The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-02-04
CAIRO AND FULTON RAIL.
ROAD.
ITS ROUTE, ITS ADVANTAG Els
AND ITS PROSPECTS.

Correspondence st. Louis Democrat
NEWPORT, Ark, January 70, 1873.
Arrived by engine in u good state OF
bodily preservationj the first passenger
and only representative of the newspaper
fraternity up to date, over one of the great
links in the in ternationnl chain, which is
soon to connect st. Louis commercially
with Mexico and the Pacific.
ROUTE.
a reference to the map will show that
the Cairo and Fulton railroad occupies an
almost direct line between the railroad
system Of Texas, seeking northern out
let, and those on the southern boundary OF
Missouri which run 10 the cit
les of st. Louis and Missouri.
This route was selected after care
full and minute surveys, and thoroug Ia
examination Of tho country, it being at
once the shortest, cheapest and most direct
line between the termini. Ia total
length of sol miles it exceeds an airline
only $40 miles its grades are nowhere
greater than fifteen feet to the mile, and
TOR two hundred miles the road Is almost
level with track Of tish-plate rail sixty
pounds to the yard The position of tho
line will be found as valuable for local
business as it appears for through business.
1t puts in communication fifteen of the
choicest counties Of the state; running
close to most Of tho county seats, and pass
ing the capital Of the state, Little Rock
population 10000, it will give railway
facilities to nearly 10000, or
one-iour!h the present popu-
hitherto been without means of communi-
cation, except by dirt roads or river, in
climate in which tho winters are 50 mild
that tho stock live upon grass and cane of
the bottoms the winter through without be-
ing taken up or fed, The Indian summer
lasts until the middle Of January, the
ground seldom freezing deeper than three
inches. The region is free from drouth
and extremes OF wet or dry seasons, pecu-
liar to more northern ATTITUDES. This sec
ton, as well as other parts of Arkansas, is
the only part OF the United States pro-
tected against violent winds. The Ozark
mountains, running from the Indian Ma
ton through Missouri 10 near st. Louis,
perform for this country the same office
the Alps do for Italy. The mean temper
atuere for the year makes u showing for
the months Of January Of as degrees, July
and August 81 degrees Fab. A new era
has dawned upon this beautiful
and productive country. The
bottoms, hills and valleys now so
lhinly settled, can be directly reached in
but few hours by the Cairo and Fulton
railroad, and emigrants from the Eastern
states and the Old World, instead of NOV
ing in the direction Of the northwest, a
country possessing less natural advanta-
ges and Resources, will make their homes
in this, the land Of fruitfullness and salu-
brious climate. the Switzerland Of the
Southwest. The landowners generally
find they have too much land and gladly
welcome the immigrant. Immigrants no.
where in tho United States will be more
respected and encouraged than by the citi-
zens and landowners of this part of the
country, and nowhere are the induce
ments so varied and SO great as to those
who desire to better their condition, to
farmers, mechanics, laborers and capital
lists, than are offered along this great
thorougbfare to the Southwest There arc
millions of acres of land still unimproved
susceptible Of high state of cultivation
much Of which produces ono bale Of cot.
ton, and very, very frequently one bale
and half to the acre. The result is APP
parent with cotton at seventeen cents and
an upward tendency, on 500 pounds to
the bale. The planter eommences pillow.
Jog the first of February, and cotton
pl,nted from tho fr,t Of March to tho
middle of May. On, hand with a one
horse plow can cultivate thirteen acres of
cotton, or ten acres Of cotton and five acres
of corn. There is Mt least two weeks diff
ference in the time Of the rpenng Of vege-
tables and fruits in the central portions of
Arkansas, and in the neighborhood Of St.
Louis, and the time via the Cairo and Full