Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-17
ARKANSAS.
What she Is Doing in Railroad Construction
cheering Progress.
The Memphis and Little Rock Railroad to be
Completed by the First of Iuly---
Per Contra.

The Pine Bluff Weekly Press says
that from almost every portion of
the State come cheering sOunds-nOt
the noise of visionary and vapOring
stump sAators, but the ~ceaseless thud
of the PICK, and the clear ring Of the
hammer and ak.
First in the order of time and con-
structiOn is the Memphis and Little
Rock road. The short gap between
LAnguille and White river Thirty
miles will be completed by the list OF
July. ThetWO cities of Memphis and
Little Rock will then be connected by
rail.
The Little Rock and Fort Smith
Railroad is looming up to view.
Work upon this road, which has so
long been in allegiance, is being pushed
rapidly forward. The a r are now
running out several miles from Little
Rock and by the close of the year it is
said the trains will be thunderingintO
Lewisburg-which is far on the way
to Fort Smith. Already, we learn
through the Gazette, $500, 900 of State
bonds have been awarded the COM
pany. because of twenty miles of the
track being graded and ready for the
rails.
The NJ. o. and r. r. r. is looking
up. A considerable force is busily at
work upon it. Iron and locomotives
have already, it is stated, been shipped
to Eunice; and from the Camden Jour
nal, we gather that twenty miles of
the road will be completed and in
running order by the end of the year.
1t will not be long thereafter that the
cars will be running into Camden.
The Helena and Iron Mountain
road is in able and energetic hands,
which are not idle. We recently re-
ceived a repoY from its indefatigable
secretary, SoC. McCabe, which pre-
sented a veTy favorable exhibit. Be
fore, almost, we are aware of it, the
trains will come stealing down Crow
ley's Ridge, and will enter Helena.
"a company has been organized and
a charter obtained for the White River
Valley Railroad. This road is to ex-
tend from ~JacksonpOrt Tor rather the
Missouri line), to DeNalPs Bluff, with
a continuation important to us), to
Pine Bluff and on to Camden. The
company is taking steps at once to
build the road through the valley of
White river.
An important railroad line, also,
through Northern and Northwestern
Arkansas is being agitated.
In every direction we see signs of
activity, work, toll, determination,
except at home.
And yet this section of the State
Outstrips all others in its wealth of
natural resources.
The road, too, from DeValPs Bluff
to Pine Bluff is the shortest, least
costly, and most easily constructed of
any that is contemplated.
In the ace of these things what ex-
cuse, what apology can there be for
further inactiOn?
Indeed it is nothing short of eyre
gious folly, deliberate suicide.
PER CONTRA.
The Meridian Miss Gazette, con-
trary to so much of the above as g
fers to the Memphis and Little Rock
Railroad, says:
The news that we get from Arkan-
sas is not calculated to advance the
interest of General FremOnt's bill,
now before Congress, in behalf of the
Memphis link of the Southern Pacific
Railway. The Memphis and Little
Rock Railroad is announced "under
water" and such scraps of infOrma-
ton are generally given to the public
with every light freshet in that sec
ton. Bad management may yet lose
to Memphis the realization of the fond
hopes she INDUCED in relative to
the FL Paso line. Let Nicksburg
and Meridian take warning from
the Indifference of Memphis and
endeavor to regain lost time
and progress of the last ten
years. Let us push forward the iron
bands that subdue the wilderness and
stamp civilization upon the wilds of
the world, to the border empire, to
the valleys of the beautiful ella, and
the mountains of gold quartz, copper
and lead that lie awaiting the pick
and spade Of the miner. We can
make the line via Meridian, Vicks-
burg, Shreveport and Marshall, the
grand trunk route by a little exertiOn
and enterprise.