The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-03-07
OUR RAILROAD.
o.O1IsNAL CEREMONY THIS AFTERNOON
DIV WITH GRAND CELEBRATION.
u,,, Waco May Expect From This Enter
o-I,e Other Places Watching the
Movement JeaIOuSy'

marrow afternoon at4.3O o'clock |
,,,lI ne "A most Important event
-, ~ me history OF Wec", the lhitia' OF
III ',.u,neot W II cAlculHt"u to make
s'r me queen city of J'fNa' III com
n,arce. ~ that hour III" first stake
iim',ha waco and Braz os Vail railroad
,rili he driven, accompanied by most
w." .tng ceremonies The spot upon
t rh en- the jubilee viii be held is the
'"',1er..ction OF Bridge street with
T,r.t street a stani will Oe erected
and from that sanctum speeches will
w. drliyerrd by Hon. Geo. Clark, Mr..
mo i see and Others. Invitations
Iavs been sent to all the schools aud
nrsaujz .tions in the city, and Prof
al aoher has accepted tor the two
tnm.nnd pupils Of tn public schools,
nr 8urleson will be- present with al
tba students from Baylor University
prof ulll Will take the gentlemen
from his commercial co lego aud Prof.
Roulsavall VIII represent AGO Fe-
male co lege With the host OF beaut!-
ful Young ladies from that institution
A large contingent from Robinson
will be there and numbers OF citizens
from Falls county.
After the speeches the first peg
will be driven. Who will have the
honor of performing this task has
NOT vet been determined, but 1T is
nro6able that MIR. Jas. |. Moore will
he selected, as he was the prime orig
pstor of tho project. a brass band
will be i'll attendance, aud will make
things lively.
If any man for minute supposes
that Cameron VIII be the ultimate ter
minus Of the road will be dreadiuily
mistaken. The road must undOubt-
edly penetrate to
THE GUILE.
Cast your eye over the map of Tex
as. There is Waco right in the cen
ter Of the state, and tne center OF the
cotton section. Let your eye run
down the twentieth degree OF longi-
tude till 1t meets the gulf. Whas do
you find? Aralsas Pass. And Aran-
sas Pass means
DEFP WATER.
Now run back over the twentieth de
gree OF longitude Startling once more
from Waco. The first large town we
s'~ke is Cameron, whore fine Gulf,
Colorado and S nta Fe intels ct d
lueu 20 Ryckd.le where tue l"t"rna-
tioual is cr, esed, then through l. e
county to Giddings, where it would
cross the Houston and ems Central,
thence to La Grange, the county seat
aud the center OF one of the richest
tinp Ia, IA - n n TO SplIIl,t,-
burg, whore it would inter,cct
the Southern Pacific Then
Hallolstlje, u large town, the county
seat OF nch ana popuiou- county
with no railroad, Ihcnco to Victoria,
where 1t would meet the Mexican
IA lroad and the Cult, Texas and Pa
Cfc lhen run over t. Arkansas
Pass. The whole line would be only
225 miles in length and would be the
straightrst line i'll the woCll, and
would pass through the richest sec
ton OF country, and the most popu
lous counties in Texas. Tho land is
open and the road could be built at n
smaller expense, comparatively, than
others that have been constructed In
this state. Moreover, with this out
let to deep water, the six large rail
roads intcrsected with the Cotton
\ Belt. Missouri Pacific, the Texas Cen
tral and the Houston and Texas Cen
i tral become feeders for this road for
cotton will seek deep water.
THE RESULT.
The result will be that populous
towns will spring up al along the
hue and Cameron, Giddings, La
4 TRANCE, Rockdale, Schulenburg, Hal
etsville aud Victoria will bad into
towns OF fifteen or twenty thousand
Inhabitants each. What will happen
at Waco? When it is well known thai
THIS line will be cons trucied, there
would be an immediate stampede o
trunk lines to Waco. The Frisco line
Il would be running trains into Waco il
less than six months. When the Wac
ana Brazos Valley railroad is GRADED
70 Cameron then let the directors III
fTefVlew the people of Lee, Fayette
LaVaca, and Victoria counties and SCI
~nst they will do. Tnc people of La
utahge are already agltating The
4 movement