The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-12-18

nv other Inns, II opens up u new
country. aud no other city Will 30 ben
EFT as Will KApsss City, the great
center of the west.
Coal may bs added to the lumber,
cotton and sugar, and We have the
four great pruaucls that largely COLI
troll the world. On the line already
in operation, and the first forty miles
of the contemplated SxtentiOn, there
are coal fields that will not be exhaust
ed within the next one huadred years,
40 matter what demands are made
upon them. The wealth of Crawford
aud Cherokee Counties is known, ana
the coal beds here fOuno, are sought
eagerly by railroads and capitalists"
= The reader will see that the scheme
Is to build u great longitudinal railroad
from the kraneries and nsat houses Of
the great northwest ACROSS the states Vi
Arkansas and North Louisiana, CROSS
iny the Mississippi river at Na,chez
and thence ~ the city of New Orleans.
Charters have been secured in Louisi-
ANA, Mississippi and Arksnsas, and tint
company fully organized under those
charters.
This roxd when built will cross Al
almost right angles between Natchez
and Topeka, Kansas, twenty two eas'
aud west railroads now III operation.
It will run IN its entire line tor one
knSs kAl
oeds in the west-fifty miles in Kansas
and Missouri and fifty miles in Central
Arkansas. 1t will run for over four
hundred miles through an almost uu-
orsken forest, part being oak and nick
Dry, part red gum, ash, walnut and
poplar, and much Of it the very finest
pine and cypress ~ the south. Along
the projected line, already developed,
ara vast quantities of marble, gray anu
otue granite roofing slate, Oiistone,
xsolin, manganese, and other valuable
minerals. ST.
& Every quarter section of land con-
tiyuous to tue projected line its entire
length Will yield something-either
ield crops Or fruits, coal, slate, granite,
minerals, or timbsr-fOr u road to haul,
there being no waste land, desert or
.mpassabie boys or swamp, and a long
part of the route 10 through the richest
portion of the south, aud the fines,
cotton section. All along the line
ianus are cheap, and this must be- the
future Ell Dorado Of the energetic poo,
.nau of the northwest. There is no
parallel railroad to this projected line
WITHIN from fly 10 lOO miles.
WI hen the ship canal aud Eads' ship
railway are completed across the 18TH
mus Of Panama lit Is too ia,e in GU,
age of progress to laugh At this), ano
they will be completed in very few
years, aud this road built. New Or
teans, now the second grain market III
me United States, will be the first.
Through the port Of New Orleans ana
across the Isthmus Panama v i'll be the
road TO India, and New Orleans 9OU
miles nearer to the graneries and meat
oouses Of Kansas than New York now
ID, and the great trans-M ississippi val
icy is divided by n great trunk line
railroad, extending from New Orleans
10 Fort Scott-not only to Fort Scott,
out 10 Lincoln, Nebraska-toD Dakota
10 the British possessions. Only few
short years Will intervene until those
VINO may now call the protector % this
grand scheme "a crank" or au ill-ad-
vised enthusiast, will stand amazed y,
the great work the hand of progress
will have created into AN existing real.
atty.
We do not mean by this that the
present company will carry out all this
scheme, by no means, and yet they
will, u great part Of it, and where they
leave OF others will begin, and in q
few years tune it will be completed
The Kansas, Nebraska & Dakota Ii
the initiative work. And the New
Orleans, Natchez & Fort Scott railroad
under the magic energy of Colonel l.
l.. Bush, Is an assured fact. 1t will
lie built. ....
The magnificent steamboat j. M
White burned to the waters edge a
Blue Store Landing, Pointe Coupes