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PA1 Beds: 1 , Baths: 1. PA2 Beds: 1 , Baths: 1. PB1 Beds: 2 , Baths: 1. He supposedly had ample funds with which to carry out the project. The undertaking designed to include other North Texas cities never materialized. In the Denton Mayor, T. Simmons, inaugurated the Denton Railway Service, which provided local street car service. In a year's time this company suffered financially, with four creditors suing for unpaid debts, among them the Allis Chalmers Company and Briggs-Weaver machinery Company.

The Commercial Club of Dallas, fearing the creditors would dissolve the company, urged "proper parties" in Dallas to purchase the company for the purpose of utilizing some of the equipment for an interurban line between Denton and Dallas. The company, however, managed to regain financial footing and the interurban proposal bore no fruit.

Meanwhile Denton County citizens became interested in forming an interurban line from Denton to Slidell in Wise County. In a movement began which expressed confidence that the line would be completed the following year. Promoters of the undertaking noted that the planned route would give a connection with the Santa Fe at Krum, and provide an easy route into Denton for the rich territory around Slidell.

Owing to the lack of funds and broad based support, this venture also failed. Interurban supporters, however, did not abandon hope. In a clamor arose for a Dallas-Denton line which would pass through Irving and Grapevine.

Involved communities laid plans, but construction never began. Then in came the most promising development to date, the proposition to lay a line between Denton and Ft. Colonel J. Strickland had purchased much of the stock of this company and was simultaneously developing a mile link between Sherman and Dallas with his own Texas Traction Company which began operation in The first runs between Denison and Dallas on this line occurred in A mile line opened October 12, , which extended that rail service to Waco.

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