The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1906-11-03

re&drOlng the prOOaDie udUe OF tD'
inauguration Of the service proposed
by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
but it is thought that it will not b,
later than Jan. 1.
LINK BETWEEN NEW ORLEANS AND
SHREVEPORT.
Baton Rouge, La, Oct. 25.-Tht
last spike in the Louisiana Railway
and Navigation Company's road wal
driven to-day and the last rail laid.
III The road isnow completed between
New Orleans and Shreveport, a con-
tinuous steel track OF 8O-pound rail
running between these two cities and
passing through Baton Rouge. ex.
cept for the break in the road where
it crosses the Mississippi river ut
Angola.
II The southern and northern con-
structi0n gangs met to-day and con-
nected up their lines in st. Charles
parish. There were no ceremonies
about the completion of the line. The
last spike was driven by one of the
men, while the Others watched on.
4 The completion means much to the
city of Baton Rouge, to Shreveport
and to New Orleans.
/ 1t is the first road to be construct
ed into Baton Rouge since the Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley Company's
rails were laid here, over thirty years
ago, and it is the first road to be
conducted into New Orleans in
number Of years.
The Louisiana Railway and Navi-
cation Company runs through the
richest cotton country in the State.
1t comes down the Red River Valley,
by which name it was first known,
and is now frequently referred to.
The road originates at Shreveport,
and comes down the wiley of the
Red river, through Coushatta, to
Alexandria. At Roland the road
takes an easterly direction, and makes
its terminal west OF the Mississippi
at Watertown.
At this place the road will install
transfers which will be of unusual
length. The incline ON the eastern
side Of the Mississippi river will bp
at Angola. and transfer-boats will be
installed at this point to transfer all
trains between Angola and Water
town, a distance of about eight miles,
An unusually large boat, the William
Edenborn, has been built to carry
these trains across the Mississippi.
This boat can be installed at any
time. 1t was because of the great
distance that the trains would have
to be transferred at this point that
the name of the road was changed
from the Red River Valley to the
Louisiana Railway and Navigation
Company.
just exactly when through traffic
will be installed between New Orleans
and Shreveport is not known, and it
will probably be several months, for
it il known that President Edenborn
is very anxious to give q first-class
service when operations are begun,
and would prefer being a little slow
than to beginning operations under
conditions that would not admit of
good passenger service.
1t is likely that by the first of next
month the freight service between
this city and New Orleans will be in
progress, and preparations towards
that end are now being made by the
officials Of the road.
The Louisiana Railway and Navi-
cation Company covers distance OF
about $40 miles between New Orleans
and Shreveport, which is few miles
shorter than the Texas and Pacific
between these two cities. and few
miles shorter between Baton Rouge
and New Orleans than the YazCo and
Mississippi Valley.
The road was first built out OF |
Shreveport about six years ago, but |
it has been within the past three
years that the construction work to |
the south has been pushed with vigor.
The road ALPHABETICALLY the personal
property of William Edenborn, of
New York, who is President of the
company. and who has practically
built the entire line.
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