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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1903
Page
4
Alpine reports Monday visits by Dell Krebaum and Tom Burnham of Marathon while Sheriff Walton and Rev Geo W Baines traveled for official business. Marfa residents Miss Emma Sanders and Mrs J F Bennet arrive. railroad boom boosts real estate prices. A sleet storm brings snow, plus local sports, church plans, and a butter famine noted in Alpine.
Alpine civic leaders and R L McCaulley of the Kansas City Mexico Orient Railway reached a Friday agreement. The town will provide a 5000 bonus and donate right of way and depot grounds to secure the line, which must reach Alpine in three and a half years. Location details remain undetermined pending main office approval and survey, but the route is expected to run parallel to the Southern Pacific from Strobel to Paisano with an elevated crossing near Marfa road. Citizens’ swift fundraising drew praise.
Notice states Galveston Harrisburg San Antonio Railway seeks a local or special law from the Twenty eighth Legislature to purchase and operate the New York Texas Mexican Railway Gulf Western Texas Pacific Gonzales Branch and San Antonio Gas road lines. It would allow sale of these railways to the Galveston Harrisburg San Antonio system and permit increasing mortgage bonds and stock to match value as determined by the Railroad Commission of Texas. B Seger secretary signs.
The Woodmen banquet at the courthouse drew wide attendance with a program of songs addresses and speeches by W Van Sickle Rev Geo W Baines and Col R L McCaulley. An Orient Railway item drew strong applause and a land sale notice offered 20 000 acres on Alamo Creek Presidio County plus school lands for transfer with contact details in Fort Davis and Marfa Texas.
For sale a seven room house and lot fronts Depot on the corner opposite the Ice Factory. Described as the best stand in town for a beer saloon.
The W. D. Kincaid Co. boxed a jersey cow and loaded the crate on a wagon for shipment to L. E. Tigner at Terlingua. The route covers about ninety miles over mountain roads.
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