The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-01-06

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man the utmost capacity OF this Road to per,
form the business which viii be demanded
OF u.
Inc state OF Georgia now affords 10 Fast
Tennessee It's best and most reliable narke'.
Produce which will find It's way to Charles
ton over the Blue Ridge RAILWAY will be drs-
tined, principally. for foreign exporIHtion.-
Asa home market and for distribution in
South Carolina, orr people there come into
direct competition with the grain producing
STATES north and east, and consequently the
interior OF Georgia and Florida has been
found and viii continue to be our best homo.
market. Charleston has great and decided
advantages MS n port for the shipment of
brend stuils and other provisions to the mar
kets Of South America and the West Indies.
To her, in this point of view, the opening up
of the valley of the Tennessee and the Ohio.
by the most direct and cheapest route. is of
the greate:t importance-to us, also, it is n
matter of deep concern, appealing to our in
tercst rs well rs orr pride, to see great ex-
porting cities springing up on our South At
anlic scahoard. Yet, even in products in.
tended for export, we do not, Ev any means,
yield the transportation Of all to the Blue
Ridge Rnllroad. Savannah Is competing with
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES nt'te Pr''e Is p"'"'hg
her forward III" she WI ere i"h9 c"''''ihh',
n ~, '',' snare % '!'r SCUM h'!'''"'th IN
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~ connn. ,',r d'r frnr "nn wilma a,ono ,.;tL
fair prospcct of an early Increase TO fnur
times that amount. We have thus very briefly
altpmptrd TO show that no npprehensions
need be. for Il moment. entertained as 70
the building of the Ralun Gan Road upon
the interest ol t''1 Iompahy-tiiat there IS
enough and more than enough IN prospect
for it to satisfy cur warmest anticipalions for
its success.
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'.'"y w 'P,'V' ~ WIS ',sl'e'' It "'' u"
rival. IL VIII De seen ny reference 10 any
map OF the United states or table OF dis'an-
ccs, that it atlordsthc neares; and most direct
rn al tppNpl
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington city,
to the States and cities living on the Gnlf,
embrarinu Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas. Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, Florida AMI a consider
able portion Of Georgia. II is n great cen
trail route through Il temperate climate, I'M
obstructcd by the frosts and SHOWS of the
NOR. south,rn line mar i. il oL,tru.tcd in nil
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An ahin correspondent OF The Augusta
Chroniclr" speaking OF the "Al'con and War
rcnt"n' Railroad, aIIuirs to N.'S great direct
ronte OF wit'ch our road Is so important Il
link in the following manner:
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70 ~" o'''''"I IL. '''''i'. ,'"'
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,r inc ,hrourh Lynchbura and Abingdon. Va.
and Knnxyile, Tenn, aud constituting, to-
rether with other roads in progress or no.
iccted. The most direct route between The
Grant centres of Northern and Southwestern
troIe
"Tbo rrco.or mar, If each Of the two srs.
toms If roads nbove r.rarrcI ,o--wbich ,oov
he cI,arnct cried as the Knoxville. md The
Piedmont routes-;s already in rrorress.-
Washington civ and selma Ala. are almost
in the direct lire ,roinr \. Y. and \. @. Ey
consulting a Railroad man il will be seen tLn,
KuoyviIlc is almost directly between them.
UhouvL ON n different side Of the mountain
and I'm, railroads are olreudy in nropress on
The Greater mart Of the line. 1t will lie seen
also, that the route above referred to MS the
pi,jnnnt route nossirg throuob Richmond
onIv a fev links If Lc;no co,nnleted ,o Mont.
oy A., T,,a ,,,. , it,Iia"a,, = co.,
r. . So, H.. I;no L.;,. , ,ua, ell -.
W;,,,, Ho. ,' rra ,i, 80, ,',,,, - va, ~
=" '''''I I r. Vs.. tx,
willie route,) and 10y bows of different degrees
of eurva'ion-the Piedmont being the less
curved, and the Wilmington the more curved
or by the degrees oil eoh'pafiSoh-uirect' less
direct least direct
'From the best information accessible to
the writer, without pretending to eSactness,
he has compiled the following table OF dis
tnnees between the noove named points
nshington Iltv ana Selma themselves on