The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-01

Orleans from Gregg, Rusk, Smith, Cherokee,
Anderson and other counties in Texas, east or
the Trinity River whilst the additional bur
den of freight necessary to be paid to the
Texas and Pacific road if your terminus were
at Shreveport or Marshall, would turn the
produce to Galveston already inclined in that
direction.
But your final terminus should, not and
will not be at Jefferson. Here will be your
CONCENTRATING POINT
for North Eastern Texas. Here you meet the
international, having touched and secured
the Texas and Pacific on your way to this
point Here you intersect also the trans
continental division of the Texas and Pacific
road, at the point farthest west and most
| available to you.
"THE TRANs-CoNTINENTAL
runs by Jefferson and Texarkana, through the
rich counties of Northern Texas bordering on
Red River, such as Red River county, La
mar, Fannin and Grayson, all now claimed
by st. Louis as her own, but for which Gal
weston is fighting every day. This is an i'm
mense field, well known to your merchants,
rich in harvests of cotton and grain, yielding
tons Of wealth to any railroad and to any
city that may put forth their energies to at
tain it. THIS freight is much inclined to
pass to st. Louis, both by the Iron Mountain
road, through Texarkans, and the NJ, K. and
7. road, by way OF Denison. Can this be
checked and the rich prize brought back to
New Orleans in any way more successful
than by the building of your road direct to
Jefferson, and the use of the shortest possible
link Of the Texas and Pacific road?
THE IRON MOUNTAIN
read is destined to seek an immediate connec-
ton with the International at Jefferson This
certainly is the programme OF that great COM
pany. Southwestern Arkansas in former
times shipped all her cotton to New Orleans,
and is only awaiting the opening up of facili-
ties to return again with her rich products to
her old accustomed channels and to a renewal
of her commercial relations with New Orleans.
The way is rapidly opening. The Iron
Mountain Road is seeking an immediate con-
nection with the International SO as to form
continuous national line from the great lakes
of the North through Texas to Mexico and the
Pacific. This connection, you see, is as GER
tain to be made as that a great national inter-
est demands it. The connection will be
made at Jefferson, and so by extending your
New Orleans enterprise Immediately to Jefsr-
sop, you place yourself upon high vantage
ground to secure by the use of a short link
the trade of Western Arkansas for your road
and for your city.
Are not these weighty and important con-
siderations enough to cause your people to
pause aud reflect before fixing your western
terminus?
But have said that your irst central point
to gain, first divisional terminus in Texas
after crossing the Texas and Pacific Road,
should most reasonably be fixed at Jefferson,
and that the future will show that your
FINAL TERMINUS
must be far out in Texas, thoroughly and we'll
int fho 4 oh fol la Eold nj NOrtharn TEXAS ha-
fore you can finally, fully aud completely
compete with the two great rivals which you
will find constantly besetting your path.
There is charter, with State subsidy, for a
railroad from jefferson through the rich
counties Of Titus, Hopkins. Hunt, Collin, or
Grayson, and so on to the northwest Take
the map and see how this line bisects the
whole of Northern Texas, and ask John Phelps,
John Peel or McMasters through what mag
pifcent land it is intended to CO. This is
the
EAST LINE ROAD,
of which won have probably heard SO much.
Take it; it is yours 1t is an air line contip-
uation of your great enterprise from New Or
leans by way Of Jefferson, into Northern
Texas. The eastern terminus OF this road is
by law, at Jefferson, as is that of the Inter
national, whilst its western terminus, by the
munificence of its charter, may be extended
with sixteen sections Of land to the mile, to
any point in Northwestern Texas the company
may desire True, nothing has been done
toward its construction, but it Is one OF those
great enterprises which the lapse OF time will
soon bring about, and the sooner by the con-
struction of your road to Jefferson.
Thus you see the way is opened for New
Orleans to put horself on the highest ground
of competition in all this debatable field.
To accomplish it, however, SUCCESSFULLY,
you cannot stop at Shreveport, nor can you
connect with the Texas and Pacific at any
other point than Jefferson. To stop at any
other point you do not gain the International
nor your own air line extension to Sherman,
and you fail in securing the advantages have
portrayed by connection here with the
Trans Continental and the Iron Mountain
Penetrating by the East Line to the north
west portion of the State, a line which you
can fully control in all matter of freights, as
your own, (for the interests of the two will,
in all things, be identical, you will then have
quick and speedy route, with no interme-
diate links to trouble you or to levy contribu-
lions on you, and you can say to Galveston
and to st. Louis. and to the people of Texas,
as in former times: We are again come
amongst you've demand our ancient rights,
which you have usurped in our long night of
fancied security. This trade is ours as in
days of yore, and we DEFY all your compe-
tition. 30 JEFFERSON.
NEW ORLEANS AND LOUISIANA.