Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-20
Tha First Train OF Black Diam oDds from
Trinidad, Col.-o. p. Huntington
Ia Texas


The Gloee-Democrat says In it's rail-
road column: The completion OF the Fort
Worth and Denver Railroad on Thurs
day, mention OF which was made 10 the
special dispatches of the Globe- emccra.
Yesterday morning, adds another impor-
taut chapter to the railroad history OF
Texas and the west. 1t opens ID 10 v
iliZAtion snd settlement q very large sec
lion of country about which little hiss heen
kno wn In the past. The psOple OF Fort
Worth are naturally jahilant over the
successful result. They knnwit will ard
many dollars to their Cfs's snd give
them 4 ed for future operations OF which
no Other city can deprive them. The
enterprise has nus been pushed through
without Vexatious delays end numerous
troubles, but the men who have had con-
troll of it's dsstinies have never los. faith
and never relaxed their efforts to give the
crest r lckY mountain country an outlet
TO the Cult sud aunihilGre the space be
tween TeXss ana Clio ado. The exsct
distance between Denver and Fort Worth
Is 800 miles OF these 800 miles is from
Denver to the Texas state lice and runs
through coal and agricultural country,
while it tsps By 8 trscksge arrangement
with the Midland the mining resources Of
LeBdviIle and Aspen.
In Texas the road will run through 6
Etuck-raising. grain gro wing aud fruit
bearing country for over 400 miles. The
stations on the road will he Danver,
Pueblo, Triuidad, Em3ry's esp, CarrisO
Crossing, Stste L IT,, Rita Blsncs, Cana
dian River, Srnts F. Junction, Worley
Likes, 0 Anah, ChilIicnthe. Vernon, Hsr-
rold, S nth Harold, Besve., BurEI Dag
gett, Wichita Falls Some Yards, Carlyle,
Henrietts, Aims, Bellevue, Bowie, Sun"
SCI. Alvorc, Cnwrn, Decstur, HermSp,
Rnome, Caltf, Hodge snd Fort Worth.
1t was In 1881 thai the Gull, Colorado
and Ssnta Fe and the Transcontinentsl
rec ched Fort Worth, aud in the spring OF
that year tie Fort Worh and Danver
started, being built bv contract by td'
Texas and Colorado Construction Com
pam. G. lionel Morgsn Jones was then
its president. Hnd General DLcge Was In
the construction company. The road YVES
completed 20 WICHITA Fslls-ll4 miles
by the spring OF 1889, and Stopped there
some time In 1855 it WAS pushed to Har
rod, IA miles, and In 1886 10 Quaneh,
1913 miles. In this year General Dodge
orssn zsd the Panhandle Construction
Compsny In Iowa. and in DEC smber, st o
meeting, in Fort Worth, OF the company,
ne let the contracts for the ties, rails,
msterials, ETC., before be left for the east
In the meantime Governor Evans OF Den
yer had built the D Nv r, Texas and
Gulf of Pueblo, l25 miles, and this rosd,
together with the Denver, Texas ana
Fort Worth from Pueblo to the T,xas
state line, still to be built, joined the
Fort Worth and Denver, and the stock
holders suthnr'z d ,int operation Of he
road. Work was pushed from both ends,
aud on Thursday al 4:3S p m, In besu-
tiful valley in New Mexico, 62S miles
from Fort Worth and $50 miles from
Denver, General Dodge drove the lsst
spike. -
The commercial advantages OF the rosd
are THAT It places the s'ste OF Colorado
and Nv Nike and the Rocky Mountain
couatry 500 miles nearer tide water than
before snd yates tie great grazing eesa-