The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-22
THE NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC RAIL-
ROAD.

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!, The manner in which the President an
directors of this road have gone to work, AM
the earnestness evinced by every one con
nected with the enterprise, are most crafty
ing evidences of determination to pusl
matters forward till complete success crown
their efforts. 1t is a popularity Of thi
project, and one which promises the happies
results, that there has been but little talk OF
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 o.
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 Alexandria, in Rapides parish, to Mans
Major S. L. James at a 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
agreed to by Major James, the contractor. As
an evidence of the rapidity with which the
matter is being pushed, We may mention the
fact that three hundred laborers left this
Saturday morning on a steamer with a full
supply of tools, provisions, etc., and they are
to be followed by an other installment of two
hundred and fifty more men within the next
fifteen days.
1t is the purpose of the management to
increase the number of laborers on the line
of the road to one thousand, and this will be
done, provided the friends of the enterprise
and every citizen of New Orleans and of the
above named parishes should count himself
in that category-will come forward and |
assist to the extent of their ability. Every.
body can do something; the poor little, the
.ich more, and every dollar subscribed will
return fourfold
1t is too early to excite our people on the
political issues of the day, and we shall have
enough of that sort of excitement during
S76 to last US for four years, but it is the very
ime for them to be agitated about railroad
which, when completed, will go far to wipe
'ut the dreadful memories of the past, and
o make our fair and loved city put on
nee again the robes of prosperity which
hould be always worn by the commercial
queen City of the South. The prospects for
he coming year are most encouraging, nature
as smiled upon the labor of the husband
IAN, the fields are glistening with abundant
rops, no fell disease has visited our city, and
ur fortunes may now be regarded as at the !
1rn. IL
The ebb tide has ceased and the food is
bout setting IN, but let us remember that c
q must labor ceaselessly to deserve success =
lat cities are what their citizens make them, /
nd that those people who fold their hands
stlessly and await in idleness the turn of the
de to be waited on to fortune, are not un- /
9 quently left stranded on a lee shore.
Every man whose interests are in this city a
lould come forward now and help to further Z
is enterprise, which is so necessary to the q
slfare of the city. o