Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-15
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va a as NAsHvIBazs March 10, 1887.
Editors Memphis AIReals f
Items in relation to business matters
may interest your readers These Isend
were picked up along the railroad. a
A new town, 70 be called Csuterviiis,
has inst been laid out midway between
Jackson, BolivR'i Somervilie and Cow
I ington. In this state. It is to be ON the
line Of the projected new rsiiroad from
i Memphis to Jackson direct, which IS to
be section OF De3ow's projected Nor
/ folk. Virginia and Pacific raiiroad.
Brownsville, Haywood county, has
now its streets lighted at night The
building of over twenty houses would be
at once begun II lumber could be OBJ
| tanned.
The work on the new rsilreasI from
I Sneedstown on the Northwestern rail-
road. south TO the Etna furnace in
Hickman county, is to be rapidly pushed
I forward.
A man in Burnett comfy, Texas,
made last year $1,000 on one acre Of
onions.
There Is an active rivalry between
/ Cincinnati snd Louisville for southern
ttrade. Louisville, by the Lebanon branch,
of the Louisville and Nashville railroad
and by other southern connections, has
already wfdened very much her Market
and now Cincinnati proposes to give
liberal aid 10 counteraeting roads, One
of these will be along the southside of the
Ohio river and direct betweenC Cincinnati
and Louisville. Another viii extend
southwestwardly from Lexington on the
Danville road TO Hopkinsville, where fit,
may connect with our southwestern sys-
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| branching Of the Coyington aud Dauviila
railroad at Daayille, will be pushed for
ward rapidly. From Danville one road
will, by way of Cumberland gap, be ex-
tended to Morgantown, H. c., and thus
reaohi the ocean more directly than any
other route. AnotherSroad viii extend
to Knoxville, and thus ts5 the great
system OF railroads OF which the Knox
Vile and the Memphis and Charleston
railroads are the backbone. The third
extension from DRnville will be through
the magnificent plateau of the Cumber-
land to Sparta.
Iron works have been started in West
egn Hezas near the range Of the Colorado
hills.
A salt water well of superior excel
lenee has been opened In OvertOn county.
It was discovered while boring for oil.
Some very fine salt has already been
made.
The works at Indianola, Texas, for the
salting meat by the Saddler process, have
suspended operations until May Tor the
purpOse OF enlarging the business. This
mode of curing meat is success, and
will greatly advantage Texas stock
raisers. The ventTiGles of the heart Of
beef are opened after it is killed, and
when the blood has flowed a short time,
!. tube Conveying brine nom an elevated
barrel is inserted in one of the ventri-
Gles, and the other is left open as long as
blood flows out. When the whole car
cass is injected with brine, and only
brine flows from the open ventriele, the
curing Of the meat and hide, which has
not been taken off is considered done.
The cotton mills in Henry county pro-
pose to introduce into their works the
looms for making cotton cloth. Hereto
fore they have only manufactured yarns.
A large settlement of Germans has
been made in Hickman county, where
tney have purchased an extensive tract
on very favorable terms.
The extension Of the Central Missis-
sippi railroad, from Jackson to Hunting
don, on the Northwestern railroad, is to
be at once begun. This viii give it an
other outlet TO the northeast by way Of
Nashville and Louisville.
An effort is being made to have a state
penitentiary built at Humboldt, in this
state.
There are to be sales of lots shortly in
Mason, Milan, Trezevant, Mckenzie and
Paris. At the state line, where the
Clarksville railroad connects with the
Bowling Green railroad, a town has
been laid out on the Kentucky side of
the line. Q,