The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-01-02

Ahe se tAe
lsroBaant at Washington Oily has
gafaisled igs readers With the fol-,
lowing impoytant piece q lntor-
NATION. to.vit
Tlat the attempt lo lmp9se on
Cong 8ad 80 ahe eSas ana
| Pacific RAILROAD Company q TIE
argl.ea fof ala 81 the hitter
to lh8 81 nef that phantom en-
aan amiliarly known 81 the
Backbone Roao has 5oEa
failed and thota leg lima e, fully
oreahi IA Louisiana railfoaa com
aav th we'll defined charter
rou ll receive the import
COL. scats before Congress rs
81 nch Ell us traus-conNnentai
railroad needing and asking Iol
lthe same aid that the Texas ana
| Poetic desias
Hhe organisation thus to be tn
yofea bY TIE great railroad man
ager is named by onr correspont
dent the " Old Louisiana Central
/ stem B6ad." Ihmnst not ae con-
4 founded with th Louisiana Qen-
! trail Railway Company the spe-
/ cial act To incorporate Whichs was
signed bT Governor Kellogg last
/ Jannarp. and bose organization
i took place iD bruary last Dy the
election Of III srs. Eben IL. Ward
/ Arlhnr Edwards, a. g. Potter of
i Michigan Thos. A. Scott Of Penn
syIyania Clinton b Fisk and H..
1 W. Kellogg, Of New YORK, Az div
rectors. Mr.. Ward was chosen
president; ar Fisk, Vice Presi
/ dent: Mr. g. o. Cadman, Treas.
urer. ana Mr. IT, y. Stedman, Sc
cretary, and Massrss fisk, Edwards
and Kellogg Executive and Els
| nance Committee.
n This new company made ylgoT-
Gus attempts last summer, under
its special act, to secure liberal
donations, ia parish and towE
bonds. from the parishes oil Ra-
pides. Natehitoches, DeSoto and
Caddo, and the towns Of Alexan-
dria Natich0ches, Mansfield and
Shreveport, conditioned on the
J issuance Of i specified amount IN
bonds for So many miles Of equip
/ bed road Id each parish, and also
on the approval of the issuance
| 81 bonds By the qualified voters
i of each parish OF town.
Neaotiations TO this effect had
reached d very favorable aspect
rs Ne reported at the time, from
tha local papers; hnt The politlca
campaign put q sudden stop IS
them, ana they have not been re-
sumed. TIE route of this neg
Louisiana Central Railway" wa
from Shreveport to New Orleans
1 via Vernilionville. The fact tina
Colonel Ihos. al. SCOTS nam
{ appears among tie directors :
s this road might, at first glance
Y invalidate the report that he no.
i fayors the old Louisiana Centre
q Stem road This by no mean
i follows, however
/ TIE Central Stern Railroad
II an old enterprise. 1t was projec
ga aud chartered some years By
If fore the war; and was planned !
ruH, first, from d point on u
ID Mississippi river, in Ayoyeils
I parish, Just below the moush
Il Red River, to Alexandria 90
i yatchitoches This route wi
N subsequently changed SO as
start the road from point fufth
VI south "a the Atehatalaya rive
j where connection would be MAJ
Il, with the Baton Rouge and eros
Tete Railroad; ard thence run
= a northwesteriy direction TO Ale
andria, Natchitoches and Man
rs field, with d bench thence
n, Shreveport. III was, at that Tin
Is the plan that the Southern Ia
e. fio Railr0ad" (now the Texas o.
EaciHo should have its caste
terminus at Mansfield, il Dest
9sh pagish When the war broke 9