| From the Clarksville, Tenn. Jeffersonian |
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| February 15, 1862 |
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| Another Railroad Scheme in Congress |
| We learn that another railroad scheme has
been proposed to the Military Committee of Congress for the
completion, as "a military necessity," of the Memphis &
Little Rock railroad, beginning on the west bank of the Mississippi
river at Hopefield, immediately opposite the city of Memphis, and
terminating at Little Rock, in the State of Arkansas. |
| The proposition of the company is for an
advance of half a million of dollars in Confederate bonds, which they
propose to secure by an equal amount of their own bonds, and to redeem
the advance within two years, giving such personal security therefor
as may be approved by the Secretary of War. The condition of the
advance is to be that the road shall be completed by the first of July
next. |
| It is claimed that this road is very
important to the Confederate Government, in view of the vast saving,
both in time and cost, of transportation of troops and munitions of
war to Northern Arkansas and Missouri. |
| The road is finished and in operation from
the Mississippi river to the St. Francis, a distance of forty miles,
including the bridge across the St. Francis river. |
| From White river to Little Rock, on the
Arkansas river, a distance of fifty-five miles, the road will be
completed in a few days, and would have been completed earlier, but
for the detention of the iron at New Orleans by the Confederate
Receiver, upon the hypothesis that it was the property of alien
enemies. |
| On the middle division of the road,
between the St. Francis and White rivers, a distance of forty-five
miles, the heaviest pat of the grading is done, and a large quantity
of cross ties, and iron for fifteen miles of the road are on hand,
leaving a deficit in iron of two thousand five hundred tons, which, it
is believed, can be obtained from other roads upon which the work has
been suspended in consequence of the war |
| Richmond Examiner, 7th |
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