The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-02-10
COMPLETION OF K. C.,P. C.
Will BE a Great Adyantaoe ia
Houston.
CORBETT AND FITzSlMMONS FIGHT,
Liable To Create the Lowest Rate for
Round Trip Tickets Ever offered
by the Haiironds OF Texas.

Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf road will,
be to Houston, upon the formers compile
ton. can only be estimated by the light in
which the North and South line is repardaa
by Eastern people, who are quick to rec.
oshize the advantage OF new born en-
terprise. 1t has been the source of much
comment since the gulf ports of entry bava
Wed with those of the Atlantic seaboard
for the control of the grain and other shin.
ments for export, that the completion of
the Port Arthur route would add another
feature to the already convenient facilities
OF Texas. directing products Of the Mid
die and West States to vessels tourhtn,
her shores. "'e
A few days ago a visit over this new
line. aud to the prominent ports of rexas
was MADE by John A. Sleicher of the Frank
Leslie weekly. in the interest Of mis- paper
Mr.. Sleicher was at one time editor of
the New York Mail and Express and las
seen leXas on various occasions. While In
Houston few days ago he was met nv a
reporter for The Post. who inquired ms In
what Importance Eastern people attached TO
the Texas ports. He said
The recent strides of the Texas ueople
N obtaining deep water and an earnest bid
OF your railroads for the export business,
am free 10 confess has aroused Eastern
ers TO look after the importance OF their
own facilities. which. summed up means
me existence OF undeslred competition
Il regard this new line as valuable
ACQUISITION to your already admirable nat
urai advantages, and with judicious APP
pitcation of freight rates Texas win Ger
tainiy have no trouble in forging to the
front.
Houston may expect some assistance
from this Port Arthur route. II will have
tendency to divert grain from New Or
lean ana place your people in open COM
petition with those on the Atlantic coast
There is no doubt but what your people
VIII succeed in getting what they desire
from the government to improve Buffalo
bayou. To bring the port of entry fifty
miles nearer the field of production means
essentially the wiping out of the tariff en-
grain and cotton between Houston and
Galveston. The Port Arthur people fave
made arrangements to dredge a channel
through Sabine lake from Sabine Pass 10
their present terminus and are asking the
government to only keep the pass open for
vessels to come through"
With reference to the completion Of the
Port Arthur route. Mr.. Slecher exhibited
the following excerpt from the report Of
Commission Vallandingham of the Kansas
City transportation bureau:
The completion OF the Kansas CIV.
Pittsburg and Gulf road will be welcomed
by the Kansas City jobbers who have for
a long time been shut out OF more than
60 per cent Of the State Of Texas by reason
OF the unreasonable adjustment of -ates
We now have small differential under St.
Louis to the northern part OF Texas which
when rates into kanass City as compared
to st. Louis are considered, should be
much greater. At the same time, II the
diferential is extended to the remainder OF
the State it will enable us to reach a ter
ritorv from which We are now barred. We
shall expect the Pittsburg and Gulf 10 at
least bring about the extension of the diff
ferences now in effect at Fort Worth and
common territory by reducing the Kansas
City rates to the following basis per 100
pounds under st. Louis.
Glass. 2 3 4 5
Rate .... ........ zoe lac Sc &c Sc
Glass. A r c n and f
| .s.....'C bN
Even those rates will not be satisfac-
will be so great an Improvement over what
we now have that we will make a strong
effort to do some OF the business. We can
not, of course, expect lower rates than st.
Louis to gulf ports. as those rates are
brought about by water competition, but
we will expect to be kept on a parity. and
at Port Arthur we will have dfferentlal
in our favor. We shall also expect at
least as low rates to Shreveport as st.
Louis cnjoys-something we have never
had"
cities of the Southland. and is bestowing
his compliments upon its commercial value
with the lavishness of spendthrift. He
has gone to New York to publish several
pages in Frank Lesle's Weekly with refer
ence to Texas. the coast country and rail-
road facilities thereof, as the observations
of an Eastern man.