The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-05-10
FROM CAIRO TO THE PACIFIC
COAST.
THE GREATEST HIGHWAY OF
THE COUNTRY.
A POSY AND REASnNABLE VIEW
OF A BIO project.
LITTLE ROCK ASPIRING TO
REtiNr,~

The following we Ind IA she DaI.y ~
kansas Gazette, ruoiished at Licl
Rock
The A'kan.s branch 1T the Jro,
Mountain, tbs CAIRO ahd Fulton uiI tb,
International runway of IuXH- are Il, ;
tined to b1 the grestest commercial higb
~sys IN tho continent. H.. "a r.,
branch Uf tbe main road may possibly be.
come the main stein at the route, ustsnd
~ the Arkansa. braucb Ui the Iron Noun.
tain. From Cairo to Fulton l. almost an
mr. line; from Fulton to L,red.,. on IT..
Mo Grunde, tho line uf the International
railway 10 nearly nn airline; and from
LAREDO To Mazitisn, on the Gull Of Calf
iofnis, ~ abOtb"r air.linr--thus inakttg
nearly an AIRLINE from Cairo TO Ma.
Shllan. At I,fcdo the International viii
FORM Junction WIN branch road 70 tb.
rity 81 Mexico and wish o'hrr roads lend.
ing INTO the interior oi the 81 can state.
Iii" Cairo branch of the ,ai,oibd Ful.
Ton railroad will be completed IN "A vory
short time. The South.rn division T th.
Cairo a1d Fulton from Ltd. Rock viii
be IN operation by the end Of summer.
BY that time the International railway vii
meet the Caro- aud Fulton, thus irving "a,
dife,t communication with San Antonio;
sld ~ le.s than another year with Lare-
DO. Thus the greatest highway on the
continent will be compl-te1 10 the bor-
ders OF Mexico, there forming CONNECTION
Win the pro- 'ctsd railway system OF
Mexico
Those who have ho.u of the opinion
that The Southern Pacific railway, which (
erOss-- tho International alta point not far
IRON T-knrcana, will carry ali the traffic
from MericJ via Shreveport and Weeks .
burg, Will hnd that main traffic at the
point OF Intersection viii take the natural |
route, the Cairo and Fulton, ana on which |
the commercial current which flows from
sill point. To- New York, via Cairo or ST.
LOUIS. Ia addition TO this, the trad. from
Mexico viii be larger than this main
Irunk line can accommodate without n /
double track. "" repeat, the C-iro and
Fulton and the International railway of
! ern will be the greatest highway. ia the
I ou1try. Nature has made IL so. All
other crossing or branching Of from tins
main line will be feeders TO IT,
There IL one thirg certain: The dsyrl.
upment of the country That will he wrought
by these mighty enterprises will not onl,
render necessary the establishment Of \
territorial govern nent in the Indian
buI the aunoxstion Of Mexico
The latter has been q barrier - civiiiza-
tion long enough. Inc un,tsbl. govern
ment In shat cYuntry r.nuers anne1at"n
necessary. II IL n country which ought TO
and will sometime furnish to the L nitcd
states oil the coffee aud .u-
gar II requires, and this rsffic
will lind an cutie, over The
Int,.n.s,oo.l aud C.iru and rui,ou
being the shortest ropte t. the
East The gold sad silver mines Of Mex
leo are richer than those Of C,nfprni, snd
Peru are to-day. But this last i. not the
,ru wealth. II Is in the coffee, sugar AID
cotton production, with the topical ffuis
all within three or four Jsy. distance bv
rail of neatly every market at the United
states, the true source If tho wealth and
future greatness Of Mexico and the hole
South consists. Us magnitude cannot ba ,
foretold. To develop all this the Cairo aud I
Fulton and international railway. will do /
IN re than everything else combined
And great city will grow up on this
line, either in Eastern TcSR. or Arkansas
shall il lie Little Rock ST. Loli- i too
far north TO injure va. and We are too far
.ou,h 10 affect that great city. LIT.
Rock has everything in her favor, and BY
pushing her railway connections south ,
and west, she may become that city. She ,,
has the start OF Sherman, Danison, and all
other Texas towns, and can be made, a.
The will BE- with proper energy. the queen
,ity Of the South. Possibly all this may
'ouni like dream to some, bu. ii
ihese will think for moment how
20 N We will be connected on almost m
air line with Meyico--which will be sure
10 be accomplished in less than a year
and take the map and study it. they cam
n ot but come to the conclusion that the
Cairo and Fulton and International rail
WAYS will form the greatest grand trunk
in the system of American railways. not
excepting even the Union Pacific. which, {
A large portion vt tho year, is rendered
" orthless by reason of the snow, and that
T ecessi,y DEGREES the building OF a great
Southern city Daily Arkansas Gnzette. ,
ROMAN CATHOLIC STATISTICS. ,
The Illness Of Tue pope seems TO have
given impulse to the publication of ko-