Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-08-19
Railroad Com municaliOn.
Winchester Correspondence.
When ESTER, TEss-,}

IT'LL 1l~froSh W 4Ssth II lL<tt UlO
friends of Improvement in your eoun-
Ity al e confident that majority oil
your people will vote at the approach
ing election, in favor of the proposed
county subscription, which is intend
ed to construct a railway from Fay
etteville to the Rock Spring. Such
have believed from the first would
be the decision of the people Of Lin
coin county. The estimate ! have
heretofore placed upon the intelli-
!. gence of her people, satisfied ME, that
whenever the law under which the
subscription, or rather, loan, is pro-
posed to be made, should be fully
explained, a large majority Of the
citizcns there win unite in saying
thai it is one Of the wisest and BEsI
laws ever passed by our Legislature
The farmers Of your county can not
conceive the advantage Of the road
to them. 1t will increase the value
Iof their lands, and place at theii
door as it we're, market Tor every
production Of their rich soil; and 1
better market than they CAN or wiz
have without the road. You have
now the chance Of building a railroad
10 connect with another road, Of
rather I should say, Of extending The
Winchester and Alabama railroad ID
Fayetteville, ON cheaper and bettel
terms than you ever can build a road
hereafter.
The work on the road from the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
to the State line near the Rock
Spring, is progressing very rapidly
Many Of you own citizens have been
here recently and amongst these l
will mention the names Of Col. Rcl-
Ieherul, Maj. Ross, G. C. NeH!nney,
Esq, Col Huzbwf, ". 3. Ahca, Esq,
Col. WM'cl, and James Il. CAlcoat.
They haEe seen for themselves that
a large amount of work has been
do me, ana that it is being pressed
forwarl With unusual rapidly. l tell
you what I do knO70, that il will not
be long until the ''iron horse goes
driving Up 10 the State line, and if
your county votes the subscription,
as have no doubt she will, his shrill
: whistle will soon be heard at Fay
etteville. | understand that you
have all sorts Of rumors circulating
in your county, prejudicial to the
end of the road, such as that it will
not be completed, Sc. Such rumors
we have had in CT REGULATION here from
the day the question Of building the
road was first mentioned. But here
they are regarded by our people, by
the friends of the road, as no more
than the idle wind. We know that
they einanate from men who have no
interest in the road, and have always
opposed it. They can do no harm
here. The whole line of road, with
the exception Of two or three miles,
is under cont ract The two or three
sections not yet put under corftract
is -ueyy light worh, and car be fin
ished in two months easily. The
first two miles of the road will be.
ready in onc month for the iron. To
show you the confidence en- ertained
by the Directors, in the early com
pletion Of the road, they have dir ect-
ed the Chief Engineer to let out
contracts for the timber necessary to
lay track.
The intention is to run our road to
Guntersville. For that purpose,
about 100000 have been subscribed
in Madison county, Ala, $4,000 Of
which was subscribed by Madison
county. We have information here
from the President of the Selma
road, tina tilt is their intention to push
that road through as soon as possible,
md make a connection with US at
Guntersville, in order to open an
outlet for the produce of Tennessee
md Kentncky-as well as establish