New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-08-29
TnnTHrAsr AND SOUTHWEST Ala
RAMA RAYLROAD.

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p..h.r. the,e il none among The various : rail-
,.d p,ciecsons,' in the South beyond the limits OF
n. i,t,te il which Nsw Orleans has much greater
,rt.,.,a han in The Nosthssst and Southwest Ala
h.ma R.ilro.d. II u designed that this route shall
s.yeree the northern part Of the State Of Alabama,
g nostheessen terminus being at the city OF Chat
t.nooua ID Tennessee where II will connect with the
t,edrsja STATE Road, the Tennessee and Georgia
Rad, and the Nashville and Chattanooga Road,
whence it will run in q southweaterly direc-
don and in direct line toward New Orleans,
10 terminate temporarily at Meridian on the line Of
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad. but whence Its extern
sion to junction with the jackson Road will be ,
certain and easily accomplished eventnaity as the
Southern Road, running from vicksburg to jackson,
thence on to Brandon and under contract beyond 70
Meridian some point adjacent, on the line OF tne
Mobile and Ohio Road, will be finished before sne
Northeast and Southwest Alabama Road is, and tnus
furnish readymade the desired connection with 'ne
grand artery from New Orleans.
ANY one familiar with the geography OF tue
country, and any one may become sufhcientiy 60
By glance Of the map to appreciate the lacs Mni
At once perceive that this strip OF road Will urnisn
the lacking link in the almost direct line OF ROAD
which otherwise exists between New York ana New
Orleans il is the hypotenuse line cntting on
the angle formed by the jackson Railroad TO Grand
junction, whence the present connection is Dy tne
Tennessee and Georgia Railroad due east TO Cnatta-
nooea. When the Northeast and Southwest Alabama
Road IS completed 1t will be no longer necessary for
those Who would travel North from New Orleans BY
rail to take thislong circumbendbus wa Grand juno
ton or longer one via Cairo and Centralia-for
they will have direct route which will shorten the
distance some hupdreds OF miles-an item OF i'm
msnse moment in this goahead age. And all the
enterprise and capital Of future ages will not avail
ID shortening this route between New Orleans and
New York by more than perhaps hundred miles or
20, for it is nearly true airne and all that can be
done to shorten 1t will be to straighten out few
kinks where the routs is q little crooked.
The length Of this line from Chattanooga to Meri
dian, the temporary terminus Southwest, is two
hundred and eighty-fve miles; nearly the whole
length is under contract and one hundred and sixty
miles are ready for the iron the work of construction
being prosecuted from both ends. The people resi-
dent along the line have come into the aid Of the
road almost to man, and all this has been accom-
plished without the contracting Of cent Of debt,
though it includes all the heavier part Of the work
and the bridging Of the Warrior and Bigbee rivers.
The prosecution Of the work will possibly develop
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