The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-16

not to 20 there, because when at Knoxville
the road to Chattanooga is equally open t. you;
but 20 go there direct The question then lies
in q nutshell. Are these considerations Of
sufficient Importance and value to justify an
additional expenditure Of about 81 000 600 for
their attainment? Tho cost OF constructing
one hundred and eiehty-fve miles Of railroad
through an uusustaining country, will hardly
be put down at less. But let Us consider II
the twenty-eight miles OF distance saved is Of
any value at all to Cincinnati. 1t is yell said
by writer, under the signature OF W., IN
the CINCINNATI Evening Chronicle, that Louis.
vile, by roads in actual operation, is now
TWENTY-FIVE miles pearer to Chattanooga than
CipclnnatI will be by the proposed direct iine
This 10 an advadtage Of which she cannot be
deprived, as far as all trade south and west
Of Chattanooga is concerned. Louisville, there:
fore, anticipates and neutralizss the gam OF
twenty-e,ght miles proposed by her rival But
looking to the trade east and southeast OF
Chattanooga, and to Dalton a. the objective
point, Cincinnah will save some forty miles
By going to Knoxville and taking the direct
railroad thence to Dilton, instead OF going
round BY way Of Chattanooga. And when the
Blue Ridge Railroad shall be completed, the
advantage Of the Knoxville connection will bs
still greater. The distance from Rockville to
gusta, is five hundred and nineteen miles; by
the Blue Ridge Road it will be four hundred
and two miles, difference Of one hundred and
seventeen miles in favor Of the latter. This
alone should settle the question In dispute.
The peoole 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
important 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 it the preference On the contrary, a
committee Of the Georgia Railroad, the COM
pany most deeply interested in perpetuating
the Uhattaneoga monopoly, have Just recon-
ended the union OF their road with the Blue
Ridge Road at Clayton, on the express grounds
OF the superiority the Knoxville connection
viii possess when the Blue Ridge Road shall
be completed.
AS to the independent hne." there can be
no such thing in my opinion. Cincinnati may
mske herself indepeuden, Of Louisville, but
how could she be independent OF Georgia in
going to- Chattanooga The railroad from
Chattanooga to Atlanta is Slate read; It is an
instrument Of taxation. source OF public rev.
from the West into Georgia, South CAROLINA
and Florida. In going to chatt.nooga III she
coufine herself to Chattanooga alone) she is
debarred from any other outlet east for her
"qreat trunk railroad. But in gong TO
Knoxville she will have both the Blue Ridge
Road and the Georgia State hoad at her COM
mand, and no rivalry for her trade. Ifshe ls
IN circumstances, therefore, to e1pend 81, 000,-
600 in the construction Of new railroads, and
is debating the e1ped ency Of spending 1t for
such inconsiderab!e and doubtful advantages,
she ought to seize with avidity the opporsunl-
ty Of contributing to the completion and
sharing IN the management Of che Blue Ridge
Road. By this policy she would insure the
speedy union Of the Louisville Railroad and
The Knoxville and Kentucky Road, at the State
line, and the construction Of the branch road
in Georgia, from Athens TO Clayton. And by
hastening at the came time the accomplish.
ment of 6er connection with the Louisville
Road at London, she would achieve, in less
than haf the time, and at less than half the
cost. all she now possesses to herself by the
Chltwood and Chattanooga project.
Yours, sincerely, g. a. TRENHOLM.
sIn stating that pensacola is only eighteen hours
run from Havana" the author Of the article quoted
FROM or the printer has made papable and serious
mistake. Ibe distance from Pensacola to Havana IS
524 miles, and from Charleston to Havana 6Ss miles,