Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-01-16
PLANK ROADS.

EDroRs TINES AND BANNER: Ny oh.
ice, in addressing this article to you and the
one which you have already published, is to
endeavor, by calculations the correctness OF
Of which all can understand, 10 prove that
there can be no mistake as 10 the pecunary
advantages TO the people from plsnk road
In my former article proved that the cost
OF a plank road was less than third OF
the cos. an the present roads think may
safely assms that the cost Of transportation
from Randolph and Macon counties, will be
diminished 20 cts. per hundred.
believe every one acquainted with the
amount Of transportation to and from the
Missouri river from these counties will admit
that 1000 tons is not an over estimate. The
article OF Tobacco alone 10 those counties
will make near three fourhs OF that amount.
II 20 per cent i. saved, It will make
$500 per ton, and at this rste on 5000 tons
eight thousand dollars will be saved TO those
counties.
This is co lac assumption, that the road
d,es not cause an increase of the amount. OF
transportation to and from Glasgow.
BIZ, wha. is the fac, as 10 this? More than
raif Of the business Of Macon county and
part Of Randolph now goes to other points
,han Glasgow,
The merchants 10 Bloomington receive
their goods by way Of Hannibal, even along
the northern line Of Randolph county they
% ,h5 same All the eastern part OF Ma
con county, most Of the northern part,
md portion OF the eastern part Of
Rsndop h county 10 Hannibal. The western
par. OF Macon trades to Brunswick.
think i, susceptible OF proof that all this
l.aae, and 10 addition to il, The trade OF the
western par, Of Monroe will be drawn to
Glasgow by The plank road, and thereby
greatly increase The transportation on that
line, and it will not Only increase the trade
10 the Missouri by drawing i! from a wider
extent OF OF country, bu! those who are now
discouraged from raising produce for market
by tbs di fficulIy OF transporting it, will en-
gage with zeal ia,doing whs. affords them
prospect OF remuneration doubt no. that
20 Eve years from this time, the saving in
cos, OF transportation 10 Randolph and Ma.
con alone, will amount in single year to
$4,000,
| remarked above tha, believed j! sus
cep,bIe OF proof that all the trade fiom Ma
con, Randolph and part OF Monroe would
be drawn to Glasgow.
The merchants at Bloomington Snd the
northern part Of Randolph county pay 75o's
hundred for freight from Hannibal. and a
bi. from there 10 81. Louis, making the
cost Of transportation from St. Louis TO Ma
con county, 81 els. per bundled pounds.
BY the Glasgow route the cost will be as
follows 90 cts. hundred from 81. Louis 10
Glasgow, !0cts hundred from Glasgow TO
Huntsville, 80 els from Huntsville 10 Bloom
ington, making 60 els. hundred from ST.
Louis to Macon on The Glasgow route, agalns
81 cts. on the Hannibal route. ! have SCI
down in making The above estimates what
consider the average rates OF transportation
II is very manifest therefore that the roat
will make business for itself and that II u
intimately interviewer with the prosperity o
large sections Of country. Blu. there ar
points which are destined to be PARTICULAR.
affected by it, and they are in my oP'n'o'
Glasgow and Huntsville. Some lmsg'n
that there will be conflict OF interests De
tween these points. think not. Rive
towns are rivals, but the interior towns ira
ding 10 the river towns are the most iIuIlu
sources Of their prosperity. The river an
interior towns lake different Department.
and The prosperity Of each contributes to thu
or the other. The towns on The river mus
mainly do wholesale business and those
III, interior retail business
The retail buness Of Glasgow will col
,iuus as il is, only affected by growth
= N. town and vicinity, but her whOlesa
commission and forwarding business Will
s,,spded 10 . country double in extent, ar
.county which in the same st'sA' VIII