El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18
THE BISBEE ROAD ORDERS
10000 TONS OF RAILS.

The Herald today contains still an
other positive assurance that the Bis
bee railroad will make Ell Paso its
eastern terminus. The order for rails.
to be delivered at Ell Paso, is so large
that it cannot be for the Nacosari road
or anything else than the main line to
Bisbee. The order also indicates that
the construction work will proceed
from this end of the line.
The news, so often verified in The
Herald, may be accepted as certain, but
within a few weeks we shall have
mere tangible evidence of the facts
stated. Nothing since the completion
Of the Texas and Pacific to this city
has meant SO much for the growth and
prosperity of Ell Paso as this new
railroad. 1t will open up an immense
district that has hitherto been accessi-
BILE with great difficulty or not at all
and all of which will be legitimately
Ell Paso's territory. 1t will also give
us the much needed competition in the
western territory where hitherto we
have been entirely dependent upon the
Southern Pacific.
No amount of parleying with the
Southern Pacific, no extent of concess-
ions on the part of that road, would
do half as much to give us unquestion-
ed trade control of the west territory
as would the completion of this new
railroad. Ell Paso. as the present ter
minal point of three great eastern
trunk lines, and soon to have two more
great competing lines to the cities of
the north and east, has already posi- |
or city in the Great Southwest can ever
attain to.
Without prejudice to any existing
FL Paso should adopt at once
l spirit of friendly feeling and COOP
grafton towards the new road, and re-
'titutions of the truest charity-they
help men and communities to help
themselves, but are sparing with out
lnd-out donations to the undeserving.
1t shows how little bitterness there
S left over from the civil war that
men of the south were invited and
responded generously to calls to help
celebrate Lincoln's birthday. At al
given at Carnegie hall. New /;
FORK, Mark Twain presided and began
the speeches of the evening with:
1T is a remarkable fact that with the
Whole country to pick from you should
lave called upon two old rebels, Col
mel Watterson and myself to take the
principal parts in this great meeting.
But are not the blue and the gray one
oday? l was second lieutenant in
he confederate service. Watterson
here, as colonel. rendered me such as
'istance as he could. If he had only
strictly obeyed my orders 1 should
lave succeeded in my vast enterprise.
t was my intention to drive General
Grant into the Pacific. l told Colonel
Natterson to surround the eastern
armies and wait until / came. But he
vas insubordinate and the union was
;aved.''
Henry Watterson, of the Louisville
Courier Journal, was one of the speak
RS. His remarks concerning Lincoln
we're in part:
Lincoln was at no time an eXtrem-
st. He had been for thirty years in
unconscious preparation for the pres
dency. At the time of Douglass debate.
Is now, the democratic party seemed
lelplessly divided.
Il want to say just here a few words
bout the relation of Abraham Lincoln
o the south. He was the only one
Who could have come to the position
without animosity towards the south.
For my part 1 thank God that the
var did not end at Fortress Monroe
IT by any other civil proceeding. but
vas fought on out to the bitter end at
Appomattox SO that slavery might be
What was the mysterious power of