Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-04-10
KuoyvIlIe as 4 RaIIrOad Centre.

~. .hi-tv ve.re IL has bee n seen shat Knoxville
would probably become great railroad osn'rs
As Ear back as 1885 The Cincinnati, Louisville ana
Charleston Railroad passing through our town,
ga, projected a. one grand whole, usder one organ-
cation. It is now being pushed forward in detached
n.rts The great line from the Potomac to the
Mississippi now for many years completed, run
ming along the shortest line and by the very route
surveyed more than forty years ago By the General
Governmental for its great Nxtional MacademiFed
road from the Capitol to New Orleans, was then
scarcely dreamed Of This route from New Orleans
70 New York, admits Of no rival. North Of It lies
the Cumberland range of mountains running Jar
INTO Kentucky and south of it spreads out far into
North Carolina and Georgia, the great Blue Ridge
range No parallel road can be made within two
hundred miles on either side. This road, then, if
made equal TO the demands Of the public in equip
ments and management will become one of the
most important on the Continent 1t is one of the
nation 5gh,Says. Is its head there must be fast
broad, comprehensive and progressive nasn. I
neither make charges nor innuenooes; simply
peak of principle. But repeat, this line, in sill
parts and in all its details, must be made first
class, to answer the high demands of the public as
70 the great direct through line from New York to
New Orleans
At this place, at right angles, another great Con-
tinental highway, ;he Cincinnati and Charleston
road crosses the other great line. In very short
time this road viii be completed to Cincinnati and
Louisville. South of ns on the road leading TO
Charleston the work is on the Of being resumed
Already over three millions of dollars have been
expended on this road The Morristown and Paint
Rock road, connecting Knoxville, By way OF the
Valley of the French Broad, with the interior OF
North Carolina, is being pushed towards compile
tion with great energy. By means of the East
Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, and the Willis
Valley road, we will soon have nearly air line
TO Mobile
Stretch line on the map from Danville, Ken
lucky, the common point Of divergence for Cincin-
natl and Louisville, to Savannah, Georgia, and it
will pass directly over Knoxville, thence along the
Rabun Gap route to Clayton, Georgia, and thence
on to Augusta, whilst slight divergence eastward
from Clayton, viii take the road to Charleston
That this great air line southwark, about to be
recommended, will be completed both to Charleston
and Savannah in q few years, I cannot seriously
doubt. We may not now clearly hosc it is to be
done, yet it will be done Neither was it seen clear
y, or even dinlly in the beginning eighteen years
ago hoiO the East Tennessee and Virginia and the
Virginia and Tennessee roads, unitedly three hun
dred and thirty miles long, were to DO built. Yet
they have been completed ten years. Nor was it
clearly seen twelve months ago hoio the Knoxville
and Kentucky road, with not dollar in its Treasu-
y was to be built but now, by the generous action
Of our Legislature, it is regarded certainty
Railroads never stop until they strike lake an
ocean.
Then, to briefly recapitulate our railroad connec-
lions by the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad
we enter Virginia, and travelling through its CEN
ire we reach Washington and New York. By the
East Tennessee and Georgia road, by the Dalton
branch, we reach Atlanta and the whole railroad
system of Georgia. By the same road, by way of
Chattanooga, and Willis Valley we win strike the
heart Of Alabama and reach Mobile while by the
same road we reach Memphis as well as Nashville
By the Knoxville and Kentucky road we will reach
Cincinnati and Louisville aad the Great West By
the Knoxville and Rabun Gap road we will reach
Charleston, Augusta and Savannah. And by the
East Tennessee and Virginia road, and the Paint
Rock road, we will reach the heart of North CARROLL
ma and strike her system of roads. While by the
projected Pacific road from Nashville to Knoxville
we will have direct route to Nashville and st.
Louis. This road which has the usual State aid,
when completed viii form the natural continuation
westward Of the Paint Rock road
1t will thus be seen that our railroad system,
when completed, viii be perfect aud thorough. By
it wecan reach evsry important city in The country
by the shOrtestrossto. No city boast of more
In this respect interior central position gives
us the interior and shortest line, and viii there
fore have choice of markets in every direction
Our railroad system will connect with al the rail-
road systems in the United States Here then,
heir will be needed great interior depot or town
for the exchange and distribution of supplies be-
tween all sections, and especially between the Wes-
tern and Southern States.
MORE ANON.