The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-16
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These are the inducementStO 70 there direct;
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but to go there dsrect. The question then lies
in q nutshell. ARE these considerations Of
sufficient Importance and value to justify an
their attainment The cost OF constructing
one hundred and eighty -five miles Of railroad
through an unsustaininE country, will hardly
be put down at lees. sBut let us consider If
any value at all to Cinciincti. 1t is well said
by a writer, under the signature of W., IN
the Cincinnati Evening Chronicle, that Lcc:ss
vile, by roads in actual operation, is now
Cincinnati will be by the proposed direct line.
This ls an advadtage Of which she cannot be
deprived, as far as all trade south and west
fore, anticipates and neutraIizes the gam Of
twenty-eight miles proposed by her rival. But
looking to the trade east aud southeast OF
Chattanooga, and to Dalton as the objective
going so sn tpg '9fs sns d1es %ss
railroad thence to Daltons Instead of going
round by way of Chattanooga. And when the
Blue idge Railroad shall be completed, the
still greater. The distance ,hYm Knoxville to
Charleston by way of Dalton. Atlanta and Au-
gusta, is five hundred an1SS,ss..FF zen miles; by
the the Blue BLU Ridge R9ad it four hundred
seventeen miles in favor OF the latter. This
alone should settes the question in dispute.
The people Of Gin .innati are situated IN
respect Of it almost precisely as the people Of
Augusta are, at this end of the line, with this
import mt difference. that the latter already
have the Chattanooga connection. Do they
determine to adhere to this as the Cincinnati
people are advised. in like circumstances, to
give 1t the preference ? On the contrary,
COMMITTEES OF the Georgia' Railroad, the COM
pany most deeply Interested in perpetuating
the Chattaneoga monopoly, have just recon-
mended the union Of their road with the Blue
q pt mt fHo ov Il,
OF the superiority the Knoxville connection
will possess when the Blue Ridge Road shall
be completed.
AS to the independent line. = there can be
make herself independent 81 louisville, but
how could she be independent Of Georgia in
going to Chattanooga The railroad from
Chattanooga to Atlanta is q State read; it is an
instrument OF taxation, q source Of public rev.
enue. 1t is now the sole highway OF approach
from the West into Georgia, South Carolina
and FLORIDA. la going to Chattanooga (if she
confine herself to Chattanooga, alone) she is
great trunk railroad. >, But. in gong to
Knoxville she will have both the Blue Ridge
Road and the Georgia State Road at her COM
mand, and no rivalry for her trade. Ifshe Is
IN circumstances, therefore, to expend 81 0OO,-
600 in the construction Of new railroads, and
is debating the expedl lencygof spending 1t for
such inconsiderabe and doubtful advantages,
she ought to seize with ayidity the opportunl-
~ "! conIIipuInR W tAaL COmpletlOn anu
sharing IN the managementot che Blue Ridge
Road. BY this policy shes would insure the
speedy union of the Louisville Railroad and
The Knoxville and Kentucks Road, at the State
line. and the constructionOf The branch road
IN Georgia, from Athens tas Clayton. And by
fastening at the same tinSs the accomplish.
ment of her connection with the Louisville
Road at London, she would achieve, in less
than half the time, and at Hess thsn half the
cost, all she now possesseas TO herself by the
Chltwood and Chattanoogaspcoject
Yours, sincerely, &. a. TnENHoLM,
Elm stating that "Pensacola Ia only eiRbteen hours'
from. the printer has made paIpable and serious
mistake. The distance from pE0sacodn to Havana Is
624 miles, and from OharlestonAo HAYana R8a mica