The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-30
Railroads in Tennessee.

The various railroad enterprises in the West
in which Tennessee is more or less interested,
are progressing at this time with renewed &C.
tivity, and promise q brilliant future to our
growing State. As regards those in which
Nashville is more Immediately interested, the
Tennessee and Alabama, the Louisville and
Nashville, the Nashville aud Northwestern,
and the Edgefeld and Kentucky roads, we
have kept our readers pretty well posted
The following from late number of the Mem
phis appeal gives a fattering account of the
prospects of those enterprises in which Mem
phis is more Immediately interested:
GONG AHEAD.-We yesterday had brief inter-
view with Col. Topp, who has just returned from
New York. He informs US that he has effected
purchase of iron sufficient to complete his road
1.-THE Memphis and 0hio,) to Brownsville. A por-
ton of the iron is already in New Orleans, and no
cessation will be made in track-laying until finished
to Brownsville, which place it will reach early next
year. There are already sixteen miles completed,
and passengers will be put the track in October
The highest praise is due Col. Topp for the energy
with which he has pushed this great work forward.
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad is now
completed TO Middleton, some seventy odd miles
from this city, and the will in very short time
commence running to that point.
Several hundred tons Of iron arrived last week
also for the Memphis and Grenada Road, and we
learn that track laying will commences at once. The
road will be completed to fernando this fall, and
the time is near at hand when will be within a
few hours of the interior Of Mississippi.
The future prospects of the Memphis and Little
Rock Railroad likewise fattering. 1t is belev.
ed that it will be completed TO the ST. Francis river
between this time and the first of January.
From these facts it will be seen that all our rail-
road enterprises are going rapidly ahead. Memphis
already begins to feel the stimulus which they can
not fail to impart to her business, her prosperity
and her growth. few years more will see US a
city with population Of not less than fifty thousand
Holding place in the centre of the Mississippi
Valley, she is now the centre of a great railroad
system which cannot fail to make her one of the
first cities CT the Union. To capitalists abroad we
would just say, here is the place and nOW the time
for investment Come to Memphis, if you desire
either to lay out your means in real estate or en-
bark in business. There is no place in the South.
west that holds out such inducements.
We clip the following in regard to the Ala
bama and Tennessee Railroad from the Mont
gomery Mail:
ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE RIVER RAILROAD
of the President, (Co Godsby to the stockholders
of this road. We learn from it that the road has
reached a "self-sustainng point" and that of its
ultimate completion, there can be no doubt. II is
hoped that the cars will be running to the Coosa
river, within few months. If the iron could be
obtained, it could be completed through, to Jack
sonville, in very short time. We trust it may
struggle through, so as not to leave all its benefits
TO others than the original stockholders The CON-
hac had harA Of 10 a..I h.
great pity that those who have done 80 much for
the interests of Alabama should reap no harvest
themselves. We believe, though, that little more
pluck on the part OF stockholders will place them
on safe grounds. So mote it be-
The following notice of another important
is from the same paper:
n. E. IS w. ALABAMA RAILRoAD.-Slade sends
Us copy Of the report Of E. D. Sanford, ESQ.,,
chief engineer Of this road. A cursory examina- |
ton leads US to believe that with proper determin.
alton on the part OF the company, the road can be
built. Its cost however, is large-a fraction over |
S., 100000. We extract paragraph
You have road 294f miles In length but II |
per cent. longer than a right line between its |
Northern and Southern termini nine tenths of the
line is straight; its curvature very favorable and |
gentle its gradients low, being but thirty feet
per mile against the grade, and OF these but 50 |
miles: ii is uneneumbered with lengthy expensive |
structures, and embraces comparatively
but a small portion Of heavy grading its cost |
$50, 600 or by the usual mode of estimating ST..
$40 per miie,) for lie length, is almost in point Of
,heapness without a precedent being but little |
half the average cost Of Railroads in the United
States Thus, with Road, beautiful in its align |
nent, free Of Objectionable curvature Of very low
gradients and cost, you may be enabled 10 convey |
heavy traffic of both passengers and freight with
-ery great safety, speed, economy, and your annu.
i repairs will be unusually low.