| From the New Orleans Times Picayune |
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| April 23, 1862 |
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| Texas & New Orleans Railroad {the
New Orleans & Texas RR is meant} |
| We find the following in the
Franklin (St. Mary parish) Planters' Banner, of the 19th: |
| Last Monday we met B. J. Sage,
Esq., of New Orleans, who informs us that he thinks the Texas &
New Orleans Railroad under a fair way to be completed at a
comparatively early period. He thinks the planters will take liberal
amounts of stock, to be paid for in labor after the corn crop is laid
by. He is now making well directed efforts to enlist planters in this
great Southern enterprise, and to aid in putting through what has
become a great and pressing military necessity. A fair reckoning to
regard to the income of this road shows that the amount of produce,
merchandise and travel that will pass over it between New Orleans and
Texas will make it the best paying road in the South. Those who wish
to turn their slave labor to the best possible account after the corn
crop is made, can do no better than to put most of their hands to work
in this road, and keep them there from July to January. |
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