| From the New Orleans True Delta |
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| March 5, 1862 |
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| New Orleans & Texas Railroad |
| B. J. Sage, Esq., will visit the Western
parishes, from Lafourche to Rapides, pressing the claims of the above
road, to be built from New Iberia to the Sabine, 117 miles, thus
completing the connection between this city and Houston, upon the
attention of the planting community as a means of employing their
surplus labor profitably in grading, furnishing cross-ties, etc., their
pay being in stock. As a work of great commercial importance, connecting
two great centers of commerce by a direct road, and finally, as a great
arm indispensable to military necessity, it being the only means of
transporting soldiers and munitions and subsistence along our coast, to
say nothing of the number of beeves and the vast quantities of
breadstuffs, salt, etc., alike necessary for soldiery and people. The
water on the coast and the inlets of the country are shallow, and the
coast is skirted with an impassable sea-marsh twenty to thirty miles in
width, making the road safe from hostile interruption. |
| This road should be built at once, and the
planters cannot do better than to put their surplus labor into it in the
shape of stock, than which there can be no better in the Southern
Confederacy. Fair prices will be allowed and the planters placed as
equal partners in the concern, which is controlled by as highly
respectable a board of directors as the city can produce. |
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