Year: 1879

From recent issue of the Joplin Daily News, we clip the folloming, which vill be found of special inter est to the friends ol progress in this State:

 The people all along the line of tho proposed railroad arc enthusias tio tn the belief that they will now haye q railroad, and we say well they may so belieye-for all who Know Monet & Sergeant will bear witness that when once they put their hand to the blow, they never look back. They have always put through everything they have under taken, and fail is not word in their vocabulary. They are very wealthy, sagaesons and energetic men, have immense and extremely profitable I,intefests, and it is settled that they can and will procure ths money to build this railroad, and that the rail road will be speedily built. Such financial arrangements will be con- clnded that Moffet & Sergeant will not Niu any wise have to draw from their vast business interests in this locality; but independently the Kan sas City, Joplin and Little Rock Railroad will be constructed and operated.

 The benefits to accrue immediate ly from the construction of this rail Iroad cannot be over estimated. When it is built, then Kansas City, all of Kansas, Nebraska and West ern Missouri, and all the Northwest will be connected by way of Joplin with the Mississippi River and the whole South. The hay, grain. pro- duce and stock of this Northwest re zion will find their best market by this route In return will come back inexhaustible supplies of the best timber. It is almost fabulous, when the truth is told, to know about the millions of acres of unsurpassed timber that is opened up by this route, and we know that every stick of it is needed upon our prairies and in our manutactories HOW establish ed and to be established. The mountains penetrated by this rail- road are known to be rich in mines of lead, zinz, coal, iron and silver; and the thrilling music of iocomo, tive whistle will be the signal for thousands of hardy miners to bring to the surface these hidden treasures and add them to the wealth of the country.

 With this railroad running, say to Van Buren, l50 miles from Joplin, navigable water in the Arkansas river is reached; the Little Rock & Fort Smith railway, running los miles southeasterly, makes direct connection with Little Rock, and then connects with the Iron Noun tain railroad running from St. Louis to Texas, and with the Memphis and Little Rock rail road running to Memphis. But better than all, there is Chicot, just below the mouth of the Arkansas river, on the Mis- sissippi river, from which railroad is now running to Pine Bluff, Ark. It is 110 miles from Little Rock to Chieot; there is gap of but forty miles in the railroad between Little Rock and Pine Bluff to fill, and by the time our Joplin railroad can make the connection south of the mountains, that gap will be filled. Then what is the result? Chicot IS hundreds of miles below Memphis, and on the Mississippi river, with high lands, good harbor and deep water from Chicot to the Gulf, and we have Q direct railroad connection with it. Chicot by the river is but 500 miles from New Orleans. By this route to Chicot we reach point on the Mississippi river where there is always deep water, where ice does not interfere with navigation, and save TOO miles in distance over the St. Louis route.

 Thus, we think it so plain as to need no demonstration in words that the Kansas City, Joplin x Little Rock railroad will be not only a local but a trunk linc, enriching its own res and enhancing every maternal interest in the vast and fertile coun- try it drains.