The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-09-27
CHICAGO AND NEW ORLEANS.

CHICAGO AND NEW ORLEANS.
The final purchase by the Illinois
Central of the Mississippi Central Rail
road entities it to assume the title of
the Chicago, Cairo 81 New Orleans
Railroad. 1t completes an ambition
which the Illinois Central people have
warmed to their hearts ever since 1860,
and, though the connection has been
theirs for several years, the scheme
was not fully realized until the entire
line was under the absolute control of
ownership. From now on, it is certain
that Chicago will derive much more
benefit from this Southern connection
than ever before. The same enter
prising and excellent management
which has been characteristic of the
Illinois Central proper will be extend
ed to the entire line between Chicago
and New Orleans. The road is as
much Of an air line as could be con-
structcd. There will be no difference
as regards tariff, but the Illinois Cen
trail will be in position to fix rates
that will be advantageous to Chicago
and its own interests; there will be no
transfer of freight or breaking of con-
signments. In one word, there is now
established as complete and rapid a
connection between Chicago and New
Orleans as between Chicago and New
York over any of the trunk lines; the
distance is about the same, and trade
relations between the two cities should
be as intimate and mutually as profit
able as they have been for so many
years between New York and Chicago,
and as they are now between Phila-
dclphia and Chicago, and Baltimore
and Chicago,
For time the main advantages Of
this direct railroad under one manage
ment will be to secure fast trains for
travel, and fast freights for bringing
the earlier vegetables and fruits of the
South TO this market more quickly and
cheaply than to any other Northern
city. The reciprocity will be apparent
in the same facilities for supplying the
Southern States with Chicago's meats,
and flour, and clothing, and boots and
shoes, and dry goods, and all staples
which the Southern people are accus-
toned to buy mainly in the North.
This road traverses Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and Tennessee, and taps the most
fertile parts of Alabama, Arkansas,
and neighboring States, 50 that there
will be nothing in the way Of Southern
products which Chicago may not OBJ
tain as quickly and tavorably as St.
Louis or Cincinnati, and no other city
will have any advantage in the COM
petition for selling to the South. But
the prospects for the future are still
broader. If Chicago shall ever desire
to make strike for the cotton trade,
she will enjoy equal facilities for reach
ing into the heart of the cotton States,
and the time may not he far off when
the Fox and Rock River regions may
hum with the sound of numerous cot
ton factories. In the same way Chi
cago will reach out for the trade of the
West Indies, always sure to be one of
the great phases of our foreign com-
merce, and pretty sure, sooner or later,
to find its main entrance into the Uni
ted States through the port of New
Orleans. So, too, Chicago, may find
it advantageous after a while to give
part of its grain trade to New Or
leans, as it has already shared with
Montreal, Portland, Philadelphia and
Baltimore, what New York once had
all to itself. In the commerce. of this
country all roads lead to Chicago as
the centre and outlet of the great
grain-growing district of the continent.
Europe comes TO us through half-a-
dozen Eastern ports, China and Japan
reach Us ria the Pacific Railroads, and
now the West Indies viii seek Il,
through New Orleans and our direct
railroad connection with that city.