| From the Galveston Tri-Weekly News |
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| April 2, 1861 |
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| Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas Railroad |
| This road, extending from
Vicksburg to Monroe, on the Ouachita river, seventy-five miles in
length, we expect is as near a straight line as any road in the United
States. The first twenty-five miles contain slight curves, and the
balance, fifty miles, we are told is entirely straight. There are no
grades on it to overcome, which make it almost a dead level -- the
west end being only three feet lower than the east. When the road bed,
which is new, becomes settled, very fast time, both with freight and
passenger trains, can be made without danger. The road runs through
one of the finest cotton regions in the south, the lands of a great
part of which were almost valueless, on account of the difficulty of
getting to market, but have now been enhanced in value to probably
several time the amount of the cost of the road. |
| The next
thing the company have to do, is to bridge the Ouachita river, and
then continue the road to Shreveport. The land-owners on the line of
the road beyond the Ouachita could well afford to take sufficient
stock in the road to build it, and then make four-fold by the enhanced
value of their property. The merchants of upper Red river are deeply
interested in its completion, for it is asserted that Red river is
slowly but surely closing up at its mouth, and the supposition is,
that in a few years that stream will find another outlet to the gulf. |
| Vicksburg Whig, 22d |
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