The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-06-17
THE LOUISIANA PACIFIC AND THE
CITY or DALLAS.

From brief notice In the New Or
leans Picayune of recent date, which
we republish IN this issue, 1t will be
seen that there has been an organiza'
tion, or reorganization, of what
IL now called the Louisiana Pacific
Railway company. Whether this IL
some OF the old companies under u
new name, or an entirely new organi-
cation, we are not Informed. Neither
do we learn anything as to the route to
be followed, or the objective point,
TeXas-ward, to be reached. We think,
however, that the bestinterests OF New
Orleans .requiresthat this new company
shall hold aloof from any entangling
alliances with the old organizations,
which have so long deluded the people
of two states with their frequently re-
newed and always broken promises.
These things have been so often re-
peated that the people, most interested,
have lost all faith in congratulations"
A new company, with new men at its
head, would give them much more
confidence.
In the list of directors we
recognize the names of some of the
most substantial and reliable business
men of New Orleans. Such men as
S. II. Kennedy, Louis Schneider and
John Phelps are n guarantee that some
thing better il contemplated than n
gigantic swindle, such as was perpe-
trated upon the people of Louisiana by
the manipulators of the Mobile, New
Orleans and Texas Railway company.
They mean business, and that business
Is to place New Orleans and Texas in
communication at the earliest time
possible, and by the route which will
contribute most to the prosperity OF
the two states. Not that they will be
actuated by any sentimental benevo-
lence toward us, but in order to make
the road q paying one to New Orleans,
II must tap that portion of Texas
which would pay her the heaviest
tribute. A glance ut the map will
enable any one at AL familiar with
the resources of Texas and of south
western Louisiana, to appreciate the
enormous superiority of n route from
New Orleans to Vermillionville,
thence to Dallas ria Palestine. The
lumber from the forests of long leaf
pine, equal to that of Florida, which the
road would traverse, all the way from
Abbeville, Louisiana, to Palestine, Tex
as, would alone furnish heavy traffic
10th ways; while Southern Texas now
without railway facilities, would become
wholly dependent upon New Orleans.
AT Palestine II would make connection
with the International and Great. Nor
thern railrt adj, aud thus establish bust
ness relations with the great cotton.
hide, cattle and wool producing regions
ofSouthern, Soutllwest ern and Western
Texas. At Dallas 1t would reach,
the heart of the finest wheat
region In the United States, snd cot
ton country whiah-is mob surpassed by
any portion of the state. Here New
Orleans, besides having whatever prof
II she could derive from the trade of
northern Texas, would be placed In
communication with Kansas, western
Missouri and Colorado, by a shorter
line than Is possible by any existing
route; and when the Texas aud Pacific
shall have been completed to San
Diego, which sooner orIater 1t must |
be, It is at this point that New Orleans
would form her nearest connection
with this great trans-continental thor
oughfare, and receive her share Of the