Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1848-03-29
From he Charleston Ifercury
RAILROADS. COM MUNICATIOS
WITHTHE WEST.

From Tie Charleston :fercury
RAILROA AD. 60 M MUNICATION
WITHTHE WEST.
We haye;repea,edIy caIe.l attention
to the great importance TO our city Of "a
railroad Communication with the valley
of the Mississippi. Its value 10 US, b,tl,
in commercial and political point Of
view, can;hardybe over estimated. We
are already beginning to feel the bene.
fetal effects ofour approximation to The
Tennessee river, distan, but ihirty.funr
miles from the eShead of the railroad, but
not until We Strike the Cumberland can
we realize 10 any, great extent the vast
ness Of tbeirssoilrces Of the mighty West.
To give someideaof these wegiva some
statistics Of tile ssinarketabl. products Of
Tennessee in 1916, which we take from
the letter of W X. Stevenson, Esq, to
Hon. John C.+Ealhoun. And these, it
will be recolleeted, would be greatl y
enhanced witFstiie superior f,cililies Of
transportalionand more favorabIs mar.
ke,s secured Ivy railroad communica-
tion with The Atlantic cities.
The cost ofsaelivering Toblcco from
Nashville to Liverpool, by way Of Nav
Ollcans,is Sl9A5 per hogshead, while by
way of Charleston, when the RAilto1d
connection is established, i. will be bur
514,4O, making difference ia favor of
The latter of s5.25 per hogshead. AID
to show what would be The pioblbe
qranIily that I'VE might expect of this
article, we would stale that there is
shipped out Of the Cumberland River
thirty thousand hogsheads annually.
There is now sent TO New Orleans eve
ry year from Middle Tennessee about
fifty thousandbates of Cotton, the COSTS
oftransportation and charges fDr selling
which amount 10 $3.50 per bale; this
could be tfGhareston by The r Ill,
road for $3.50 iel bale, and he sold for,
say 81 per balt sking a, e1.si :, q % nv the
laitcrrou1n- 4esz ~ per bale: Ano q, q,
-adizHfiiiion izfiiiiiion st!ioF FCo:toR iissworth cents
per Id. or S5,62 per bale Of $50 lbs.
more at Charlestonthan at New Otleans.
thus show gain 10 the Tennessee
planter of S7,92 per bale. Corn is.
worth on the line of thelNashville and
Chattanooga Railroad from71 cents 10
25 cents-per bushel. II is now worth
in our Market 55to 81 cenlsper bushel.
The Cnrncro Of Tennessee amounted
in 1916 to $4,000, 900 bushels, three
fourths ufwhich is produced within the
influence Of the proposed railroad.
There are $4,000 hogs annuity soil
by Tennessee, and as was shown in an
article we copied some days since from
the Nashville Union, as these animals
can be transported on r ,ilroads at a less
Cost than their reduction in value by loss
of flesh while driving, there is but little
doub, that large proportion of them
will come this way. The statement is so
much to the point that will here repeat
it,
"a gentleman from Warren county,
Tenn, vas on his way TO Augusta. Ga,
ith 400 hogs, The agent OF the Rail
road Company at Atlanta od'.red 10
take the hogs l72 miles down to Angus.
ia for SO cents each. The owner refused
10 take it, saying he could not alr,rd to
pay for his hogs riding in the cars, when
he was not able TO ride himself. The
agent then proposed to weigh and divide
the hogs equally, and carry one half for
what,Ire other lostin driving to say .nol
ing Of The corn eaten at one dollar pr
bpshel in driving down,the cos, Of hand,
aud the tavern bilsat night. This ol1.r
was accepted and the hogs divided.
Those in The cars reached Augusta in
few hours and were sold in two days.
The drivea hogs arrived in three weeks,
were killed, and the loss in weight was
is pounds each, which, at d! cents a
pound, made The cost of carriage 81
cents. Fhus, had he accepted the offer
nt the agent ana PAID 30 cents ner head,
the lrauspor,atiV,,as compared with The
driving, would have been 81 cents less
than nothing"
There is vast{amount of ether cx>
portable produce raised in Tennessee,
and forwarded noWby the river route TO
New Orleans; among them in 1876 was
10000 lbs. of beeswax; 100000 lbs,
of Feathers, 100000 lbs. Of Ginseng,
100000 lbs. ofwool; $4,000 bushels
Of tlaxsepd; 10000 bushels of peas and
beans; 600 tons of hemp, a large pro-
portion of which would be diverted in
this direction by The superior facilities Of
transportation anaihc enhanced prices
that could be afforded in this city.
la addition 10th vast amount OF pro.
duce Ct which thissroad will be the chan
mel, j, would also be the great thorough
fare of travel between the eastern cities
and the souiliwest. The difficulties .t-
tendant upon the navigation Of the Ohio.
from ice in winler and droughtin sum.
n,or and tho frenbont occidontc finn,