NP, SSW 4/10/1861

From the Shreveport {La.} South-Western
 
April 10, 1861
 
Ouachita Coal and Mining Company
   We age glad to perceive that this company is beginning to surmount the difficulties which met them in the incipiency of their undertaking, and that now they are exhibiting the practical evidences of vitality. On the fine steamer Twilight, which is to leave this evening, they have shipped a steam-engine, saw-mill, brick machine, and other machinery necessary for the construction of a coal oil and paraffin candle manufactory, on their lands in Union county, Arkansas. The recent discovery of the extraordinary value of coal taken from the lands of this company, together with the fact that the company, after a careful geological survey of the place, purchased all the coal lands which were considered valuable in that neighborhood, extending for miles along the river, gives to the company a position of great importance, and has induced them to offer to the public a limited portion of their stock to complete the works they are now commencing and build a short railroad to the river. The development of these valuable coal mines is one of the legitimate results of southern independence, and we are glad to learn that the success of the company in disposing of their stock has enabled them to commence the undertaking with the fullest assurance of a speedy and profitable issue.
N. O. Mirror
{have found no evidence that the works were put into operations or that the RR was built}

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