The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-05-13
From Now Orleans Democrat1
ANOTHER LONGITUDINAL THINK
LINE.

-ANV1hEtS LUNH1IUD1NAL TRUNK
LINE.
Ihe announcement in the Democrat
OF Sunday last that a company had
been formed in this city for the con-
struclion of a railway from Alcxan-
dria to Pine Bluff or Little Rock, Ark.
to be called the New Orleans, Pacific:
and Little Rock Railway Company.
and that there was every prospect of
the road being pushed vigorously to
completion, was pleasant surprise to
the general public, who had no ink ling
OF an enterprise OfsO important a char
acter, and who were quick to sec the
advantage that such Il road would bo to
New Orleans.
a careful inspection OF the route
which has been selected for the con-
tcmplated road cOnvinccs us that the
enterprise is destined TO be one of tho
most rcmuncrativc and prosperous OF
any Of those which have been under
taken in the South and Southwest dur
ing the past decade, and that it will
furnish the almost unprecedented ex-
ample of rcilroad whose local buiness
will pay from tho day it is regularly
opened to traffic. Those who are in
tcrcstcd in the mattcr-and who is
there among It's that is not?-by talk
ing the map and following the route
will. readily see that this statement is
no cNaggcration, but the simple utter
ancc OF a sclf-cvident fact, for tho line
runs through the richest portion of
Louisiana and Arkansas, just where a
railroad Is most needed, and where the
produce and passenger traffic will
necessarily be very large from the first.
1t Is now an open secret that this
road is to be built by the Gould combi-
nation, and that it is the purpose to
make it an important link in great
trunk line to st. Louis, utilizing the
New Orleans and Pacific road from
Alexandria ut this end, and the Iron
Mountain road ut the other. The line
will therefore run as follows From
New Orleans to Alexandria over the
track of the New Orleans Pacific.
thence by y direct line to Monroe, on
the Ou"chita thence by nearly an air
line TO Pine Bluff, on tho Arkansas
river thence to Duval's Bluff, on
White river, and thence to Jackson
port, on White river, there connecting
with the Iron Mountain road.
Duval's Bluff is firty-thrcc miles
north Of Pine Bluff, on tho Memphis
and Little Rock railroad Jackson
port is sixty miles north of Duval's
Bluii, and construction of the proposed
road from Pine Bluff to DuyaPe
Bluff Will give tho shortest prac-
ticablc line from the former noint
to Memphis, Tenn, a fact that
has much significance in regard to
the extension of one of the Pacific
routes. Some idea may be had of the
Importance OF the proposed new trunk
line TO the West when we state that il
viii! be l7G miles shorter than the
Louisville and Nashville road, and
only about sixty miles longer than the
| Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans
road.
Geo. II. Iazichurst, OF Chattanooga,
one of the incorporators of the road
| and civil engineer of the highest re-
putc, has carefully examined the coun-
try through which the line will run,
and declares that ii will be a cheap
road to build, being mostly along level
ground-or what is called Il valley
road-and that its business must be
paying from tho start To Indicate the
earncStncss of those Interested in the
enterprise we may state that survey.
ing and locating force has been al
ready ordered into the field and will
be actively at work within Il week.
beginning in Louisiana and working
up through Arkansas.
There is no longer any doubt about
the completion of the New Orleans and
Pacific by the fall, say by October, aul
1t is C11ten platpl to thr1N- tho an};r,