Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-29
Our Proposed Railway Connections.

pamphlet OF great interest 10 our people has
just been Issued from the Cincinnati press II is a
Plan for The construction Of direct Railroad
South connecting Cincinnati with the Southern sys-
tenn Of Railroads" submitted 70 the public by S Il
Goodin, Esq, Of tha1 city.
The pamphlet contains also a copy Of The charter
of The Cincinnati, Lexington and East Tennessee
Railroad Company, reports of Messrs. Loyett and
Gum, Civil Engineers together with the subjoinei
letter from Mr.. Moses, Secretary and Treasurer Of
the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad Company
which Mr.. Goodn pronounce as settling The qUey-
ton Of through connection:
OFFICE or KNoXvIL LIE & KENTUCKY L. Il. Co,
Knoxville, Tenn, February 10, 1868. 7
Samuel II. Goodi1l, Esq., Cincinnati, o..
DEAR SIR Col. j. A. Mabry, the President Of
our Company, 10 whom you addressed letter on
the 25th ult, has been away from home on official
duty for several weeks, with the exception Of sim
gle day, and is now absent. Your letter has conse-
queatly been handed to me for a reply
A communication Of the 18th ult, from T. Eright-
son, ESQ, Editor Of the Railroad Record, al your
city, 10 his Excelleney Gov. Brownlow, has been
referred 70 me from the Executive Department of
the State with request to furnish certain itenu of
information upon the same subject.
take pleasure in accedng 70 your wisheg aud
his, by presenting the following statement
Thirty-one miles of the Knoxville and Kentucky
Railroad are now completed, and trains are passing
daily over it 10 that extent to-wit from Knoxville
10 Coal Creek Station, the main track as we'll as
over about mile of branch track from Coal Creek
Station 20 the coal mines.
The road bed for four miles beyond Coal Greek is
nearly graded, and the rails may be laid thereon
within the ensuing two months. The work of grad
uation on The next eleven miles is in the course of
vigorous prosecution 10 point fortysix miles from
81 f,,f Il
State line, nineteen miles intervene the work on
which has not yet been put under contract but
which will all be LET during the coming Spring and
rapidly pressed TO completion, if we can be as
sured that either Louisville or Cincinnati viii meet
us at the border.
Our route TO point forty miles from Knox
vile is identical with that Of the Burnside Survey
AT that point the Burnside line takes Westward
divergence and taps the State boundary at or near
Chitwoods while our course continues nearly North
east TO point half mile South of that at which
Elk Greek, Ia branch of the Clear Fork of the Cum.
berland river crosses the State line and about two
miles West of Boston, KY.
Our principal resources for the continuance of our
work are $685. 900 in Bonds of the State of Tonnes
see, loaned TO our Company under an Act passed
December Z, 1861; $4,000 in similar Bonds for
ne loan Of which provision was made by previous
| Act; $4,000 in Bonds of the county of Campbell
in this State, and unpaid claims for stock subscrip
ton amounting TO about $35, Oo0-making an aggre
| gate of $l,225,o00.
Our road can be finished TO the Kentucky STATE
line in eighteen months and the work l0iL be done
within that time, if we shall have a guaranty thai
we can then form thorough railway connection
/ with Louisville or Cincinnati.
! In the hope that the people Of the Ohio Valley
are as thoroughly in earnest about this matter VIZ
are, l am, Very truly yours,
/ JNo. L. MOSES,
| Sec and Treas. X. g. X. II. t. Co