| From the Houston Telegraph |
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| January 8, 1861 |
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| The Nacogdoches Chronicle says
that the Eastern Texas Railroad Company broke ground on their road
three and a half months ago, and now notwithstanding the hard times,
they have sixty miles of their road bed graded, ties for forty miles
ready, and will by the 15th of January have 32 miles of track laid.
What an argument this is against the political excitement! How
terribly secession is effecting this company! Couldn't the
Intelligencer make an argument out of the Eastern Texas road? The work
was started in the midst of the Presidential election, and just after
the terrible injury done this State by the reports of
incendianism in Northern Texas. It has been carried on in the midst of
secession, and what the Intelligencer calls impending ruin, and yet it
has made more rapid progress than any other road ever did, and
promises to have a hundred and fifty miles in operation as soon as any
other road in Texas. |
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