New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-09
n ~. Jackson ana q. N. Isallroad.

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The President of the New Orleans, jackson and
Great N thern Railroad Company has recently made
q report to the Legislature Of the State, concerning
tie condition and prospects Of the road undershis
charge which il SO clear, suceinct and comprehen-
sve and which il So generally interesting to onf eitl-
zens and to oil interests in the State that we are
induced TO give synopsis Of what is too lengthy for
entire publication in our columns.
The report commences with a statement that the t
road between this city and the southern boundary
7 Of Missssipp-a distance Of eighty-seven and one
third Irliles-has been improved and is in excellent
running order; that the grading on twenty four miles
farther has been completed and the iron laid on five
\ and that seventeen miles beyond the nineteen will be
ready for iron in June. The distance from thence to
ftyye miles, which but little has been
done the work on thirtyiive miles was to be COM
menced the present month and pushed vigorously
"A forward; and the Board had before it proposals of
such nature as hope that the whole line would be
"A in til e hands of contractors in sixty days.
. From jackson to Canton, twenty-four miles, the
a grading is entirely finished and the iron has been laid
VI on eighteen miles. The six remaining miles were
, expected to be completed in forty days.
g The Company having been established for the CON
structon of road to Jackson and thence towards the
point most probable for continuing the comnlunca-
NaSllVlilc, ltHli., CIVIL q
n survey had adopted as preferable to any other, line
g running through Kosciusko and Aberdeen to the
state line Of Alabama a few miles south Of the Ten
nessee river thence norherly to Chckasaw, on that
river four hundred and ten miles from New Orleans,
crossing the Mobile and Ohio Railroad nine miles
southwest Of Aberdeen, and the Memphis and Charles
y ton road eight miles south of Chickasaw The diff
culties the subscriptions in Monroe county,
amounting to $780, 00o are then referred to and ex
I'd planned sG5 a55 t.. # .5sis esl ~
k Contracts for masonry graduation and bridging for
seventy miles Of the road twenty miles above and fifty
miles below Aberdeen, were entered into, with the
Outstanding that the contractors were to look to the
d collections from the original stockholders for pay
0 ment. No other part between Canton and the Ten
nessee river has been put under contract. Of the
seventy miles under contract work to the amount Of
~ one hundred and eleven thousand dollars has been
NJ nerfoed but the contractors have not been paid il
"a full only $s5 900, out ofthe $4,000 promised in June
= 1853 having been collected, portion of which has
been applied to purchasing real estate for depot al
= = Aberdeen. .S Z. +. s= II
Suit was instituted, last year, against one Of the
delinquent subscribers in Monroe county, for not pay
= ing the instaments as they became due and was de
= cided adversely to the company by the Court which
held the transfer to be null and void from want Of con
sttutonal authority in the Legislature. Since tina
y, decision nothing has been paid in by the Monro
county subscribers and work has been done mort
Of Canton the Board choosing to devote all of thei
g means to the construction and equipment of the roa
between New Orleans and Canton, believing that til
earnings thereupon will furnish the means for eontif
= nance. 4 i5y FL .54r3.r.a.@5i Isl rs
II i At Canton the road connects with the Mississippi
Central Railroad, running to Jackson Tenn, abou
ayyif
10 the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, rlnnngto Cairo, at til
Il mouth of the Ohio river, aud there with the lno
bo Central road ,t.-
The work on the Central and Mobile and Ohio raj
" roads is being pressed rapidly forward, with ever
MS prospect IF completion in two years. By means
md these roads there will be rail communication betwee
ns New Orleans and nearly every part of the Union al
de, Canada. t= as
viii During the whole of the year past daily train h
ALL been run to Osyka and freight train three times
pa week In September last contract was entered in
abl- with the p O. Department for the transportation
1ro+ the mail to and from 0syka and its ery at pc
hts offices on the route.
at a number of documents intendedias part of Il
IA report, are appended TO it. The one marked A, is
particular statement of the receipts and expenditure
from the organization Of the company to the prese
date; showing the total amount received on accou
of capital stock to be $s,957,604 57-lOo; mon
ms pofroWea
mp o4o'lVe NV W, %
at aloslslo = oo AZ ~ %
has ials eac tns VI ~
end wy boilos u @i,oov 'eu . :,
stock of the company, which consists OF ten LOGON
ich tves eight passenger cars and ninety other cars
1uld different kinds. FL
md Taken in all its bearings the report is a more
that vorabe one than was generally anticipated and
the fords more substantial grounds than we have hthe
inst had hoping that this important enepr
will be carried speedily and successfully through,