| From the New Orleans Times Picayune |
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| March 6, 1862 |
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| New Orleans & Texas Railroad |
| Mr. Sage, one of the directors
of this most important work of internal improvement, informs us that
he is about making a tour through the parishes of Lafourche, Attakapas
and Opelousas, for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions from
planters and others, payable in labor, materials, provisions, &c.,
to the capital stock of the company. |
| As we have more than once
taken occasion to say that the projectors of this road aim, by building one hundred and seventeen mils from New Iberia to the Sabine,
to complete the connection between this city and Houston, the great
railroad center of Texas and that this connection, though of the
greatest consequence to New Orleans and to Louisiana and Texas, commercially,
now challenges the attention and demands the aid alike of our people
and Government, because of its vital military importance in the
transportation of soldiers, arms and munitions of war, and all the
means of subsistence, dammed up from us on the West, but with which
Texas is overflowing; that beeves, breadstuffs and salt enough for the
Confederacy are waiting for us, and that, while the blockade lasts,
this is the most profitable mode of employing the surplus labor of the
planters, who may become stockholders in proportion to their
subscriptions in a great public improvement, which being built
cheaply, and well managed (as may be expected from the directory),
must be profitable in the highest degree. |
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