The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-02-14

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bands 81 the superintendent thereof.
aud ~ The ststs make susn dispositions
Of it rs might seem best; but 10 that
event the State would in equity and
good conscience he bound to reimburse
this Company the amount it has paid
out IN maintaining the Penitentiary
since 1t came into possession of 1t, aud
TO take off It's hands ut est, the personal
property incident thereto, which this
Company mas acquired, necessary to
carry ON its business.
OF course ii the Company is deprived
of the Penltentiary aud convicts Gas
that was the basis TO some extent upon
which my negotiations rest) such action
would necessarily suspend, Ii not termi-
nate the negotiations entirely, and delay
the building Of the road, for what period
could not well be coujectured.
If the bill now pending before the
House (Which is intended 70 simplify
and make plain what the Company
understands it has already acquired
under the old law should become a
law, the Company could within 30 days,
/ begin work ut both ends OF the road
With funds already assured to the
amount Ol $35, 900, and assurances from
prominent and responsible parties In
counties along the projected line Of the
road OF other and further aid, the Com
pauy could feed aud clOtae and guard
the able bodied conyicts which il would
at once PUT upon the work, until one
| hundred miles of said road could be
graded, bridged and cross tied, and it
would be an easy matter TO hypothecate
the same and get the steel aud rolling
stock with which to equip it.
Further, by hiring portion of the
cOnvicts TO other railroad companies or
Boards OF Levee Commissioners, funds
could be supplied with which tue work
could be continued to completion, even
without the aid OF foreign capital except
for equipment.
1t Is greatly to be desired by the Com
pany, II possible, TO construct SAID rail
road with light bonded debt, and to
have it owned, controlled and operated
! BY citizens OF tie State.
Ii the Tehuantepec Ship Railroad is
butt or the Panama Caua ,one or both, the
Gull of Mexico becomes the highway of
the commerce of the world, anu as popu-
lation, wealth and intelligence follow
inexorably, the lines OF commerce,
every port or harbor on the Gulf coast
must sooner or later become centre OF
population aud wealth. Hence the de.
slraDilily upon the part OF the Gulf
IL Snip Island Railroad Company to
construct said road as speedily as pos
slble and with as light BONDED debt
as possible; and to that end 1T is the
purpose of this Company to offer every
reasonable inducement TO the people
along the projected route, and who win
be immediately benefited by It's con-
strucuon, to purchase the stock thereof,
aud become directly interested Ill this
gr, at enterprise.
If, however, the Legislature should de-
cline to pass the original bill now pend
ing before the House, and should make
other disposition OF the convicts, or im-
pose other terns than those stipulated
IN said bill, the Company could only
surrender the Penitentlary into the
custody Of the uperlntendent, and look
TO other sources tor means to accomplish
the long cherished hope OF building this
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sea port which at no distant date would
become golden gate through which
would pour the liCh treasures OF COM
t MERGE that would soon put her Ill the
{ front rank of the commercial States Of
the Union.
= Nero iddled while Rome was burning.
For three quarters OF a century Mlssis-
/ ,ippi has betA without any considerable
. commerce. without adequate banking
facilities, and without Il city of 10000
4 inhabitants, n mere dependencv-"a
cluster of cotton farms, producing
=. annually from her rich soil over fifty
' millions of dollars, but spending the
i profits thereof in marketing thu So pro-
duets. Now that an opportunity pre-
: sents itself of changing this state of
n aialrs,by construction of trunk line of
4 railway, from the splendid Harbor at
/ Ship Island, centrally through the State
!. to its northern boundary, and
Y thereby create and utilize port
E through which the products of the State
!. could at nominal cost, fud market
aud thus establish the commercial indie
4 peadence of the STATE, to fail the to seize
e tue opportunity that gives promise OF
II such results, and higgle over few dol
d lars that might be wrung from the labor
/. of the convicts on farms and find their
) way into the State Treasury; or antici'
pate with shudders and tears that the
h cross ties in this grand trunk line might
' be marked with the blood of the con
N victs," is to transcend the folly even oil
v. Nero. Every guarantee is given fol
Of the proper care and humane treatment
,e of the convicts, and no plan can be de
te vised or substituted that gi es better as
V, surance Of the health and treatment o
the cOnricts or more remuneration K
II the State than the one proposed for thei
|. employment in the construction O
= this road
-. | have been thus particular in giving
- you frank and full statement cOnGern
=, ing the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad
~ its condition and prospects, and trus
- it will receive that aid and encourage
u meut which its great Importance to thu
/ people of Mississippi merits ut the hand
=, of the Legislature. | have the honor Il
. be, most respectfully,
. Your obedient servant,
: w. b. HARDY,
- President G. 4 S. |. r. r. Co.
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