Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-24
Mis.is.Ippi River Railroad.

we arc surprised 10 ithru that III
Com missioners of Dyer county hav
failed to make any appropriation 70
building the Mississippi River railroa
through that county. This is a source Q
regret to all the friends Of the enterpris
| ia Memphis and along the proposed line
| The Commissioners have shrked respon
sibility, and now it remains for the pee
pie, il they ever intend to get out Of tn
woods, to build the road by private sub
scription. They are able to do It, TO
Dyer is one Of the richest coun
ties in West Tennessee, am vi
believe that the majority o. lans
owners and farmers in the county SCI
the importance of the enterprise and viii
put their shoulders to the wheel On'
good push will put it through, and theJ
will at once find market for their pro
duce and find their lands trebled in
value. Colonel Tom W. Neal, Of the Dy
ersburg Gazette, who is a watchful senti
mel over the interests Of the people, has
taken the right shoot on the track. His
last paper contains an article which we
append, and we indorse his proposition
most heartily, and hope that it will be
adopted by Dyer county:
tits a matter of sincere regret that the
Commissioners of Dyer county have
always been apparently blind to the ad.
yaptages of progress, and instead OF
being a blessing have been a serious
drawback to the true, the great interests
of the people, who are so unfortunate as
by tyrannical law to be misrepresented
by them. Last Monday the Commits
sioners we're TO have considered the rail-
road interests of Dyer county, but as
Commissioner Chitwood, whose railroad
pledges have recently been very huctu-
atiug," absented himself from court, the
Commission adjourned without doing
ANYTHING, and with feeling that makes
the hope of county appropriation a
dead failure. This was partly caused by
the absurd propositions of the little So
called Brownsville and Dyer County rail-
ROAD road that has never been char
tered, or if it has its friends are ashamed
to show it, which they have repeatedly
promised to do without making that
promise good. So we conclude that the
Brownsville and Dyer County railroad is
very dead beat, without "a local
habitation or name.
But because the Commissioners have
been suicidal enough to refuse county
appropriation the Mississippi River rail-
road is not failure. 1t will be brill
liant success, and stand before the world
as the grandest and most important rail-
read enterprise in the Southwest Our
Commissioners have lost golden OPP
portunity to be of immense benefit to
their county, and to hand their names
down to posterity as public benefaetors-
The Mississippi River railroad will, We
hope and believe, be built to Dyersburg
by private subscription. This is now the
only hope of the business men Of Dyers-
burg, and the land owners and farmers of
this vicinity; and that hope involves the
raising of at least $4,000, an insigni6-
cant sum compared with the wealth,
blessings and advantages that the rail-
road would certainly bring Us We be-
lieve the friends of the road along the
line from here to the Lauderdale county
line. and the business men OF Dyersburg,
and the land owners and farmers of this
vicinity, realize 1.-The situation, and
will 90 20 work with enthusiasm, and
easily secure that amount in very short
time. Without the road ruin stares them
in the face, for a rival railroad town
would spring up few miles from here
that would oyershadow them to the grave.
We said that the 500. 900 could be east
" raised. Now for the proof: Captain
Frank G. Sampson, who has just fin
ished the assessment of Dyer county,
tells us that, according to his assessment,
there is enough property in the fourth
civil district and mile on each side of
the route from Dyersburg to the Lauder
dale county line with contribution
of six per cent per annum on its vslua
ton and five dollars on each white poll)
to raise $4,000 year. which in three
years would amount to $50 900
And only six per cent. Dirt cheap !
Don't you see that the $4,000 can
be raised with the greatest ease, if the
people in the scope Of country men
toned will 90 to work with zeal COM
mensurate with the great object in view.
Then, too, many people outside Of the
pre- scribed territory would come forward
and take stock with liberal hand, aud
10 short time we would have for the
Mississippi r yer railroad a subscription
10 the amount of $4,000 We repeat
il. il the people will go to work with q
vim the prospects Of the railroad, CON-
pleted to Dyersburg, are brighter than
ever.