New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-13
New Orleans and Her RaiIroads-New
Orleans a Coal and IRON Depot-The
Cotton Trade of AIabama-New Or
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New Orleans and Her RaiIroads-New
Orleans Coal and Iron DepOt-The
Cotton Trade of AEabama-New Or
leans the Hub OF the Universe.
| We reproduce from the Aberdeen, Missis-
sippi, Examiner an interesting article on
| New Orleans and hor railroads. A CLOWN :
picture is presented Of what New Orleans
+ would be with railroad through Aber-
deem, penetrating into Alabama, The Ec-
omjner says
New Orleans is subscribing aid to another
+! Texas railroad We find the following in
the last issue of the PicGy1,nc: "The rail
road committee appointed to canvass the
city for subscriptions have obtained $685.
| 600 This is enough to warrant us saving
that the railroad will be built"
If New Orleans would employ this $685.,
| 900 in the completion Of the New Orleans
and jackson railroad to this point it would
! amount to $500 mile ON Beyenty-eight
miles of the road north of KOsciusko, and
| would compel McComb to complete the
road, in accordance with his contract, and
this city and county would cOni0intly cheer
| fully issue their bonds to the subscribers for
$4,000 OF that amount, or pledge them
selves to invest that sum in a narrow gauge
road from here to the coal and iron regions
of Alabama, thus providing the main line
with an enormous feeder, and making New
Orleans great coal and iron depot
# this road was completed to Aberdeen,
New Orleans would receive from this depot
alone at least two-thirds Of the cotton crop
OF Marion, Fayette, Walker and Pickens
counties, Alabama, and almost all Of the
crop of Monroe, Itawamba and Tishomingo
counties, Mississippi, besides large por-
ton of the crop of Lee, Lowndes. Chicka-
saw, Prentiss and Colfax counties, and
largely divide that portion Of the crop of
other counties now tributary TO Mobile:
In ADDITION to this, she would control the
grocery trade Of the vast and populous re-
gion named, besides competing with East
ern and Western cities in all other lines.
Her hotels would always be crowded with
our people, as they were twenty years ago
when she cOurted our patronage and abb
sorbed our capital in her road bed below
Canton Our ladies would help to enrich
her iewelry and millinery dealers; our
planters would use her iron ties and agri-
cultural machinery; our people would iber-
ally subscribe to her papers, her great
wholesale drug houses would receive the
patronage that goes far toward supporting
that line i'll Louisville, and we would re-
lapse into the old habit of considering New
Orleans the "Hub OF the Universe to
which all Southerners were naturally at
tracted, instead of, as now, an almost il
dCCtSSlUl6 HCSCct 10 huACu d Is
due, but which it will not pay us to ''9isit
on business" and to which we can hardly
afford to go for pleasure.
The extension of this road to Aberdeen
which would be Immediately followed BY
its being completed through Alabama to the
Tennessee river at DeCatur-can be accom-
plshed within year by the investment of
the S585,000 referred to, and would be
paying enterprise from the first, as it would
penetrate populous, productive and
wealthy country, that it would build up in
the interest of New Orleans more rapidly
than any road can build up Texas
New Orleans is starving over her South
sea schemes, while Cincinnati, Memphis
st. Louis New York, Chicago and Mobile
are laying traps to rob her Of all her Mis-
sssippi valley trade.
If the subscription mentioned by the
Picagune Is bona fide let it by all means be
diverted into channel where it will at
once rebound TO her benefit. Let her re-
sumo her ancient sway over the immense
territory that has been wrested from her
by pigmies that are only powerful while
giants sleep. Let her complete this great
road-her own road and our pet enter
prise-while she has the money in hand,
and become what she once was and always
should be-the entrepot of an empire
Remember that sooner or later Texas will
empty her wealth into her own ports and
those of the Pacific coast, but that the trade
of this territory must reach the sea either
at New Orleans or Savannah-the former if
We consult our hearts, the latter if. the
former refuses US the aid that her own best
interests should move her to extend,