Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-02
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER RAIL

THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER RAIL
ROAD-ITS BEARING ON TIL
sPROSPERITT OF MEMPHIS.
With a rapidity seldom equalIed in
this country, Mr.. MITCHELL has
brought his great enterprise up to the
very threshold Of accomplishment.
Within four or five weeks at farthest,
the contractors will he at work, hew-
ing their way through forest and field,
INCORPORATING theroadway from Mem
phis to Covington-the first thirty-siX
miles of the most important railroad
that Memphis has ever opened. The
first and most marked effect of these
operations will be the disbursement
of tens of thousands of dollars weekly,
a large portion Of which will flow into
the channels of Memphis trade, thus
bridging over the otherwise duh weeks
that would intervene before new cot
ton begins TO come in. The next eff
feet will be to rake up our citizens
HUH tiIt Aitul1iCtEttIS dlih N1iiRilAN 0tU-
por in which they have been reposing
and convince them that there is cOur-
age and purpose yet left among Il
people, and a fukure before city
that no adversely can obscure or de-
feat. AIire railroad company, push
ing their iron track through q lire
comBtry-a country teeming with en-
terprise and wealth, will quickly stir
a new life i'm the most becalmed of
communities, and give us again in
Memphis a lire city! God speed the
cars that are soon to fly % and fro
like the weaver's shuttle over the line
Of the Mississippi River Railroad!
We speak Of this road as the most
important ever opened by Memphis;
and we do not speak at random. If
ever there was a railroad at Memphis
projected in the interest of the poor
and the middle classes, it is the MiSsiS-
sippi River Road. Cheap provisions
aud cheap 6le-these are the bOons
that this road will bring. Without
cheap food and cheap fuel, Memphis
can never be a great city. The rich
can live anywhere; but the rich do
not make city. 1t is the "toiling
millions that make a city and make
a State, and unless the neeessaries of
life can be brought within easy reach
of the many who labor, it is in vain
that city or State is founded. They
wilpperisha and go out, as they deserve,
unless they are built upon the comfort,
happiness aud welfare OF those who
toll.
Ii is the Mississippi River Road
that promises II people such suPplies
of food as was never furnished our city
beforehand so cheap and so good.
There is health in the very thought,
Every mile of the territory to be pen
etrated by this road is as fertile as
Egypt. u is in a high state of culture
already. 1t is not q wilderness to be
reclaimed and reduced to culture after
the road is built; it is already a pOpu-
lous district, unequaledi in fertility and
in actual culture By any other part of
West Tennessee-in fact, a very para
disc Of agricultural beauty and album
dance. The treasures of this match
less district now annually pass to other
markets-not to Memphis. Fruits
and vegetables in speh abundaneafhat
they perish on playground ungathered,
are only waiting for the Mississippi.
River Read TO be brought te Memphis,
enriching the and rejoieingthe1
happy consumers of such l~uxuriesin.
AIannhis no Z hna GA ~ bGa
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But II Is not i'm this domestic view
only that this road is so valuable. It