The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-03
BEAUMONT TO SOUR LAKE
Prospects that Work On the Sc,
Road VII nerin NpNf NinnrI

prospects that Work On the yeyy
Road VIII begin Next Nioru.
one of the projectors of the Beaumont,
Sour Lake and Corscana railway was in
the city yesterday and visited officials OF
other roads. This gentleman, who de.
sired that his name be withheld, said 1t
was the intention to commence work on
the new lines about June 1, and that If the
weather was favorable the work would be
soon completed. The road is to be first
class in all particulars. The readbed will
be fourteen feet wide aud fifty-six- pound
ralis VIII be laid. For the present the in
tention is to build only to Sour Lake from
Beaumont distance of something over
nineteen miles. The Ultimate terminus of
the projected road is Corsicaua
The virtue Of the waters at Sour Lake
CAME up for consideration and one of the
party related recent experience. He
had visited the wells and witnessed
marvellous cure and from the experience OF
others he regarded the waters as the best
in the world.
Recently he was in New York and was
in the cafe of the Waldorf Astoria with
party OF gentlemen whose aggregate
wealth as individuals footed up easily S75.-
10000. One of the gentlemen ordered
glass of Poland water The Texans Gu
riosity was aroused and he asked his
friend Why he was drinking Poland water.
III tell you he replied that | find
4 am getting older than | was twenty
years back and am breaking down. My
physician insists on me abstainng from
any alcoholic stimulant. Every year l go
to Carlsbad to recuperate and build up"
How much do those annual trips cost
you?" queried the Texan.
About $4,000 for sixty days"
This suggested TO the representative OF
the Lone Star State Sour Lake, and he
told the party OF the curative and other
virtues Of these wonderful waters Hav-
ing one of the Sour Lake pamphlets with
him he read from it, laying particular
stress on well No. g. whose waters re-
store vitality and make the old young
again, something that can not be done by
anything in the pharmacopla OF the medl-
cal practitioner. TIE men OF millions be-
came deeply interested aud one OF them
IN his enthusiasm remarked:
why, II these waters will do that alone
there should be no trouble in raising sl5,-
000,0 in fifteen minutes for the develop
ment OF the property. But where is this
fountain Of life situated"
"At Sour Lake, Texas. sixty miles east
of Houston
THAT settled it," said the Texan. THE
capitalists. although | informed them that
H-UU,VUU or SoUu,Uuu was SulHSitut TO ue'oA-
op the property. plainly said they would
have nothing TO do with Texas. The state
has been malgned so long that the East
ern people. as rule, imagine that CUR
conditions and State laws are worse than
those of any other State in the Union"
1--WE are good deal to blame ourselves
Politicians and demagogues stump the
State and in their speeches, which unfor-.
tunately are quoted extensively outside OF
Texas. lead to the impression that the
state is bad place to invest MONEY
that capital is assalled
Another thing is, we'll. I won't say
the lack Of enterprise of our own people
but something, Here is this very Sour
Lake the most wonderful place in the
world. yet for seven years efforts have
been made to raise 100000 TO build
first-class sanitarium. II good hotei is
built 1 will guarantee that the Southern
Pacific railway will haul there 25O0 people
a year and In a few years this number
will be doubled perhaps duadrupled' Wnen
the great State OF Texas. with az ~
wealth. can not or will not raise 100000
for the development of such grand enter