Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-04-10
A FRo5EoT.

We learn from the Enterprise Ksrs, a spir-
tied little sheet published in TIE ~entsrprislng
little town OF Enterprise, Mississippi, that a
meeting was recently held In that own TO
take into consideration the praeiieabilisy and
expedleney q connecting With this city By
rsiirsad The propoaitios was viewed in the
most favorable light BY DE citizens Of Enter
prise and surrounding country, and we can
oDly hops that those psrsOEs who hsys initi-
ats6t the enterprise may speedily zee the ac-
eomplisbmsnt Of their wishes. The prosperity
Of cur aourishiEg city must be attributed to
these arteries Of comneree, which 60 Out aud
bring In the wealth which ever follows IN the
wake Of trade, and we are Ouly too happy 10
announce that other communities are waking
ap to the necessity Of facility Of eOmmanlcs-
ton with our gooaiy City OF the Bluffs. The
srumedsries that once carried the commerce
Of the world from AlepPo to Damascus, can
not supply the wants Of in this age
and country, and the people thai FIRST wakes
IN to this fact will Be the nOut prosperous. IL
speaking Of this road the Nsvs says
By reference 10 a map 81 the State, 1t viii
Be seen that tle proposed read Is to ruh
through The counties Of Clark, Newton, Me-
shoba. Leak (touching The soath-wsst corner
Of WinstonA Alfalfa, Choctaw, Carroll and
YaIzbusba. Here are nine counties contain
ne thousands Of acres Of land to Be benefited
bv tbe construction Of this read. The Dorth-
srn portion OF Newton, the whole Of Neshoba,
Leak. Winston, Alfalfa snd Choetav are at
prssent without railroad facilities, AID the
products Of Newton, Nesho5a and Leak are
transported . distance OF from thirty to sixty
miles to this place BY wagon, which greatly
diuinishes the price and values be lands.
Il has been estimated that 81 per mile
win bella the road from ERt e to Gre
NADIA, a distance Of one hundH4 snd twenty
miles, making the cost Of The fSk 81, 920, 900.
The road would pass directly through one bun
dred and twenty sections or 1880 acres OF
land, and have within ten miles OF either side
i ,536, 900 acres. making a total OF ls6I2.S00
acres of land, the value OF which would be IN
ereassda an average Of Eve dollars per acre, or
Ss.O64, 600, leaving a clear profit TO the land
owners above alluded to, after building
the road, Of S6,1A,000. TIE histosy Of
railroads through this country goes 70 prove |
that these figures are facts.
TIE read Is already built from Memphis, !
toe gtsat produce metropolis Of the South, 20
Grenada, and he people Of Memphisfeel much
in the extension Of the road to this
which, when completed, will make an
air line road from Memphis to Mobile,
a distance Of only three hundred and thirty
Should this road be built, and another
iron this place to Linden, Alabama, giving us
direct line from here 10 Selma, Enterprise
n less than two years after their completion /
number at least 10000 Inhabitants, and
become, as It Justly deserves to be, the great
ct inland city in the Confsderacy, and per-
the permanent seat Of Government
We therefore earnestly appeal 20 all our cit
zens to begin the work at once and notlet the
natter 90 By default, as we have done in some
instances. Every man in the counties men
Toned, is directly and greatly interested in
bis work, and more especially, are the eiti-
ems Of Enterprise interested, for just as they
after their interest, will the town grow
nd prosper, when if they are eareless and
IN the matter, it viii soon look
Ike some banquet hall dessrtsd.n
Interest imperstiVely demands that we
houid keep this subject alive, and begin the
7ork in good earnest, and faint not until 1t lie
ompleted1 We suggest the apPointmen; b
meeting OF the citizens Of Enterprise, sults-
le persons to canvass The section OF couztry .
which the proposed road is 70 run, and !
upon the people the necessity Of building
read. It would also be well enough to ap-
oint a committee to correspond and e0pfss
18th a similar committee from the people OF !
and Grenada. So far as we are {
1~ncerned, we intend to use our utmost endeav-
lrs for the consnmmation of this desirable :
beet, and sill sllude to it week after week
the people 90 to work in earnest. I