Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-03
AT HER OLD CAPERS.
Dallas Building Railroads On Paper.
Sne Wants to Knew How Many MIL
lions Will secure the Denver.
she Puts Herself on Record as Thoroughly
Believing In Northwestern Outlet.
Sorry that Dallas is Unknown.
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DALLAS, TEX, Msy "A meeting Of
the citizens CT Dallas was held this morn
ing to discuss matters pertaining to the
general good. The first matter considered
wss the poor postal facilities of Dallas
and the meeting "whereased" and "rsso-
luted" that Dallas should have better pos
tai facilities. In the batch of resolutions
adopted, the papers OF Texas are request
ed to publish those that pertain to Texas
generally, and they are as follows:
Resolved, that we, the committee on
the improvement Of the mail facilities for
Dallas and Texas generally, find the ne
cessity Of establishing the service
through from Dallas to Denver via the
Fort Worth and Denver Railway, and the
said road, feeling as we do the close COM
mercial relations that will be, and in q
measure already are, in effect between
Colorado, the northwest and Texas de-
mand immediate action on the part of
the Postoffice Department.
Resolved, that We, the committee, find
the necessity Of esta olishing between the
northwest and Texas fast railway mail
service; tAat in the great commercial
strides that are being made by our sister
states in the west and northwest, Texas
is not receiving her share Of the progress
furnished by the government in this di-
rection; and be 1t further
Resolved. that we impress upon our
Senators and Representatives In Congress
the necessity Of giving the matter their
careful consideration and urge them to
q concert OF action, that the desired end
can be accomplished.
Then the citizens came to the con-
clusion that Fort Worth held the field as
to railroads and tributary territory. And
they further came to the conclusion that
no factor was 80 potent in getting rail
road as a resolution. Aud they Still
further came to the conclusion that a
resolution costs less money thsn anything
else on earth, and therefore they "reso-
luted" as follows:
Resolved, that we urge upon our citi-
zsns the necessity of building a railway
to the Tort invest; such road would in.
tersect the Missouri Pacific, Gulf, Color
ado and Santa Fe, st. Louis, Arkansas
and Texas, and Texas and Denver, and
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, thus
opening our commercial doors to vast
and valuable territory not now accessible
to Dallas, but in direct connection with
Fort Worth.
Mayor Connor, who Is one Of the best
and most enterprisiDg men in Texas, and
one Of the recen. excursionists to Denver,
spoke OF the hospitality OF the Denver
people. he ssid that on the 14th, or
about that time, that an excursion of the
business men of Denver to Dallas would
take place, and that the city should put
on an sir of enterprise and entertain
them. A committee of the excursionists
then offered some resolutions which were
adopted. The resolutions after thanking
the chamber of commerce, the officials
and citizens Of Denver for courtesies,
went on to say:
Resolved, that while our trip was one
Of great pleasure to us as individuals, we
hope tnaG 1t may also prove Of material
benefi. to the people Of Texas and Color
ado by making better acquainted and
bringing into closer business IS well as
social relations those who have hereto
fore been almost entire strangers, but
who are now closely allied by an almost
direct line Of railway.
Resolved, that 1t is the unanimous
opinion OF this party that while official
statistics show that Dallas is to-day the
largest, wealthiest and most prosperous
city in the state, having population
twice as large as any other city in North
Texas-these facts are almost unknown
outside of our state and it is the sense Of
this party that what Dallas needs more
than anything else is the adoption of
some systematic plan of making her ad-
vantsges known to the people of the
whole country.
Resolved, that we recognize the i'm
portance of direct railway connection
with the Texas and Denver Railway sys-
tenn and with this advantage we could
readily offer 10 the great state of Colo
RADIO cheap lumber and al the products
of Texas, as well IS enjoy the benefits Of
the rich products Of Colorado, and to this
end we pledge ourselves to give su5stan-
tial aid to the first railway system prefer
ing this important feature to our common
prosperity.
The following were appointed IS q
committee Of twenty. one to entertain the
Denver excursionists: W. c. Copnor, F.
NJ. Cockrell, j. E. Henderson, John
Bookhout, R. Morgan, J. S. Armstrong,
w. s. Slmkins, Henry Exsll, Seth Saep-
ard, j. T. Trezevant, W. L. Hall, ". L.
Crawford, J. F. Elliott, F. NJ. Scollsrd,
R. A. Ferris, W. E Hughes, A. Il. Belo,
Frank Holland, G. E. Gilbert, Dr. S. d.
Thruston, Colonel J. Eskins Of Pacific
Express Company, Lee Eakin.
Cole mel Simkins then introduced q
resolution providing for correspondence
between the Merchants Exchange of Dal-
las and the Chamber of Commerce of
Denver, relative to holding . convention
in Denver sometime during the summer
for the purpose of devising ways and
means to secure deep water on the Texas
coast. This resolution was unanimously
adopted.
Mr. Henderson moved that committee
Of five be appointed to confer with the
Fort Worth and Denver people to see
what inducements they would Require to
extend the road to Dallas. The motion
WAS carried and Conner, Marselis, Field,
Henderson and Cockrell were appointed
as the committee.