The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-12-12
LA SAL.LE.

JNHE President and Directors of the La Sale City
Il Company having made arrangements for the
carly construction Of the necessary works TO faci-
tate and concentrate the great and increasing trade
upon and through the Bay Of Matagorda, in Texas,
have determined to hold public sale of lots the
ground on the eighth day Of January next.
To men Of intelligence and sagacity, who may
wish TO engage in active commercial pursuits, or
making q profitable investment of unemployed
capital in real esatc, the President and Directors
deem II wholly unnecessary TO present the claims
of La Sale TO their attention in the usual style Of
extravagant encomium. Practical business men
will always consider for themselves the intrinsic
merits or advantages Of great commercial depot
They may nevertheless, be allowed here TO say
that some members Of the company have resided on
the Gulf Of Mexico for twelve years past and at va
rious times have made elaborate Reconnaissance Of
it's whole coast and incts, with special design to
select emphatically the best and most commanding
point for the general trade OF the Gulf, and mors
especially of Texas, the northern part OF Mexico
and the immense tide which must at an early day
pour across this continent from the Pacific ocean.
That they have succeeded in this design, 40 far
human sagacity can in the present age decide so
momentous proposition, they entertain no doubt
whatever part Of the leading grounds for this
conviction were mperfectly set forth in pamphlet
published by one of the company in New Orleans
early in the year lsis TO which men Of intelligence
arc respectfully referred with the request that they
will bear in mind this indisputable fact, viz: That
since its publication, every authentic report of any
reconnaissance of any part of the route therein pro-
posed for making great connecting link between
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans has gone to vail
date and confirm the essential justice and soundness
Of the views presented in IL.
The La Sale City Company, therefore, not
dispcased TO observe Of late the animated and able
manner in which the claims Of other routes across
the continent are advocated by their fellow-cizens
of different parts of the Union. They gratifed
to find, however, that in the effervesccnce of the
public mind which the California excitement has
superinduced, that there is about an equal weight
Of opinion hanging at present north and south of
the truly advantageous line Of trade and travel be-
tween the two oceans. And they doubt not, when
this cffervcscencc shall subside into cool, rational
discussion, that their views this great subject
will be amply vindcated and fully adopted. And
whatever may be temporarily said or done about
Panama, Nicaragua, or Tchuantepec, on the south,
Memphis, st. Louis, Michigan on the north,
the true interest and permanent advantage of the
American Union, and of the whole civilized-world,
will imperatively demand and finally fix the great
thoroughfarc and highway between San Diego and
La Sale.
These great matters, however, the Company leave
TO time and the sober conviction of practical and
scientific men. They offer at present positions at
La Sale To men of business for immediate purposes
OF profit in the conviction, (Which is concurred in
by the official and scientific agents of the Govern
the men in Western Texas, who are engaged in the
chihuahua and Santa Fe trade,) that other point
can compare with il in essential advantages.
la SALE, let December, ls49
DIf-Persons who may wish TO enter at once and
before the public sale Of lots upon the erection o
suitable buildings for business ut La Sale, in
formed that DR. L. Jones, of Gaveston Is authorized
10 furnish the requisite ground
Dec. l2--wtsthJan