New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-13
NEW ORLEANS AND TEXAS.

NEW ORLEANS AND TEXAS.
Thousands of people residing in New
Orleans and Texas are anxiously awaiting
the completion of the New Orleans. Mo-
bile and Texas railroad; and the assur-
ance that has recently been given to the
public by G. W. R. Bayley, Esq, super
intendent and chief engineer Of this road,
that it will be finished to Houston, may
be encouraging to those persons VINO
have doubted the intention of the COM
pany to build the road to that place. We
know that some persons have doubted
the completion of this work. The same
persons doubted the intention of the
company to complete the road between
Mobile and New Orleans. But that road
has been finished nearly year, and is in
successful operation. The same COM
pany have finished their road from this
city to Donaldsonville, and will soon
make daily trips, we are informed, be-
tween the two places. The work
to Texas is even progressing be-
yond Donaldsonville. But the peo-
pie of Texas, and that portion
of Louisiana through which the road will
pass, and New Orleans, are most anxious
to know when the road will reach Hous-
ton. They have always believed that the
company intended to build the road, but
they are now becoming a little impatient
to know when it will be finished and in
successful operation. We believe the
company undertook to complete it in
wenty-eight months from the granting
of its charter. The public would be
gratified to know that the prospects, good
to have the law complied with in al re-
spects. If the road to Houston is to be
completed in accordance with the law as
it now stands, our people may rest as
sured that it will not be many months be-
fore the iron horse will be snorting
through the prairies of Louisiana and
Texas on the road to Houston. New Or
leans has too much interest in the opening
Of railroad communication with Texas
10 allow the work to lag behind the re-
luirements of the law. The business
men and property-holders should recol-
ect the exertion that is being made by the
business men and property-holders of st.
Louis and other Western cities to sap the
rade of the Crescent City, and by evinc-
ng some Of their energy and enterprise,
pur up the company to the completion
Il the road to Houston and other roads
hat are calculated to counteract the
forts of our rivals in trade. We must
re up and doing, if We would make New
orleans what nature has designed her to
e-the chief city of the South and South
rest.
A branch of the New Orleans, Mobile
nd Texas railroad is to extend from YER
llllonvllle to Shreveport by way of Alex
ndria, extending over a distance of two
undred miles. A charter for this branch
as obtained from the last Legislature, in
hich it is provided that the survey of
nd road should be commenced within
months after the passage of said char s
T into law. Five months of the time ,
I'VE already expired and yet nothing, We {
e informed, has been done toward COM ,
encing this very important public work. $
be charter secures to the company, We
lieve, sixteen thousand dollars Der
lie for the building of said rail- a
ad, and two and half millions G
dollars in the shape of State c
nds are secured to the company, and an a
sessment of one-half per cent to pay the S
Eerest on the bonds has been ordered by l
State Auditor. 1t is believed this a
amen will prove most valuable addi- II
n to the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas p
I'd, and why the work has not been COM ie
'nced is a mystery to our people. They tt
We every confidence in the financial tt
|lity, energy and business capacity of Of
gentlemen composing the company, h
4 can not account for the apparent de-
IN its extension. 1t would cost no
re money oput on sufficient number
bands. and complete it within the time IS
scribed by law, than to let it drag 10
ng with small force With the same de- III
to complete this road rapidly an
was evinced in the building Of the IS
rthern Pacific railroad, it might be ~
Fly asserted that it will be completed 9. "a
next spring. IL
on
CONTRAST, BUT NO COMPARISON, tai
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