Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-09-26
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Great Southern Pacific Route
Memphis ON the shortest Line
Between Norfolk and
the Pacific.

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Editors Memphis Appeal:
Intimately connected with this question OF
through trade is tie completion of the Mem
pals and Little Rock Railroad. No Railroad
On this continent mas such ahistOry. None has
been SO inenicieaJly managed. None but this
has grown back ward. Il Is one hundred and
.hlrEs miles long, has been Oh hand only hf-
teen years, and still drags yet none Is 50 me-
ce sary 20 the prosperity OF our city. When
competed ii Will bring Us more trade than any
two roads we now have, and Will direct no
trade from US. Its controlling position viii
command the larger portion OF the trade
OF Arkansas, for that trade must come
to the Mississippi, on ITS way 10 tbs Gulf, The
Lakes, OF The Atlantic, anu mempats Is nearer
the Leart Of that Lrade than any Oaher city. lie
completion OF the Little Rock ros1 would 50
increase oar business as ~ be auo her induce
ment for dealers 10 visit Us. II would so pro-
mole our growth and prosperity that trade
would Desln 10 how back ~ Is on Aais slue o.
he rIVer-trade we are now daily losing. 1 do
not znQw tnst cur city can hep any lad now,
but 1 do know that, II sue ca, tnls IS the one
having higher claims upon htT imam any other.
Ihe West builds up the Eust. ST Louis ana
chicago are onnglng tue Far Wess y their
doom, and populOus states are rap
idly growing up upOn the great
1ue thee are building. These rtatss pour Ineir
trade mo the laps o. these cities; and the mo
med EdSt come ayta-A The sane commercial
Jaw wilt mold good here. The MempnIs and
Charleston Railroad Is directly 4nteres-e Ell IN The
early completion OF this Little hGcA ROAD iOc
IL Will pOura heavy trade over hsr Igne. IL any
thing Is certain in The iuture, II Is that the gi-
gauuc efforts now made 10 build up norfolk ss
an inpOrung city for a 1 the SCUM, will be soc
cessfuL. Take up any paper OF Cincinnati,
Louisville, OF ST. Lou 5, anu oae viii see some
thug al aDSuJ III ect lines D. Talroal DltWeen
Norfolk and tuese ciOeR
But y $40 [ ume SINCE, an exceedingly able
paper was published ~ Professor Turner, o.
1 Illinois, showing that cairo and all southern
Illinois were lnteresledi IN a direct commuuics-
ton with Norfolk as the Hearsst Atlantic ssa-
port l. is understood that q great com ercisi
| "a lroad Convention Will Oe neid a. Norfolk TINS
| winter, Lus beginning OF q series OF suCu meet
ings ~ have Tor their object direct trade with
/ Kai-ope u6d norfolk. But tbs interests in this
] Nor OIk Convention does not end there. To as,
/ OF Memphis, il has another and important sig
mica i'm. Fuolc oplnl5n, Nortn a. wen
as SmIt O., seems TO- have ueclded That
there must DO . Southern route TO the Pa
! cinc; for q conviction - fastening itself ucOn
ths pubi!c mini nat f4r several months IN
] the year, the NOrthsTnr route W IL be CDstEu TED
by SHOWS. In July last \ commercial Conven-
ton was held al cortland Ne, and MemPhi-
ans may be surprised 10 learn inst away
down East" the Southern Pacific Road was
warmly advocated. l give the resolutions
aaop,ed by the Convention:
RAPPORT OF THE COMMTrEE on R~AILEOAD
ACRUSS THE CONTINENT.
