The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 69, July 1965 - April, 1966 Page: 70
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
perhaps the most difficult one in which to build it. He viewed the
project as an effective deterrent to the raiding parties and as
an aid equally efficient to advance the civilization of the country.
... Little settlements will grow up, the military posts of the fron-
iers and interior will no longer be isolated. The inducement to
enterprise, to carry settlement forward will cease to be counteracted
by the thought that such settlement amounts to self-banishment.21
He commented that the stations also would be used to observe
meteoric changes and to give warnings of the "dreaded northers."
First Lieutenant Allyn Capron was assigned on August 15, 1874,
to command the Texas project. On his arrival at San Antonio,
Capron was to submit the project to E. O. C. Ord, the district com-
manding general, and to obtain from him the escort and trans-
portation facilities to make a reconnaissance of the proposed
route.22
The chief signal officer gave explicit instructions as to what
the reconnaissance was to accomplish. Distances between posts
were to be recorded by an odometer; notation was to be made of
the type of country-its terrain and soil-over the route selected.
Availability of poles, or distance from which they might be pro-
cured, together with the cost of purchase and delivery were also
to be stated. Possible depots to which shipments of materials
could be sent were to be designated. The time needed to com-
plete each section of the line and the size of the operator and
maintenance force after completion were likewise to be in-
cluded.23
When the reconnaissance was finished, Capron was to have non-
commissioned officers and enlisted men with signal service expe-
rience in erecting and operating telegraph lines assist him in
carrying out his assignment. A monthly report, to include the de-
tails of construction progress and material and labor costs, was
to be sent to the chief signal officer. Funds were placed on deposit
with the United States treasurer at New Orleans to meet the
expenses connected with the project.24
"Ibid., 520o.
2Ibid., 797"
3"Ibid., 797-798.
4Ibid., 798.
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