Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-16


line TO Galveston. She would thus, too,
save 1000 miles of rail haul on the exports
OF this region, and by distributing goods
now received, by way of Galveston, save
the like amount of rail haul on its imports.
SIT may be suggested that many OF the
lines running from Denver will continue to
discriminate against her, and refuse to dis
tribute her merchandise as cheaply as they
haul from the East, and thus prevent both
imports and exports by way Of Galveston.
But will they2 The Times has referred to
the fact that with harbor at Galveston
capable OF easy entry and safe anchorage,
such as thirty feet of water across the bar
Will give the largest ocean vessels entering,
nearly everything important will be as
cheap there as at New York. and everything
exported will bring as good prices. Now if
we save 1000 miles railroad haul on both
our exports and imports, where could
railroad manager be found that
could stop merchandise from going
that waya Certainly it cannot be done
except by preventing the harbor
from being built, or by the influence of the
Western traffic association, through its con-
trolling all excess to Galveston.
2. Denver now has, by contract
between the Union Pacific company and the
Denver Texas and Fort Worth company,
right to the distribution of all her goods and
manufactures to all points on the Union Pa
cific and its branches, at fair rates and
without discrimination, as well as of ores
and all other freights from all such points
to Denver.
with this contract enforced, and with a
reasonable rate from Galveston, there is no
reason why Denver should not now be doing
the lions share of the business of the coun-
try to which this contract gives her access.
But if the Denver and Galveston air line
road was built and the gulf traffic taken out
of the hands of the traffic association whose
interest it is to suppress it, we could sell
goods and manufactures as cheap here, and
export produce, ores, copper ingots and
bullion as cheaply as Chicago.
How can any combination longer
keep the trade away from US?
1t will be impossible Nature has given US
the wealthiest country in the world and put
the ocean traffic 1000 miles nearer to US than
heretofore utilized, and all the world COM
bined cannot continue to rob Us of their ad
vantages. Galveston will be the New York
and Denver the Chicago of our new West.
Tomorrow this paper will point out the
route of the Denver and Galveston road and
the easy means of its construction. In the
meantime it is to be hoped that the chamber
of commerce and the board of trade of Den
yer viii not sleep over our rights as to trade
with Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Ore
gon and Washington, nor let the Galveston
chamber of commerce get discouraged with
our inactivity in the matter of the direct
and independent rail line between the great
interior of our country and the commerce of
the Atlantic ocean
ROUTE OF THE D. AND G. AIR LINE.
'"The Times has pointed out the necessity
for Denver and Galveston that they have
better railroad connection between them,
and that the proposed route be free from
the control of influences adverse to the
most direct trade between the transmits
souri, river country and the Atlantic ocean.
''If we consider the magnitude of the COM
merce that will be carried on between a
deep-water harbor at Galve ston and Colo
RADIO, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana,
Washington and Oregon, all of which will
have their most direct route through Den
yer, it will be an enormous unnecessary eX-
pense to carry it 200 miles around on the
shortest present route, in order to get it to
its destination.
''ro suppose that this traffic viii
not COME. this way to save the 1869
miles of unnecessary rail haul it
will have to pay for should it go by the
Eastern Atlantic coast instead of the gulf
route, is 10 suppose that it will never be
emancipated from the control of the railroad
influences that now divert 1t from its natu-
raj short route to the sea. at the expense to
the country of sl00 goo 900 annually for I'M
necessary transportation.
'.But, it may be asked. how can the 200
miles between Denver and Galveston be
saved! Not only the distance, but many
heavy grades and sharp curves, which OBJ
struct speed and increase expense?
''It is easy to explain how the distance
will be saved and the distractions avoided.
Open u map of the United States. Draw a
right line on it from Galveston through
Houston to Fort WORTH and thence by way
of Jacksboro, Archer, Vernon, through
Greer county to Canadian, where the Santa
Fe found good crossing of that stream,
thence by way of Ochiltree across near the
middle of No-Man's-Land and the corner
of Kansas to Lamar on the Arkansas
river; thence by way of Big Sandy, Bijou
basin and Kiowa to Denver, and you have
the shortest possible route through fer
tile country all of the way after crossing
the divide near Denver at its lowest point,a
very level route-nearly all the way remote
from any parallel railroad, and yet touch
ing many important connecting points a.
crossings, and easy and cheap Of construc-
ton. Six hundred miles of this line will
be in the state of Texas and 500 miles, or
one-third, in the states of Colorado Kansas
and in No-Man's Land.
with an irrevokable contract with the
Union Pacific railway company, giving Den
yer fair rates without discrimination to all
points on its extensive system, at one ends
and a thirty-feet deep, ample harbor for the
commerce of the entire Atlantic ocean at
the other. can it be possible that the con-
struction OF the Denver and Galveston road
will be long delayed? And if it is built,
can there be any doubt of its in
fiuence upon the trade and
growth of Denver, with her Gus
tom house for imports, and her numerous
lines OF railroad stretching in all directions
for their distribution2
HOW TO HUILD THE D. AND G. ROAD.
1.-THE state of Texas is anxious to secure
independent railroads. BY legislation sh.
has thrown every conceivable impeachment
in the way of outside control of her rail-
roads, with poor success, it is true. But
with company so organized that its con-
troll can be placed in trust, inalienable. for |
ever TO be run in its own interest; over
such route as has been suggested in this |
paper; with the commerce of the Atlantic |
ocean in an ample deep harbor at one end, |
and the commerce of seven of the largest |
and richest states of the Union, coucen- |
trated by system of long lines of railroad |
radiating from Den yer at the other end a |
level route on straight lines for long trains |
and great speed through fertile country |
between them, it would seem that there |
ought not to be any difficulty in raising the |
money to build the road.
''Then suppose the securities of the road |
are arranged so there shall be no sacrifice on |
its bonds or watered stock allowed, with a |
light issue of bonds bearing a low rate of in |
terest, with preferred stock to make up what |
money may be lacking from the bonds sold |
at par to complete the road and moderate |
issue of common stock to give an induce