NP, DD 4/24/1862

From the New Orleans Daily Delta
 
April 24, 1862
 
New Orleans & Texas Railroad Company
   The Company is now prepared to receive Proposals for the Grading, Bridging and Superstructure of their entire Road, from New Iberia, on the Bayou Teche, to Orange, on the Sabine river, one hundred and seventeen miles.
   The road passes through the prairies of Calcasieu, a region of country perfectly healthy and abundantly supplied with provisions, being adjacent to the great stock and grain growing region of Texas; and safe from invasion, the coast of the Gulf being lined by an impassable marsh.
   It is the only link wanting to connect New Orleans with the railroad system of Texas, and thus opening to our whole country one of the most productive regions on the continent.
   The company will be prepared to contract, with one or more individuals, for the construction of the whole or a part of their road or to hire from one to two thousand Negroes.
   Payments will be made in money, and such proportions of stock as is usual for such ??? of work.
   Transportation, provisions and clothing for all Negroes brought on this work will be furnished, if desired.
   There will be about one million and a half cubic yards of Excavation and Embankment, and about thirty thousand lineal feet of Bridging.
   The wants of our community require the completion of this Road in the shortest possible time, and it will be done. All interested parties will keep this in mind.
   Communications must be addressed to
Col. A. M. Gentry, president
or to E. L. Heriot, Chief Engineer
90 Common street, N. O.

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