Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-02
Loui.viIIe and N..hvilie railroad.

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company held their regular meeting on the
list of October, when the officers of the
Company presented their sixth Annual report
We are gratified that we can Fay before our
readers some interesting facts about the pro-
gress of the railroad, gathered from it,
Being link in the great commercial chain
between the grain states of the North and
the cotton states OF the South, no road. we
believe. offers higher expectations to Middle
Tennessee. offuture usefulness and prosperity.
Since the 27th of September, the cars have
been regularly running to Upton. distance
of sixty miles south from Louisville, whence
the tracklayers have been putting down the
rails at the rapid rate of two miles per week,
and expect to reach MunfOrdsville, seventy
three miles out from Louisville by the 18th
instant. There. the tracklaying will be sus-
pended, until after the completion of the
bridge over Green river and further supply
of rails is procured. From Nashville, the
track is laid and in daily use to Gallatin,
twenty six and half miles, to which place
it was completed the 29th September last. On
this portion of the road two trains each way
are run daily. At this place, the tracklaying
will be resumed in the coming spring, and
will then continue without hindrance to COM
pletion, 45t miles to the Kentucky line. In
the course of two weeks, thirteen additional
miles on the Louisville end of the track will
be opened for business, which added to that
now opened. will put in operation 99} miles
of track, and will reduce the stage travel
between Nashville and Louisville to $50
miles.
The graduation of the road between Mum
louisville KY. and Gallatin Tennessee. is
being rapidly prosecuted, and it is believed,
will be ready for the superstructure by June
next, if the proper energy shall be used. We
have the prospect of an easy winter, and the
encouragement of a rapid rise in the value of
Railroad bonds and stocks. Everything seems
to favor the belief of its rapid instruction. 1t
is gratifying to know that of the ssh miles
uncOmpleted. only about thirty miles OF gra-
ding remain to be DONE To prepare the entire
roadway for the rails; and that of these thirty
miles, only six offer much heavy work. From
Bowling Green to the Tennessee line. twenty
seven miles, are already graded, with the ex-
ception of two unfinished sections of a mile
each. In Tennessee, the unfinished grading
is all light work, and will be done early in
the coming spring. There is however some
heavy work upon and near the two tunnels
under construction in the Cumberland ridge,
seven miles north of Gallatin, which can
with difficulty be completed before June next.
These tunnels, the bridges over Green and
Barren rivers, and the Muldrough's hill tun-
mel 1900 feet long, are the chief obstacles
impeding the earlier completion of the road
than by October 1859. H -
With the necessary number of hands and
supply of rails, distributed as recommended
by the able chief Engineer of the work, we
ace no reason why the entire track cannot be
complete by the LIST of October next. He
advises. the purchase of 5000 tons of rails.
1000 tons to be sent to Nashville for the Ten
nessee portion of the road; 5000 tons to
Bowling Green for the road between the Ten
nessee line and Bells; and the remaining
1000 to Louisville, for the track between
Munfordsville and Bells. The rails to be
delivered early in the spring. He says, I'VE
may not be able TO accomplish an object 80
important in the time specified, but it is
not absolutely impossible to do it, the most
prompt and efficient measures should be taken
to bring it to pass. If a full supply of iron
to finish the road be not secured before the
close Of the next boating season, the compile
ton of the road must inevitably be postponed |
until the spring, and possibly till the Summer
of 1860"
On this end of the road, at Edgefeld, the
company are erecting turntable and an en-
CINE house, that will accommodate four loco
motives They design, also, the erection of a
machine shop, passenger house, and tank
there. But the report does not say when !
these buildings will be constructed 1t is q |
little surprising that the company have made |
no arrangements for Depot buildings in this
city, when the completion of their work is so |
soon looked for, and when they know too that |
they must have habitation on this side of the |
Cumberland. The report says, lat any time |
from Edge field across the Cumberland river |
into the city of Nashville, and arrangements |
should be made at an early day, to obtain
piece of ground in that city, upon which to |
erect suitable freight and passenger house
for the southern terminus of the road. 1t is
also matter to be considered whether the
company will erect buildings of its own, or
join with other companies, whose improve
ments center in Nashville, in constructing
upon a large scale, accommodations for them
all under one roof"
The expenditures for the past year, for
graduation, masonry and bridge superstruc-
lures upon the main road have been 81, 4l8,-
1853. Of this sum there was expended in
Tennessee S460,3i9, little more than Sl0,-
boo per mill To complete the graduation,
and bridges on the whole road. the
expenditures yet to be incurred are estimated
! $685. ESQ. The estimates are increased over
the last estimates in the sum of SOS, 274 be-
cause the Company have ordered iron bridges
over Green and Barren rivers iustead of
wooden structures. Both these bridges are
TO be constructed upon Fink's Patent Iron
Truss plan, and will cost respcc-
lively SIS aud SSS per lincal foot The for
mer will be $50 feet long and 60 feet above
the water, and the latter 400 feet long and
ia feet above the water.
To complete and property equip the entire
road, the sum of sI.642,755 is required by
the estimates. OF this amount Sis, 375 are
to be paid the company in county bonds at
par, which, when deducted from the sl.642,-
755, leaves to be raised sl,527 $50. The
Q ,mpany has on hand aud will receive assets |
amounting to s72s,S3s 40, which will be re-
duced by the liabilities OF the company to
$406, 2O7 20, showing yet TO be raised ST.
I2l,l72 81 to meet the estimates for the fu- |