Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-03
RAILROAD CONTROVERSY.


NASHVILLE, August 2, lS67.-M. BURNS,
ESQ, PRESIDENT NASHVILLE AND CHAT
rANooGA RAILRoAD-SIR desire re-
spectfully TO cal your attention to the fol
lowing publication in the Nashville Bonner
of the oath ult
The Nash willie and Northwestern Rail-
. rOaSI-EIeeiiOn Of President and DE-
rectOrs. rla a-aa
An election for President and Directors
of the Northwestern railroad, for the en-
suing year, was held at Huntington on
Monday, the 22d inst. Appended is the
result
President-Michael Burns, Esq, re-
elected
Directors Burns, w. H. Cooper, X.
C. McNairy, E. d. Hicks, A. H. Hicks, NJ.
d. Clark, w. s. Whitemsn, d. j. G. Carter,
Davidson county; M. S. Allen, Carroll J,
G. Vincent, john A. Gardner, Alfred Gard
ner, Weakeley; T. c. Gleason, Obion; A.
d. Ringman, A. X. Dodds, Hickman City.
Mr.. Burns was reelected unanimously,
having received all the votes cast. The
Directors elected, with the exception of
three, are those composing the old board.
Davidson, Weakeley and Carroll counties
furnish each one of the new directors.
From the above you are reported as the
President Of the Nashville and North
western railroad, yet your special friends
on the streets deny the fact here published,
and which if correct, you have not thought
proper to contradict
Many Of the stockholders of the Nash
vile and Chattanooga railroad are deter
mined to have President Of their own
road, untrammeIled by "entangling al
liances" with any other--in order that all
determinations against other connections,
and against our city, heretofore complained
of, may be avoided.
Will you please say at once through the
press of the city, whether your are the re-
elected President of the Nashville and
Northwestern railroad or not, and whether,
while urging your claims to reelection as
Presidentof the Nashvilleand Chattanooga
railroad, you would under any circum-
stances, accept the Presidency ofthe Nash
vile and Northwestern railroad, or any
other railroad.
The following is the income and cost of
fuel on the roads named, from the last years
reports of the several roads:
Total earnings of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company for last year,
SO, $4,000.
Cost of fuel to earn this amount, $780,
900, or 81 per cent. of earnings.
Total receipts of Georgia Central Rail
road Company for last year, 81, 100000.
Total cost of fuel to earn this money was,
by their report, $4,000, or p per cent. of
the earnings.
Earnings Of the Georgia Railroad Com
pany for last year, 81, l63,60O.
The fuel to earn this amount cost the
company $4,000, or 3 per cent. of
earnings.
The receipts of the South Carolina Rail
road Company for last year were 81 800, 600.
Fuel to earn this money, cost the COM
pany last year $4,000, OF Al per cent.
ofearnings.
Total receipts Of Nashville and Chatta
nooga Railroad Company for 81 months,
81, 423, 500-and cost of fuel to earn this
amount, by their report, is Sl48,000, or
over 104 per cent. of gross earnings ex
pended for fuel
The above exposes the fact, that the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Com
pany are paying over one hundred thousand
dollars year more for the same amount of
fuel than other roads are paying, or
three times as much to earn the same
amount of money.
Now, it is interesting to the stockholders
of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
Company to know why the President of the
road, Mr. M. Burns, had nearly all OF the
engines altered into coal-burners, stating
that coal cost but half as much as wood,
thereby saving half the cost to the com
pany; yet this is the only coal burning
road in the above list. Why did Mr.. Burns
give so much money to alter the engines,
thus depriving the stockholders on the line
of this road from furnishing wood to their
own road at remunerative rates to both par
ties, and pay Messrs. Colyar & Co. and others,
who are not stockholders, over a hundred
thousand dollars year more for coal than
wood would cost, or wood is WORTH Does
any sensible stockholder believe that Mr..
Burns takes the responsibility of such waste
of money as this for his love OF Messrs.
Colyar e. Co., or that Mr.. Colyar would
fly from point to point all over this country
to villify Stevenson, Cole and Gleaves, just
for his love of Mr.. Burns? Mr.. Colyar
owns no stock in the Nashville and Chat
tanoogo railroad
As this year expenses on the Nashville
and Chattanooga railroad is greatly more
than last year, (by Mr.. Burns comparative
statement) what has fuel cost this year
when the earnings of the road is much less
than last year? W. A. GLEAyEs.