The Gonzales inquirer. [volume] (Gonzales, Tex.) 1853-current, 1853-08-27
The Railroad.

W cu"s WYNN PuDIsiicu the contract
Of tho San Antonio aud Mexican Gulf Rsil
Road Company with Mcssrs. Jones & Dev;ss,
from which, II will DC seen that We will have
road completed with all Of its nppsndagcs,
bridges, yaducts, culycrts, turn.bol,s, switch
"s, turntables, water tanks, pumps, fuel hon-
SEES, etc, etc, to DC delivered to said company
at or within three years, from the first day of
December, A. D. 1853, in good running order.
II will further &c sccn that in consideration of
said road, the said Jones & Devinc are 10 re-
ccivc the sum of twenty seven thousand dollars
per mile.
This Is q round sum for a rail road in Yves.
tern Texas, where nature has done 40 much of
the work without money and without price: :"
but then, we had better pay even this price,
than to fail in having road for what is
twenty seven thousand dollars per mile FOR
rail road in n country like ours, so rich in SOIL
yet so remote from navigationg Would II not
he better for every stock-holdcr to make 4 DO.
ms of his stock TO the constructors of the road
and even double that amount, rather than TO
TAIL in getting roa,ly 1t seems that there is
considerable opposition manifested against this
road by our friends OH the Gulf, but VIC opine
that if they lived one and two hundred miles
in tho interior, and had to haul their cotton
over the rough hog-wallows between this and
the bay, they would hardly set up this oppo-
sition, let tho road cost what i, may. Il is
true that we have been humbuggcd out of a
few thousand dollars, but then this paltry sum
should not arrest the onward progress of this
noble enterprise. The road is now fairly I'M
der contract The articles of agreement have
bccn signed, scaled and delivered, aud the par
ties should not now wisl, to cyu,rRsh. The
mills have been bought for the purpose of saw.
ing ties, &c, and will soon be in successful OBJ
Grafton. Will our citizcns--ior the considers
ton of n few thousand dollars, that do not
weigh feather in the balances, when co,npar.
cd to the great benefits they will dcrivc---nip
this enterprise in its very bud, OF will they
push ahead with the spirit and energy, bccorn-
ing the age in which we live, and accomplish
this CRANE, and praiscworthy undertaking, the
crowning step Of all their laborsy Ii we per-
init the cause to stop here, many long years
will roll away before the work is again com
mcnced. lf the present enterprise is blasted
beneath this spirit Of opposition, all subsequent
ones will meet with similar fate.
Let us, then, go OH like men and finish this
noble work, and not attempt at this late day
to slip out Of a contract whicl, we conceive to
he morally and legally binding; and in the flu.
tirc when We shall lot out railroad contracts,
let us keep our eyes open, for there arc always
sharpers about, even in Texas.
TmE MAILS AGAN,--Our suiltrines is intol.
lcrablc. The mails--thc horrible mails---arc
becoming theme of general complaint The
evil is growing worse every day. Failure
after failure is the constant cry, ana what
is worse than all, there appears to he no rem.
edy. We must submit. Contractors violate
their pledges with impunity, and the Post OF.
flee Department at Washington is silent MS n
mute, notwithstanding repeated information
have been conveyed to it from every quarter of
our State. Indeed, the present management
OF our mail system is one of the greatest hum
bugs---,hc grosscst imposiiion-that ever was
practiced on any civilized community The
Spiritual Rappers can't touch il with ten
foot polc-l'arnum is nowhere, Bcttcr--fhr
bcttcr-would il bc to abolish the system en-
tlrcly; for then we could find consolation in
that portion Of the good Book which says,
blessed are they who expect nothing, for
they shall ne. he disappointed
We will name one OF the many instances Of
this Kind to which We are, and laSc been for
some time past subjected Tn Saturday last
the STACY arrived here from Victoria without
the mail Several of oar citizens were i,assen.
gers from indianola. We inquired Of them ii
there was n,ail 10y the vessel. They assured
rs tia, there was, and furthermore, tina, the
Stage in which they came, waited in Victoria
rtsp Aagrs lesssr than thclr contract allowed
Zoe ti,c connecting line tn arrive. lal, II came
not. They could pot wait any longer, AMI
consequently the u,sil which, Was ,luc en nj.
day del uet afi,c hcvc Until tise following
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