Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-17

natf done Will &I3pLe meADsI IL 10 10
Iisved. for completion in twelve or NOR
months.
TIE Southwestern railway OF Georges
reaches from MaeoR TO Columbus
100 miles. It also ruIs from Fort Val
ley (twenty-eight miles out OF Mseon.
down to Albany, with branches to Ed
fauls and Fort Gaines on the Chstta-
hooche. This is also a prosperous road,
stock near or above par. The mont
pomeTy and West Point, by its Opeliks
and Columbus brgnch of b miles, makes
1t So miles from Columbus to Mont
gomeFy.
Montgomery to Selma, called the
Western-forty-hve miles-grsding over
tvo-thirds done. The Central and South
western. of Georgia, proposes to indorsC
bonds for its completion to Selma II
the course Of next summer.
The Montgomery and Eufaula road
twentv-three miles complete-will prob
ably be completed IS far as Union
Springs-forty miles from Montgomery
in the coming yesr. Here il viii cross
the GiTaTd road twenty-five miles from
Columbus, making It mile or two near
er route from Columbus to Montgomery
thsn via Opehks, and through a very
rich country. The Montgomery aud Ed
fsuls will probably be extended 10 Euiau-
Is, Albany and brunswick, crossing the
South western and the Atlantic and Gulf,
which reaches from Savannah to Thorn
Rsville and Bainbridge, already compile
ted, with the branch east to the Ahspa-
hs to the Central, OF Florida, which
stretches from Tallahassee to Jackson
Vile. and crosses the Fensndina and
Cedar Keys road, thus giving connee-
lions in Middle, Eastern and southern
Florida. This Montgomery and Eufsula,
when so extended, will give another
route TO Brunswick about 50 or 60 miles
shorter than to go from here via Macon.
Il is likely that Columbus will also ex-
tend southeast across the South western
to the Brunswick and Savannah roads to
the distance to Brunswick
some forty-odd miles over the route via
Macon. Selma will probably have z
road running TO Southeast Alabams,
crossing the ChsttAhOochee at EOfsulR Or
81. Gaines, and thence making eonnec-
lions with Brunswick, Savannah and
At any rate, there will o be
3 choice Of routes st Montgomery, both
TO SaU0nHdh, BrtTs11ick and Charleston.
From Memphis to Charleston it viii
probably be the ia time made via
Selma. SIS via Huntsville and Chattanoo-
"a. The distance is perhaps five or ten
I3iles in favor Of the Selma FOgte, And
Charleston may some day be allowed to
extend her Savsnnsh road straight west
rom CombRhee river to Miiien On the
GA Road, which she very
much desires. This would make
Charleston but little further from Selma
Savannah is. It would then be
lear forty miles less from Memphis to
Charleston, zig Selma, than vie Chatta-
lO0ga.
Memphis to Savannsh, via Selma,
Columbus and Macon, is
Is miles less than by Chattanooga and
Atlanta, and may become still a little
learer through Eufsuls to the Atlanta
md Gulf Road.
Memphis to Brunswick, via Selma and
Iacon, viii be forty-6ve miles less than
1is Chattanooga, Atlanta and Macon +;
md if Southeastern roads are made from
Columbus and Montgomery, or either, 10
he Brunswick lice, the distance from
6emphis Wis Selma to the Atlantic II
he deep waters of Brunswick, will be
ono hundred miles less than via
chattanooga ana Atlanta, with y vast
region to which to send rope and
sgging, bacon, flour, lard, etc., from the
northwest, on the way. Macon and
and all Southern and Western
and Eastern, Southern and
AlsbamG, would be supplied
robsbIy over the Selma and Memphis
IEe more ehesply than by any other
from the Northwest. This, with
ne very large local business of this line
rould in all probability make it about
be strongest and most profitable line IN
be South.
Memphis, standing so much nearer to
ne Northwest than Vieksburg, would
My be 20 or % miles farther from SelVoa !
han is Vicks0uFg. From Selma to |
7icksbuTg is 247 miles, and we do not
control from York to Meridian, &c |
niles, and may be troubled aud sWindled
bout that by the n. Z. and s. w, Mobile
nd Oaio and others.
From Selma to Memphis, I estimate at
70 miles, not much, IL anything, over
lis-say 10S-10 from Memphis to OkO-
ma, and l62 or 8 from Okolona to
elma. Counting the grading West of
IRrion rs equal u 8 to 4 miles OF COM
leted road, and q from Marion to Sell
Ia, you see We have but 240 miles to
1lid at present. OF course, we
lsy, st no distant day after
e get it through from Marion to
Iempnis, make a straight line from Ma
on TO Sslma, OUeT very favorable ground
nd better grades, not exceeding tOeaty-
lres miles,
1 am a very close estimator OF dis
.nces-having done so much of it and
the mark SO close in advance of sur
sys-havfng famiiiarized myself so
luoh with the topography o.. country in
arious directions.
Il Is true the topography Of Pontotoc
I'D Marshall may be a little more diff
lit than l think, and 1t may bs two to
ur miles farther than go.
/ wish to see a very superior road, il
essible-costing, say, $4,000 per mile
T the 240 miles to be built-S6, coo, coo.
will necessarily be 3 line Of large
traffic as well a way, because,
ssides the Eastern connections bave1
Ientioned, the Selma, Rome and Dali
u road win bring many heavy arti-
to go over 1t, or yer some part Of iE.
and slate from Shelby, marble
Bib and Tslladega, fire brick, coal,
and lumber from Bibb aud Shelby,
Id numerous other articles too many TO
lumerate and IL you do not have q
'anch line from Aberdeen, OF from q
INT between Aberdeen and Colnabns
to the coal OF Fayette you viii have i,
cess at Eataw by the Northeast and
1uthwest to the coal and iron OF Bib
I'd Tuscaloosa. Then again from Selma
Pensacola, 145 or 146 miles, we shall
I'VE q road Of low grades and easy
to carry coal, iron, ETC., to the
ulf at deep Neutrality-suspicious. feet
I'd to bring back pompino, oysters,
d and other fish, and the trOpicaE
uils Of the West Indies, Central ana
,uah Americs, e9f well as the sugar,
fee, salt, logwood, mAhoganyA and dye
offs e~aoatchonc, raw hides, etcs, from
rail, Peru, Costa Rica@Nicarsgua,
euduras, etc. .
Pensacola Htll be almost as near to
.smphis IS is New Orleans, and she will
, on the shortest route from Memphis
I'd ST. LOuisto Havana, aud other West