The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-06
HER RAILROADS SEEKING OTHER POINTS

In conversation at 81. Louis a few days
ago with Mr.. G. w. Davis, manager of the
Cairo Oil company, Col. Paramore of the
Cairo and Texas narrow gauge railroad,
| said that he would have seventy-fve miles
of his road, from Birds Point out, CON-
pleted by the first of June. Does this look
as though the Amsterdam companys threat
to abandon Cairo as its southern terminus
had in any mannerOr to any extent affected
Col. Paramore's plant Work has slready
begun at Birds Point, Cairo man, Mr..
Julius Serbian, having the contract, and he
has employed about fifty men and twenty
teams already, Col. Paramore's narrow
gauge is coming TO Cairo just as fast as it
possibly can and that too whether the Am
sterdam narrow gauge goes to Mound City
or to the devil or remains here. And Col.
Paramore does not depend upon the Am
stcrdam narrow gauge for connection with
St. Louis either. He is prepared to build
and will build his road to St. Louis from
Birds Point if necessary, and will thus
open up to Cairo one of the greatest iron
fields in this or any other country.
1t comes to THE BULLETIN very directly
that Mr.. W. II. Smithers, former receiver
and present mortgage of the Amsterdam
and Cairo narrow guage railroad, said, in
confidence, to gentleman at St. Louis, a
few days ago, that "of course, the road
was bound to stay at Cairo; the company
might run branch to Mound City via Villa
Ridge in order to get some of the fruit
traffic; but it wouldn't do at all to give
Cairo the go-by."-This is tie private opn-
ion of the officials of the road which they
do not express publicly for policys sake,
expecting to gain important concessions
from the city by threatening just the reverse.
And no fair minded man who will not close
his eyes to the great advantages which
Cairo offers as terminus to any railroad
from anywhere will, for moment, enter
tain the ridiculous thought that company
Of such shrewd millionaires as have control
of the Amsterdam and Cairo narrow guage
road, will seriously contemplate the ex.
change Of Cairo for Mound City or any
other place, as southern terminus. 1t
must also be borne in mind that with each
new road entering here, Cairo offers greater
advantages to new ones. Col. Paramore's
road from Texas and Col. Huntingtons
road from the east, connecting two extreme
and widely different points of this great
country the one traversing the thickly set
tied, mcrchantic aud manufacturing cen
tire, and the other the greatest and newest
field for enterprise in the
country, both meeting at Cairo
to exchange trafiic--,hese two great roads
will add incidentally to Cairo's advantages
Cairo is not and has not for some
years past, in the position of an inland
village which must whine like a sick cur to
induce railroad builders, out of sheer pity
for ha, to build their roads to her doors,
provided she will load herself down with
several hundred thousand dollars in rail
road bonds. For several of the railroads
which Cairo has she paid heavily and
one of these, not satisfied with taking our
money, coming to us dwarfed in proper
tons, half finished and five years behind
time, swindling US out of our stock and
violating its important obligations to our
great injury, now protests with all the We
hemence and apparent cincerity
of injured innocence, that Cairo
should not seek her own interests in
her dealings with the road, but should
humbly offer additional inducements and
grant additional franchises to induce the
company to come and share Cairo's great
advantages.
HER PROPERTY DEPRECATED.
A citizen who had made visit to
Kansas City, Mo-, and was induced by
some of his friends who lived there to
locate there, sold his property here for
twelve hundred and fifty dollars. He had
advertised it for sale two days and found a
buyer the third. This was about four days
ago. Yesterday the purchaser of the prop
erty was offered fifteen hundred dollars for
his bargain, but he refused to SELL very
properly concluding that twelve hundred
and fifty dollars invested in Cairo property
will bring him greater profit than would
fifteen hundred dollars cash deposited in q
savings bank at six per cent interest, or
loaned out on good security ut eight per
cent.