The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-07
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY z 1877.
What the New jackson Road Management Propose
to do.

The Jackson Railroad has finally possed
under the control of the Great Illinois Central,
and according to q report in the Times is at
once to be put in thorough repair and be
! brought up to the standard of the best roads
: in the Union. MIR. Clark. who is now in charge,
! said that he thought it would be practicable
to control the entire movement of cotton from
all points from Cairo down, and bring il to
New Orleans; certainly it would be to the in
terest and advantage of the road to DO 30.
Cotton moved from Memphis northward and
| eastward would pass over the road say eighty
miles. but if received at Grenada il would
| have to be carried by his road 300 miles. The
same principle applied with equal force to
shipments outgoing from New Orleans. In re-
| spect to the movement of Western productions
| on foreign account, he said his company wned
HOO miles OF road north of the Ohio river,
| stretching out into the north west to q point
| within sixty miles of the capital Of Dakota
| with fully 5000 freight cars. As in the past,
80 in the future, it would be the policy of the
| company to increase the movement Of mer-
ohsndise of all kinds intended for foreign
markets, and the management. having full
faith in the easy and rapid development of q
| large foreign trade in Western cereals through
he port of New Orleans, would at an early day
| extend their track to the Highly elevator, so
that grain might be spouted directly from
into the elevator, and thence into ships. Gsing
to the river berk at that point would afford
facilities for the movement of other 1ommodi
ties on foreign account with lessened expenses
favorable to that trade.
The first great duty of the new management
of the line would be to place the road between
New Orleans aud Cairo in the condition of n
hrst-class road in all respects To do this
would imply an expenditure of seven or eight
hundred thousand dollars.
Recently the Illinois Central had sent to this
end of the line $50 freight cars, and on his way
down, within the past few daye, he had discov-
cred large amount of cotton along the line
awaiting cars for shipment to New Orleans.
With that hint he had imm edately telegraphed
an order for 100 more to be prepared and for
warded Immediately for continuous use below
Cairo. These cars would be on the road in tw o
or three weeks. Besides all these the directors
had already taken action for the further equip
ment of the line with 800 new freight cars |
which would be on the road and ready for use
b9fore the next cropping season. 1t was also |
IN the programme of work TO be done without |
delay to Int down 200 miles of steel rails |
which wonld ebont complete the track of the |
road with those rails through to Cairo. These
and terminal improvements quired at New
Orleans and Cairo would engage the instant
attention of tine new management, and when
all. ls completed Mr.. Clark had no fears but
That the public would pronounce bis road
equal to Cbe best in the United States, and
render 1t possible to run passenger cars through
TO Chicago, in the same time that trains are
now run through from Chicago to New York.
In this conversation with Mr.. Clark he>par-
ticn tasty allnded TO the Importance of plaoing
cara on the road for the transfer Of
tropical frnits aud fsh and oysters frem the
Gulf waters to the West, and butter, lake fish
and vegeta6 les in their season from the West
20 New Orleans. Gulf oysters were far superior
20 those obtained from the Atlantic seaboard,
md they can be- made to bupplant them in the
chicago market, where the consumption is
learly 100 tons per day exclusive of the shell.