The Gonzales inquirer. [volume] (Gonzales, Tex.) 1853-current, 1853-07-16
THE RAILROAD.

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The great national railroad, which Is now
agitating the minds Of the people, and which
IL to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific
ocean, it is thought, will pass through the
State OF Texas, the route surveyed by Ere
mont having been abandoned rs impractical
bic, on account of the great Sierra Nevada
Mountains, over which his road would pass.
and which is covered, from four to eight months
in the year, with deep snow.
A large majority Of our wiscst statesmen
have expressed themselves in favor of n more
southern route, and all agree that il will pass
through our own State. This road, passing
as IL will through the heart of our country,
will greatly enhance the value of our lands
and draw nm overwhelming emigration to our
State. But while this great national highway
is ngitating the councils of the nation and
drawing forth the applause of the Old World,
and while nil Justly term it the browning step
to our national greatness, what is TO become OF
tho San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad
The New Orleans and 0pclousas road is max.
ing rapid strides toward the capital of our
State, and in less than three years, in our
opinion, n great portion of our cotton, sugar
and corn will he hurried into the Crescent
City of the South over this very road. Cot
ton from Gonzales will be hauled to Austin
and from there sent to New Orleans. Then il
the people of Texas really want to sec n great
commercial city spring up at the terminus of
our road on tho coast, it is time they were up
and doing. We live in an age when men move
by steam and speak by lightning. There is
no time now TO "put of until n more convent.
ent season." Before We are aware Austin
will become the great depot, and trade once
started in n channel is very apt to keep moving
in that direction.
Most of our papers have taken a stand
against the San Antonio and Mexican Gull
Railroad, from the fact that We had to pay the
eNorbitant sun of $4,000 per miio, when the
real cost should not have been more than half
that amount.
1t is true We have becn chisolcd out of n
few thousand dollars per mile by the Yankees
and their coopcrators, "thc famous trio Mt San
Antonio" Blu this should not prevent us
from going on and completing the great work
Just begun, and we believe 1t is unmanly thus
to sigh ovcra fcw thousand misspent dollars
unbecomiag public journalists, in this golden
age, to AXE such bold stands in opposing this
work, when the cry of being h%umbuggcd out
of n few thousand dollars is the only objection
they can urge, II is true the stockholders
have had some ground for complaint, the cry
having gone abroad that Judge Choatc had
given it as his opinion that each s~tockholder
was bound, Individually, for the whole amount
of stock taken. The Judge may have given
such an opinion, but we do not believe it, and
even if he did, we think his opinion, however
correct II might have been under the laws o,
Massachusetts,, will not hold good in Texas.
Under our wholesome system of Jurisprudence,
where law and equity are so happily blended,
and we give it as our opinion, however pre-
sumptuous 1t may seem, that the stockholders
arc respectively bound for the sums they sub.
scribcd, and no more, Then away with this
false alarm and let us have a road. Suppose
We have been chisclod out Of about ono.half
the real cost of the road, would it not DC much
'N''ti w HdNt WV fNNt, CNtn uiltltF tutSC chr
cumstances, than not TO have il at ally The
tax ON the stockholders, though nm hundred
per cent, more than il should have been. is
comparatively nothing To the great benefits
that they will derive, Lands will enhance i'm
value at least one hundred per cent, and not
only SO, hut the money invested in the road
will yield from ten 10 iiicon per cent. Then
view the subject as we may, we will bc greatly
benefited. Our property will reliance in val.
ne-our position among our sistor States will
be oleSated-ou population will lac increased
our Wild lands viii be brought uplpr n high
state of cultiyation-onr bald prairieS which
now loom up before the eyes of the ~trayclcr
as lac struggles along on his little pony, q tlra.
~ waste AMI doscst hare--a part Of natures
waste flung oui ~ the nthish Ut c%rcation, will
blossom and bloom Hs the p'sc our rich Val.
lcyS, that stretch frcm the mountains To the
coasi, viii hccpne highly cultivated iiolls ~
corn and cotton. AMI TSxans viii DC kcef,iax
laso with the snighty sfirit 1T the ase aat
have the extreme pleasure of seySng : cty
spfiag up on our coast tssat Nh rival ia im.
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