NP, BRA 1/20/1861

From the Baton Rouge Advocate
 
January 20, 1861
 
Mobile & Great Northern Railroad
   The Mobile Register, of yesterday morning says that notwithstanding the times, the work on this road goes bravely on. It adds the following interesting intelligence:
   Notwithstanding the times, the work on this road goes bravely on; this is as it should be. We have lately seen a letter from Col. Pollard, President of the Alabama & Florida {(of Alabama)} Railroad, stating that his road will be in operation between Montgomery and Pensacola by the first of July next. In view of this fact, it is highly important for the commercial interests of Mobile, that the Great Northern Railroad should also be running between the Alabama & Florida Railroad and the Tensas River next fall, so as to be able to take off the cotton crop.
   Apart from this consideration, the road is now imperatively demanded for military purposes. Rather than it should fail of construction in good time great sacrifices should be made, but there is no necessity of suffering loss to attain this end. The work on the road has so far progressed that it can be placed in running order, from its junction with the Alabama & Florida Railroad to the Tensas River, in ample time, if the company are not compelled to stop for want of funds. We are assured that this alternative, although no reliance can be placed on raising means from the sale of city bonds, will not be compulsory, if the subscriptions to the capital stock are paid up on full.
   From the same paper we learn that the stockholders resident in Mobile are promptly paying up their subscriptions.

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