| From the Colorado Citizen
{Columbus, Tex.} |
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| January 5, 1861 |
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| Our Tap Road {Very
faint and hard to make out} |
| The President, E. P.
Whitfield, speaks most cheeringly of the prospects of our Tap Road.
????? the grading is about two thirds done; the trestle work is being
done under the superintendence of the Engineer, Mr. James G. Pettus;
the ties are contracted for and being got out; there are about forty
hands at work on the road; there are several ??? to get the iron, and
the President confidently assures us that the road will be completed
by the 22d of April. |
| This is indeed good news, and
though the Union may be, and probably will be dissolved by that time,
our city will accelerate her speed in advancement and prosperity; and,
as another year has rolled around, she will have grown in wealth,
population and influence beyond our most sanguine expectations. |
| Beautifully situated on the
west banks of the Colorado, on a gently sloping plain, dotted in some
portions with groves of live oak, no spot from the Gulf to Austin
presents greater advantages for the building of a city. Columbus has
now taken a firm stand, and if the citizens of Colorado will do their
due, the future career of the city will be one of special ??? and
prosperity. |
| Let us then drive on the work
of the Tap. It must be finished first; it is the enterprise of
Columbus now. We expect to have the pleasure of eating good barbecued
meat, and of hearing a lively spraying of Champagne bottles about the
22d of April, as we learn the citizens intend giving the indefatigable
President of the road a complimentary dinner upon its completion to
this point. An event fraught with so much good to public and private
interests, should be appropriately celebrated. |
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