF the Gull, Col.
orado 8 Santa Fe, that gentleman ex-
pressed the opinion that there will be- an
unusual amount of railroad construction
in Texas the coming year This opinion,
no states, is suggested by the logic OF
events daily presented He elites the
fact that the Aichlson, Topeka & Santa
fc, which has purchased the Gull, Colora.
do and Santa Fe, Is rapidly extending a
line through the ludlan Territory
70 Coffeeyllle, Kan, TO connect with the
general system a. that point; that the
Fort Worth & RIO Grande, Incident lily to
the 81. Louis & San Francisco, is being
pushed toward Brentwood, Tex thar
this short llno projection Indicates that
the Frisco win alm Tor Paris, and 20
traverse Fannin and otner northern coun-
ties to Fort WORTH by way OF Mckinney,
aud that this trenching upon tho territory
OF the Missouri Pacific system will excite
that corporation 70 push through from
MNHinnttp mr. l., g.,t A