The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-06-03

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Hos ConnoSaions nnd Prospects
H. We have examined with much interes
the Eight Annual Report of DIR. Eman
l,sel. PRESIDENT of -Vieksburg and Nc
ridian Railroad Company.
The company have been compelled Il
encounter great difficulties in maintaining
1.-THE road, but there is occasion for congrat
uIation that they have overcome thu
worst, and that prosperous career may
henceforward be confidently anticipated
Though owing to causes not possible o.
control by human effort, the business o.
the road the last fiscal year fell below thai
of the year previous, but while this oc
CURED, the expenses exhibit decrease Of
one hundred and thirty-three thousand
dollars in the operating expenses. The
President states that this result was due
to the improved condition of the road and
the adoption Of a strictly cash system by
which its urgent expenses have been
promptly met as they accrued.
Under the skiliful management of the
General Superintendent, Col. Raworth,
the condition of the road has been vastly
improved. A considerable number of I'M
safe and badly worn rails have been re-
placed cross-ties have been
inserted at various points of the line
and the road has been extensively ditched
and ballasted. 1t ought to be especially
mentioned to the credit of the managers
of the road that but three accidents oc-
CURED during the past year, one from a
broken rail, and the other two from the
bad condition of cars belonging TO other
companies; and that no person received
bodily injury.
A new depot has been erected at Gin
ton, the past year, and it is in contempla-
ton soon to build others at Newton and
Morton.
Much is hoped for by the managers of
the road from the increase of local bust
ness consequent upon the recuperation Of
the country from the devastating effects
of the war; and doubtless they will use
their utmost efforts TO encourage this
character Of business by reducing the
rates of travel and freights to the lowest
standard. But in the completion of the
great railroad systems Of which it must be-
come part, rests the certainty of its ulti-
mate prosperity. In time for the fall
b,e;pass - nil oo,,,,o..t ,,-.4l . - a
road from Vicksburg to Monroe, La, a
distance of 70 miles A road is being
constructed from Monroe to Shreveport.
which are about 20 miles apart, aud at
this latter point, connection will be made
with the Shreveport and Marshall (Texas)
road, distance ofabout 40 miles. "The
State of Texas" says the report,
made munifcent grants Of land rs an
9 inducement to the government and cap
Z" italists TO build a road through the
" State from Marshall to FL Paso. II
this road were built from Vicksburg 10
Shreveport, it would be powerful lever
" for re-instating the public interest in
behalf of the Southern Pacific Railroad
"on the line Of the 32d parallel This
is the project which the Convention at
Memphis, representing twenty-five States
so emphatically espoused. 1t requires no
prophetic eye to discover that this mag
nifcent undertaking will be speedily nc
complished. The necessities ofcommerce |
will not admit of delay. The Northern
route recently contemplated will but de-
monstrate the need Of it and quicken the |
resolution to build it,
On the subject of this Southern Pacific |
Railroad the following extracts from the
the report of DIR. Emanuel, deserve to be
reproduced here:
"That will be much the shortest, and least
costly route 10 build between the two oceans,
decidedly the cheapest line 10 maintain and |
operate, and will be greatly preferred by |
passengers and shippers on account Of It's
passing through a country blessed with a
mnd and delightful climate nc all seasons of
the year. In passing through North Lou
isiana and Texas, IL will develope a region
of the most fertile lands in the United States
admirably adapted TO the production of
cotton, wheat, corn, and affording an unlim-
tied supply OF cattle, besides which II would
open the way to the rich mineral regions |
that abound in Arizona. The line, starting
from Savannah or Charleston, would inter-
sect the great Father Of Waters at Vicks-
burg, 673 miles from the former, and about
40 from Charleston, thence through the
rich alluvial lands of North Louisiana TO
Shreveport, distance about l00 miles-thence
due West through the most productive and
pOpulous portion Of Texas TO FL Paso, about
$50 miles-and THENCE to San Diego, in CAL
ifornia, about go miles.
I'm very able Majority Report submit
ted to the l.. >. SenatesOn the 10Th of Febru-
airy. 1869, by Mr.. Stewart, chairman OF the |
Committee on the Pacific Railroad, on the
policy of extending Government aid TO adj
ditlonal Railroads between the Atlantic and |
Pacific, strong grounds are taken in favor
Of building two additional trunk lines
tend that one line is insufficient
that with the present population and
business of California Utah, Colorado, Me-
braska, Oregon, Nevada and Dacota, the sim
gle track railroad from Omaha TO San Fran
cisco will be wholly incapable of perform
ing the service that will be required of 1t
that the local traffic viii Immediately be-
come so large, and the through traffic SO inn
mense, that when TO both of these Is added \
the trade from China, Japan and India, it Is
clear that a single track railroad cannot /
possibly do the business that will be crowd
ed on 1.-THE road will clog-and what ser
vice will be performed will be done under
such disadvantages as to damage the char
acter of the new route from India TO Europe,
discomfort shippers, and make wide spread
trouble.
"The Committee are sure, that within a
year after the Union Pacific is opened. lit
will be unequal to the traffic that will be |
crowded upon IL. They object that the gra-
dients and curves Of the line at It's passage |
Of the Sierra Nevada, presents difficulties of