The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-08
LINES UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
Railroad Commission Records Show
Numerous Extensions to BE
Under Way at Present.

Austin, Texas, April S-Investi-
CATION at the railroad commission
shows the following railroad build
ing in progress or contemplated:
The Cotton Belt is building its ex-
tension from Gainesville to Comanche
and has the line completed to Ham
ilton.
The Texas Central has recentlv
completed it's branch from DeLeon
to Cross Plains, and it is said TO he
prospecting a line to Abilene OF
Sweetwater. 1t is also destined to
go westward toward the New MtXi-
can border.
The Crosbyton and South Plains
railroad has just been finished from
Lubbock to Crosbyton and placed in
operation, total of forty-five miles
The Paris and Mount Pleasant is
to resume track laying from end Of
line at Bogata to Mount Pleasant
The Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe
is building on its line from lometa
to Brady via San Saba and has tAe
grading and bridging about comp.et-
ed with track laying progressing
That extension is to open up new
and rich valley country.
The Pecos and Northern Texas
Santa Fe line. is hammerins away
on its 3O0-mile cut off from Cole
man to Texico. 1t is completed from
Lubbock south to Post City and from
Coleman north to Sweetwate.', with
grading finished in the gap which
should be coHNected up before long
and a line completed between Cole
ana and Lubbock, whicl continues
north direct to Canyon City. 1t is
reported that some grading has been
done west from Lubbock toward
Texico and that work will commence
there in earnest as soon as the gap |
to the south is completed. In that |
same connection the Pecos and Nor
thern Texas ha sfinished its line from
Lubbock south to lie Mesa, while |
Gulf division of the Santa Fe is |
with the extension from |
San Angelo to Sterling City. But the |
Santa Fe has yet much to do in the |
western portion of Texas.
The Port Bolivar and Iron Ore
Railroad is building thirty miles
from Longview to the iron fields for
he development in Texas iron ore
beds. 1t is to go a total of fifty miles
before being fully into thesiron sec
ion of East Texas.
The Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient has recently finished its OK
ension from San Angelo to Merit
,on, and from there will branch In
.wo directions One will go south
ward to Del Rio and ultimately
across the Rio Grande to a connec-
ton with the Mexican National |
The other will be built to Fort Stock
ton, thence to Alpine and across the |
Rio Grande to a connection with the
Mexican system of the Orient with
deep water terminals at Topolobam
pc. The Orient has recently made APP
plication for new bond issues SO as
to complete its line.
There are several lumber or log
ging roads in East Texas which are
endeaYoring to become stanadardIz-
ed and secure recognition as common
carriers. The railroad commission,
or a majority of it. does not accord
recognition to these lines with the
dispatch the roads expect. The COM
mission insists that they show real
evidence of railroad. The desire
to become recognized is to partici-
pate in the divisions of through
ROT inipt
The Southern Pacific interes'
have let il become known that they
VIII do a little building to complete
a direct north and south Texas line
in order to give San Antonio and
Austin a quick service 1t is to be
an extension from Giddings Oh the
Houston and Texas Central and San
Antonio and Arkansas Pass to Stone
City, the terminus of the old Hearne
and Brazos Valley, now owned by
the Southern Pacific system. The
Hearne and Brazos Valley goes IL
rect to Hearne, where the main line
of the Houston and Texas Cent? ii is
tapped. The Houston and Texda Cen
trail at Giddings is the Austin
branch
San Antonio claims to have raised
the necessary bonus insuriAg a lire
from that place to Brownsville. IT is
to be built in the near future, &C
cording to assertions from San An
tonic, and is made necessary in or
der that San Antonio hold her trfde
( in the great southwestern country in
competition with Galveston and
| Houston.
LIKE OLD FRIENDS.