Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-17
RAILWAY MATTERS.
The Fort Worth and Albuquerque.


Work on Fort Worth's new railroad
the Albuquerque, is progressing well.
! There is but little talk being made about
it-no labored blowing, but the work
| goes on all the same, Notwithstanding
the efforts of the Dallas committee to
| prejudice the Albuquerque delegates to
the cattlemen g convention against it
| and to make them believe that there was
| but little in the scheme. The Albu-
| querque people are grading their road :,
and when it is graded to Springtown the
ties and rails will be here, and tracklay-
ing will begin at once. There will be no
| halt at that stage of the game for the
want of money to buy steel with-the
steel will have been bought.
The grading forces on the west side of
the river have finished up the grade to q
point two miles beyond the McDufr
farm, and to-day or tomorrow will
move camp to the Farmer place, which is
just on the edge of the uplands. In two
or three days the heavy work along the
breaks of the river will have been done,
and out onto the praries where the grade
is light work will be pushed. From now
on it will be easy sailing TO SPRING
town, and it will not be long until 1.-THE
gap, - 1.-THE key to the situation - will
be left behind. Jack Hurley, with his
force, is whoopiug up things on the
north or east side of the river, and will
finish up in not more than two weeks.
When he has done this look out for work
to be resumed on the Belt line
While in the city Mr.. Gould stated
that the attitude of the attorney general
of Texas was causing some fright among
capitalists, and would have the effect of
retarding railroad building in Texas dur
ing the present year. In the same con-
versatlon MIR. Gould stated in connection
with this that he did not believe this
would amount to anything serious, but
that it was having some effect. The lat
ter statement Is pretty good indication
that Mr.. Gould is not one of tho Sc who
is frightened by Attorney General
Hogg's attitude towards railroads, and
while others may be deferred for awhile
from investing in new railroads
in Texas by this, it is more than Droba-
bic that Mr.. Gould will not allow it to
interfere with any plan he may have in
view. An i'm partial view of the railroad
situation in Texas can but lead one to
the belief that it is imperative that the
Texas and Pacific railroad do some ex-
tending before long. This road is the long
est system from the east tothe west in the
state, running rs it does from Texar-
kama to FL Paso, but it has not a foot of
track of its own that serves as a feeder
for it. That territory which, by feeders
or short lines running from points on the
main line, is being penetrated by other
lines, and the business that in
the past has been going to the Texas and
Pacific is being diverted from it. That
this is true is evidenced by the weekly
earnings of the Texas and Pacific which
have been published regularly in these
columns. While other roads show
healthy increases, the Pacific has re-
corded decreased earnings ranging from
$500 to $4,000 per week for some time.
This is not because railroad business in
the state is less than it was last year,
but because other lines are getting traffic
that one time the Pacific got.