| From the New Orleans Daily Crescent |
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| January 5, 1861 |
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| Texas Intelligence |
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| The Memphis, El Paso & Pacific
Railroad Company are calling for contracts to grade twenty more miles of
their road into Red river country. |
| The work on the Eastern Texas
Railroad to connect Sabine Pass with Beaumont, is progressing steadily,
as is that of the track-laying on the Texas & New Orleans road. |
| The San Antonio & Mexican Gulf
Railroad is now carrying the mails and passengers from Lavaca to a point
within a short distance of Victoria. |
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