The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-07-29
Trenton and Fulton RaiirOnd.

on Red river before this road can be
sire to drop one thought for the think
ing people Of Trenton, Monroe, Eick--
burg and New Orleans.
All the country West and Northwest
of Fulton will raise for marker, the same
that now finds sale in st. Louis, from
all the vast territory West and North
Of that city. This world OF produce is
seek ing Il Southern market through 81.
Louis. Now suppose this road from
Trenton to Fulton completed, where
will they go to find ready sale at the
best prices: Will they go North,
where like articles are raised in album
dance, and that abundance seeking a
Southern market? viii they go to ST.
Louis, the great city that i, now mai,-
ing arrangements I" supply the whole
Southern country?
Is it not reasonable to any rejecting
mind that all Northeastern Texas and
the vast territory of the Northwest
will seek II Southern market by The
any course will be better than by st.
Louis: Is it not natural that they viii
seek the most direct route to reach the
heart of the South: Amy commercial
mind will see in Il moment that this
people will avoid st. Louis, and at
once come in competition with her III
the South. That they will look for the
most direct and cheapest route, and
hunt for a market where they will ind
the least competition.
Nov look for one moment at this
Trenton 4 Fulton road, penetrating
this Northwestern country. Suppose
Fulton to be the terminus for time
here centres the rich products Of the
West and Northwest. What
will it take from Fulton"
the Ouachita, surrounded by the finest
cotton lands in the world. Here it
meets with the finest Gtcs mboat nnVi-
cation, and taken dire to Rev Or
leans, and in the ronte, p..ssing..throueh
the rich vallieS of the Duachita and
Black rivers, and two hundred milea
of the Mississippi, each mile Of which
will seek it's grain and meat from the
Northwest. 200 miles will unload the
freight ut Nicksburg, and in return
will carry back goods and. merchan-
die from Nicksburg, in exchange. for
corn, pork and beef.
1t does seem to us that tick4h,irr
should drop all her notions about
Eastern roads, and look to the North
west for her future greatness. If she
ton Il ILulton road, she would become
one of the great Store-hOlses OF that
people. rms is as true as gospel. What
an immense freight aud business would
pass over the road from Monroe to
Vicksburm. What will these gentle
men do:
Gentlemen of Trenton and Monroe,
do you not see the millions OF trade. in
this Northwestern country, and win
you still say that the building OF one
hundred and twenty miles Of road il
not ieasiDIe WIN YOU refuse to act
and suffer the world to take ID, yun,
Il vast trade that is yours if You will
only reach out and take it?
1t will take but little TO build this
road on the n11o~ 9"',ye, and if New
orleans, Nicksburg, Monroe and rrcn-
ton in connection with the people along
the line, will only come to the work in
earnest we can, in eighteen months tap
at Fulton, the valley OF upper Red
Ouachit., that valuable trade SO much
desired by New orleans, Eirlehurg
and st. Louis.
Now the people OF rreuiu;.. in con
nrction with the people alon% the line,
propose to build this road from rren-
ton TO Fulton. 1t il due to these ,cu.
pie to say that the ru:ui would have
now been in operation, bu, for the nm
timely action OF the Governor in Veto
ing the charter, granted two years ago It
was represented to him that this road
would run parallel with the road from
Monroe to shreveport. such WAS not
the fact then, nor now, and even If il
was il il certainly Il poor excuse Tor
OF their country. Had it not been for
this i'll timed veto, this road would
now be emptyinn' the produce Of the
the Northwest in the store houses of
of immense freight to the rail