| From the New Orleans Times Picayune |
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| March 30, 1862 |
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| New Orleans & Texas Railroad Company |
| It will be seen, on referring
to our advertising columns, that this company is now prepared to
receive proposals for the grading, bridging and superstructure on the
entire road, for New Iberia, on the Teche, to Orange, on the Sabine, a
distance of one hundred and seventeen miles. |
| The road is to pass through
the prairies of Calcasieu, a region of country perfectly healthy and
well provisioned, 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 impenetrable marsh. As Col. Gentry, the President, truly
says: "It is the only link wanting to connect New Orleans with
the railroad system of Texas, thus opening to our whole country one of
the most productive regions on the continent." |
| We have too often made this
great work of internal improvement the subject of editorial remark to
make it necessary for us to say more in urging upon the community the
adoption of measures to procure its completion, at the earliest
possible moment. We are rejoiced to see the emphatic manner in which
Col. Gentry and Mr. Engineer Heriot say, "it will be
done." |
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