The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-21
TIE HEW ORLEANS PACIFIC RAIL
ROAD,

The manner in which the President and
directors of this road have gone to work, ani
the earnestness evinced by every one con
nected with the enterprise, are most crafty
ing evidences of determination to push
matters forward till complete success crownf
their efforts. It is a popularity of this
project, and one which promises the happiest
results, that there has been but little talk on
the part of the management, which appears
to understand perfectly that words go for very
little towards building railroads. There have
been fewer meetings, fewer resolutions and
less oratorical gushing about the inception of
this company than we have usually observed
about enterprises of any kind in this locality.
Action has been the watchword from the
first, and the result is that the road is now
fairly under way and can not be stopped
unless our own people are blind to their best
interests and deaf to the plainest and most
convincing arguments. The contract for
grading and clearing the entire line of road
from Alexandra, in Rapides parish, to Mans
field, in DeSoto parish, has been awarded to
Major s. L. James at rate which, we learn,
is very satisfactory to the company. The
grading and clearing from the latter place to |
the Texas line is left to the option of the |
company, and is dependent, we presume,
upon the final selection of terminus.
1t has very wisely been determined to allow
those subscribers to the capital stock of the
company residing in the parishes of Rapides,
Natchitoches and DeSoto to the option of
paying their subscriptions in cash or labor, on
precisely the same terms which have been
greed to by Mejor James, the contractor. As
IN evidence of the rapidity with which the
natter is being pushed, we may mention the
act that three hundred laborers left this
Saturday, morning on steamer with full
upply Of tools, provisions, etc., and they are
0 be followed by an Dther installment Of two
hundred and fifty more men within the next ,
fifteen days. Ii
1t is the purpose of the management to
Increase the number of laborers on the line ,
f the road to one thousand, and this will be !
one, provided the friends of the enterprise q
nd every citizen of New Orleans, and of the I
bove named parishes should count himself =
, that category-will come forward and Il
ssist to the extent of their ability. Every
ody can do something; the poor little, the E
CHI more and every dollar subscribed will a
turn fourfold. @
1t is too early to excite our people on the n
'litical issues of the day, and we shall have IL
Tough of that sort of excitement during b
76 to last us for four years, but it is the very
ne for them to be agitated about railroad 81
nich, when completed, will go far to wipe h,
t the dreadful memories Of the past, and tr
make our fair and loved city put on OF
ce again the robes of prosperity which &C
ould be always worn by the commercial
leen City of the South. The prospects for dc
. coming year are most encouraging nature al
8 smiled upon the labor of the husband 4,
IN, the fields are glistening with abundant ed
Fps, no fell disease has visited our city, and M
r fortunes may now be regarded as at the ~ Ia
n. CO.
The ebb tide has ceased and the flood is SCI
'ut setting in, but let us remember that he
must labor ceaselessly to deserve success -
t cities are what their citizens make them, an
that those people who fold their hands ap
lessly and await in idleness the turn of the col
3 to be waited on to fortune, are not un-
luently left stranded on lee shore. OF
very man whose interests are in this city sui
uld come forward now and help to further lit
enterprise, which is SO necessary to the the
fare of the city. act
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