| From the Shreveport {La.} Semi-Weekly News |
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| May 6, 1862 |
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| Texas & New Orleans Railroad {New
Orleans & Texas RR} |
| We find the following in the
Franklin (St. Mary parish) Planters' Banner, of the 19th: |
| Last Monday we met B. J. Sage,
Esq., of New Orleans, who informs us that he thinks the Texas & N.
Orleans Railroad under a fair way to be completed at a comparatively
early period. He thinks the planters will take liberal amounts of
stock, to be paid for in labor after the crop is laid by. He is now
making well directed efforts to enlist planters in this great Southern
enterprise, and to aid in putting through what has become a great and
pressing military necessity. A fair reckoning in regard to the income
of this road shows that the amount of produce, merchandise and travel
that will pass over it between New Orleans and Texas will make it the
best paying road in the South. Those who wish to turn their slave
labor to the best possible account after the corn crop is made, can do
no better than to put most of their hands in this road, and keep them
there from July to January. |
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