Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
lsHINGToN ARKANSAS, WEDNESDAY,. OCTOBER Is, 1856
Memphis, Ell Paso and Pacific Railroad

Memphis, Ell Paso and Pacific Railroad
| We congratulate the peop'c of this sec
poets of this road. 1t now stands a,npha-
tically unrivaled in the State, so far as
popular favor is concerned. 1t is the on
ly one of the many charters in whose fa-
YOUR reservation for the selection of their
bonus lands were made, that is still enti-
tied to this great privilege. At the lrsr
session of the Legislature, the South We
tern Railroad was only able to get an ex-
tension of its time to complete its first sec
tion of ten miles, at the expense of aban-
doning its claim to a reservation of the six
miles in its favor under the provisions of
its former charter. This, together with
the repeal of the reservation in behalf of
the Mississippi and Pacific Railroad, pla-
ces this road in the most enviable position.
Our Directory are not asleep either on the
subject. Already is our President on his
way, with the funds necessary to procure
the services of competent Engineers to To-
cate and survey the road, and before the
lst day OF January next, we will have Sc
cured from private location, belt of coun-
try sixteen miles wide, running Westward
from the Eastern boundary of Bowie coun-
ty, to the Rio Grande. at or near Ell Paso
We have not until recently made any
blow about this road. We were more de-
termined to take things quietly, knowing
that it in the end, its vast advantages over
all other routes, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, would "work out it's own saliva
tion." The Illinois Central, the Cairo and
Fulton and the Red River and Ouachita
Roads are looking forward with anxiety to
the day of their connection with our Eas-
tern terminus, and an. already contestant
bidders for a moiety of our privileges. :
There is no fail in this concern, and SO
surely as Commerce is king, will it be
built? The Company now has, over six
hundred thousand dollars of paying stock
on its books, and so confident are the Di-
rectory of their ability to finish the road
upon its own credit, after the subscription
of million of dollars of stock, that it is
understood to be their intention to close
the books at that time. There are many
now mouthing obout the streets and sneer-
ing at the prospects of this road. who will
let slip the only golden opportunity of their
lives, yes, though the food invites them
they refuse to take it and be waited on
to fortune" There are hundreds here.
and hereabouts, who are but middle aged,
who have no idea of living to see Rail
road in our midst. They do not seem to
know that it is net yet thirty years since
the first mile of Railroad was built in the
United States, or the other fact, that there
is now in running order, over tw nty FIVE
thousand miles of road; sufficient to belt
the globe on the equatorial line 1t is
about as hard to get them to believe in the
possibility of our enjoying in our day and
generation the facilities attendant upon
Railroads, as Abraham supposed the breth-
rem of Dives would be, should he send La
zarus, ''to testify to them of that place of
torment ''They have Moses and the
Prophets, let them hear tLem-' ''If they
hear not them, neither will they be per-
suaded though one rose from the dead"
We this week publish the charter of this
road, and to it we respectfully invite the
attention of monied men, throughout the
Union. If does not present to capital
an inducement to invest, then we confess
ourself poor speculator Just look at its
conditions. its burthens and its certain mo-
MED results upon completion, and who
can longer doubt there being great deal
in it. With reservations of sixteen miles
width through the entire State from East
to West, Immediately upon running of the
line, out of which reservation, the Compa-
ny have the privilege of selecting the six
teen sections of land, given for building
the road with, four years from the 1st OF
March next, to grade only one hundred
miles of the road, and only bound to finish
and complete in running order ten miles OF
the road, every year after junction is
formed with some Railroad from the Gull
or the Mississippi. Look at it, ponder up
on it, and conclude among,yourselves whe-
ther it is not at present the only arm OF
Railroad reaching towards the golden
sands of California that contains almost
within itself the elements of its own COM
pletion. Enquirer.