San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-01
MONTEREY MEXICO,
Monterey & Mexican Gulf Railway.
Cadereyta, Montemorelas, Lin
anares, Victoria, Products
and Personal.

anares, Victoria, Products
and Personal.
MONTEREY, October, %, $780,
To the DAILY LIGHT:
The opening of the Monterey & Mexi-
can Gulf Railway, to Victoria, has
brought the cities of Cadereyta, Monte
morelas and Linares, from obcurity and
put them within reach of the festive
drummer and the newspaper men. 1t
has brought those cities within reach of
the San Antonio merchants, and if they
fail to get the lions share of their trade it
is their own fault.
The promoters and builders of the Mon
terey & Mexican Gulf railroad have
achieved wonders since they broke
ground in this city. They have built
more miles of road in the same length of
time with perhaps the San Antonio 81
Arkansas Pass company, than any other
company in America.
As your correspondent took trip over
the road recently, and after making a
thorough examination of the road bed
and the depots, we do not hesitate in say
ing that for a new road, it is
the best constructed that we ever
rode over. The depots and water tanks
| cannot be surpassed in style and construc-
tion in the United States.
They are now erecting passenger
depot and general office in this city that
will compare with anything of the kind
on the great trunk roads running out
from st. Louis, Chicago and Buffalo, New
York. The building is erected on a stone
foundation, pressed brick with black
| marble trimmings, two-story 55x1S0 feet,
| with a central tower So feet high. The
| black marble is quarried at Topo Chico
hot springs, four miles from the city.
The freight house is 72X200, feet stone
| foundation to first floor, brick with black
marble trimmings.
The round house is built of white stone,
| outside measurement $50 feet. inside l65
| feet; so feet deep with 10 stalls.
| The water tanks along the line are all
| iron, built upon circular blalck marble
| foundation, Is feet in diameter, by I6
| high, and IA feet from the ground. Each
one has a steam pump attached which
| supplies them with water.
The first town below Monterey is Cade-
reyta, distant % miles. The city is some
| distance from the depot, and only
a few OF the principal buildings
and the church can be seen from the
road. 1t is surrounded by corn and sugar
| plantations as far as the eye could reach.
|
| stone and trimmed with black marble;
the main Office is two stories, with gal
| lery, tin roof, inside finished with yellow
| pine, oiled and polished. The road from
| Monterey to here passes through large
| plantations of corn and sugar cane, while
| in the distance could be seen the smoke
| stacks of the sugar mills. ...
Montemorelas is theme station, sixty
| one miles from Monterey. This city is
| almost hid in from view by orange, lemon
| and large groves of tall trees and only the
| Steeple of the church could be seen from
| the train as it pulls into the depot. Fields
of corn and sugar cane presented them
selves on every side. The corn in all
stages of culJivatiOn-peOple blowing and
| planting, a few inches above ground, tas-
| selling. in the roasting ear, and matured
| and piled up in the fields.
The depot is 40Xl72 feet, white stone,
black marble finish, with a center tower
| 40X40 feet, two story, tin roof; hard wood
| finish, oiled and vanished. Here the
passengers and crew get dinner, going
down and up, and better table we have
| never seen set at a railroad hotel.
There is some fine farming land be-
tween Cadereyta and MOntemOrelas. The
| road crosses the San Juan river between
| these two cities and furnish considerable
water for irrigation.
From here to LinareS which is distant
| from Monterey ninety-twO miles, the road
runs through a very picturesque country,
sugar and corn plantations could be seen
in many places off the road and along the
water courses that abound there.
Linarer is one of the most important
towns on the line until you reach Victoria.
The city is beautifully situated in a rich
valley and sugar cane, corn, and rice
plantations, and groves of orange, lemons,
lines and tropical fruit, surround it,
The depot IS frame Queen Anne style
80 X 1O6 feet neatly painted and office fit
ted up in the native woods Of the country.
From here to Victoria, which is III
miles from Monterey the road runs
through more agricultural, and grazing
lands than we saw up TO this time. IL
also runs through heavy belt of tim
Der land, which consists OF Ebony,
Mesquite, Pecan, Walnut, Oak, etc.
While off to the right the Sierra Madre
looms up against the blue sky whose tops
are crowned with tall timber, thus pre-
senting an ever changing scene to the eye
of the tourists.
The readers of the LIGHT will see by the
above that the Monterey and Mexican
Gulf railroad runs through a rich and
fertile country, and that it presents
grand opening for the capitalists, the
Stockmen and the planters to invest their
money in. While the soil is capable OF
producing all the cereals and tropical
fruits, the mountains are full of minerals
and now await the arrival of men Of
means and muscle to develop them.
The officers of the road are: General
Geronimo Trevino, Monterey, president;
T. S. Bullock, vice presidents; Thos. Z.
Fisher, second vice president; j. A. Rob
ertson, st. Louis, general manager; John
Grace, Monterey, neutrality-suspicious.
j. p. Flynn, Laredo, assistant superin-
tendent; j. d. Copelan, general freight
and passenger agent; Capt. w. III. Went
worth chief engineer. N Turner, assist