The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-03-19
The Jaekson ana new Orleans Railroad,

4 EM8A VEACAnM
! In our paper Of yesterday morning we referred
10 this project, and mentioned the fact that there
had already arrived many Of the delegates from the
State Of Mississippi to the Convention to be held
in this city on Thursday next
The importance Of this enterprise, by which the
capital Of our sister State is be brought IN direct
connection with New Orleans. cannot be over-esti-
mated II will not seem so to those who think that
our commercial intercourse with this wealthy agri-
cultural State, by means Of the Mississippi river,
cannot be improved by any artificial connection
| which may be constructed but, by careful ex-
animation Of the subject, such opinion will un-
dergo change
To show the superior advantages promised by
this railroad connection we win mention one or two
facts which have been brought to our knowledge.
There are now transported, annually, on the rail-
road from jackson to Vcksburg, about go 900 bales
Of cotton at average cost of seventy-ive cents
bale. Add to this, shippers charges steamboat
freight, river insurance, wear tear and other dam
ages incident to this land and water conveyance,
and the average expense, per bale win be found to
be not less than S. Here are $4,000 paid out
by the planters in getting their cotton to market.
On arailroad running directly from jackson to New
Orleans these co. 900 bales could be transported to
market in much less time than by the river route,
and at an average cost Of 81 per bale thereby
ing to the planters 100000 Can it be doubted
that the railroad communication would be greatly
preferred
But the $4,000 bales at present transported on the
Jackson and Vicksburg railroad constitute but little
onethird Of the cotton raised in those Sec
tons Of country through which, or near to which,
the Jackson and New Orleans railroad will pass
The whole number is est mated at about 150, 900
bales.
Besides the staple OF cotton there are other pro-
ducts of this portion of country, such as turpen-
tine tar, pitch, lime, lumber, corn rice. potatoes,
live stock, etc., Of which very large quantity
would be brought to market by this railroad,
on account of the superior facilities it will afford
over any at present existing.
There are now about $1,000 slaves in the coun-
ties on and near the proposed line Of the road, and
monied capital of but little short Of one million
of dollars now loaned out on interest. We are
assured that the owners Of these slaves and these
capitalists will readily take stock in the road to
large amount--the former to work out their shares
in the labor Of their slaves in the construction of
the road the latter making the Investment from
the belief that will yield them much larger profits
on their capital than at present realized.
The Legislature of Mississippi has bill incor-
porating a Company for the construction of the
road. This charter is most liberal one in its
provisions. 1t exempts the stock from taxation
for fifteen years; the stockholders are permitted 10
work out in the construction of the road the
amount Of their stock the police boards in the
different counties through which the road will pass