Senator OOros,t OF tbe Committee on a
railroad scrOss the continent, reported resolu-
lions, which were adopted, 10 1he effect thai
/ the invention, pro Oundly Impressed WITH
Jns important ch AugeS about 10 lake place IN
the Commercial relations by thS comp eIon OF
the great t"iaUs-oOnttnenlal railway that The
Interest excited among oriental natlens, and
the desire expressed By them TO Cultivate com.
mercial relations with tue nlbsc states, ZEN
dersit our duty 10 cOmpleJs those enterprises,
q 4 meet them that in he Judgment OF Jais
Convention i've great continental railways
route are ne essaryi that tnls Convention re
| EpeCJiully urge upOu congress t1e patriotic du-
Inv Of rendering adequate AID to insure The
completIou OF Tues 1870 routes, tnai tle r0uLs
10 Puget Sound, sff9ldIng tue shortest route 70
Asia, promises advantages TO ms entire cOun-
Nv: Tat the projected railroad On the3Itl par.
Ellel OF latitude Is ofno lest inpOrtance."
Bdt Luis was not all Henry f. Bon, one OF
the ab!est men IN 81. LOUIS, wss at that Con.
So. st Louis ana Memphis are both interested
ia that extenslon-the I rmsr coming south.
west TO the north fork OF thu CanadIan-the
latter going Rlmo q directly west 10 1t; audb .th
having Z eOmEOu ruuk Themes 10 the Paclfc
The day Is past when this Paeths road caa D.
regarded as q mytD. y = rapidly becoming 8
reality. New YORK viii soon open the shortest
| route 70 the weslthisst and most I0pulou
csuatry 90 tue lace OF the globe aod Europe
wilnssch that countrS through ew 70 k. /,
| fen \. ars frogDi his time all the silBE, teas aac
spises OF Chtna and The haa Iudi-s, that a.,
. IS over Inc Pacific TslIoad. Why
may ire not make an eaOrt L
draw tina. trade through Memphis and Nor
rOlk2 Portland merchants are advoeatiUg on
sou hern Pacific railroad. Why cannot wejoi1
theIQ In this zesl2 II Portland can do 50
may not GeY York AID Phi'atelphia be In
duoea TO take ssAbsgAl q view O(lt? Wtat 4
The first step on our p4rtY Evidently TO deyotA
a a oar money and energies 10 the comp etioI
Z NN AAAa EEI1A NNAN"A- A-- A-AN -Aa E1 A4AAl
huug upon our hands That done. the cOmps
ltlon between US and ~. Louis iof The trlde o
an western Arkansas begins, ard we shall mac
friends to stimulate orr energies where VI
|, have had unkind c9mnents upop our shame
, ful sloth. Already a co ps OF Engineers Is II
tie field, Surveying a route on tne soath sid
OF the Arkansas river between Little Reel
and Fort smith and Il Is sad another vii
soon start out o. the line from Little Rock 4
r Fulton, Red River Has Memphis no interes
!. IN all this? Ca-Bot the Chamb T Of Conme4e
fufuse some life into this enterpTise? II is M.
hrsL Ink In our Pacific connection, and will d
more 10 revive MeDpbi Increase her trade, al
I uc her vacant HOUSES than all other enterprise
combined. IL will mske the Memphis an
! Charleston Road The great line for sInigrant
/. coming from Europe to the South. It wi
: make Norfolk TO the South what New York
I 10 the Moth. IL viii BALD up a great Atlsuti
I - 1T at Norfolk which viii compete with Nsy
York for mat immena trade passing betwse
europe and Asia. Tue Memphis and Oharle,
ton Railroad VIII be the crowded chaouei {
Z that vast and Memphis will BE- II
central point between the lakes and The ga
aud the All 10 and Pacific. Are tnes
thoughts the mere whims OF fancy9 Thfrt
2 wears ago, who would have dreamed that ID
| IighJning OF heaven would be used as 10
msaus OF written communication? Twent
wears ago, who would have thought steamer
could eros The ocean, Ten years axo, VII
= yy5uld have Thought inst the price Of cotton Z
4 lIiverpool st p ~. On Monday would &c know
al New York ~ 10 an the same day? III
world is moving, yet Memphis seems 70 [
sleeping. JUKlTS.