The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-05-29
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In my last | mentioned some of the principal
immediate and apparent effects of transportation
lines on the places at which they terminate, and
through which they pass. These rich and happy
effects must necessarily continue to result from
the very nature Of their causes. II, then, we take
the effects of railroads and other transportation i'm
provements upon places where they established
precedents, by which to judge Of the effects
which similar improvements would have upon New
Orleans, we must conclude that the proposed Jack
son and New Orleans Railroad would be of inest-
mable advantage to our city, commercially, and to
it's inhabitants, generally. But let us go further,
and see the process between cause and effect-the
manner in which increase of business and popula-
tion and wealth Shall result to New Orleans from
the operation of this road.
The vitality and progress of a city depend not
so much upon the enterprise of the few who are
wealthy Of its citizens upon the steady thrift OF
the great many, Of those who are comparatively
poor; and in order that the latter shall be active
and thriving it is requisite that not only the
sares, but the comforts Of life, be within their
reach that the rent Of comfortable dwellings be at
reasonable rate and that good provisions be both
plenty and cheap. Now, whether the jackson
Railroad will conduce to, effect this, let us see
We know that the suburban regions of New
Orleans limited in extent, and, from the nature
OF the SOIL poorly fitted for raising vegetables, and
withal held at such high value that they are mac
cessible to the means OF those who might turn
them to the purposes Of the cultivation of vegeta
bles. Nor is there any garden section neighboring
from which there is easy and rapid transportation
to this place. Neither are there any pastures near
for the raising and faltening of cattle-by far the
greater part Of beef for this market coming from
the upper country on the hoof, and here saugh-
| tered. Vegetables, therefore, and fresh beef as
well all kinds of provisions necessary for daily
use, arrive here at great expense, and sold al
varying and exhorbiant prices. Respectable board.
ing not be had here for less than twice the rate
charged in other large cities of the United States
such as is obtained in st. Louis, Louisville Gin
cinnati, ETC., for fifteen dollars per month, can not
be had in New Orleans for less than thirty dollars
per month. Corn, by the time it arrives here from
the grain growing regions of the North West i.
sold for seldom less than forty cents and far oftenel
at fifty and sixty, and sometimes seventy and eighty
cents per bushel This reasonably results from
the distance it has to come, and the precarous state
of navigation upon the rivers. That the same may
be raised cheaply, is evident from its original
upon the panks Oh the uP-rlVefs, Wnefe " is Pur'
chased at from eight to ten cents per bushel; and
could they not afford to raise it at this price, the
people Of those sections would certainly turn thei
lands and labor to the cultivation Of some othel
product
That part of Mississippi through which thi
road would run, is well adapted by nature to pas
urage. and to the production of grain, vegetables
etc, and were this road constructed would pou
out its surplus Of, these articles into New Orleans
thus increasing the supply, which alone would les
sen the price Of such articles; and, from the cheap
meas Of transportation, the producers could atOrt
10 sell them st less pSse, Indeed f this facility