| From the Mobile Advertiser &
Register |
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| April 5, 1862 |
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| An Important Railroad Enterprise |
| We direct attention to an
advertisement of the New Orleans & Texas Railroad Company. This
company has been chartered and endowed with liberal franchises to
construct one of the most important links of railway connection in the
Confederacy, whether considered as a social, commercial or military desideratum.
The enemy have cut off the rest of the Confederacy from the usual
communication by water with the great Southwestern domain of Texas, at
once the granary and the grazer's field of the South. Our only
intercourse with that vast and productive region is by the slow and
devious land route over wretched wagon roads. This link of railroad
from the terminus in Louisiana of the New Orleans & Opelousas Road
{New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western RR} to
the present eastern terminus of a road ending on the Sabine river
boundary of Texas, will give New Orleans and the whole Confederacy
direct railroad communication for seven hundred miles into the most
populous heart of Texas. Supplies, troops and munitions will thus have
cheap and expeditious transportation to the points where needed. |
| The company advertise to
contractors and for negroes. It has on hand all materials for the
construction of the road and ample finances. The country where the
work is to be done is as healthy as any, as we personally know, and
safer from invasion, perhaps, than any other portion of the
Confederacy. Therefore, owners of slaves who wish to place their
negroes profitably and safely in these times can do no better than
hire to, or contract with, this company, and thereby serve the public
weal and their own interests. |
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