The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-21
4 BUDGET FROM BEAUMONT.
Relative to the Waco aad Sabine
Pass Railroad.
RETURNED WITH THE INJUNCTION
Restraining the Port Arthur Cham
nel-Trafac Agreement Was Only
. Rumor--sabine Pass Hotel.

Beaumont, Texas, August 20.--R. P. Dun
can. Vice president and general manager o.
the Waco and Sabine Pass railroad, VINO
spent yesterday In this city. is very en-
thlsiastfc over the proposed road and pre-
diets that when constructed 1t Will De
among the most important and profitable
railroad properties in Texas. lie says. and
truly, that the road will be non-competitive
except at Waco and possibly at Thornton,
small town on the Houston and Texas
Central railroad. and at Beaumont. From
Waco to Thornton 4 passes through rich
country. the larger part Of 1t distant from
a railroad, and from Thornton to Beaumont
the proposed route runs through territory
that is virtually without railroad facili-
ties. What 10 more valuable. the road
opens up country and traverses terri
tory that will furnish tonnage the year
round. 1t penetrates the heart OF the
Robertson county coal fields, has exhaust
less iron ore along the route and clay de-
posits that will make as pretty dishes as
was ever brought from England. Most OF
tho country consists OF agricultural lands.
an idea OF the value OF which can be gath
cred from the fact that It produced 2s2,1I2
bales Of cotton IN 1894, and Colonel Duncan
says construction OF a railroad which will
give the products Of tisese lands easy ac-
Gees to market will increase the cotton crop
to at least 500. 900 bales annually. The
cotton crop would alone furnish pretty fair
business to an ordinary railroad. But this
IL net ALL without considering the Iron,
coal and other mineral deposits which viii
have to be moved either In a raw or manu-
featured state. the Waco and Sabine Pass
Will find In the lumber mills ut Beaulnnot
and contiguous points another source OF
profitable and constant tonnage. Central
and Northwest Texas as well as the West
ern and Northwestern States and Terri
tories to which the new road will have d.
rect connection at Waco are large CONSUME
ors Of lumber and would be larger II
transportation charges were less. Thus
cars that would come loaded with cotton
to DO compressed in this rity and exported
through Sabine Pass, or with cotton seed
to be crushed in the beaumont on mill
lection presses and oil mills would necse-
sarily follow direct road through the cot
ton belt) would discharge their burdens
here and on their return take lumber. man.
ufactured products or imported goods. CIV
ing n haul each way and make the Waco
and Sabine Pass not only a dividend payer,
but with it's northwestern connections, the
greatest railroad In Texas.
TWAS ONLY A RUMoR.
the street that the Kansas City. Pittsburg
and Gulf railroad had made traffic agree
ment or contract with the Gulf and Inter
state whereby the former road would haul
grain and other export freight to Beau
mont and turn 1t over to the Cult and
Interstate for transportation to Galveston
where 1t would be loaded on vessels. Such
an Arrangement Is within the range OF pos.
sibilitv. but It would be contrary to the
announced policy OF the Pee Gee. This
road has frequently and perHistenily an
nouncod that Its expert freight would go
to foreign markets via Port Arthur south
ern terminal OF the road. and in order to
handle freight at Port Arthur las built
trestle out into Sabine lake to where the
water averages depth of five Ieet The !
plan. Ms has been frequently explained is
10 load large barges from this trestle and
lighter to Sabine Pass. where vessels could \
take en- cargo by means of floating oleva-
tors. a contract which would send Pee
Gee freight to Galveston would necessarily
simply that railroad had abandoned light
ering scheme at Port Arthur. and II would |
not seem unreasonable that ths new policy
had boen adopted were IL not that the Pee |
Gee freight would have to be brrgcd from
bolivar Point across Galveston bay to the |
elevators In Galveston. The Post ccrre-
spondent has been Informed, however that
there lie nothing whatever IN the rumor |
AT least Major j. C. Now. local agent Of |
the Kansas City Pittsbrrg and Cult, says |
me- has no Information that the Pee Gee |
intends shipping through Galveston via the |
Gulf and Interstate.
RETURNED WITH THE INJUNCTION. |
This ,norning 1t was announced In The !
Post That the Hon. L. F. Chester, Of the
firm of Votaw. Chester & Dies. vas OK !
peoted to arrive last night with an In |
junction issued by Federal Judge en-
Joining condemnation Of right Of vav
through certain lands In this comfy for
the proposed Port Arthur chaunp. MIR. |
Chester did not arrive last nlxnt as was
expected, he having been DELAYED In Ala. |
hama by washout on railroad. lie Or. |
rived this morning, however, ana he !
Drought tie injunction with him. 'rhe writ |
Was Srantod by Judge A. p. Mscormtck |
or the United States circuit cour. who ia |
spending h.s vacation a, Ashpyille II n
10 which place Mr.. Chester journey,1 che
writ Us made rcturnable to the Federal |
district court aud will come an for final
= before Judge Bryant at Tyler. |
SABINE PASS HOTEL.
The Windsor. the handsome new hotel |
that has been built at New Sabine Pass. hv |
the sabine Land and Improvement COM |
pany' VIII be opened to the public within
me next TWO weeks with Mr.. James y-ur-
long the well known manager OF Ike Ia.
pine notei, Port Arthur, in charge. The |
TACT that Mr.. Furlong will direct tno a.
t.nies OF the Windsor assures its success
Under his management the Sabine hotai
was Fort Arthur's most efficient pdyert,ss
ment as II was admitted to l,e he his,
conducted hostelry in the South.