Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-05
THE DENVER SHORT LINE.
The Projected Air Line Between
Denver and New Orleans.


About four months since, o rail
road and transportation company was
organized in Denver, Col, by party
of Eastern and Southern capitalists,
under the name Of the Denver and
New Orleans Short Line Transporta-
ton Company. The stock in the
company was fixed at shares of $1,000
each, with capital Of $lO,OW,OOO.
The object was to establish between
Denver and this city a direct line,
which will bring the two cities to-
gether, thereby lessening transporta-
ton time ut least one day a half.
It is learned that already over four
hundred miles of track has been
completed. The work will be pushed
as rapidly as possible, so that within
year New Orleans will see herself
the terminus of what promises to be
one of the finest roads in the country.
A delegation will soon arrive in
the city from New York, who will
have full power to act for the new
road. The gentlemen composing
this delegation are all prominent rail
road men, and most of them have had
occasion to visit the city Oh one or
two previous occasions. 1t is under
stood they will purchase considera-
BILE property here for the terminus.
The road will cross the river above
Baton Rouge and will be afforded ev-
cry facility by the planters along the
projected line.
1t is not improbable that the road
will act in conjunction with Grants
Narrow Gauge Mexican line, and
will have connections above Kansas
City.-City Item.
The above goes to sustain the pre-
dictions of the CAPITOL1AN that
Baton Rouge is about to realize the
benefits, which her geographical po-
sition and natural advantages entitle
her to receive. She stands at the
foot of the cotton belt and at the
very heart of the sugar region, on the
first elevated plateau on the Missls-
sippi, navigable to that point at all
seasons Of the year for the same
ships that visit New Orleans.
At Baten Rouge, Mobile and the
great lumber belt Of East Louisiana
Mississippi and Alabama, through
the shortest air line, will strike the
| great Father of Waters and the en-
tire railroad SYSTEM of the Trans
Mississippi and Pacific States.
In addition to the advantages We
have already described, Baton Rouge
is again the capital Of Louisiana, ant
in consequence, point which rail
road lines cannot well afford to avoid
The health record shows her to be th'
most salubrious spot in the South
west, as evidenced during the cpl
demic of 1873, when out Of three
thousand sick from yellow fever, bu
two hundred and fifty cases resulted
fatally, result that created astonish
ment everywhere.
! We might 60 on at great length tt
bring irrefutable evidence in supp0r
| OF orr assertions, but do not deem i
necessary at this time to do so.
What we wish to arrive at is sim
ply to awaken the citizens of Batol
Rouge to the opportunities now offer
Ing, so that our advantages may b.
properly shown to the capitalists o
the country.
Old fogyism, which is the dry 70
that has been crippling our communl
ty, must be overleaped and arrange
ments made, in this instance, tor ex
ample, to have a committee sent t
New Orleans to confer with the Den
yer Railroad party, whose comm
there is announced by the City Item
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