The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-02-18
THE WASHINGTON AND HOPE RAIL-
ROAD EXTENSION.
New Orleans Picayune.1

the Arkansas ana Louisiana road, tl
s. ID. Pearce, the editor of the Vienns
Sentinel, although not written for pub
lication, is so interesting that Pearce
was correct in publishing it. Mr.
Beardsley is shrewd enough to see that
his short line, crossing several great
roads, will be n convenience to North
Louisiana and Southwestern Arkan.
sas, because it will give the people
access to all or any of these roads and
he seems to desire to cut across as many
roads as possible. beginning on the
line of the st. Louis and San Francisco,
at some point probably little above
the thirty-fourth parallel, the Arkan.
sas ana Louisiana narrow gauge road is
to run southeastward, probably through
or near Ultima Thule and Lockesburg,
to Washington, in Hempsted county
thence to Hope, where 1t crosses the
Iron Mountain road; thence to or near
Lamartine, crossing both the Little
Rock, Mississippi River and Texas, and
the Texas and st. Louis then to or
near Monroe, touching the Louisiana
(knoebei and Atexandria) branch of
the Iron Mountain, and thence proba.
bly, to Harrisonburg, intersecting the
Natchez, Red River and Texas (be-
tween Nidalia aud Alexandria). There
are six roads intersected and if the
Gurdon and Camden branch is extended
down the Ouachita to Monroe, as it
ought to be, and if the Bremond road
goes through Shreveport to or near
Camden, and if the Morgan road is
extended north from Alexandria
through Vienna to Camden, and if the
Louisiana and Arkansas builds its pro-
posed line through Concordia, Tensas,
Madison and Carroll, and if the Mis-.
slssippi Valley railroad company builds
its line in the same region, and if the
Natchez and Northwestern builds it
road through Franklin, Isichland and
Morehouse, we take it for granted that
North Louisiana will not only have
enough roads for some time to come,
but will applaud the wisdom of Boards
ley and his associates in giving her a
traverse route. The only road she now
has is the Vicksburg and Monroe, and
that is under water. This road has been
twenty years bridging the Ouachita,
and having succeeded in that import
ant undertaking may be relied on to
arrive Mt Shreveport at some time.
The Alexandria and Knoebel road we
felt sure would be built this year !; but
Gould has called Off his Texas Pacific
surveyors in New Mexico, withdrawn
his surveyors from the Trinity branch
of the Great Northern, come to dead
standstiIl at Laredo, is doing nothing
that we hear of in Mexico, is said to be
increasing his Union Pacific holdings,
and is probably tired of tho Southwest,
and, like child seeking new rattle,
is perhaps about to complete his COM
pact with Huntington, by consoIidat-
ing the Union and Central Pacific prop
critics into an amalgamated total Of
about seven thousand miles of COM
pletcd railroad, carrying about $780,
O0O, 900 Of stocks and bonds. If the
arc already so forwarded
as to secure the completion of the Alex
andria and Knoebel road, we shall
rejoice no less than tho Ouachita valley
will. We hope to see tho narrow gauge
from Natchez finished to Atxea ndria
this year. Precisely how much to
expect from tho manifest zeal of the
promoters of tho various other projects
mentioned above we do not know.