The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-01-11
LA SALE.

rVNHE President and Directors of the LF Sale City
Il Company having made arrangements for the
early construction OF the necessary works TO fscih-
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 on 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 a profitable investment of unemployed
capital in real estate, the President and Directors
deem il 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
rious times have made elaborate reconneissances Of
its whole coast and nlets, with special design 10
select emphatcally the best and most commanding
point for the general trade of the Gulf, and more
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. so far
human sagacity in the present age decide 30
momentous a proposition they entertain no doubt
whatever. part Of the leading grounds for this
conviction were imperfcctly set forth in pamphlet
published by one of the company in New Orleans
early in the year ls4S, 10 which men of intelligence
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 10 vail
da and confirm the essential justice and soundness
Of the views presented in il.
The La Sale City Company, therefore, are not
displeased 10 observe Of late the animated and able
manner in which the claims Of other routes across
the continent advocated by their felow-c citizens
of different parts Of the Union. They grathed
10 find, however, that in the cffervcsccnce Of the
public mind which the California excitement has
superinduced, that there is about equal weight
of opinion hanging at present north and south Of
10 trul adj OF trad nd be
tween the two oceans. And they doubt not, when
this eervcscence shall subside into cool, rational
discussion, that their views on this great subject
will be amply vindcated and fully adopted And
whatever may be temporarily said done about
Panama, Nicaragua, or Tehuantepec, on the south,
or Memphis, st. Louis, or Michigan on the north,
the true interest and permanent advantage of the
American Union, and of the whole civilized world,
will mperatively demand and finally fix the great
thoroughfare and highway between San Diego and
Ia 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
ment in the 3th Military Department, and by all
the men in w estern Texas, who are engaged in the
chihuahua and Santa Re tradc) that no other point
can compare with il in essential advantages.
LA SAILS, 1st December, lSf9.
lSt-Perscns who may wish TO enter at once and
before the public sale of lots upon the erection of
suitable buildings for business at La Sale, i'm
formed that Dr. L. Jones, Of Galveston s authorized
10 furnish the requisite ground.
Dec. i2--wtsthJan