Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-08-05
Enserprise--LocaI and General.


gradual and sure development of such
movements as must ultimately lead
to enterprises Of great general and
local Importance. We observe in
various sections OF the South, that
the people have already taken the
initiative with reference TO this sub
iect, and that all the means and
appliances which capital and skilltul
industry can command are being
vigorously used in pushing ahead
works of great practical good. Rail
roads and telegraphs are becoming
pretty generally reestablished and
old lines of intercommunication re-
opened whilst in some sections, new
enterprises of the kind have been
projected with fair prospects OF mn
early completion. From Richmond
To Mobile, M we learn, travel is now
open by railroad and steamboat, with
but few gaps in the continuity OF the
lines. The various companies, says
the Richmond Bulletin, have devoted
themselves to the labor of repairing
the roads with commendable alacrity,
and Notwithstanding the immensely
of the work, have placed the roads
throughout the South in running
order. The only drawback ut pres
ent to Immediate travel is the vacuum
caused at intervals, by tho destruc-
ton Of important and extensive
bridges, which require tune Tor re-
building, but AZ the absence OF those
does not necessarily restrict travel
the facilities of locomotion, as we
learn from Our Southern exchanges,
are such as to allow free travel
throughout the States.
The work Of repairing the roads,
in the matter Of laying down new
sleepers and rails, is generally over.
The General Government has au-
thoriaed John w. GARRETT, Esq,
President Of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, to sell ut n fair valuation
to the southern railroads, all the stock
belonging to the U. $. Government,
trusting the roads for the payments,
which are to be made out of the re-
ceipts from business. This is both
liberal and wise, and will be gain
to the Government, inasmuch ~ it
will realize much better profits from
the sale Of its surplus stock to the
railroad companies than it could from
any other source. The companies
will also be afforded facilities by this
measure for returnishing their roads,
which they could not obtain else
where.
The Memphis and Ohio Railroad,
as we learn by the Memphis Areus,
is progressing finely, the work of
repairing that important artery of
communication having begun in ear
nest. A large number of operatives
are at work upon it, and but little
difficulty is experienced in procuring
the requisite number Of hands from
the many oilers, both black and
white, who are found all along the
line.
In like manner we might speak OF
similar successes attending the prose
cution of work along the tracks Of
the New Orleans and Jackson, and
the New Orleans and Opelousas
roads, the Mississippi Central and
other roads in Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, &c,
Coming TO particular localities
nearer home, our attention is arrested
by one of those aourishing enter
prises of the past, which, owing to the
war, became as dead, to all purposes
Of practical utility, as the labyrinth
Of Crete would prove in carrying out
our modern notions of travel and
transportation. We allude to the
Baton Rouge and Crosse 1'ete Rail-