Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-29
THE DAY BOOK.
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the State Of Louisiana. From
these proposed terminal points
the shortest and most direct line
to the Atlantic coast lies along
the thirty-second parallel Of
latitude, along which is already
constructed q continuous and
almost unbroken track of rail.
ing from Marshall, Texas, to
Savannah, via, Vicksburg, on
the Mississippi river. The line
Of railroads from Marshall,
Texas, to Savannah lies wholly
! between the thirty-second and
thirty-third parallels oflatitude
and is represented to exhibit
less deviation from a direct,
true course, than the same ex-
tent OF railroad in this or any
other country.
'On the invitation of the
Chamber of Commerce of New
Orleans, a portion ofyour COM
mlttee attended the Convention
in that city, and have to report
a like result in the location of
the line of the Southern Pacific
railroad as that agreed
upon at Memphis, The line
thus mutually recommended
by the respective committees is
said to be in accord with the
views Of the government au-
thorities at Washington
By the Central, Memphis
and Charleston, and informed
late roads, it is seven hundred
and forty miles to Memphis.
The distance from that point to
, Charleston and Norfolk are res
! pectively fifteen and two hun
dred and nineteen miles greater;
but q projected railroad from
Griffin to Decatur will increase
this difference in favor of Sa-
vannah by 60 or 70 miles. By
a line of railroads diverging
from that to Memphis, at
Stevenson, it is 582 miles from
Savannah to Nashville, 1862 to
Mississippi at Columbus, and
963 to St. Louis, the last dis
lance being 1870 miles less than
that from New York. The
mildness of the climate of the
region in which the Southern
route lies, is however, a much
greater advantage than this diff
ference Of distance. The At
lantic and Gulf and the lines of
railroad to Vicksburg and
Memphis, lie in districts of
country that contribute a very
large part of the cotton exported
by the United States, and the
rich country in Tennessee and
Kentucky, north and west OF
Nashville, produces very
great quantity of tobacco. It is
evident that a line of steam
ships from this port in connec-
ton with the railroad described,
would form a better mode Of
transporting those articles Of
trade than others now used OF
practicable. 1t is equally GER
tain that the ships carrying
| these products Of the South to
Germany would bring back to
us German manufactures.
| Norfolk is two hundred and
nineteen miles further than Sa-
vannah from any point beyond
Chattanooga, towards Nash
vile or Memphis, and Char
lesion fifteen, and there are
twenty six feet at high and
nineteen at low water on the
Savannah bar, and sixteen and
three-tweltths at high and
| eleven at low water on that OF
Charleston.
Charleston is also ninety
miles further than Savannah by
railroad from all points ii Ala
bama and Mississippi. Euro
pean emigrants can find pro-
ductive lands as cheap in the
South as in the Northwest, in 1
climate so mild that farmers
may labor in the fields at all
seasons, and by such a line Of
steamships and the four routes
| from Savannah described above.
they could travel to those lands
at less expense and discomfort
than to the Northwestern