The true Democrat., 1856-08-05

land, to insure its completion. In landed ! wealth the Cairo and Fulton road will almost rival the Illinois Central itself.
 | Let us make an inventory of the property of the Cairo and Fulton railroad. The portion lying within Missouri (71 miles, has about 6OOOOO acres of the so-called swamp lands gwen to 1t by the counties of Missouri throuoh which the road will pass. The Legislature of the State of Missouri gave to the counties of that State all the swamp land within their re- 1 spectlve borders. The counties of southeast Missouri, penetrated by the Cairo and Fulton road, have literally turned over about 6OOOOO acres Of the same to the railroad The road Will redeem the land and make it worth fully $lo per acre. for it is wonderfully rich. Here IS the snug sum of S6,OOOOOO secured from this source. The State of Missouri has also lent her credit to the road for the amount of SZoOOCO. And there are stock subscriptions besides. So much for the Missouri portion of the Cairo and Fulton r, ad
 1 Next comes the Arkansas portion. Congress gave to the State of Arkansas every alternate l section for a width of six miles on each side of the Cairo and Fulton road, to aid in its construc | ton. The line of the road has been surveyed and located, the lands selected and indicated and from this source not less than l.25OOOO acres will be obtained. This land we will sun- pose to be worth $5 per acre-in all, SC, ,25OOOO | Besides all this, the Cairo and Fulton road has the right of way for its entire length secured and evidenced by deeds This is an itom worth Sl5O,OOO, but we will not take if ;nto account
 Now let us see on what basis the second di- vision of the Chicago and Galveston road stands:
 Missouri-County grant of swamp lands s5 900 900 State loan of credit o5o no0 Arkansas as-Government grant of Iands . 6 25O 000 Total wealth of Cairo and Fulton road .sl2 800 ooo
 The entire cost of building and eouipning the Calro and Fulton railroad, according to care. lul estimates Of engineers of high character will be $7,529,3 ,341 73. With reasonably nru, dent management, therefore, itseems that tho stockholders of the Cairo and Fulton road can build their road with the proceeds of theirlanas and have bonus of about fue million do77ors dn1 Hle stock of Me r0ad to reward them for tbair enterprise. Who can say that this is not one of the richest roads in the country. or that it will not be rapidly built? Hon. Mr. Cross of Arkansas, one of the directors, and chief agent Is now in Chicago in consultation with the wise heads of the Illinois Central with which the Cairo and Fulton will connect. Let the public be prepared to see another stupen- dous speculation with the 100000 acres of lands given to the road that stretches from Calro to Fulton, and forms the second link of the Chicago and Galveston railroad.
 We come now to the last link that takes us Chcagoans through to Galveston, Texas From Galveston to the Red river, at Fulton, the road IS chartered, and 1t has grant from the State of Texas ot sixteen sections of land to the mile to ald Tn its construction. This road need not be over 28O miles long, but may run up to 300 miles. The land grant to this part of the road may be set down at ?, 100000 acres, worth at ;e5 per acre, Sl2, ,5OO,0 0O0-certainlv largely over the cost Of the road at least S 3OOOO OOO cal culating the road at S3O,OOO per mile. To show that the lower end of the Chicago and Galveston road Is a reality, and coming to meet us, we may inform our readers that tweutv-6ye miles of the road from Galveston northward towards Chicago is already built and operating, and about fifty miles more are graded and ready for the iron.
 With regard to the line of the Chicago and Galveston railroad through Missouri and Ar Kansas, we should observe that 1t possesses easy and excellent grades-Onlv small portion of It rising to tortJ feet per mile and that the en. tire length of lt--373 mileS-onIy exceeds an af line by seven miles. The agricultural and mineral wealth to be developed in Missouri and Arkansas by this road is amazing. The Texas portion of 1t IS blosSoming tropical prairie
 Now, have we citizen that will doubt the Chicago and Galveston railroad?" Is it not remarkable, rather a wonderful fact, that go- vernment munlticence has provided the means, without concert, and seemingly by mere acci- dent, to build grand continuous line of rail- roal from the Lakes to the Gulf? Is there not the look of something providenta in the fact when we consider 1t? Was ever so long a road, so apt put together before? Why, 1t is almost equal to the Pacific road in its propor- tons. One MoHsajH oaa forty miles, it's length and every mile to be built by federal and State bounty. Look at the gifts to tie Chica 70 and Galveston railroad:
 To tAc lIlinoi, Central uk......... so. .0Qg. .ocO Q thc Missouri and Arkansas link...... l2,5dQ 600 l0 Oho 1eA'S Hi'k.. l2,5D0,o0O
 It only remains for Chicago to turn her atten- ton now to this extraordinary path of empire opened before her, and to ntuse life into the gigantic road that shall prove an artery of the natlon, and unite the commerce that speeIs under thousand sails over the limpid lakes of the north, with the agriculture that treads rud- dy and rosy over the fields of the ever bloom ing south. By holding intercourse daily with Galveston, as now with New York-for they are only ui-distant-Chicago may yet, by the power of arl and honest industry, be felt in all the land, become the heart of rcconciicd and happy Union.
 Fusion Complete.
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