Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-22
The Mobile and Ohio Ratlroad.-Vhat
Tennessee has Done for It--An Appeal
for Legislative Action.

The Mobile and Ohio Road cost nine million three hun
dred thousand dollars To the building of the roadway
year 1882 the sum of one million hundred ant
eighty-fve thousand dollars, and for the cons.ruc
tion Of bridges one hundred and four thousand dol
lars, sum total of million two hundred and eighty
nine thousand dollars The length of road in Tennessee
main trunk line is four hundred and ninety six miles
length There is branch to GAINESVILLE, Ala, one t.
To what extent the State Of Tennessee has contributed
to the completion Of the since 1882 are not ad
vised We only know that without the credit fran
no. exist. In the charter Of this railway company
Of which we presume that granted by the Leg
p..:engers Is limited to i've cents per me The
gers Of the road have openly abrogated this feature
station houses, almost duplicate those defined in the
charter With open declarations Of hostility city Of
Tennessee the plt of the President Of the company
with the fact that the charges freights going
Mobile are three times less than towards Tennessee,
with the declared Of the of the road
from its natural at Columbus KY, may well
conclude that the huge corporation is at open with
the State.
becomes u.s. therefore, ask the attention of the
Legislature and especially, of the Chamber of Com
of this city, to the facts have True
Memphis ourishes True, cotton reaches from points
further South than before True Mobile confesses its
impotence in fair competition with Memphis. But if
traiesmen. oblivous of all considerations imme
ate personal interests permit the done by this
Mobile road to be perfected in their purposes only
will the trade Of the richest counties Of Mississippi be
lost but that from ST. Louis, which railway connec.
,on might CONTROL will be all diverted to the deriment
Of the State, and especially Of this city.
Messrs. Smith, Richards and Cameron, representa-
tves of this district at Nashville especially required
toremedy the wrongs OF which complain. To discuss
may very well but surely there is a mode of com.
peng corporation of the State chartered promote
State to conform to the terms and spirit Of its
grant.
We extract the above article bodily from
the Memphis Bulletin of Wednesday last, and
propose demonstrating its utter falsty in to-
days TINES.
The Bulletin lays great stress upon what
Tennessee contributed toward the construction
of the Mobile Ohio r. R. This Road was
Roads Of that State, viz 900 per mile,
not for the roadway as stated by the Bulletin,
but for the purchase of iron and equipment
The roadway was built by the citizens of the
country through which it passed, and for the
most part with home capital, and, taken alto
gether, is the cheapest Road in the United
States. The credit attaching is due to Captain
John Childs, John J. Williams and others ant
to the signal financial ability of Milton Brown
Esq, its popular President. The latter nameo
gentleman brought it through the late storr
occasloned by the rebellion, with credit t
himself and advantageously to the interests 0
the Road.
The franchise granted to the NJ. & o. R. R
is surely not to be compared to the franchise
granted to the city of Memphis, whose bond
were endorsed by the State for the purpose Q
aiding an enterprise, a portion Of which ru
beyond the confines of the State. 1t is, in ou
estimation, poor compliment paid to the pee
pie of Tennessee, and those on the line of tn
NJ. 4 O. r. R., generally, that without tn
paltry sum of one and a half million of dollar
a Road of such absolute necessity and import
ance as the NJ. & O. would not have been built
1t is the outgrowth of prejudice, not of reason
to utter such drivelling nonsense.
The Bulletin offers to presume that the Char
ter granted by the Legislature of Mississippi
the same as that of Tennessee. Why did h
not enquire whether such was the case or moi
instead of assuming it. His presumption
founded upon nothing more substantial thai
the statement that the passenger rates fixed b.
the Charter, viz: five cents per mile, are d.
r. R. are nowhere over six cents per mile
while most of the Southern Roads, incIu
ding those running to Memphis are chargin
seven and eight cents per mile. Why is thi
fact not mentioned? Surely it is relevant
the subject. Why did not the Bulletin ma
give the Mississippi Central and Mississippi
and Tennessee Roads a wipe, while he had hi
sleeves rolled up? They are passed by simpl
because they are run in the interests of Meu
pills. and nothing can be gained by belaborin
them Oh, no, they are privileged to charg
what they please, so long as they patroniz
Mem ohis, to the exclusion of all other Interests
But the NJ g. o. r. R., who sc interest it is
build up and increase the business of the coul
try stretching over the entire length Of til
the Road from Mobile to Cairo and to lostt
every interest that can give it strength an
wealth, is savagely attacked, because, TO
sooth, it does not terminate at Corinth, an