Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-16
OUR RAILROADS.

Among the railroad projects at present
before Congress for subsidy, right of way
or endorsement, we find the following,
in which Memphis is directly or indirectly
interested:
Senate bill No. l5s, offered by Senator
Nye. OF Nevada, provides for the con-
struction of a railroad from Galveston,
Texas, 10 Fort Gibson in the Indian Cher
okee) Territory, with a branch to Little
Rock, Ark-distance 200 miles, right OF
way 500 feet, making total grant Of a.
500 acres.
Senate Joint resolution No. 0, proposed
bF Senator Morton, of Indiana, provides
for granting the right of way TO the Mem
phis, III Raso and Pacific railroad, giving
line company 20 0UG acres of land.
Certain parties, through. Senator Pome-
roy. ask TOR thirty million seven hundred
and thirty-fOur thousand four hundred
acres of land for the construction Of road
and telegraph from the southern boundary
of Kansas TO the Pacific Ocean in the dl-
rection of EI PasOl The supposed length
of the road is 1900 miles. This would
be at the rate of forty sections per mile!
This IS intended as . a job" 10 force a
compromise with the Fremont and Epper-
Senate bill No. IOl now before the SEN
ate. offered by Mr.. Mcdonald, of Arkan-
sas, proposes 10 guarantee interest on GER
tain bonds 10 be issued by the Memphis
and st. Louis, and theSt. Louis iron Noun
! tain L. K. Companies, to enable thom TO
build q read from Morley, Scott county,
| Missouri, to Helena. Arkansas, the road TO
! serve rs a leyee. The amount of bonds
viii be SIS 900 per mile, they win run
thirty years, and pay six per cent IL gold.
| The distance Will be about 200 miles, and
I the total amount of bonds about s., ,0O0,OO0
D ,T.aHn 1fFa
/ plelion of the road and levee, would be
I $500, COO.
\ Senate bills Nos. and 1874, offered by
( Senator Rice, of Arkansas, provide for
/ the incorporation of " The Central Indian
/ Railroad Company" 10 extend through
/ the Indian territory. The Choefaw Leg
/ islature has protested against the project.
! The length of-the road is to be three hun
/ dred and fifty miles. The grant asked for
/ is ten sections of land per mile, and the
/ customary right of way, making total
grant of three Thousand five hundred sec
/ lions, or , pa, 200 acres.
/ Another bill, introduced by Senator
/ Rice, relates to the International Pacific
| Railroad, running southwest from Cairo
to the Rio Qrasde, Texas, already incOr-
pOrated and granted lands, 1t is nine
hundred miles long, and now asks for 2
subsidy of guaranteed interest six per
cent. on irst mortgage bonds, ~ the rate
of $4,000, Being a total Of Sl5,50O,O ,O0G--
making the annual interest guaranteed
SSl0, 900.
! SIN another bill is for Southern Pa
cific road, near the thirty-second parallel
of latitude, the length of which is TO be
1900 miles. with a grant of forty sections
to mile, and 900 feet for right Of way,
making the total grant 5000 sections, oI
IS 6S5, ,6OO acres. II also asks guar2ntee
of interest on S32, 600 per mile. Total
amount Of bonds, So, 500, 900; annual in
terest, s., ,64S, ,O00.
Senator Spencer, of Alabama, offers and
attends to Senate bills 267, 26S and 269
The first for road from Selma, Ala, &c
} Memphis, fena.; the second from Deca
tur, Ala, TO Aberdeen, Miss; and the
third from Chickasaw to kll9ton. Tota
length of the three roads is about Ca
! miiee. Customary right OF way asked FOL
and six alternate sections Of land. making
a total of 1850 sections and /, ,l20, 600 acres
Senate bill No. ia, offered By Senator
: Mcdonald, of Arkansas asks for a gran
3 OF land aid OF railroad and telegraph
line from the junction of the Ohio ant
Mississippi rivers to the Mexican bound
sry. at or near PresidiO del Norte, on tn
Rio Grande, with branch east of 9S deg
? OF west longitude, TO Lawrence, Kansas
: The distance is l40O miles; 90 sections ar
= asked for to the mile, total Of 50.000-i
all Is, $50, 500 acres