| From the New Orleans True Delta |
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| March 24, 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 contains slight curves, and the balance, fifty miles,
we are told is entirely straight. There are no grades on it to overcome;
which makes 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 was almost valueless,
on account of the difficulty of getting to market, but have now been
enhanced in value to probably several times 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 road beyond the Ouachita could not 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 rivers are deeply interested in its completion -- for it is
asserted that Red river is slowly but surely closing up at its month,
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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