St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1880-07-24
THE NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC
RAILROAD.


much excited over a reported con-
tract made in New York by Col.
Wheelock with Tom Scott and Jay
Gould, which secures the prompt
construction of the New Orleans
Pacific Railroad. This is consid-
cred as great thing for New Or
leans, and the daily papers are
chuckling over the idea that Tom
Scott and Jay Gould are goins TO
spend large sum of their own
money to build up and develop the
trade of New Orleans, and that the
success of the jetties, in giving
deep water to the sea, has induced
these two gambling monopolists to
sign the Wheelock contract. Pluck
and gumption are two great ele-
ments in promoting civilization and
progress, and these two things
are not greatly possessed by the
daily press of New Orleans. A very
minute quantity of gumption would
show the managers of these city
dailies that Tom Scott and JAY
Gould are not going to do anything
or invest /. dollar to benefit New
Orleans. Their interests are in
New York, and everything that they
have ever done or will do is for the
commercial benefit of that city.
They control and operate great
lines of railroads, all centering in
New York. The commercial inter-
ests of New York and New Orleans
are not the same. They are aEtago-
nistic. and Jay Gould aud Tom
Scott, of New York, are not going
to aid in building up q rival sea-
port ut their own expense. These
truths would be apparent to the
New Orleans dailies if they had
only a little gumption. Then they
need pluck enough to enable them
to tell the truth when they know it.
For example, every daily paper in
New Orleans continually asserts the
success of the jetties in affording
a permanent outlet TO the sea. The
surveys and reports made by Gov
eminent officials since the jetttty eoH-
tract WAS matifee-ssii1ow that in 1890,
within five Eliles of the sea end of the
jetties, thy deposits from the river
are Sc great that the water will not
ae over fifteen feet deep. These
truths have frequently been pub
lished, and the New Orleans dailies
are without the pluck to deny them.
New Orleans can never realize her
destiny as gr. at commercial city
until vessels of the largest tonnage
that floats can safely come to her
wharves. Why is it that with
channel in the jetties that will float
the Great Eastern, there are no
lines of steamships or other vessels
drawing twenty-five feet of water
organized, or even talked about, for
this port? 1t is because commercial
men understand the situation, and
they are not going to invest capital
i'll establishing lines of trade, i'll
large ships, where official surveys
show that in ten years there will be
only fifteen feet of water, and the
daily assertions in the New Orleans
papers to the contrary will have no
effect on them. Tom Scott and jaw
Gould understand the situation.
They will build the New Orleans
and Pacific Road, and then sweep
the Red River valley of its cotton,
carry it to New York by railroad,
and ship it to Europe in vessels
Of heavy tonnage. cheaper than it
can be carried via New Orleans on
the light drauSht vessels that now
come to that port. The New Or
eans and Pacific, managed by Tom
Scott and jay Gould, will be n
,eeder to the transcontinental rail-
ways and to the Atlantic seaports,