Year: 1878

no FOR the PANHANDLE.


There is now almost an absolute cer>
tsin,y that the Dallas and Wiehita will
be pushed far into the Panhandle dur
ing the season But few weeks will
tell the tale so far as perfect revival
OF the enterprise is concerned Al:
real and valid claims will be harmon,
lied, and the unreal and fraudulent will
get the so bye. TO certainty, This
great enterprise will be pushed IS it
should have been four years since, and
the money put into the road by the city
and individuals, both here and along
the line, will return to them increased
thousand fold At this age OF the
world roads are no longer built for bum
comb, but they are always surely built
when the necessity is developed. a
few marplots. eager only for the profits
Of construction, will not be permitted
to deprive the city, the state and the
/ Panhandle all three, OF this important
artery OF trade, for all time. The peo-
pie interested in this great route have
been wonderfully patient and forbe.r>
ing but at last their liberation is to be
rewarded muniHcently Just as soon
as these local troubles are cleared up.
and that work will be completed by the
S0th Of June, ample capital will be put
/ into the enterprise to send the road to
the outermost range of settlement long
before the SHOWS of winter can inter
rupt the work Dr. Reed is not only
capitalist himself, but he has influence
with others, who. when they see him
placing confidence in the enterprise,
will join him to any required amount


The road will pay from the day it
reaches Lewisville, and will make
money rapidly after completion to D,n-
, ton and Decatur. II penetrates tue
heart of the great future north Texan
empire-a region fast settling up and
developing even now. without rail ia,
cilities, but which will gather wed
vigor when the road brings into it the
I spur of all modern enterprise. This
route will in and of itself constitute an
important feature OF our railroad sys,
tenn Of north Texas. 1t is peculiarly an
enterprise Of our own section, and il is
fitting that our own section should
build and control it. 1t must early be
come un important feeder for both the
Texas and Pacific and the Houston and
! Texas Central, These already great
| roads can well afford to extend the
helping hand TO the infant enterprise
which has struggled up through SO
many and such appalling difficulties, to
| its present hopeful status. They have
already, indeed, been quite generous,
and manifest kindly intentions, which
We trust will grow into active efforts to
cooperate with the Dallas and
Wichita.


This state of things imposes plain
/ duty upon US, as well AS every true eiti>
zen of Dallas and all the country, to be
Immediately affected by the completion
of the road. We should in every hons
orable way strive to strengthen the
hands of the man who alone of all the
others who have been connected with
the road, has the money, influence and
disposition to build it We have moth
ing to do with either the profits of con-
structiou or OF operation. What we
need are the facilities which the road
will bring to trade, commerce and
travel, and 80 long as the plan Of opera,
ton gives evidences to this end, we care
not as to other considerations.


We have now bu. seventeen or eigh-
teen miles completed. and already IL the
road exercising a very important and
beneficial influence upon trade. What
| it will be when we have an all raj cons
uection with Decatur can be ims gined
or guessed at from this The people do
not care a straw whether the company
have seventy or only seven acres for
| uepOh sIOHhusi vi hhcthei tAcs hhfe
one or ten miles of main and side
side tracks within the corporate limits
of Dallas. What they do care Tor, is,
that what they already have shall be
utilized aud made available for the pur,
poses intended, and contemplated when
the funds were set apart The one great
I T. II. l..
in bold relief is, that the immediate
completion of the road is now certain


Let us hold up the hands of the men
who can and will give US this route, be-
cause it is the most important to Dallas
and our region of any local enterprise
yet put on foot by the people.


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