The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-19
NEW LINE TO BEAUMONT
INTERNATIONAL TO BUILD ExTEN-
SION FROM SPRING.
Mill Man Who Furnishes Ties for the
Road Gave Out the information
in New Orleans.

The New orleans Times Democrat on
1nesday contained tho following. which
viii no doubt prove If interest in Texas
railroad circles:
The International and Great Northern
Railroad company Is getting re9dy to
build an extension Of that road from Spring
to Beaumont Texas, distance Of eighty
miles
1t Is said the Huntington railroad inter
ests have attempted long and diligently
TO feca the Gould road out az the lone
star state oil field, but that Its efforts
hnye proved futile. The International
and Great Northern directors do not
wish to enter Beaumont for any particu-
lar connections they may make there. but
TO get into the town and Vicinity. which
is rapidly developing through the inAu.
ences of the mighty oil discoveries. How.
ever. through an entrance into Beaumont
the International and Great Northern may
In time be united with another Gould road
the Texas and PaciHc--in Louisiana 10
the course Of events
The extension now being negotiated for
would start az Spring, twenty four miles
on the main line of the road, TO Sour
Lake. and thence directly into Beaumont
miles In length
The news 0t this important railroad ex-
tension was furnished Yesterday of tho ST.
Cnares hotel by w. II stark, the head
Of the Lutcher & Moore Lumber company
furnishes all the railroad ties for the In
ternauonal aud Great Northern rs we'll
as for the Orange and Northwestern rail-
railroad enterprise:
II hlve been In communication with Mr.
Noble OF tAo International and Great
.aFsag Nftvaa 1.waa. Nn,z
building of an extension Of that road
into Beaumont He wanted encoura ge.
ment in the matter Of securing the right
II way from Sour Lake into Beaumont,
and We have given him what he desired
Il Is quite likely therefore that work on
the new road will he begun before the end
OF fall. The construction Of this line
VIII be~ the result III conflict between
the Gould and Huntington interests. In
% N IN, the former were aiming to get
Of the Gould people nowadays is to &c
cure as many feeders for their Souther
road as possible. and the Beaumont line
books to be made very profitable feeder
'lhe international and Great Northern
people have had the matter OF securing
4 right Of way for the proposed branch
for several months, but this committee
having displayed such slow progress in
the work. 10 railroad people have taken
the proposition into their own hands. Mr..
Noble wrote me hrst about two months
ngo, to lend him what assistance we
CbUiQ IN the matter, ana | deem on rem
couragement offered VIII result In n
speedy completion of the road. There are
two big railroads now operated through
BeaGmont--thc Southern Pacific and the
Santa Fe--and with the acquisition Of the
International and Great Northern the town
Will soon develop into a great railroad
center
''our mills IN Orange have been taxed
n their utmost capacity this summer ia
supply sil the ties needed ny the Inter-
national and Crest Northern, II has
been the hvellest season in the history
OF the lumber trade in our section OF
the country In previous summers We have
had our agents out drumming up trade,
but this year II as A case Of sitting In the
office to receive orders ana wonder whether
thcv can be Allied. With the new rnil
road line 10 be built our lively business
will he maintained until another summer
r0Gs around.
1T is the same wav with orr cvpres,
mill at Lutcher. La. The demand for cy'
press has heen simply tremendous the
orders coming in from almost every one
Of the Northern States II appears that
the cypress demand Is only confined by
inc Paclit on the west, the. Atlant!c o.
the east Canada In the north and Para
ma in the south. The popular Louisiana
timber Is rapidly gaining in favor every
week IN the North for finishing and \
score and one other uses 10 which 1t may
ba mn