Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-10
32S ACRES OF LAND

Fort Worth) in 1872, secured for that
place the Texas Pacific railroad, the first
to enter that city. The land when do
worth over 81 800 900 In addition, the
citizens put in $500 900, and graded a
considerable portion of the road.
TIE TRANsCoNTINENTAL
received subsidy of $4,000 for right of
way.
THE NJ, X. & T. CAME
and asked no subsidy. 1t had heard of
Fort Worth and was glad to enter its
precincts without inducements in the way
of subsidy. 1t wanted the business of the
Texas and Pacific and was ready to come
there for it.
THE GULF, COLORADO AND SANTA FE
asked and received S75, 900 in cash
THE FORT WORTH AND DENVER
was induced TO build there for $50 900
cash.
THE FORT WORTH AND NEW ORLEANS
was given the sum of SIS 600 cash, and
THE FORT NORTH AND RIO GRANDE
had for its share of the generosity of Fort
Worth $40, 000
ST. LOUIS, ARKANSAS AND TEXAS
participated to the amount of $40 200
also.
THE FORT WORTH AND WESTERN,
though the last, gets $40 900 too, and
MAYOR BRoILES
says to the Tribune ''the latch string
hangs out'' and if any other railroad
wants to build into Fort Worth, and
subsidy Will be any inducement, come
on with the railroad and get the subsidy
THE CASH SUBSIDIES
above enumerated aggregate 1925, 900 and
add the land and you have S775 600
given by Fort Worth to subsidiZe its rail-
roads.
THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
were also given to the AtehisOn Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad, and thus swells
the
GRAND TOTAL, SS05 900.
In the light of the present, who will
say that Fort Worth lost a cent by con-
tributing so literally to its railroads
Fort Worth has the finest railroad sys-
tenn in the South and West to-day. And
why, because her citizens came forward
and eo-operated with the Eastern capital
that sought investment in Texas in rail-
road property. FL Paso can do likewise,
and have the best opportunity
IN THE WORLD.
To make good her promise to the gen
tlemen of the White Oaks road and re-
claim her proud prestige as beng the
railroad center of this section, and re-
deem her pledges Of
$50 900 CASH
subscription as bonus to the White
Oaks railroad on the completion of the
first ten miles of road out of Ell Paso.
THAT FEAT
was performed on December 1888, and
more than two months have passed and
no subsidy paid yet. The
EASTERN CAPITALISTS
have been here and they have been told
that the road was attached, the bonds
were enjoined the mortgage could not
be recorded and the subsidy notes were
garnisheed, and the condemnation pro-
ceedings for the Cotton right of way were
still pending, ETC., etc.
SUPPOSE
Fort Worth had talked that way to the
Texas and Pacific, would there have been
any Fort Worth, with its 45 900 popu-
lation to-day? Nay, verilyt Such talk
Is CHILD S TALK.
1t is not business. There is too much of
q demand for money to admit of this
bubble. Let the subsidy subscribers
come forward and pay their money in the
banks and notify Locke s. Co. that they
have done so and want them to pay off
their bills and proceed Immediately with
the construction of the White Oaks rail-
road, and complete it by January /,
1890, as they agreed. Then
THE EASTERN CAPITALIST
Will have confidence in FL Paso's prom
Uses, and not until then. When the first
sound of the attachments reached New
York, they said: "It is reputation -
and they have steadfastly claimed that
ever since. There can be
NO LOSS
to any subscriber paying his money in
bank, to be paid when Locke & Co. dis
charge the debts against the road That
is plain proposition and needs no argu-
ments, and refutes the charge that our
people are regulators.
THE TRIBUNE UNDERSTANDS
that Judge Magoffin, HoE. B. H. Davis,
Col. Charles R. Morehead and the State
National bank have come forward and
paid over the entire amounts of their
several subscriptions into the State Ma
tiOnal bank on the above terms. They
hurl back the InsinuatiOn that they are
regulators, and they demonstrate that
they are not standing in the way of
active work on the White Oaks. Pay
over your money in bank-which one you
please-and let the work 90 forward So