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TEXAS ALMANAC.
1872, from freight and passage, amount to $13,000 a mile, or $650,000 for the
year named. The earnings for this year will easily reach from $15,000 to
$16,000 per mile, on account of increased facilities for transportation and --the
opening of new lines of road.
But it will be readily seen that this road is deprived of a large part of the
business it would otherwise receive, by having to receive a large part of its
freight by the expense and delay of transfer from other roads of a different
gauge. This expense and delay causes a large amount of the freight between
Galveston and Houston to seek water transportation. Were this road prop-
erly connected with the roads now terminating at Houston, the business would
of course be much greater than it now is.
GALVESTON, HARRISBURG AND SAN ANTONIO RAILROAD.
The original Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad Company having
acquired the right to extend this- road at this end from Harrisburg to Galves-
ton, and, on the west, from Columbus to San Antonio, the name has, there-
fore, been changed as above. However, neither of these extensions has yet
been made, and the road still remains as we reported it in our last issue of
this annual publication. As we are not able to speak understandingly as to
the future prospects of this road, we can only speak of its great importance
to this city, (Galveston,) and to Western Texas. The present road, from
Harrisburg to Columbus, is reported to be in excellent condition, and, under
its present superintendent, has been doing quite a large and increasing busi-
ness, and we do not recollect that an accident has been reported upon it
during the past year. But nothing can be more obvious than the factathat
this road loses a large amount of business for want of a further extension to
the west. Its extension even sixty miles further, to Gonzales, would give
us several millions of trade, affording a choice of markets to the West; and
if extended to San Antonio, would certainly become one of the most important
roads in the State. This road is now connected with Houston by the Tap
road. at a point about eight miles from Houston, and nearly the same distance
from Harrisburg. It is connected with Galveston at Harrisburg by the Gal-
veston, Houston and Henderson Railroad. But, as the latter road is five feet
six inches guage, and the former is four feet eight and one-half inches guage,
there is the same delay and expense in the transfer of freight as between
the Great Northern and the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroads,
both in coming to and in leaving the only shipping point at Galveston.
The officers of the above railroad company are:
THOmxAs W. PIERCE, President,
H. B. -ANDREws, Vice-President,
GEORGE B. NICHOLs, Superintendent,
H. B. ANDREWS, General Passenger and Freight Agent.
STATIONS AND DISTANCES.
Harrisburg to junction of the Tap R. R.. 8 miles.
Stafford's Point........... 20
" Watkin's Station ......... 26 "
Richmond,................32 "
Rawdon's ................42
East Bernard ............50 "
Eagle_ Lake.............. 70
Alleyton .......... ...80 "
Columbus................84 "
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