San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-03-04
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4. 1911.
PAN-AMERICAN RAILWAY.

4 he Construction Company on DecA
Not n QUESTION of he Success
OF the Enterprise-Corpus
Christi in the MILO!
for the Coast and
Panama.
The railway from Corpus Christi
down the coast through Brownsville,
Texas, past Tampico and Vera Cruz,
through the Central Aemerlcan states
and to the Isthmus of Panama will
be built. This fact no longer admits
of any doubt. The company to build
that road Is an organized existence.
1t is composed of heavy capitalists
who do not go outside of their own
body for the $4,000 600 of stock.
Every dollar of this amount is taken
by the original stockholders and none
of it is on the market. These men.
only twenty in number, have faith in
their a theme. and in the belief that
they have the biggest thing on the
continent propose to stick 10 1t. This
company, known as the Pan-Ameri.
can Construction company, is COM
posed OF Boston, New York and Texas
capltalists. T.. II. Ropes, of Corpus
Christi, is president; s. II. Towle, of
Boston, is yice-president and mana
ger; Jos. s. Anthony, of Boston. is
treasurer, and J. J. Sullivan, of Bos-
ton, is assistant treasurer, with office
at Corpus Christi.
Col. Ropes is too we'll known In
| Texas to be introduced to the public
| The other gentlemen are large man.
| ufacturers and operators and have
| lust returned east after q week spent
at Corpus Christi. During this time
they have been thoroughly over the
whole ground, and down the line
already being graded between Cor
pus and Brownsville as far as the
King ranch. They express them
selves as mere than charmed with
the country, but with the usual
reticence of shrewd yankee business
men are not giving anything away
Before the road can possibly reach
Brownsville q railway company Will
be organized in Mexico, holding the
concession and franchises for that
republic. and in fact such organiza-
ton Is already well advanced. rms
construction company will take hold
of the work of con structing In Mexico,
following the road down through the
Central American states and bringing
up finally at the Isthmus. There
will he no hating made until the
Isthmus Ia reached.
The Corpus Christi terminus OF the
road will be on the bluff one mile
back of the Alta Vista hotel, where
ample grounds for railway purposes
have been secured and where union
depot will be built within the next
three months. The work between
Corpus and Brownsville, the first
division Il the Pan American road, Is
being pushed. Thirty miles of grading
has been done, track laying will begin
In two weeks and will proceed at tn
rate of two miles day, subjec
to detention for construction of
bridges only. The rail contracted for
is a Sc pound rail, and the construct
ion of road bed throughout is Of the
very best. The inspection OF the road
bed as far constructed was
very satisfactory and showed solidi-
ty and smoothness that left nothing
more to be desired. After leaving the
King ranch the road will run 80 miles
without crook or curve. the
longest tangent In the United
| States, if not in the world.
| The cars will commence run
ming regularly after the first 40 miles
of road are completed, and will then
| follow the construction camps outfit
as it works its way down to the mouth
of the Rio Grande. Brownsville will
be reached this fall and that CITY TAX
en- in out of the cold and given place
among the cities that are within the
| reach of civilizatiC
No more important railway enter
prise than this has been projected in
this country. It gives the American
manufacturer an opportunity to push
his products into the best regions Of
Mexico and the Central Americas.
1t opens up the finest agricultural
region OF Texas and Of Mexico. 1t
binds the United States and the re-
publics to the south of her in iron
bands of commerce that cannot be
broken. Tt gives us mail and
telegraphic communication with the
great South as far as the
foreign attempts to control the trade
or supply the markets of those repub-
lies. 1t cements the repu blics them.
selves and will prove q great tran
quilizer to the disturbances so COM
mon among the Central American
states. All Texas in general and south
west Texas in particular will be spe-
cially benefited by this road. With
deep water in the west end of the
guIf,and this Pan "A merican road, and
Mexican and Central American reci-
piOcity-Texas VIII blossom as the
rose and Corpus Christi speedily take
on metropolitan airs.