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From this point, connection can easily be made with lines for Gralveston, New Orleans, or the South Atlantic coast.

This road will traverse a region in which Americans have invested large amounts of capital. The projectors of the railway hope to obtain much of the overland traffic from New York to Australia and New Zealand, as the distance to Auckland is 530 miles shorter via Topolobampo Bay than via San Francisco, Cal. Hon. William Windom is the president of this new railroad company. It is said that the preliminary surveys are nearly completed, and that the work of grading will be commenced immediately.