New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-22
FRUITS OF PARTICIPATION.

PNAitJ Va utfCAo1tg.
FRUITS OF PACIFICATIOE,
We some days since referred to the
great railroad stretching flom the Chesa-
peake, at Norfolk, to the Ohio river. 1t
will be right line from Cincinnati to the
sea. 1t crosses the mountain ranges at
maximum grade of thirty-one feet to the
mile. That of the Baltimore road is 116
feet. and tina: OF New York ninety.
six. This whole line Of road is pro.
ductive. /: develops the agricultural
products OF cultivated country. Its cen.
trail sections are supported by valley Of
10000 square miles. II threads its way
past universities and colleges which edu.
cate annually 1000 young men. by the
Thermal Springs and the White Sulphur.
1t develops a coal field Of $4,000 square
miles of semi-bituminous and camel coal.
a deposit of brown hematite and other
iron ores, the great Kanawha salt works.
with subordinate minerals of value in the
arts. 1t passes along panorama of pic
turesque and beautiful scenes of nature.
and others to which the strife of man has
given a mournful interest. There is along
this line the greatest wealth Of water
power unobstructed by frost in the Union.
1t may be anticipated that there will
be great rush of immigrants and capital
along this line, and it will doubles be en-
ployed for the transportation Of a great deal
Of trade between the West and the ocean.
1t is along this same line and not at great
distance from it that the canal OF which
structed. While the railroad has been
completed with Northern and foreign
capital, Congress proposes in a pending
bill to appropriate ten million dollars 20.
ward the canal which is to be opened in
free use to the American people. Such
are some of the results to Virginia of hav.
ing accepted the political, as well as mill
tary situation, and of relying rather upon
a rigid devotion to domestic interests in
stead of a perpetual agitation with the
hope that political earthquake will dis
entomb the interests which have been
buried by the throes OF civil waro
An examination Of descriptive Sketch
Of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
awakens us to d sense Of its Importance to
New Orleans. The coal of that country is
thus described: I'm many places the toad.
bed itself cuts veins of the best camel
coal and everywhere this coal lies so that
when mined it can be cheaply dumped
into cars" On the Karawha river lilies
one of the richest mineral regions in the
world The Semi-bitumipous coal of
this region is already deiiveredin New Or
leans by water. as may be also the salt,
lumber, and other products of this region,
legitimately due us. But there IS one
point in which the agencies of this road to
the cotton planters of the South are invaiu.
able. Located along temperate latitude.
with the provisions. fuel a I'd water power
described. what is to prevent the manu-
ldCtuIGIo u SOblOn 4lO41 ILLS do
a most favorable location? Already the
United States manufactures one-third of
our cotton crop. If this business be en-.
larged by adopting such location as We
have described, the factors of New Or
leans will begin to feel the advantage of a
competition between the home and foreign
manufacturer This will advance the
price of raw cotton, so that there will be
no longer the margin which at present ex'
lists between the raw and wrought
material. This difference of price is some.
times SO great that while the planter is
sinking money the spinner is doing very
well. Home manufacturers can help the
planters greatly, because they can afford
to pay better price for the :aw material
than their competitors across the ocean.
The successful prosecution Of the great
work described, by aid Of foreign and
Northern capital. is grea: blessing to the
State within which it is located. It is due
to the confidence which men of capita!
and industry elsewhere have in the integ.
rity of State which has not increased her
State debt since the war, and has only
participated in federal politics to exercise
the rights guaranteed by the constitution.
1t has been shown that our own State.
guided by opposite coUnseis. Wi. t:esiye
incidental advantage from these yewarf,
Of pacifcation.