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Boll Weevil Recollections of the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway by J.L. Allhand
Boll Weevil Recollections of the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway by J.L. Allhands
Boll Weevil
Recollections of the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway
J.L. Allhands
Hard cover
279 + pages
Copyright 1946
Contents
Pages From The Boll Weevil Scrap Book xvii
Foreword 1
B. F. Yoakum 11
Fort Worth 13
Houston & Texas Central 17
Texas & Pacific Railway 29
Rock Island Into Dallas 31
Irving 33
First Rock Island Train Into Dallas 35
The Momentous Year of 1903 56
Panama Canal 59
Highways 60
Automobile 64
Airplane 67
Rock Island-Central Deal 69
Letting Contract 77
Mexia 83
E. H. Harriman 90
James J. Hill 95
Burlington System 99
Houston 107
Houston Belt & Terminal 113
Galveston 125
G. H. & H. R. R. 128
G. C. & S. F 131
Grading 144
Bridge & Track-Laying 146
Townsites 149
Bardwell 150
Emhouse 151
Streetman 152
Kirvin 153
Teague 154
Flynn 168
Normangee 169
North Zulch 171
Iola 173
Richards 174
Dobbin 175
Tomball 176
Jewett 179
Opening the T. & B. V. Line 181
Gen. John H. Hulen 190
J. TV. Carnes 192
Receivership 194
The Boll Weevil Tasted Deep of Oil Treasures 199
An Early Time Table 210
Abandonments 214
Boll Weevil Graduates 220
Team Camp 226
Mule 232
Earth Mover240
Associated General Contractors of America 251
Nelleva Cut-off 256
Three Rail Giants 258
Sources 265
index267
Appendix 281
The weevil ravages became so destructive that the Dallas Commercial Club was afraid that King Cotton might lose his throne, so it got busy sponsoring "boll weevil" conferences with the mayors of the surrounding towns and cities. They wanted to see what could be done toward stopping this threat to their nine cent staple. It was the subject on the tongue of almost everybody. When it was remembered that this new jerkwater railroad had not been nicknamed, Lewis Mims, with the Construction Company and now with the Freeport Sulphur Company at Houston, jocularly suggested that it be called THE BOLL WEEVIL. That nickname stuck and the line was so known far and wide, until the new and rejuvenated Trinity & Brazos Valley adopted THE VALLEY ROAD as its official name.
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