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DENISON AND PACIFIC RAILWAY
by Donna J. Kumler

The Denison and Pacific Railway, originally organized as one of several projects of Col. Bob Stevens, John Scullin, and Ben Munson, was chartered on April 24, 1878, to build from Denison to Belknap, about 150 miles. The capital was $1.5 million, and the business office was in Denison. Members of the first board of directors included Scullin and R. S. Sterns of St. Louis; Henry D. Mirich of Hamilton, Missouri; and R. C. Fister, Edward Perry, William H. Sanford, and Alexander W. Acheson of Denison.


In 1878-1879 the company built 41.89 miles of track from Denison, the northern terminus, to Gainesville via Whitesboro. The line was abandoned in 1879, but on March 11, 1880, it was sold to the Denison and Southeastern Railway Company, which was renamed the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Extension Railway Company on March 23, 1880. Subsequent consolidation made what was once the Denison and Pacific one of the earliest acquisitions of the Katy in its intrastate expansion program.

Denison Daily News
Tuesday, January 6, 1880
pg.3
The following items of information regarding the two railroads recently constructed from Denison, were furnished the Galveston News by their Denison correspondent:

DENISON & PACIFIC RAILROAD
The present terminus of the road is at Gainesville, in Cooke county, forty-one and three-quarter miles west of Denison, where it connects with lines of stages to all parts of western Texas. At Denison it connects with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Houston & Texas Central, and the Denison & South Eastern railroads.