The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-02-10
The New Orleans, st. Louis 4 Chicago
Railroad Company.

tai and are supposed to exercise
undue power. all must admit 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 un-
numbered benefits to all the great
interests Of commerce, manufactures
and agriculture, together with minor
industries connected with and de-
pendent upon them.
If the people would take into ac-
count the material development of a
State, or community, 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 G..
II. R..) has done for this immediate
region of State-the piney woods, as
it has been called by reason of the
prcdominance of that magnificent tim
| Der which is one OF the sources of its
wealth and prosperity. Large and
prosperous communities, flourishing
towns, seats of trade, commerce and
education, have sprung up on the
track of this great road, where moth
! ing but forests and nature, in her
primeval wilderness, existed. Imag-
ination 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 this
great work by its original and its
present stockholders, has yielded a
large return or not, advantages of in
describabe magnitude have accrued
to the State and the people affected by
it, individually and collectively in the
prosecution of their business, in the
increase of population, in the aug
mentation of wealth and enhance
ment of values. The benefit to our
State Treasury is considerable, in ad-
dition to these direct and indirect
benefits. We have not the exact data,
but we do not err widely in sta ating
that this company pays not less than
$25,0O0 annually into the Golfers of
the State and 10 that large extent
divides the burdens of its govern
ment with her citizens.
But we set out to speak of other
matters connected with the road. 1t
has experienced the depression so
universally felt in every branch of
business, and especially by railroads
as attested - the recant message of
Gov. Allen, of Ohio, in reference to
railroads in that State; and in conse
quence many rumors calculated to in
| jure it, were put in circulation, some
of which were answered BY Us at the
time, and others were permitted to
pass like the wind, unheeded. We
had confidence in its management,
and we knew that time would set all
things right. Consequent upon the
prevailing depression, during the
greater part of last year, the payroll
was five months i'm arrears, and there
was no little grumbling among some
of the employees who ought to have
cherished a different spirit. 1t is
well known that with the proceeds of
the autumn business. the employees
have now been paid to date.
In addition to this, new rolling
stock has been purchased for the road.
both engines and cars, and still further
additions will be made. New iron
has been contracted for, and is now
being received. and will be laid where
most needed and other preparations
are being made to put the road in
first-class running order for general
passenger and freight business.
The country has passed through a
period of unparalleled financial strin-
gency during which many of the lead
ing and wealthiest roads Of the coun-
try have succumbed to the storm and
been transferred to different hands,
while the New Orleans, st. Louis and
Chicago Railroad has not only steered
clear, but has, as above stated, settled
large amount of arrears. The ru-
mors of change Of management, of
bankruptcy, of going into the hands
of receiver and many other reports
derogatory to its management and in
iurions to its business originated in
the malice of its enemies, or in the
unscrupulous selfishness Of other
lines. TO these rumors the officers of
the road paid no attention. They
preferred to let results speak for them
selves. In this way, the company has
been triumphantly vindicated, and all
is due to the business tact and vigi-
lance of Mr.. S. II. Edgar. 1st Vice
President, and the untiring energy OF
Col. E. d. Frost, General Manager,
and their corps of able assistants.
-McConab CITY Inteligencer.
You've man, stick to your business.
1t may be you have mistaken your
calling if so, find it out as quick as
possible, and change it; but don't let
any uneasy desire to get along fast.
or dislike of your honest calling
lead you to abandon it. Have some
honest occupation, and then stick to
it; if you are sticking types, stick
away at them if you are selling oys-
ters, keep on selling them; if you are
at the law, hold fast to that profess