The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1897-09-04
Chief Engineer Kennedy Gives
Some Interesting Information.
The Company Amply Able TO
Build at Once-Low Grades
and Steel Rails Will Make
Fast Travel Over the
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San Diego, Tex: Aug. %, 1897
Mr.. Jesse .. Wheeler
Editor DAILY HERALD.

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Editor DAILY HERALD.
Brownsville, Texas.
Dear Mr.. Wheeler IL notice in
the Corpus Christi Caller clipping
from your paper in which you say !:
"Mr. Kennedy, the chief engineer of
the Chicago. ST. Louis 81 Texas
Airline Ry., has been telling the
people of San Diego if they want a
railroad they must hump them
selves" 1 don't know where you got
that Information, but it appears from
notices you have given our road in
The HERALD at various times that
you are favorably disposed towards
the same. Now l think it is hardly
fair that you should ascribe every
thing connected with this projected
road to nae. You ought rather to
consider am not the company but
am only carrying out the policy of
the company as given to me by the
board of directors.
Apart from that, however, it may
interest you to know what we are
doing and how the survey work is
progressing. You may have noticed
in the papers that the projected
road has the endorsement OF the San
Antonio Basihess Mems Club. 1t
may also interest you to know that
the company is in position to build
the line as soon after the surveys
are complete as We can get the pa
pers prepared for contractors, etc.,
and as Ie1pect TO have my survey
corps in Brownsville about the mid
die of September it will not be long
now before everything will be ready
for contractors When ready to begin
work it is our intentson to start at
San Antonio, San deg and Browns
vile and push the work to compile
tion as fast as possible, SO as to get
this section off our hands before be-
ginning on the northern division |
fresa San Antonio to Henrietta.
I think the line as we have now
laid it out will not only be a very
useful one for your portion Of the |
country, but will be a very mex
pfesssve enc to construct and oper-
ate. 1t has few cuttings of any size, |
the curative viii be very small, |
and there are portions of the line |
extending from three to twenty |
miles perfectly straight. In fact we
expect to have a straight line of |
about eighty miles in iengfh, or
more than twice as long as any |
other railroad in the world has at |
any one place. The grades will all |
be low. OF course, the law does not
permit Us to go above one per cent
or ere foot in each hundred, but we |
will have this grade in very few |
places. All these advantages will |
enable the road to run very fast |
trains and the more so as il is the
intention of the Company to put |
heavy steel rails down and use first |
class rolling stock.
AS we recognize your portion of
the country to be essentially fruit |
and truck region, where every kind |
of fruit al we'll as vegetables can be
raised from one to two months ear
iier than in any other section Of the |
United States, and knowing the i'm |
mense advantage fast travel will be
to the growers of such articles the
company is endeavoring so to con-
struct line of railroad that will |
encourage shipments OF this class of
goods. To do this successfully we
want fast trains and TO gel such we
must build solid, level smooth