The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-07-01
HOYT & CO., Preprietors.
Cincinnati Southern Railway.

NO large clCy WAS eNei hao" " w NN'''
without having some special advantages,
either as a commercial mart, or as man
ufacturing centre. TO be q successful
competitor in either, the asprant for
fame or profit must possess natural as
well as artificial avenues through which
commerce may flow, and advantages Ell
ther in the purchase of goods or the con-
troll of the markets. Or in other words,
the dealer and consumer must be brought
into sort of close communion. Of what
value would be the manufactures OF Bir-
mingham and Sheffield were it notfor the
facilities of sending them to the great
markets and consumers of the world or
of the millions of surplus products OF our
own great West, if we had not the means
of sending it to the open mouths and
empty stomachs of the Eastern States
and Europe.
Taking this view of the question, and
it is the true one, it must be selfevident
to every mind, that the more avenues,
eith-r natural or artificial, that we pos
sess ior commerce and intercourse with
dealers and consumers of our products,
the more extended will be our market,
anG the greater. will be the demand tor
our wares.
Now what is the real truth as to the
nee ssity for the construction of the Gin
cinnati Southern Railway Why it is
thfs-there is district of country en-
bracing nearly the entire Southern States
to which we have either no access what
evec. or q very imperfect and roundabout
way of reaching it, and the produce and
manufactures of Cincinnati are forced to
pay transportation tribute TO long lines
of railway and other means of transit
before it reaches its destination. To IL
lustrate what we mean, the people OF
Anderson, S. c., eat Cincinnati flour and
Cincinnati bacon, which are now shipped
by rail to Baltimore $50 miles, then down
the Chesapeake and the Atlantic coast
to Charleston, about $50 miles, and after
wards by rail 257 miles. The result is,
as stated by Mr.. Laftte, the gentleman y
merchant delegate Of Charleston, S. g.,
to the meetings held ut our Board OF
Trade rooms. that -four selling i'll Cincn-
natl at s4.75 to S5.25 per barrel, COM
mands SLIGO to $3.50 per barrel in An
derson, which is q tariff OF S6.25 to $40
per barrel for transportation and com.
missions. The cost OF carrying barrel
of -four to Baltimore by rail, $50 miles,
lis Just 60 cents 1t is scarcely necessary
to say that on the Cincinnati Southern
Railway and connections, it could be
transported the distance to Anderson,
455 miles, us cheaply or for less than TO
Baltimore, leaving clear margin to el-
ther the producer or consumer, OF from
81. G5 10 $5.65 per barrel.
The same is true Of all other produce.
The dealers Of Knoxville buy stoves in
Troy, N. Y, and carry them $50 miles
by rail; whereas if the Cincinnati South
ern Railway was made, the distance
would be but 27O miles, giving 72O
miles OF transportation in favor OF Gin
cinnati manufactures.
Mr. Laftte stated in tho Board OF
Trade rooms that the South needed one
million stoves to-day.
; What is true OF stoves applies with
equal force to all manufactured articles
of which tho South now stands in need.
The South presents an open market for
our wares in which Cincinnati would
have by the Cincinnati Southern Railway
the advantage Of the short route and
cheap fares.
In one word, by the construction OF
the Cincinnati Southern Railway we COM
mercially conquer zoe, 900 square miles of
market, and mako customers of 4,OOO, ,OOO
of people.
This is not ALL 1t is said to be poor
rule that don't work both ways. The
construction of the Cincinnati Southern
Railway will bring US, by the same adj
vantage of cost of transportation TO the
above, rice, sugar, coffee, cotton and
tropical fruits on better terms than they
can now be had, and enabling Cincinnati
to supply the markets of the Northwest
with those articles; thus again extending
the area of her Il affic over Il field now in
a great measure barred to her enterprise
by cheaper freights from other points.
We will not have to wait until the road
is finished to feel its influence on the
traffic of the city. The expenditure of
ten millions of dollars in construction of
the road must necessarily give an impe-
tus to the manufacturers in the produc-
ton OF the various articles used in the
construction and equipment Of a first
class road, that must enliyen the merry
ring of the hammer and increase the hum
of busy lathes, and these again react Oh
every other department Of industry
Railroad Record.
PERSONAL Blessed inAu,
ence Of one true, loving human soul on
earth Not calculable by algebra, not de.
ducible by logic but mysterious, cffectu-
al, mighty as the hidden-proccss by which
the tiny seed is quickcned, and bursts
forth into tall stem and broad leaf and
o.Iouinr tossalod flower Tdcas arc often