The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-12-24
COTTON.
Cairo as a shipping POint-Reship.
ments Of Cotton by the IllfnO IL Cen.
trail and Cairo and Vincennes Rail-
roads,

A few days ago we mentioned the fact
that Col. Tom. Allen, president, and
Col. Soper, general Height agent of the
st. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
railway, had been in the city, but at the
time the notice was published we were
not able to learn the object OF their visit.
In the st. Louis Times of the 22d, is
published an interview between re.
porter Of that paper and Col. Allen which
explains the object of the visit of Colon
els Allen and Soper to this city.
500 MILES OF COTTON.
Said Mr.. Allen: There are now along
our road 500 miles OF cotton piled up in
bales ready for shipment, but we have 10
decline to receiveir, because we have not
facilities for handling it here in st. LOUIS
We are cramped up down there to few
feet along each side OF the track and it re-
quires acres ofground to properly handle
| cotton. The same can be said in regard
| to cattle. We have labored energetically
to induce the shipment of cattle from
Texas to st. Louis and now, at the very
time when we have southwestern con-
nections and every facility as well as
every inducement to offer the shippers,
we are
CRIPPLED AT THIS END
OF the road, the point above all Others
that should lend us every assistance and
encouragement. | owned land on this
side OF the river just below the river Des
Peres and in order to get an outlet was
compelled to buy tract just opposite, in
the State of Illinois, at an expense of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. Down there
| built an inclined plane without being
compelled to ask anybody's permission,
but the river is blocked up there with
ice and we can't get across.
R.-What facility for handling cattle
did you desire at this end Of your road!
CATTLE TRADE CONNECTIONS.
Mr.. Ave wanted permission to 60
up the levee to the Union stock-yards,
where we could discharge the cattle
without trouble or expense at the point
where they are marketed. That would
not only increase our business but would
also add to the value of the sto3k-yards
as market. When We get the cattle to
this point we turn them over and are
rid of them, but you can readily see that
il we had facilities TO reach the stock
yards and deliver cattle there without
trouble TO the shipper or danger of loss,
this would prove very great inducement
for people to ship this way.
R.-The Importance of the cotton
trade it would seem, should secure you
all the facilities needed in that direction.
VIA CAIRO HEREAFTER.
MIR. Al have despaired of that, and
have made arrangements TO get cotton
out via Carlo. Colonel Soper and my
self visited Cairo yesterday and made
arrangements with the Illinois Central
and Cairo and Vincennes railroads and
the city authorities to get all the facilities
we require. Those railroads very readily
granted us the use OF their inclined
planes, and we get all the ground We
need. Consequently all our cotton will
be taken to Cairo hereafter instead of be-
ing brought TO st. Louis. We have
line running into Cairo and can there
make direct connection with the Illinois
Central roads. The road is
LINED WITH COTTON
Below and we must get it out. Already
some are shipping via New Orleans and
Memphis. We are so cramped here that
we cannot get our cotton lar enough
from the track to protect it. Only the
Otherday fifteen bales were burned, hav.
ing caught from spark from the loco
motive. I'm the month of November 49,.
600 bales of cotton were shipped over the
Iron Mountain road, 10000 Of which
went through Cairo. Every bale OF II
would have come to st. Louis had we
had room TO handle il here.
Already considerable quantities OF cot
ton have arrived here over the southern
division of the Iron Mountain and South.
ern railway, and larger consignments are
ON the VaV