| From the Houston Telegraph |
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| November 27, 1861 |
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| Editorial Correspondence |
| Niblett's Bluff |
| November 19, 1861 |
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| It will be remembered that
soon after the railroad {Texas & New Orleans
RR} was opened, a large amount of government business was done
by it. This was during a term of extraordinary wet weather. The road
was got ready in haste. The ties were laid upon the level of the
prairie. The prairie became saturated with water, and boggy. In some
places the rails were sunk beneath the surface. The consequence has
been that the road became very uneven, and it has been impossible to
make anything like railroad time over it. |
| I was glad to see, however,
that gangs of laborers are employed all along the route, and that the
road is being put in far better order. Indeed, where it pretends to be
a good road, it is as good a road as any; and I was agreeably
disappointed to find it even as good as it is, for from accounts
brought over by travelers, I had been led to look for nothing like a
rail road. I doubt not that within the next thirty days the road will
be put in order to enable the trains to make sixteen miles an hour.
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| I met at Orange this morning,
Col. Morris, Superintendent of the T. & N. O. R. R., who has been
surveying and inspecting the portion of the road between Orange and
Beaumont. I learn from him that a month's work will put that part of
the road in order. All that is wanted is a few thousand dollars. It is
to be hoped the company will be able to go ahead with the work without
delay. |
| C. {E. H.
Cushing, Editor and Owner} |
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