The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-01-30
The New Orleans, ST. Louis ~ Chi
cagO Railroad Company.

McComb City Intelligencer.
Whatever may be the jealousy felt by the
rest of the community toward railroads, be-
cause they represent capital and are sup
posed to exercise undue power, all must ad-
nit that whether they yield large or small
dividends to the stockholders, they are
source of vast advantage to the State
that they enhance the values of real estate
owners, and bring unnumbered benefits to
all the great interests of commerce, manu-
factories and agriculture, together with mi
nor industries connected with, ana depend
ent upon, them.
If the people would take into account the
material development OF q State, or COM
munity. by railroads, and the benefits which
flow from it to individual enterprise of any
kind. there would be less disposition to dis
courage and embarrass them. Look, for
example. at what the New Orleans, jackson
| and Great Northern Railroad Cat present
| the n. O., St. l.. and Z. K. R.) has
| done for this immediate region OF
| the State-the piney woods as iC has
| heen called by reason of the pre-
dominance of that magnificent timber
| which is one of the sources of its wealth ana
prosperity! Large and prosperous COM
! munities, fiourishing towns, seats OF trade,
| commerce and education, have sprung up
| on the track of this great road, where
| nothing but forests and nature, in her
| nrimeyal wilderness, existed. Imagination
can scarcely equal the picture which the
reality presents of the wonderful change
that has been wrought. The result shows
that whether the capital invested IN TINS
| GREAT work by its original, and its present
Stockholders has yielded large return or
NOT advantages of indescEibable magnitude
have accrued to the State and the people al
fected by il, individually and collectively ID
the prosecution of their business, in the
increase of population. in the augm entation
of wealth and enhancement OF values. Inc
! benefit to our State Treasury is consider
able. in addition TO these direct and ind :
rect benefits. We have not the exact data
Init we do not err widely in stating thai
this Company pays not less imam szo'ooo al.
nualIy into the Golfers of the State and t(
that large extent divides the burdens OF It's
3 government with her citizens.
Rnt we set out to speak of other matter
connected with the Road. 1t has expert
enced the depression so universally felt III
t everv branch of business, and especially b.
Railroads as attested by the recent message
ut Gov. Allen, of Ohio, in reference to Rail
roads of that State; and in consequence
8 maav rumors calculated to injure it, wer
s mt in circulation, some OF which were an
swered by us at the time, and others wer
+ nermitted to pass like the wind, UNDECIDED
= I've h adj confidence in its management, an
we knew that time would set all thing
RIGHT Consequent upon the prevailing de
d nression, during the greater part of las
,s YEAR, the payroll was five months in al
rpars and there was no little grum bin
among some of the employees who ought {
have cherished a different spirit 1t Is we
?, known that with the proceeds of the at
IS tumn business, the employees have no
been mid to date.
In ad iitit N to this, new rolling-stock HI
been purchased for the road, both engine
in and cars. and still fnrther additions WI
= he made. New iron has been contracte
for, and is now being received, and viii
:, laid where most needed-and other prep
. rations are now being made to put the Ros
~ in first class running order for a gen r
passenger and freight business.