NP, MAR 4/5B/1862

From the Mobile Advertiser & Register
 
April 5, 1862
 
An Important Railroad Enterprise
   We direct attention to an advertisement of the New Orleans & Texas Railroad Company. This company has been chartered and endowed with liberal franchises to construct one of the most important links of railway connection in the Confederacy, whether considered as a social, commercial or military desideratum. The enemy have cut off the rest of the Confederacy from the usual communication by water with the great Southwestern domain of Texas, at once the granary and the grazer's field of the South. Our only intercourse with that vast and productive region is by the slow and devious land route over wretched wagon roads. This link of railroad from the terminus in Louisiana of the New Orleans & Opelousas Road {New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western RR} to the present eastern terminus of a road ending on the Sabine river boundary of Texas, will give New Orleans and the whole Confederacy direct railroad communication for seven hundred miles into the most populous heart of Texas. Supplies, troops and munitions will thus have cheap and expeditious transportation to the points where needed.
   The company advertise to contractors and for negroes. It has on hand all materials for the construction of the road and ample finances. The country where the work is to be done is as healthy as any, as we personally know, and safer from invasion, perhaps, than any other portion of the Confederacy. Therefore, owners of slaves who wish to place their negroes profitably and safely in these times can do no better than hire to, or contract with, this company, and thereby serve the public weal and their own interests.

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