The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-01-17
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The N. 0. Pacific "A Link OF tho
Great Southern Pacific.

| Despite the intrigues and endeav.
ors of West and Kellogg to resusci-
tate that long dead swindlc, the
Back Bone Railroad, by taking it on
to the Texas Pacific, now before Con.
gress, the energetic President of the
New Orleans Pacific has succeeded
ousting it from the bill and substitu.
ting road which is e reality in the
character of it's management, in the
personnel of its managers, and in the
actually of the capital subscribed to
and the work done by it. The New
Orleans Pacific will, therefore be the
branch, or rather the main stem Of
the great national road which is to
secure to our city direct communica-
ton with the Pacific through the
magnificent country which inter.
venes. The great benefits conferred
upon the national road will be shared
by the enterprise which owes its es.
Establishment and the present crafty
ing progress of its work to the un-
aided capital of our merchants and
property holders. Besides this
claim to recognition by the Congress
Of the New Orleans Pacific, it had
others, which it is crcditable to tho
good sense of the National legisla-
tors that they have not failed to per.
ceiye and appreciate. Chief among
these is the mode in which this road
had been managed; its strict honesty
and economy; its exclusively cash
basis and avoidance of all alliances
with stock jobbers, spectators in
bonds and with corrupt Legislature
and officials and contractors. A
road thus administered is bonnd to
succeed, especially one which has go
splendid a field before it.
West has failed in one of his: many
yillainous schemes to cheat and de.
fraud the people whom he pretends
to represent. He has managed to
have deposited in a Trust Fund in
New York a large amount Of the
bonds of the so-called Back Bone
Railroad, an utterly defunct igstitu.
ton, to his and the credit of Kellogg
to be paid over to them in case they
succeeded in having that mooashine
fiction tackled on to the Texas Pa.
cifc. Six hundred thousand dollars
was the amount of these bonds
which Kellogg was to receive.
But their corrupt scheme has been
defeated and the Back Bone rojd will
remain the rotten corpse it long has
been. -
The New Orleans Pacific, h the
aid of this sanction and cont |ution
from the Congress will W be
pressed forward with renewed pergy
and with adequate resources1 Even
with the limited means deriv / from
our merchants and property elders,
the energetic President and mana
gers of this road have never Elaxed
their Efforts to prosecute the ork to
an early completion. Their credit
has always been maintained and the
labors OF the contractors never. sus-
pended from the lack of meana and
prompt payment. Still the work
was not On such q scale as the inn
mense Importance Of securingi rail-
road connections Of this city with
Texas demanded.
We presume that the work will
now be greatly enlarged and prose-
cuted with rapidly to an early com.
pletion, since Congress has .vcog-
nized it as link Of the great nation
al highway to the Pacific.
The speedy contamination of the
enterprise will be one of the bright
est events in the history of New Or
leans. 1t will revive every branch Of
business and all values, and scatter
the heavy clouds which have so long
hung over our city. Never before
was the urgent need Of such railroad
connections with Texas, Arkansas
and the northern section Of our own
State 80 deeply felt as it is at the
present moment, with total inter.
ruption Of the navigation Of tho
stream upon which we have hereto
fore depended for our only means Of
communication with that rich and
growing region. = New Orleans
Democrat.
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