New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-12
a New orleans Aaa Nosth.eastssa Railroad.

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IN speaking Of the proposed Railroad from
New Orleans northseasts hy the way Of thu
tgolats presented III its favor, iii my lastcoHss
aunicatien, the vast agricultural capacities
|afthe ztensive country with which 1t will com
nupicate through the Mort L. eastern and Sout u
western Alabama Railroad, which will be, il
sacf, it'll direct continuation. Butthese, though
sbuudantiy sufficient IL render it's construction
in object Of great Importance to this city, are
only part Of the advantages which this prolecs
holds out
The proposed road opens an air line commu-
aicAtion with the heaviest deposits Of mineral
ssal which can be reached IN any direction from
New Orleans The Tuscaloosa coal beds are
Aich and nexhaustible, and they lie within q fen
fest Of the surface Of the earth SO that, 70,
present purposes, they are worked at their out
| ,rop, entirely without mining But these beds
HE above the falls Of the Warrior River; and il
shey did not, the navigation of that stream is Sc
orecarious thatit furnishes no outlet for this
valuable product to the market below. Hence
New Orleans is at present supplied with coal
rom the Ohio Rivera distance Of twelve o.
fifteen hundred miles while, in less than three
hundred, ON the line of this proposed road, is to
DO found one Of the most valuable deposits Of
His mineral in the world.
The Importance Of This consideration must be
abvious without comment from me. In fact, ]
design to waste no words in comment, but
merely to present facts to speak for themselves
pass, therefore, to the mention Of another fact
which is, in my view, Of equal Importance.
In immediate contact with the coal of Tuscas
loosa is to be found an equally inexhaustiblc
deposit of iron ore Of the richest quality, lying,
like the COAL at the surface of the earth, pro
truding inyast hills above it. The Northeastern
and South western Alabama Railroad Company
ft.a to
any il their own affairs, and to accelerate tbs
development Of those sources of mineral wealth
10 the State, have resolved to cause their own
ron 10 be manufactured on the spot; either bS
erecting and operating the necessary machinery
themselves, or (more probably by Offering t,
perienced iron masters and capitalists suffi-
.ient bonus to induce them to erect works and
manufacture the iron in the county of Tusca
oosa.s The industrial germ which these iron
sorks will introduce into the heart Of a country
possessing every requisite of healthfulness
eheapness of living, abundance of wood. iron
lime, building stone and raw material for TIT
most varied manufactures, as we'll rs an ex-
haustless supply of cheap fuel for steam power
will need nothing but the stimulus which easy
access to market will supply, to render Contra
Alabama one of the most important and wealthy
manufacturing districts in the United States
perhaps in the world. Her progress toward
that enviabie POSITION Will be by no uncertain
or laggard steps. Ten years will not elapse from
The completion of the North eastern and South
western Alabama Road, before the future O
Tuscaloosa county will present so magnifcen
a prospect as in itself alone to offer sufficient
inducement to Justify our citizens in construct
ing the New Orleans and North eastern Rail
road
4 need not dwell on the Importance to a com,
mercial emporium Of being the outlet to grea
manufacturing country. Nor need allude II
the growing commerce of the Gulf Of Mexico, oil
the now admitted certainty that this commerc,
9 destined to exceed in magnitude any that evel
hoated upon o single sea. 1T is sufficient that
call attention to the self evident fact, that in al
the country accessible to New Orleans, through
any channel artificial or natural, Central Ala
bama is the only district equally near whict
offers the united requisites for the development
Of great manufacturing industry in striking
abundance; and that in this very district Til
highest stimulus to activity is about to be ap.
piled for the benefit Of that port on the Gul
which shall have the foresight and the energy
70 turn its productions into her own lap.
New Orleans is wise, she will, from the very
beginning, court connection which may one
day prove the strongest hold by which she car
maintain her commercial supremacy upon TIT
Mediterranean Of America. f. A. P. B.