Natchitoches union. [volume] ([Natchitoches, La.]) 1859-1864, 1862-02-20

Va 'sas'eiA 1eAaS. Inefe 49, no riChf
region in the South than the one who's
travel and products will DO ser
d through this city when this great lin
B Hot road is completed. Instead of
Il tedious, expensive and uncertain ion,
8ney by little stern wheel boats owe
the almost dry bed and the innurnera
II bic sand-bars Of Red River, traveller
will have o cheap, speedy and delight
u Aful trip Of half as many hours by rail
& road as the river passage requires
Hdays. Those who visited us once
ayear will then appear among us almos
every month. The hum of busy trad,
Twill enliven our stores and our leve,
Will be covered with cotton, grain
cattle and the various products Of
Western Louisiana and Eastern Texas
The Directory Of the Gross 1ete road
with the sevonty-two thousand dollars
worth OF bonds which they will get by
the late act, must finish The road te
the Atchafalaya il q very few months
probably before the end OF The com
ling summer. IF the road extends no
Farther, the advantages Of bringing
that always navigable stream within
two hours travel from us will be very
great to Baton Rouge and to those who
dwell on the banks of that river for
thirty miles above and below. The pro
|6ts of the road too will be doubled by
It's completion, and although it's bus
|incss will not when finished TO the
Atchafalaya be one.ffth as much as
when it shall constitute a part of q
continuous road to Alexandria or
Natel,itoches, yet under it's present
jadieious and economical manage
ment it will become one Of the most
profitable roads in the Confederacy
It's net profits for the past unfavora-
bic year of war have been nearly half
its gross receipts.
Twenty-Five miles and half of the
Central Stem road beginning on the
Atchafalaya are graded and fifteen
thousand cross ties are ready along
the line of the road. Ten miles more
are opened and nearly cleared of tim
Der. The SIX thousand dollars per mile s.
to which this road is entitled will
give it one hundred and thirty five
thousand dollars worth of iron to|
finish the portion now graded, and in|
the course of the present and com
ing year we may reasonably expect
to see fifty miles more Of the road
made rea y for the track. This will
bring us into direct, eheap and speed "
with the richest por-
lions of central Louisiana and renderI
the planters of Rapides and of impor.
tant portions of Avoyelles and St|
Landry independent of Red River and
ts pestilent sand-bars, hallows andl
'alls. When the road is finished t0l
Jotile, q distance of seventy miles, thel
will be entitled to fnoreE
han two hundred and seventy thou
'and acers .of wild lands which are
.mong the best public lands of the
State. Eighty miles of the road are
Under contract at fifteen thousand
Iollars per miles which includes ALL
eccssary rolling stock, depots andh
anls. Deducting the State aid of six
hous and dollars per mile, the roadl
rom the western terminus Of the Crossed
'ete road to the eastern boundary of
lie parish OF Natclitoches will cost the !
ompany only seven hundred andk {
wenty thousand dollars---a road whiche
1ust earn from six to ten thousandk
ollars per month from the day that it
1 completed. The enhanced value Of 7
he now improved lands along the
QUITE of the road will be far more than
he cost of the, road. Hundreds of new
otton and sugar plantations will be9
'pened on lands new uncultivatedM
because Of being without any access to L
market. b
But it is impossible to enumerate on
stimate the benefits certain to rcsnltE
rom the earl y construction of this linea
# railroad. We hope to see il pro-7
ecuted with vigor and that it mayE
eceive from capitalists whatever add
hey can conveniently rendcr.--B. r.
advocate
HgAn exchange has the followings
s an excellent system Of gardcning|
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