| From the New Orleans True Delta |
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| January 3, 1861 |
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| Texas Intelligence |
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| Eastern Texas Railroad |
| The locomotive of the Eastern Texas
railroad has commenced running, says the Sabine Pass Times of the 10th
inst.; we heard the whistle this morning. We understand the iron is laid
several miles. |
| There are now five hundred
hands employed on the road, owned mostly by the stockholders; fifty
miles of the road are ready for the iron, and rapid progress is making
in track laying. |
| The Memphis, El Paso & San
Patricio railroad company {Memphis, El Paso &
Pacific RR}, call for proposals for the grading, in five mile
sections, of the road from the terminus of Ives's contract, in Red River
county, west to the Paris depot grounds -- a distance of twenty miles. |
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