The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-03
GOOD THINGS COMING IN
PUNCHES.

! / ne stone a w tDSitl people, ny q
quick move. have anticipated other
projectors in that that they have sub
mitted, in the rough proposition
so thoroughly business like that the
commercial Stub, without dissent
ing voice, recommends its accep-
lance The contract upon which
Stone e Webster propose to base a
request for certain franchise rights
will be submitted to the commercial
club and to the city council at an
early date, accompanied by a good
and sufficient cash bond as an evil
dence of their good faith. These in
terurban builders will propose, at
! this time, only line from Dallas,
| through intermediate points to
| Waxahachie. but it is their purpose
! TO eventually carry this line from
| Waxahachie to Cleburne, where con-
| nection will be made with another
of their lines from Fort Worth and
| thence back to Dallas, thereby Great
| ing a belt line that will give great
| convenience and prove of much
benefit to WaXahachie There are no
| ifs and lands about the Stone &
Webster proposition. They ask little
of the people and propose to give
much in return, and their promise
to build will be backed up by a cash
bond to be forfeited to the city in
| the event of failure on their part
to carry out their promises. AS we
understand it, they propose to make
a business proposition to the city of
| WaXahachie through its council, and
that is the only kind of proposition
that our city council or commercial
club should consider.
But Stone & Webster are only one
of three concerns that propose
to Immediately, if not sooner, make
of Waxahachie an electric hub. No
sooner was the Stone & Webster
people announced as being in the
field with a surveying corps than the
papers. assisted by few who had
been taken in on the ground floor of |
a gold-lined proposition, began to de
clare that our old friends, Strickland, |
Goodwin, ct ais, under the disguis
ing alias of the Southern Traction
were going to build az
electric line to WaXahachie and
hence TO Hillsboro and Waco, viii
diverging line from Waxahachie to
.orsicana This line looks wei when
raced on the map, and when built
N the ground it will look mUcn bet ]
cr 1t would be good for Dallas and
reat for WaXahachie, and, because
f WaXahchie, it would be pecher-
no for the other points to be reach {
d 1t is said that the Southern Trac- | ]
on company means business anG il
low formulating proposition that
VII be old business with a is B
and TO be prepared to enter into ne
gotiations without delay with these |
old friends and big doors Cot
Waxahachiel the commercial ciub
HIS appointed a committee that Win
meet them more than half way IN
any legitimate proposition they may
care to submit. The citizenship Is
being assured from most reliable
sources that this great line IS going
tc be built and We all believe tin
| way, hoping that our est 'blished
faith in these promoters meg not be
| shaken.
And this is not all. A third cleo
| trio line is promised as a sure thing.
with another one Of WaXahachie's
| passing acquaintance as the chief
promoter. 1t is proposed to tdild--
at once-surveys already made--an
electric line from Dallas to WaXaha-
chic. from WaXahachie to Corsicana,
and thence to Palestine. Some of us
will doubtless remember Brother
Watkins. the head of the Trinity
Valley Traction company, and when
he comes to us with a bona fide
proposition accompanied by a suffi-
Client cash bond to eyince the sinceri-
ty of his purpose, WaXahachie Will
take the Dallas-Wa Xahachie-Pales-
tine line into her outstretched arms
and give it first aid for the injured
along with such encouragement as
may be necessary. This line, like all
of the others, is a good projection
would be a money maker for its
hackers, and capital will we feel
sure, fall over itself to come to the
aid of the Trinity Valley Traction
company This line would make a
third card in Waxahachie's hand
that, being almost a stranger, would
be all the more acceptable.
| We are not going to discourage
the building of any of these project
ed lines. They would all prove pay
ing properties to the hackers, and
! ct ~ n.