NP, NODC 1/5/1861

From the New Orleans Daily Crescent
 
January 5, 1861
 
Texas Intelligence
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   The Memphis, El Paso & Pacific Railroad Company are calling for contracts to grade twenty more miles of their road into Red river country.
   The work on the Eastern Texas Railroad to connect Sabine Pass with Beaumont, is progressing steadily, as is that of the track-laying on the Texas & New Orleans road.
   The San Antonio & Mexican Gulf Railroad is now carrying the mails and passengers from Lavaca to a point within a short distance of Victoria.

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