The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-02-12
SUPPOSE TT WERE TRUE.

For some time past the rumor has been
circulated in this city that Col. Psrsmore,
of the Texas Narrow Guage road, who had
intended to bring his road to Cairo in order
to connect here with the Cairo and ST. Louis
road, has abandoned this idea and has now
decided to run his road direct to St. Louis
on the Mississippi shore. The reasons,
which, it is alleged, prompted Col. Para
more to this change of his plans, are the
little differences now pending between
the city and the Narrow Guage company,
and the probability that the company will
be involved in law suit Some of the
business men and manufacturers here, who
expected that they and the city at large
would derive great benefit from the orig
inal arrangement, because it would give
Cairo direct railroad communication with q
large tract of new country, have been lead
to believe that this rumored change of pur,
pose on the part of Col. Paramore, will
work great injury to Cairo
Now, in the the first place,
it is not at all certain, it
may be said probable, that all this talk is
true; as yet, we have only Dame Rumor's
authority for it, and the reasons given for
the change are of character that, to be-
ieye the story, it is necessary to believe a
so that COL Paramore is a simpleton. II
Col. Paramore knows anything about the
state of affairs between the city and the
Cairo and st. Louis railroad company, he
| knows that q settlement could be arrived
at with but little trouble and expense, ard
as for the threatened litigation, that would
cut no figure 9Th him, since the Narrow
Guage has been, and is still, involved in q
series of law suits of amuch more serious
character than this could be.
But suppose it were true. Suppose Col
Paramore had good reasons for abandoning
the idea of connecting at Cairo with the
little narrow guagc road, and that he will
run his Texas road direct to St. Louis
Why, Cairo couldn't desire anything better
That the road must and will come to Birds
Point, is an established fact. Its line il
laid cut and the grading finished to thai
point and by reference to map it will bt
found that, on its way to st. Louis, the
company would incur much additional ex
pense were it to avoid Birds Point, beside!
annulling work so far done. IL
Birds Point, therefore, it must and will bt
built, and that would not only open t.
Cairo the country through which the roat
would run, just as though there had beer
no change in the route, but it would civ,
those receiving freight here a cheaper rat
of transfer over the river, because thi
would be done by an independent transfe
company. 1t would also give Cairo an ad
ditional route to st. Louis and open up to i
the great iron country between st. Loui
and Birds Point. Itwould make Cairo thu
most convenient point in the country 70
mixing the ores from the Tennessee an,
from the Missouri iron region, used in tn
production of pig iron, and would, in les
than half year, bring to Cairo tens O
thousands of dollars of capital whicl
would be invested in great iron manufac
turing establishments. II is plain, there
fore, that, 80 far from being an injury t
Cairo and her manufacturing interests, tn
change ''would be consumation devoutl