The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-22
OUR RAILROAD.

To come back to business after our recen
frolic on the Lake. We want our people, o
ali classes and professions; to keep the fac
prominently before them, that we have under
taken to build railroad to Texas, and that it
must be built, even if we have to make many
sacrifices and forego many pleasures and
Injuries.
The charge has been made against our PEG
pie that they are enterprising by fits and
starts, but yield readily to disappointment,
succumb too quickly to obstacles, and allow
indifference to take the place of enthusiasm
upon slight provocation, and while we do not
believe this to be wholly true, it has at least
some foundation in fact
We desire to see the railroad pushed for
ward steadily to complete success, and we
know that those who have undertaken its
management have determined to devote their
time and money to the accomplishment of
the grand object which they have
undertaken to achieve. 1t takes money,
however, to build railroads.; words won't
do it; good intentions have, it is said, sue
ceeded in paving pretty warm place. but
they won't put down a single bar Of iron on a
railroad track; public meetings and reso-
lutions won't do it, and newspapers
although they may greatly assist,
can't build roads unless the public
subscribe money according to their
means. We find that while some of our
citizens have come forward nobly and evince
proper spirit of enterprise in this allim-
portant matter to New Orleans, that others
are holding back and putting their subscrip-
tons off to "a more convenient season."
The total amount so far subscribed here is,
we learn from reliable source, $165, 900, in
stead Of $780, as was previously stated.
In this amount are represented twenty fve
cotton firms (s21 ,5OO), twenty-five grocers
$3.50 fourteen commission merchants
(sl3,lOO), six physicians (S5OO0), three
lawyers $4,000, six ship agents (s6O0O), two
hardware firms ($2O0O), three tobacco mer-
chants (S25OO), three ship brokers (s3OOO),
and two cotton brokers (s6OO), four station
ers (s3OOO), two druggists (S15OO), one Gouer-
nor $4,000, one tax-collecter $4,000, one
postmaster $4,000, one firm of contractors
$4,000, three coal merchants (s25OO),
five cotton press men ($S0OO).
three stock brokers (S25OO), three wholesale
confectioners and manufacturers ($17OO), one
coffee broker (S50O), two exchange brokers
(s75O, five presidents of companies and cor
porations (s45OO), two carriage firms $4,000,
one firm of hotel lessees $4,000.
While this is something it is by no means
enough, and we trust our merchants and
others will come forward and su bscribe liber-
ally and promptly to a project which must
nure SO greatly to the benefit not of any one |
class merely, but to the entire community. |
There are now in. circulation in the hands of |
persons one hundred and twenty
i've subscription books, and we hope to be
'ble soon to chronicle very materialincrease
% the amount already subscribed.
When last heard from, Mr.. E. B. Wheelock,
President Of the New Orleans and Pacific
Railroad Company. and his party were in
alexandria. They expected to arrive in Mar
hall about the LIST, and will thence proceed
o Shreveport, arriving in New Orleans about
be 10th of August.
In this connection we may state that the
dvertisements in regard to bids for con- 4
tructng the road are exciting the attention of
Irge Northern contractors, who will doubtless
ut in low bids for the greater part if not the
hole work.