Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-03
THE TOWN OF MEMPHIS.
its Projectors We're Duly Warned Not to At
tempt to Build Town Three Miles From
One Already Established.

FORT WORTH TEX, Sept. l. 1890
Editor Gazette.
In to-day's issue of THE GAZETTE ap-
pears a batch OF resolutions relative to
the Fort Worth and Denver City railroad
alleged to have been passed a mass
meeting of Hall county citizens held at
Memphis on August 29. These resolu-
tions appeal 10 the people of the state
against the said railroad company with
such an outrageous misrepresentation of
the facts that | am bound to ask YOUR
valuable space to present the simple
truth and the reasons on which the action
of the railroad com Dany is based, that
people unfamiliar with the situation may
not be misled into the belief that the
people of Hall county are being in any
way Composed or wronged' BY the
Fort Worth aud Denver, which
road, as we all know, is
not in the habit of opposing
any OF the people along its fine. The
Hall county situation may be briefly sum-
married. thus: When the railroad was
built across the corner of Hall county
two stations were located on the seven-
teen miles of track within the county
one at Newlin near the crossing OF Red
line, and the other at Salisbury four
miles south of the Donley county line.
This last station was located on one of the
most beautiful AM easily accessible
points in the county, aud was considered
the best point for all the country tribu-
tary to the line, there being a large part
of Hall county that from its position can
not be made easily accessible to any part
Of r0Int in tho Ion,
ton of Salisbury must not be overlooked
lying near 10 the. corner of Ceilings
worth county it is the only easily accessi-
bic point by which that rapidly growing
county can market its produce and re-
ceive it's supplies.
Having In mind all these facts the rail-
road company encouraged settlement at
Salisbury and to those who undertook TO
build up q town there the officers pledged
themselves TO render all proper aid and
assistance which they have at all times
done. About one year after Salisbury
was plated, and in response to the ad-
vertising being done by its promoters,
there came TO Hall county the present
proprietors OF the TOWNSHIP of Memphis
One of them bought land near Salisbury
and professedly entered heartily into the
work of building up Hall county. An
other, who signs the resolutions pub
hshed to-day, came into the county with
the openly svowed intention of esiaU-
fishing a county seat at or near the CEN
ter OF the county and, during the
first three months of bis residence IN
Hall county, there was nothing but the
center of the county that could confer
the proper boon on the dow1-troddeu
citizen of Hall county. Suddenly he dis
covered, however, that the county must
have railroad facilities at its county
seat, and at the same time q few Others
discovered that the masses of Hall coun-
ty were demanding a Market at the
present town of Memphis, just one mile
south OF the Donley county line and only
three miles north of Salisbury. In other
words, gigantic scheme was COTTON up
to build a town in opposition to Sails
bury ans'at point only three miles from
it. with the avowed intention of "kill-
ing Salisbury
10 this end every means available to