The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-08
RAILROAD NEWS.
New Line to Be Built from Dali
las to Pecos
May Be a Project Backed by
Santa Fe.
PART OF THE PLAN.
Santa Fe Is Expecting TO Build
Such a Line.
PART OF THE PLAN.
Will Give San Francisco Direct
Line to the Coast.

Dallas, Texas, Dec. S.-Dallas is at
last assured of early direct railway
connections with the rich valley of the
Pecos in Texas and New Mexico. and
the splendid central Panhandle section,
located midway between the Texas and
Pacific and the Fort Worth and Denver
roads.
These sections are being settled at
rapid rate and arid lands made to bios.
som as a flower garden by irrigation
methods. articles of the incorporation
of the Texas, New Mexico and Western
Railroad company. filed at Austin, give
assurances that the projectors and pro-
motors of this new enterprise are in
earnest. and that Dallas will be the
headquarters of the new company. One
of the most prominent of the promot~
ers of the enterprise, discussing the
prospects. said:
"This road is go. Colonel G. G.
Slaughter and his associates are men
who can command the necessary CAPT
tai, and they intend to push the work
meters of the Texas. New Mexico and
Western railroad own the franchises
of the old Dallas and Wichita Falls
railway, an enterprise which was pro-
jected years ago and never built. The
franchises cid not die, however, and
the Texas, New Mexico and Western
road is the successor of the Dallas
and Wichita Falls project My under
standing is that the road has been
financed by home men. and the con-
tract will be awarded in January after
the close of the holiday season.
About eighteen miles of the old Dali
las and Wichita Falls Railway grade,
running in a northwesterly direction
from Dallas. will be used. 1t is my
understanding that the right-of-way in
Dallas county has already been secured
been at work for months. has procured
right-of-way through Denton and Wise
counties. Mr.. Miller of Decatur is as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Healy, who makes
be a DalIas-RoSwell road, will be op
Grated Independently of the big sys-
TENS, will be home enterprise from
start to finish and embrace aporoxi-
mately coo miles of new tracks
The incorpcrators of the road are
among the wealthiest and most promi-
nent and influential men OF Texas.
They are E F. Spears. Charles Stein
I j. B. Lucas. John G. Hunter. M. M.
Crane. ex-Attorney General of Texas;
J. A. White, all Of Dallas: NJ. J.
Healy of Fcrt Worth and w. A. Mil
The road is to be built through the
counties of Dallas, Tarrant, Denton,
Parker, Wise, Jack, Young, Archer,
Throc1morton. Baylor. Haskell. Knox,
= NAASs 1AShe, DlSfAClio' SehA "a,
Crosby, Lynn, Lubbock. Terry, Hook
ley, Yoakum and Cochran.
There is some reason to believe that
this new road may be the long talked
Of Santa F'e extension to connect with
the new cutoff across New Mexico. 1t
is known that the Santa F'e expects
to build line from some point on the
Pecosi Valley road to form a direct line
between San Francisco, Los Angeles
and the west and gulf ports. The pro-
posed Dallas extension seems to fill the
bill, and the fact that it is apparently
not backed by any of the big railway
interests leads to the suspicion that it
is being built to sell to the Santa Fe.