Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-23
THE RAILROADS.
How Dallas Tried to Belittle the AIbu-
QuerQue Road with the Albu-
querQue People.
Movements towards tire Improvement Of ReiI
rad GrainS-General Railroad News,
Notes and Personals.

Fort Worth should feel kindly toward
the parties who are building the Albu-
oueruue railroad if for no other reason
than that our neIghbor down the river is
doing so much TO throw cold water on the
scheme. Il has been said by question
able authority that the Dallas and South
eastern is no wind railroad scheme, and
to back up that assertion, claims are
made that ninety miles of it are graded.
This might be believed by people who
we're never In Texas, but to those who
lre in North Texas it is q huge ghost
story, and so far has failed 10 stop grad
ing on the Fort Worth and Albuquerque.
There is 10 telling what Dallas has not
done TO defeat the building of this road,
and there is no telling what she viii
continue 10 do in the future. During the
pattlemeh 6 convention 10 this city a
delegation Of Dallas citizens came TO Fort
Worth, and by some means induced
members of the New Mexico delegation
from Albuquerque to take q ride TO that
city, and while they had them over there
they even wined and dined and told that
uineiy-three miles Of the Dallas and
Southeastern road was graded TO the
Northwest. that the ties aud rail had
been bought and that only two
or three miles of the Albuquerque had
been graded from Fort Worth. The New
MeXiCnus were not shown the ninety
three miles Of graded road, they were
not shown a single steel ran, they were
not shown a rrossIie-in fact, they were
shown nothing, for the reason there was
nothing to show. They were given wind,
however, and plenty of it, and if the
southeastern is not a wind railroad there
has been a great deal of that article
wasted on il and TO beIittle the work now
going on on the Albuquerque from Fort
Worth.
The New Mexico delegates from Albu-
QueTque were, while here, shown men
aud teams at work on Fort Worth s road;
they were shown the belt road nearly
graded, and were not asked 10 believe
more than they saw. What they saw
vas men at work on the heaviest part of
The grade between SprinRtown and Fort
Worth, and not a few sCrapers dong
,hild : work on prairies where mile of
road could be graded up for $3.50. What
lille scratching has been done on the
me worked by the Dallas raad has
not been done near Dallas, but away off
On the pTaries where the work cost but
rife when compared with that now being
done on the Albuquerque. The work on
The Dallas road was done at different
points along the line. A mile here, a
half mile there and half mile some
Ehe.e else. On the Albuquerque the
work was commenced at Que end of the
me, ana it is being pushed right slong
regardless of the character OF the coun-
Try, or regardless of the depth OF the
cuts or the height of the hills. The AL
auquerque road is being graded out of
stone and dirt, and not out of wind and
wine parties.
People who are posted as to the condi-
uon OF both schemes, assert with conf
leuce that trains will be running on the
fort Worth road, while the Dallas grade
Will be covered with cotton and corn
ready for the harvest.