The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-29
THE TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD.

| The Central Pacific Railroad, which has fol
so many years sat upon California like hid.
eous nightmare, crippling her energies and
blighting her interests, has awakened an op.
position which cannot be crushed, and which
will never rest until California shall have 9
great competing line connecting her with the
rest of the Union.
One of the principal points, and we may
say the vital point, in the next campaign in
the State will be the question of maintaining
the present railroad monopoly on the one
side, and on the other Of aiding the con struc-
ton Of the Texas Pacific, to which the people
are looking hopefully as the means whereby
they are to be relieved from an onerous
burthen which they have borne SO long.
The parties may be called BY other names.
but they will virtually consist of friends OF
the Central Pacific on the one side aud oppo-
nents on the other. Almost every other
question win be swa.lo we'd up in that issue,
which is really Of the most tremendous i'm
portance. gg4 frgia n !
With the people Of California clamorous
for the Texas Pacific, it may be regarded as a
certainty of the near future. and New Or
leans should be pushing forward her road
rapidly to connect with it.
We have no time to lose and the sooner we
20 to work in earnest and bend all our ener-
gies and devote all our available means to the
construction Of road to Texas which shall
connect with the Texas Pacific, the sooner we
shall see New Orleans the thriving, growing
and great commercial emporium that we al:
hope to see her some day.
We extract the following remarks from an
article on the subject from late issue of the
San Francisco Journal of Commerce:
The opening up Of great Southern road,
no matter by whom, which passing through
New Mexico and Arizona. and which might
be connected by branch roads to several i'm
portant cities in Northern and Northwestern
Mexico, would add largely to the commercial
domain of this city, inasmuch as it would
open to settlement scores of the thousands of
square miles of Territory Astounding in
mineral, agricultural and: pastoral riches.
Such q road is bound to be built; the incor-
porators of the Texas Pacific ask to be allowed
to build it, while the directors of the South
ern, that is to say Central Pacific, resolutely
oppose the proposition, and are straining
every nerve to anticipate their opponents by
having their line built by the time that the
matter will come in the form of bill before
Congress. lat ut es sl..
They hardly pretend to oppose it on any
public grounds; they claim prior title, and
intimate that it will be more for the interest
of San Francisco to have the lines in their
hands than in those of Eastern men. Now
we fail to see the points There is surely no
valid reason why the Texas Pacific, or
twenty other railroads for the matter of that,
should not have the right of way through
the San Gorgonio Pass; why they should not
build their lines side by side with those
of the Southern Pacific nor why, if the
public interest so required, a subsidy should
not be granted to each and every one of them.
The pretence that it is for the interest of San
Francisco to have the Central Pacific monop-
olize all the practicable approaches by land
to the city and all the means of land trans
portation, is laughable in the extreme. As
well might the boa constructor, did it possess
the power of speech, persuade its victim that
it wasD all the happier the more tightly drawn
the folds, or the bear enlarge on the advan-
tages of closer hug to the hunter of the
Sierras.
What San Francisco needs is delivery from
the meshes in which the Central Pacific has
involved her She needs the benefit to be
derived from competing line, and the Texas
Pacific, is the only one now on the cards. If
the Central Pacific wishes to extend the
Southern Pacific to St. Louis, SO much the
better, SO long as we have competing line,
but it is the height of assurance to ask those
who have felt its oppression in the day of
power to help in riveting their own chains.
At present no business man dare speak out
against any Of the abuses perpetrated in the
management of this line, through fear that he
may be Disseminated against to the destruc-
ton of his trade. Therefore we do not antici-
pate any demonstration of our commercial
men against this latest and greatest attempted
outrage-that which attempts to shut off COM
petition in the carrying trade for quarter of
century"
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