Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-12
THE NEW RAILR0AD Project
Whs is ts be Cheated

EJltors Memphis appeal:
Tate d Co. hold S lease Of sixteen years
on the Mississippi Central Railroad. Col.
Tate gels $40, 90 q y6sr from his asso-
clates for experimenting the road. His
associates, CT COURSE, expect him to use
every hOcoFabls means to get al the bus
iness possible Tor the road, fer not other
wise e=n they get the returns they are
entitled 20 cut ca theE lsasS. RutinStesd
% Studying tho interest OF the road ne is
paid TO serve, Col. Tate appears in Mem
pills and proposes to build = ripGI line to
that o. his l~essees, and publicly declares
IN print that bis associates, the ~lessees,
know nothing ABOUT ais plaDe, aud have
90 part in his negotiations. lent IL like
~ they UAt know before 8 great while,
seeing how grsgeiy their Interests are
jeCpsTded?
Why do Tate, West & Co. desire to
build q road that will take off trade and
travel fJo1@ the road OF the ~lessees, and
they (ths l~ssseesl know nothing about
it2 A person who writes Ia the Interest
OF Col. Tate sSys that the building OF the
Memphis and Psdueah Rosd will prseti-
cSliy Kill the Mississippi Central Road,
and be urges the people Of Memphis to
join Col. Tate in killing that road. Here
is the argument, a. Tate's friend has
printed Il
II the Fadu6ah and Memphis 2osd
belong to other parties, Tate, West and
their associates may extend the Central
TOAD to Psducah, and, having the short
est through line to New Orleans, they
VII destroy the value OF the Memphis
gcl PadGcah r bad. No individual viii
ynysst money u thls Me4phis and Pa
Guoah Road under such circumstances,
and tax payers will be ehsry Of burdens
which can beget 60 prpats.
From Columbus. Ohio. 70 Cincinnati, the
distance III
C-iocinuati 70 Oaisvlue----......- JOS
Louisville 10 Nasnvlie----.......--. lS5
&aShvtue TO Jackson, Tom. .-. l4o
Jackson 10 0ronsaa~"~-+.-,--, l4S
The distance from Columbus, Ohio, to
GrenGc& fe
"5uch Is the distance over sam Tate's
ana Vests lines, IS now proposed 10 be
constructed. 10 shog the advantages
which Tate, West aud their Rssocistes
nay o0ncsde or deny to the Memphis
and Psdueah and Mississippi sud Ten
nessee Roads, the map tells Us that,
Miles.
From Columbus, Ohio 20 indianapolis. 1888
Inoisns poll 20 Nincennes---..-.. ~
" NIDcsnnes TO lJ
P8duceh 70 Aemphis-........--.......... lVj
AsIapp1s 70 9tens4a .-- W
Ths whole distance nom Columbus, Ohio.
through Memphis 10 Grenada I.............. gS5
"There Is a difference in favor OF the
Memphis route OF tgenty-one miles. II
Tate ana Weet DO not complete the link
between Jackson, Tenn, and ERdgcah,
the travel and trade Of the Northwest to
Grenada and New Orleans will Tow
taFcugh this city. II the Central road be
sxtended to Padueah, 1t furnishes q route
from Columbus. Ohio. from Chicago and
SIS. Louis, to New Orlsane-twenty or
Thirty miles shorter thanSMiteheli's road
through Mepphlsp
3 There is tie argument, that Tate &
West, by extending the Mississippi Cen
trail rOad TO PadueGh, could make 8 line
30 New Orleans twenty miles shorter
than the proposed line BY tbs Mississippi
River road through Memphis. If they
could 90 thar they would truly taks all
he Southern travel froa as far EAST SO
New York and frcm as far West as st.
Louis. down over ne Mississippi Central
road and make Ii the greatest thorough
fare Ia the South. Then tohy don't Aen
do IT. The iessees would make colossal
for unes by the arrangement. They
would feel thst Col. Tate had more than
earned his . ten Thousand a year."
But instead OF doing this great thing
for their l~essees, by extending the Missls-
sippi Central north from JacksGa, Team,
20 connect with F&Gacah, requiring only
about eighty miles OF new road, Tste,
West & Co. deliberately propose TO re.
nouIce tine interests Of the lesSees they
segvs end fcFce trade and travel over a
twenty nlles HlopRsr EenteH through
A. it, - nIr-.vAfa4 Hadn't tho looodco
better get more faithful agents? Can
Memphis put trust in men, who, accord
ing 10 the showing OF their OWE friends,
deliberately publish their readiness to
betray and rhin the road they are paid to
nurture
So mueh !cF the moral aspect Of the
question. Now for the actual fact Of the
case. The statement that Tate & West
a build sny road 10 make q shorter line
bstween New Orleans and Paducah than
the read through Memphis is utterly des-
tilute Of foundation. The road from
New Orleans passing through Memphis
ard over Col. MitchelIs road TO Padu-
- IA shoT1T 70 Ril Of the cities Of the
North, East and West than any route
thst exists over the mississippi Central
Road, or that can be get by extending
the same from Jackson, Tenn, 10 the
Paducah Road. The road through Mem
pills, instead OF being twenty miles
longer" IL about six nliIes shorter than
any road that Ts@ & West can ever
build east OF Memphis; and the rosd
fCol. Aitchelps road 10 beyond all doubt
or question bound TO be the great thors
ougnfara of the Southwest. Nobody
knows these facts better than Col. Tate,
for be is q far seeing railroad man, and
hence the desperate efforts be and Weet
are making to snatch the enterprise
from present holders, even at the eos OF
Tending and breaking With the lesSees
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