The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-02-24

Editors Crescent In dscucng the propriety and sue.
of the different Railroads, eaong and from New
Orleans, do recolect to have proposed from
New Orleans OF Texas. 1t appears me- invest
mentI in road eadng from New Orlesns to point
the Sabine ver South of whers the Louisiana line leaves
it, thence the Bazos and Colorado rivers. Guada
llpe and San Antonio, wor d. in short tme pay better
than any other line leading from New Orleans. The
whole State of Texas large she is, is comparatively
new and rapidly increasing in veal and population she
has YET hsrty began develop her In
tending roads Nor h. striving the trade
lost uspar of it. eas irrelrievably gone-the road
running ihr ush country that is stationary, if the
decline, any increasing in its of produce
In going West, penetrate country that yet new, rich,
constantly filing with from the region of country
through which the rhern roads intended run
mention the tens of thousands from every other quarter.
With such an increase of population and wealth. there
be corresponding increase in the productions and travel
large portion of the produce in the North will GO to the
East roads roads. It has passed of our reacfit
beyond our Let while may that which
| is Wet and Southwest. 1t is still within our reach-we
have but stretch forth arms, and it is onrs
THERE'S effort being made this time in New York
to trade of Southwest Texas. During short but
recent in Western Texas more than met four or
five business from New York, representing many diff
eren branches of Manchester trade, all eleconeerng for
and striving to the trade Of that rich and important
REGION large portion of the sugar and cotton raised in
Western Texas is shipped to New York direct, and is
sold in hst market They say they have the hest market
both 10 sell and buy, and that the natural char ne
through which to convey the- and is by ship
Many OI the lexans say the same thing
here truth than in the saying In going New
ok there rshpment for the produce for merchan
disc. 1t is and will continue increase until rail
road penera,e that region Houston nearly due West from
New Orleans; the road be constructed carried tt
North of the true line to avoid Sabine Lake and other Lake
m Louisiana, there msht be terminus aquemine
| Bayou Goula other convenient point on the Msis
Hpp river. From there TO New Orleans the navigation
always good, and it would be saving. Galveston
only twenty miles further South than the ut of thu
Ms pp river, The line in few years might be extende
to Eagle Piss, other point the Ri,
rande. branch might and ought b. extended into tn
r3h cotton growing section in the North of Texas in
line Tor santa Fe and thence if need be, the Pacific
thus ant cpate insrsect Mr. Whney's great road.
rofd running half way between the and the
would secure all the carrying trade both large
Jodty o. those on the would into the hun
ded miles TO escapei he sckeninE and dangerous Gulf For
the coast to the mountains will average about one hunde
and sky miles, There would then be no imposons,
| some complain of there being now.
| lhave given you rough outline of my thoughts on til
best meens of improving New Orleans in particular and tn
South in general II think they are or will be of an
SERVICE them if not g hit your Gle Tin case you smoke
| with it, or increase the heat in your stove.
FRIEND TO THE SOUTH