The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-10-08
RAILWAY RUMBLIN4s.

The completion Of the New Orleans
Pacific Railway, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer, from Shreveport to lie
compile, by the 1st Of August, 1891, and
as practicable, will enable the planters
in the section it traverses to send thier
cotton to New Orleans early in the sea-
son.
We copy the following from tho
Little Rock Gazette:
CAMDEN AND GURDON RAILROAD.
A friend writes us from Gurdon that
the engineers are there to commence
work on the Gurdon and Camden rail
road. Parties have already commenced
cutting the timber from the right-of.
way. Five hundred hands arc to he at
work by the 1st of next month. The
cars will undoubtedly be running to
Camden by the 1st of next January.
This will give Camden a start upwards
that will make her in the end the most
considerable town in south Arkansas.
1t will also make Gurdon place OF
Importance in the near future.
This road, we are glad to know is
about to be built. Its completion to
Camden if no further, will speedily
change the whole face of affairs in
south Arkansas. The attention of i'm
migrants is beginning to be attracted to
| this state from all quarters. This little
| road will pour thousands and thous-
ands OF them into Ouachita, Union and
the surrounding counties where the
climate and soil are so inviting. in the
next few years.
| TInnn fhn Snhiaff tho 'an,Inn
Beacon has the following:
| We have been shown semi-otficial
letter from a party representing the St.
to the Camden Railroad Committee,
which conveys the agreeable informal.
ton that work has actually been COM
menced on the Camden Branch. We
feel confident that from the energy dis
played by the Iron Mountain Railroad
| in their various enterprises of this
character, that the whistle of the iron
horse will be heard in the environs of
our town, before many weeks shall
have rolled round.
The contract for extending the
Morgan road to Alexandria is thus
commented upon by the Alexandria
Democrat of q recent date;
Mcssrs. Whitney s. Co., owners and
directors of the Morgan Railroad, have
awarded to Messrs. Rogers and Ballen-
tine the contract for building said road
from Opelousas to Alexandria. This
| firm is an experienced and reliable one,
and as they have undertaken to build
the road to this point, there is no doubt
they will carry it through. They are
provided with all the improved i'm
plements for grading and cXcavating,
and as the country over which this
road passes presents no obstacles to the
rapid completion of the work, they will
doubtless reach here within the time
named.
The terms of the contract are that
the road shall he built and ready for
operation from its present terminus,
Opelousas, to Washington station, in
st. Landry Parish, by October 18th of
this year, from Washington to Holmes
vile by January, 1881, and completed
to Alexandria by next April.
I The extension of the road from
Alexandria to Camden, or Pine Bluff,
a scheme familiar to the readers of the
lTELEGRAPH, has attracted the atten-
ton of the New Orleans Picayune, and
that Journal notices the project as fol-
lows:
The st. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern Railway Company: n corpora
ton whose interests lie in the diver
sion Of cotton northwarl, hasjust signed
4 contract for q branch from Gurdon,
Station to Camden, Ark, work on
which is to be begun Immediately.
This latter line will be an important
feeder to one of the most formidable
railways tapping the Southwest, and
which from its relation must always
work for st. Louis. 1t is true that VIC
have n New Orleans line approaching
Camden from the opposite direction.
The lower leg of the Texas and Missis-
sippi Railroad from Arkansas City is
being built towards Camden from the
east, and will work in the interests OF
this city. The Nicl>sburg and Shreve.
. port Road also crosses the valley al
Monroe.
The efforts making to tap the Ouach
tia Valley from both directions clearly
indicate the value of q Longitudinal
road from Alexandria to Little Rock
F built in the direct line of the natural
trade draft. The commercial value OF
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