Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-03-01
From the Winston Banner.
Alabama and Ohio Rail Road.

The liberal grant of land, made to this great Ma
tiona Road by the last Congress, renders its COM
pletion certain and will also make the STOCK We
ry profitable The only doubt is when will it
be completed. The lands donated by Congress TO
the Road will probably not be offered in the mar
ket until the Road is consrseted, they will THEN
be worth from FIVE to TEN times their PRESENT VA
LUE This will go to the STOCKHOLDERS. Every
person or planter living within TWENTY miles of the
road owning property, should subscribe to the stock
at once to secure its speedy completion. 1t will
add ten-fod to the value of every acre of land with
in several miles of the Road, and be very prof.
table investment besides, for if the planters, DC,
in the region through which it passes consult their
own interests and come forward like men and take
the stock which could be paid in nearly all cases
by the labor of their hands, all the ready money
needed could be raised by a loan at the North on
good TERMS and thus retain all the lands on the
route until the completion of the road, they would
then be worth much or more than the lands on
the navigable streams, because more healthy and
the communication more certain. 1t is now found
IN Louisiana and Texas that ORDINARY UPLANps
produce much MORE and BETTER SUGAR than the
very best river bottom lands. Some who have plant
ed on uplands that would not yield half bale of
cotton, have made from and a half to three
hogsheads of sugar to the acre, while those who
have cultivated river lands, in many cases have not
made more than one third this amount. The up
lands also the best for sILk and WINE, which
are daily coming into Importance as American pro-
ducts. Rice, wheat &c, can be also cultivated on
the uplands.
Geo. McDufie, of S. c., says that the s. G. Road
has given CASH VALUE to every pine knot in it's
vicinity and value daily increasing to every foot
of land before entirely valueless and also doubled
the value of every bushel of corn or potatoes, by
enabling the grower to send it to market Lands
near the New Y ork Canal are now worth from $50
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TWENTIETH part of that before its completion. So
it is in all parts of the United States-The Alaba-
ma and Ohio Railroad will be of TEN times the
lue of any of these Improvements. 1t will pass
through several large States and transmit the
merce of territory greater IN extent than Europe.
Besides the Tehuantepec Rail Road will soon be
completed. This will bring all the immense trade
of China, Japan, DC, through this route to be de-
posted at Mobile and New Orleans, and thus dis
semnated through the whole extent of the United
States. With energy the South NAV obtain this
immense import trade that now goes to New York
and the North generally. 1t may import from Chi
DC, for European consumption, if she will but
act instead of talking about it. Besides these eau
ses, the great influx of foreigners from almost all
parts of the world will tend greatly to enhance tic
value of all the poorer qualities OF lands in the nte
rior, if we but open way to them. These lands
will be wanted for silk, wine tea DC. all of which
are cultivated besides our present products in
this latitude. If every farmer living the route
of the road were to present half of his proper
ty for its construction, he would be gancr by it
But feyerv one within fifteen or twenty miles of it
will subscribe but small amount to the stock and
this to be paid in work if preferred, the road viii
be speedily fnished.-If not, other sections of the
country will propose to do SO on condition that the
road pass through their section. AcrIoN sHorLn
DE PROMPT AND GENERAL.
AN ORSERVFR