The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-11
REGENERATED NEW ORLEANS.

REGENERATED NEW ORLEANS.
The commerce enjoyed by New Or
leans twenty years ago is one of the recol
lectlons of the mercantile world of to-
day, and the revival of the glory of that
era of before the war has been the drelm
of her old inhabitants ever since. The
destructive influences of that terrible
struggle passed over her like simoom,
but other causes that sprang into exist.
ence then and since have exerted quite
as fatal an influence upon the prosperi.
ty that some assume can never come
back to her wharves. The development
of railroads at the North reaching to the
great grain fields of the West that once
sought a seaport by way of the Missis-
sippi River have drained away a vast
commerce to the Eastern cities, which
now are also drawing to them the cotton
in large part that used to be piled in
mountains upon the levees of the Cres-
cent City.
But the great railroad arteries of the
countries are becoming gorged with the
inexhaustible supplies of grain and pro-
visions of the West. Chioago is over
flowing with wheat until her railroads
refuse to receive consignments for that
city. New York. Boston, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, have millions of bushels piled
in their bursting elevators and ware.
hous"s, until the magnifcence of the
Mississippi as a highway of transporta.
tion once more is attracting attention
of the capitalists of the country, and the
advantages of New Orleans as shipping
port are becoming again more appre-
ciated. At ST. Louis influences controll-
ing the railroads beyond the Mississippi
River are drawing attention to the neces-
sity Of barges of capacity to carry the
vast accumulations of cereals down
that stream, and there are building now,
so that we may look forward at no very
remote date to see these transports in
endless professions on their way to the
wharves that for near twenty years have
been comparatively deserted of North
western products. On the other hand, a
great railroad system is springing into
being in Texas and the Southwest, un-
der the influences of which an empire
that a few years ago was practically q
wilderness is blossoming with the fruits
of civilization. Cities, towns hamlets
and thrifty population are springing
into being along these avenues of COM
merce. The great Pacific Railroad of the
South, that passes through Texas, and
will have terminus at New Orleans, is
progressing again after years of inAc-
tivity, and will draw a chain of thrifty
population upon its line, as the other
Pacific Road has built up populous
State further North.
At the close of the war in 1865 Texas
had six railroads with something like
$50 miles of tracks in running order. At
the beginning of 1880 she boasts of not
less than $500 miles with most graft
flying increase in her popul tion, and EN-.
igrants and capital are pouring into the
State in greater numbers than into any
of the border States of the Union, unless
we except perhaps Kansas. There is no
doubt but that railroad from New Or
leans to Marshall, Texas, will be built
within the current year. The New Or
leans Democrat of recent date says that
the Morgan Road, connecting that city
with Houston, Texas, is nearly ready for
traffic, while the Vicksburg & Texas Pa
cifc will be finished in time to take off
the cotton of 1881 and the New Orleans
Pacific inside of one year.
The extension of the Great Southwest
ern Railroad system to Mexico and the
possibilities of notifications of our Mex
ican frontiers at no distant time in the
future are fraught with consequences
that this generation will not pass away
without seeing unroll among the other
marvellous developments of the Repub-
lie. The man who despises tie capacities
of the Southwest in his estimate of the
country's future greatness is short-sight-
ed indeed, as the result will undoubtedly
demonstrate.
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