The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-08-25
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saurhernR Railroad.

Since announcing the completion of
the Big Black river bridge on the line
of the Southern Railroad, running
| from Vicksburg to the Meridian, we
have been favored, through the polite
ness of Messrs. Sells & Co, of this
/ city, with q condensed report of the
annual statement of the President,
made to the stockholders in May last.
The facts embodied in this statement
are important to the citizens OF St.
Louis, and we deem it our duty briefly
to lay them before the public. This
Southern railroad starts from Vicks-
burg and runs due east from the
Mississippi river lao miles to Meridian,
intersecting the N. O.. j. and G. N.
Railroads at Jackson, distant 40 miles
from Vicksburg, and connecting at
Meridian with the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, running North and south, and
with the Selma and Meridian Railroad
running east to Selma 105 miles. The
Southern road, with its Eastern con
nections, says the President affords
the shortest line of railway connecting
the Mississippi river with the Atlantic
ea-board. The distance from Vicks-
burg to Savannah by rail is go miles.
From Charleston to Memphis by rail
it is 755 miles These are the only
two roads that admit of comparison,
as they are the only two east and west
roads between Cairo and New Orleans
that start from the east bank Of the
Mississippi river. The advantage is,
fh aIaSrnnI W,nlyaH,arcr ~
being 50 miles nearer by rail than any
other city situated on the Mississippi
to an Atlantic seaport. Vicksburg, in
point of time, is only four or five days
from st. Louis by steamboat naviga
ton, and ten or twelve hours from
Selma by railway. With the IA miles
of railroad finished between Mont
gomery and Selma, three hours more
would take freight train to Mont
gomery; six hours more to Columbus,
Georgia, and six or seven hours more
to Macon. The President further OBJ
serves that st. Louis has not, nor can
she have, any direct railroad cnnnec-
tion with the Gulf States. Her position.
200 miles above Cairo, on the west
bank of the Mississippi river, debars
her from that privilege, /, but she has tn
finest navigation facilities in the world
and her citizens are largely interested
in the steamboat business. She has
any amount ofmeans for water trans
portation, and Vicksburg offers her
the benefit of road built to heI hand,
and ready at once to transport her
cargoes of produce into new regions
which she has never heretofore traded
with. Such are the geographical linn
it's and connections of this road, and
the advantages it presents for the dis
seminatIon of the products received at
this market through sections Of the
South which have heretofore been
closed against our trade. The finest
cotton districts of Alabama and Ge
gia are opened up, and all that remai
to make the new field available is
little energy on the part of our mer-
chants. five are energetic in secu-
ring the shipment of grain and other
produce from the Northwest, obliga-
ton is imperative to find ready and
paying markets for their disposition
and as receipts steadily increase, the
number of consumers should be cor
respondingly enlarged. No effort,
therefore, should be omitted which can
aid in the increase of our trade rels..
tions, and all connections, wherever
consummated, which fixes on this point
the characteristic ofbeing the distribu-
ting center-the exchange mart 70
Northern and Southern productio
should receive the attention and sup
port of our people.-St. Louis Demo-
crat 18th.