From the Montgomery Mail |
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December 12, 1862 |
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The Central Rail Road Company |
The advertisement calling for
six hundred negroes to work on the South & North Alabama (or
Central) Rail Road shows that the efforts of the company to connect
Montgomery with the Tennessee river at Decatur are not flagging. We
need hardly say that we are rejoiced at this new evidence that the
company is determined to push the good work forward to a speedy
completion. Knowing the character of the President, Engineers,
contractors, &c. for energy and perseverance, we have never
doubted that the road would be built, the croakings of those who did
not choose to join the company to the contrary notwithstanding. The
public may rely upon the assertion that North and South Alabama will
be within a reasonable time united by a first class rail road, and
thousands of acres of land now uncultivated be in demand. And the coal
and iron that will be thus developed! Words cannot convey an idea of
their extent and value along the line of the road which is to be to
Alabama what the Western & Atlantic road is and has long been to
Georgia. Speed the day! |
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