| From the Trinity Advocate (Dallas, Tex.) |
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| August 26, 1857 |
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| Southern Pacific Railroad |
| The last Shreveport South-Western
announces in cheering terms, the arrival of the locomotive "Louisiana"
and tender for the Pacific Railroad, and predicts that, within a short
period, the music of the iron-horse will resound in the neighborhood of
Swanson's Landing. Very glad are we to hear of this substantial evidence
of the progress of this great work, the feasibility and advantages of
which have been advocated time and again through these columns. |
| We also have further encouraging proof to
present to our readers. We learn that the head of the reliable firm of
John T. Grant & Co. -- eminent railroad contractors -- is now the line
of the road, having commenced work on the first of this month, on the
contract for completing twenty-eight miles from the eastern terminus to
Marshall, Texas. Our readers will recollect that these contractors
agreed to place the road in running order to Marshall by the first of
next April, but we now have the satisfaction of informing the friends of
the road -- and all our readers are friends of the road -- that it will
be finished, and cars making regular trips to Marshall, before the
advent of the new year. This may be set down as absolutely certain. The
chains and spikes are on the bark Genesee, now due, and the platform
cars are being constructed at the Bellville Iron Works in Algiers, and
will be finished in two or three weeks; and the ship Lebanon, which
sailed from New York on the 17th of July, has on board a first class
locomotive, which will be despatched to its point of destination as soon
after it arrives as practicable. |
| The completion of even this small section
of the road will of itself lead to an important freight business. It is
estimated that, within twelve months, at least 50,000 bales of cotton
will be conveyed from the interior of Texas over the road to Swanson's
Landing. This freighting business will continue to increase with every
mile of the road that is constructed; and as soon as it is built one or
two hundred miles, the road will have as much traffic as it can possibly
attend to. [N. O. Crescent] |
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