The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-05-06
ANOTHER NORTH LOUISIANA RAIL-
ROAD.

ROAD.
The following extract from a recent
editorial in the Galveston News re-
lates to "a railroad enterprise which in
terests our North Louisiana friends
very much:
Almost simultaneously with this enter
prise comes the formation of the Now Orleans
Pacific and Little Rock Railway, Which has
ing direct Communication between New Or
leans and Little Rock. This is another i'm
new project is through highly cultivated
and thickly settled region, both in touisl.
ana and Arkansas. 1t is ~, terc a. t te
Now Orleans Pacific as far as Alexandria,
on Red River, and to build from that point
northerly line Of the state, and thence by
the most practicable route to Pine Bluff or
Little Book The capital sto cao rs noo hNea at
and may, if necessary, DO Increased to Sc. ooo,-
600. Tho domicile Of the company is To-
scription will soon be ready. Substantial
names appear among the list of incorpora-
ep haen
is falling into limo under the new order of
progressive ideas. The proposed railroad is
essentially an important one to New Or
leans. 1t will protect to that city tho trade
of the Ouacl,ita, White River, and partly Red
River, each of them great feeders to the for
Orleans has but little capital invest ed in rail
roads; ifshe shrinks from putting her shoul-
ed road, she need never after complain if st
Louis captures and holds trade largely
tributary to herself.
The Vicksburg, Shreveport and
Texas railroad has been allowed to
stand still so long that our friends on
the other side of Red River have
doubtless become disheartened at the
remoteness Of the prospect of ever OBJ
tanning railroad facilities commensurate
| with the Importance of their section of
| country. With railroads from Alex
andria to New Orleans, the Importance
of filling up the gap from the former
town to Little Rock is too obvious to
escape the observation of those who
have constructed these roads. Both
the New Orleans Pacific and the Nor
gan roads will be at Alexandria in he
early Autumn. An extension north
ward is too important to be neglected.
1t is not only important as passing
through rich country in two States,
without railroad facilities and conse-
quently comparatively undeveloped,
but as atfo:ding 4 connection with other
roads which run into the fertile north
west, whose grain producers are anx-
iously looking towards New Orleans
as the proper outlet for their crops.
1t has been before announced that the
extension would be made by tho Nor
gan road. 1t is now said that it will
be made by the Gould company. With
such a contest for the privilege we may
rest assured that tho completion of the
road is an event OF the near future,
When this extension shall have been
made, and the Vicksburg road and the
NnSV ORLEANS panifir NJ
State will be pretty well cut up by
trunk lines. Feeders, by means of mar
row gauge or other roads, will then soon
be constructed. Every important sec
ton will have its railroad facilities.
The Radicals spent enough money to
have accomplished such Il result q dozen
years ago. But it is better that we
should have it now than not to have it
at all.
Respecting the railway project motto
cd above by our Shreveport co temper
airy, the Standard, and in terms not too
highly co1orcd, (the material interests
coi,sidcrcd,) the Picayune furnishes the
following information somewhat de-
finite in character and encouraging to
our people:
We have another enterprise growing
out of the New Orleans Pacific railway
that promises to open up 4 fertile sec
ton in North Louisiana and lower Ark
ansas. The New Orleans Pacific and
Little Rock Railroad Company, recent
ly Incorporated here, proposes building
Il line from Alexandria, La, to Little
Rock, Ark, and, it is said, the work
will be completed in less than Il year.
The route to be followed has not rs
yet been determined upon, except that
tho line will pass through Monroe.
Beyond that it is not settled whether
to follow an air line to the Arkansas
capital along the valley of the Sabine
River, or divcrgc to the eastward, strik-
ing Pine Bluff or some other point on
the Mississippi River, Pine Bluff and
| Little Rock Railroad
The advantages of the projected road
are obvious. 1t will penetrate Il pro-
ductive region now dependent upon
the caprices of tributary navigation for
moving its crops to market, and form
II link of a through line between st.
Louis and Memphis and New Orleans.
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