Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-12-11
RAILROADS.
Progress Of New Railroad Enter.
prises in she SeAth.
\; Q. Coy % correspondence Of tso St. Louis

2, NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE AND EIAEfA
q NooGA RAILROAD.
= At Lest the long talked Of enterprise
!, the construction OF railroad from New
= Orleans, along the Gulf shore, 70 Mobile
and thence northsesteTly 20 Chattanooga
Tenn, commences to assume a Tangible
o form. Two yesrs ago the City Council
0 passed 8n ordinance granting this oOTpo
j ration certain privileges, making tie
: condition, however, that by Novem Der,
! 1862 communication by rail with Mobile
sh0uld be complete. Since that time the
: Legislatures of L0uisisns, Mississippi
and Alabama have conferred valuable
z privileges, and yet, spite Of these, people
have been Lett 10 wonder why the impOr-
: taDt work was not begun. The company
has, meanwhile, had its headquarters on
the Guk shore ct Pass Christian, Misc,
and has, also, part Of the time, had an
Office in this city. It's corps Of engineers
and surveyors have long since completed
their work in laying out the line OF the
road, which, running across the swamp
or salt meadows northeast of the city,
will cross the Rigolets near the m0uio %
Pearl river, and theace skifsthe coas. as
far as PascagCGis, whence, tuTniDg nnrth.
east again, il reaches Mobile at dis tence
lnf shout thirty miles frcm the latter
: sy5iht. Along this entire distance, say
one hundred and sixty miles, there will
be three important bridges-one, with
draw Of hundred feet, ct the Rigolets,
and two Of about . mile In length each,
and with fifty feet Of Grawbridge at the
crossings Of Bay st. Louis and the Bay
of Biloxi. These bridges render the con-
struction OF the road an undertaking of
no common magnitude, for the Rigolets,
| through which the waters of the Amite
| river and OF Lske POntehartTain, aug
mented by those OF the Pearl, q lw to the
| Gulf, are forty or fifty feet in depth,
strong rapid current, bounded BY sWsmpy
banks, infested by mosquitoes and ALI
gators.
/ From the CLARK County (3lissl DemocTat.l
The surveying party of the above rail-
road company reached this place on last
Monday. The route looked cut follows
| the valley OF Rabbit Greek for several
miles, reaching the high ground some
! five or six miles below cur village, than
following the JACKSON road, OF running
near it, to Grove Hill The roaj, it is
quite certsla. will pass through this
place, running, We think, near the Bsp-
tist Church.
The party has returned to Jackson,
their next work being the location Of the |
route from that pIaes to Mobile.
TIE country, as a general thing, being |
very level and favorable for the eonstruc !
tion Of railroad much time Will not be 4
required in making the survey between |
those places.
TIE MEMPHIS AND SELMA RAILROAD. |
From the Columbus Miss Iadex
TIE great trouble il tha way of build. /
ipg railroads, as la all other human en- |
teTpFisss, is the wsutof funds This diff |
ficulty does seem to embsTrsss the direct |
ors Of the Memphis aud Selma Railroad. |
L may be that their hopes are so uDde- !
iined that ample scope Is left to the i'm 4
agination TO build air esstles when the |
cost Cf construction is entirely subsidi ary /
to the beauty and magnincence Of the /
work when completed.
When the ge0tlemen who have This 1
great project in haud begin to reduce |
their OSCILLATIONS to practical bSsis, /
they viii fad that the chsGpest route Is
the Only feasible enc, snd that the object |
Of the enterprise is not so much q grand
railroad Incorporation ss 10 make Mem
phis the entTepot OF the commerce be-
tween toe East and the West, to give it
direct communication with the growing
port OF Savannah, and 10 open up to the
wealth and prosperous regions Of Miss!s-
sippi and Alabama her advantageous
markets..
lfthess ends are accomplished, nobody
cares what are the Instruments employed
whether the Mobile and OHIO Railroad,
aud other established roads, are made
available, or new roads built entire-ex-
eept in this, that 81 interested, " ho are
to be tsxed or to subscribe stock, will in
sist that the oheApeet ana 1dost eoOnOn-
icsl route be determined upon. This
c0mmOn-sense route, undoubtedly, Is to
build direct rosd from Memphis 10 Oko-
Iona, or some other 8yailsDle point on
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, making
use Of that road 10 Columbus, Miss, and
thence continuing the connection on to T.
seilis. This plsn ays!Is the building, at
least for the present, either Of far the
most costly portion OF the road, through
hiils and over streams, and in section
where the donations to the road can bear
no prOporti0nRte value to the costs Of
construction, or the sbsuTdity OF running
a road nearly parallel TO the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, intersecting it at Okolona
and Columbus, and procuring no extra
trade or advantages which would net be
reached through the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad. No section would be sighted
or no interest injured by this plan. MOn-
roe county, Miss, viii build a branch
road 70 the Mobile and OHIO, which will
be as much of 3 job as the citiz ans of that |
SsEsxsty VIII care so.spsry for 5g5 I838 .Lfus :;
hereafter crest road running into the
iTcn regionsof AlAbAas Viil satisfy and
give TO Aberdeen the Importance that it
deserves.
90 fiI5i can be said Ia favor of this
route, the rapidity with which it can be
constructed, its advantages to the incor- .
poratoTs of the new roa6, its assistance
TO the Mobile and OAio, the regions un-
explored by the locomotive that it will
penetrate, that the mere suggestion OF
the plan should commend 1t TO the favor
of all who are interested in this -impor-
tsnt project,
THE VALLEY RAILROAD.
From the Jackson Mss Clariou.l
The building of this road, which would
have been eOmplet ere this but for cur
late trouble with the General Govern
ment, snd which awakened so much in
tsTest in our city ia 1860, IS sgaiH being
sgiiatsd. Vicksburg and Yszoo City are
nov c0ntending toF the terminus.
In $50. the principal rivals we're Jsek-
son and CsatOR--rAsy 3 resolution of the
Board Of Mayor Aldermen, which
was ratified by lsrge majority of the
voters, Jackson subscribed 500 coo of
stock, AID bid fair thereby TO gsiu the
prize.
IT 1t was worth so much when Mlssls-
slppl was entirely an agricultural State,
Is 1t not more worthy OF an attempt 10 =
gain this key to the richest portion OF our
State when we are upon the daEning, as
we hope, Of the day when our Slate viii
also be manufacturing one ?
OF the import&nee of this measure, it
Is unnecessary for US to spesk. Any one
will see Of what advantage it will bs to :
the place at which 1t may terminate :
when it Is known that it will run from
Memphis through the very heat of the
valley OF Mississippi. To the people who
reside in the valley, Its completion Is an
end devoutly to be wished.
Mississippi nseds this railroad. Her
people hsvs felt the need of It ever since
the advantages OF railroads have been
fully understood and appreciated. Igt
viii open that part Of our State to the
outside world, ana invite immigration.
Il is approved by both Memphis and
Mississippi, and its building viii be the
achievement of great purpose. Vicks-
burg sees this. Yazoo City sees It.
Would It not be we'll for Jackson TO re-