The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-23
The New Orleans Pacific.
New ORLEANS, DE

NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 81, 1877.
Z. b. Wheelock President New Orleans Pacific
Railway:
Dear SH-The maps Of the route of your road
are very suggestive, and make me think OF the
great advantage to be derived in the way of
immigration and capital, by New Orleans and
Louisiana, from the completion Of your road to
Marshall, Texas.
Running through one of the richest and most
productive countries in the South, or that the
human eye ever beheld, no doubt the traveller
will be captiyated, by the beauties OF nature
spread out before him; he stops. buys home
Is vi sited by his friends and relatives, who also
learn the superior Inducements of your soil.
climate and productl,ons, lkeW Sc stop. buy
homes. and thus add to your population and
But your road would also give immense value
to the lands on each side OF IT, and once again
land In Louisiana would sell for $50 and 500 per
acre Now, however, your feyres b0hnes, your
beautiful lands, your sunny CLINE. starry skies.
turous emf rant, who passes round by st. Louis
or over to Galveston. and seeks q home In the
less favored and less genial climate OF the Far
West.
But how the property owners of New Orleans
can see the effect of railroad connection with
Texas by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas. and
| Iron Mountain railroads and not wake UP and
see to their own interests. Is strange.
New Orleans was large City when st. Louis
end Chicago were small yage sit now sad o.
| New Orleans in wealth and population.
Il PERHAPS he said with ruth TINT since
| st. Louis extended her railroads to Texas she
has gained more wealth and population than
New Orleans now contains.
One great fact Is evident-St Louis now has
| the Texas trade which New Orleans once en-
joyed, and If you ask any sensible man why OF
how it happened, he can but point to the Mis-
| souri,. Kansas and Texas and Iron Mountain
railroads.
| How can you recover this Texas trade again
| which Is worth twice what it was five years ago
| when New Orleans lost 1.-THE population OF
| Texas having doubled in that time, owing to the
| building of railroads into and throughout that
State? How can New Orleans obtain the hand.
some Ooooo bales, not to mention other articles
| of production that would come to your city from
| that State. such as grain. cattle. hides. tallow
| etc., and the furnishing in return Of groceries
| dry goods and supplies of all kinds? Tht
| answer is as plain as the nose on man face
| transportation rs rapid rs that given by. st
| Louis; then it would be folly for Texans to bul
| sugar moasses, dry goods. groceries. etc. ii
| st. Louis. and pay for them in cotton and oLhe
produce shipped by rail to that city, over line
| hundreds of miles longer than the one the
| will have to New Orleans-a seaboard town.
Money invested by New Orleans in railroad
| to Texas should yield an hundred per cent pc
| annum to the common wealth on the amour
| invested.
Parties having property in the, city, or land
completion aid they can. If they know their owl
| interests. 49,
| In conclusion permit me to say that the citi
| zen of New Orleans who first connects 1t wit
Texas by rail will, as a public benefactor. b
| a statue, which was granted to any Roman VIII
| added to the general wealth and prosperity c
| home.
In haste. but very respectfully,