Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-01
The Nashville and c~hattanOoga Railroad.

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road.
The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.
We give a synopsis of the report of the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad,
showing that the total shipments of the
road from Nashville and the several sta
tions, for the year, North and South,
were:
Cotton, bales. 1892 Wheat, bu.....- 5l9,925
Floor, bbls..... l67, t70ICorn, bu--.....- J, 49OD3
salt, bbls..--. 22,s2SiR Rye & Barley,
A toes, etc, 66is 1851 Hay, tOns..-.-. 7l7i
bs-....----..4s L ,O5sl
Railroad and Pig Iron, car lOads-----. pa
Lumber, car "
stone and Marble, car Oads.-~...... Do
Horses and Mules, car oads.---....-.--" Lbs
Cattle and Sheep, car loads.-...----..-... "a
Miscellaneous freight, tons--------...--. 59,O6E
p This shows a heavy and increasing
business of the road. Enormous ship
ments are expected over this great thor
/ oughfare the ensuing season, and extern
sive preparations are being made for the
same.
The gross earnings for the fiscal year
amount to SI,37s,5 500 80, derived as fol-
lows:
s649, I73 So
Passage 1900. q. 40S,0 39 %
lMail.--""..--.---.a---. -. Io,uUU w
Minor sources. ...... 6,zSz Al
81, 37s, 5O5 30
The gross earnings for the previous year
were SI,0S5, 594 50, showing an increase Tor
lS69-70 of $292, 9Ig so, or about q per
The gross earnings of the company for
the fiscal year ending Both of June, 1868.
the period from which the present Board
dates its management were only eS6O,-
479 70, showing an increase for the year
Just closed of S41S,005 so, or about Al per
cent, nearly nine-tenths of which were
secured from the freight department, not
withstsnding the strong competition with
which we had to contend.
We have given the above statement be-
cause it shows the vast amount of bust
ness lone by a roa that draws through
Nashville a vast amount OF wealth that
should find its way through his city TO
Northern Georgia. When steamers are
freighted at st. Louis, or other Western
cities, it costs a nominal sum on a cargo TO
continue the Yoyage down ther river from
| Columbus, KY, to Memphis; but since
the Memphis and Charleston road does
not own the line from Stevenson to Chat
tanooga. and such restrictions and charges
are imposed upon its freights for passing
over thirty miles, that shippers of North
western cities are forced to send goods
through Columbus or Hickman and
1 y d6ANAAAO lAbO OOOAEla v ZIG OAAh0
instead of shorter railroad route. These
facts and tables above illustrate the abso-
| lutte necessity for an independent rail-
road route from Decatur or Huntsville,
Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia. Such a
road is now being slowly constructed,
and the evil of which we COM
plain, this diversion of a vast
trace and travel, will be obviated by
The Savannah and Memphis Road,
now under contract from 0pelika, Ala
bama, to Tuscumbia, giving Memphis an
air line route to Macon and savannah,
Georgia. This road is to be completed in
the winter of lS7I-2. Then Southern
| Georgia and Alabama u draw a large
share of their plantation supplies from
this city. TIL detriment done the trade
of Memphis by lateral roads is enormous,
and the only remedy consists in their in
tersection by other lines. This subject is
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce, and it is proposed 30
perfect, at once, if possible, the inter-
Communication through the city of each
of the roads having here its terminus.
BY this means it is thought that travel
will be drawn over our roads through
Grenada from New Orleans and through
Humboldt from Louisville and Cairo.
From both these places, Humboldt and
/ Grenada, traffic and travel is now diverted
by the Mobile and Ohio and MISSISSIPPI
Central roads, while the former o
forces, by it's extraordinary system of
freight charges, the whole trade of East
ern Mississippi, and of a wide district of
Western Tennessee to markets remoter
and more costly than Memphis, In these
facts consist the necessity for the consol-
idati0n of all Memphis railways for the
speedy construction of the Paducah and
Memphis road, and especially for the
completion of that which connects
Memphis with Holly Springs, and that
paradise of cotton and corn growers
the prairies of Eastern Mississippi. This
road will not only add vastly to the num-
Der of cotton bales sold here, and open a
new market for our merchants, but Civ
ing us access to pine forests and coal
fields, add still greater attractions to
Memphis as a manufacturing city. In
promotion of these ends, the road which
Messrs. Tate, Greenlaw and Campbell
Wallace are building from Montgomery
to Decatur, Alabama, through the coal
fields, will accomplish great results for
this city, and give US a market hitherto
closed to merchants of Memphis. The
reorganization of a table (which we
cannot find room for is appended, winch
is Of interest TO- our merchants and to
farmers along the line of the Mississippi