Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-17
RAILROADS.

NAA9 NY - ~ ~ N1SJ AOSA CGAI
contemplate the fact tnat the "Green
Line " is now shipping wheat, in bulk,
from st. Louis to Augusta, Ga. 1t goes
by the Iron Mountain railroad TO Bel
mont, on h Mississippi, where it is fer
ried across in cars to Columbus, KY, and
from thsre, via Nashville and Chatta-
nooga, to its destination. The Nashville
road, or Nashville, OWES the thirty miles
of railway from Stevenson to Chatta-
nooga, inc therefore the Memphis and
Charleston roa can organize no Through
hne," and no list of through freight
charges can be made by it which may by
any possibility divert even a share Of this
immense traffic, and draw it through
Memphis.
The Southern Pacific road, from Mar
shall, Texas, as provided to be built in
the act pending in Congress when that
body last adjourned, will have four, GER
tainly three, branches, which should be
independent roads, feeding it from the
east. The one from New Orleans, the
second from Vicksburg, the third from
Memphis and the fourth from Cairo,
through Little Rock and Fulton. The
purpose of those interested in the Cairo
and Fulton road will be to make their
line part and parcel of the traDs-conti-
rental route, that through trains from
San Diego and San Francisco may be di-
rected solely to Cairo ard Cincinnati. To
effect this purpose will be the aim of not a
few who will attend the approaching
Convention in Cincinnati. Among the
incOrporatOrs named in the charter of the
Tra~nscontinental Company are two gem
tlemen of this city. Governor
ALCoRN and j. O. Stanton, the
Alabama Railroad builders, are large
ly interested in the Vicksburg and Meri-
dian road, and if any line east of Marshall
secure preference as part of the Through
route" Stanton will livery probably achieve
this end for his Chattanooga, Meridian and
Vicksburg road. In very truth, the great
Southern Pacific road hould not be su-
b~ordinated TO the peculiar local purposes
of any city. Let a have fair
and equal rights defined in Congressional
and state charters, and Memphis will fear
no rivalry. Our Eastern connections will
soon be perfect, and then the West will
be drawn hither by an irresistible force.
Meanwhile Memphis, as soon as per-
fected credit will admit of it, must main
tain supremacy in this central valley of
the Mississippi by the perfection of a rail-
road system in Arkansas as fautless as
this which blesses us east of the Mis-
sissippi. Itwould be well for the Mayor
and Chamber of Commerce to send dele
gates to Cincinnati who understand these
questions.
ADa "O0AGOEE VI IAO OhAICA az
District Court of Texas, has given a de-
cision affirming the constitutionality of
the statute allowing towns to issue bonds
in aid of the construction of railroads.
The Real Estate Bulletin, one of the in
situations of the city, adverts to the ne
cessity for the construction of a Southern
Pacific road by Southern men. 1t signi-
very little who achieves this task.
Northern men nave wealth and credit,
and if they expend it. in constructing
railroads and receive Southern bonds aud
lands, the trade pleases us well. 1t be-
their interest to populate and en-
rich q State whose bonds they own and a
country in which they are ~landholders.
If the South or Southern capitalists build
these roads we have gained a road and an
enriched country, but have imported no
capitalists and have failed to exchange
paper for gold. 1t is further tru that no
Southern association of Southern men
has wealth or credit enough, or sustains
those relations to capitalists abroad which
enable them To accomplish hercu-
lean tasks involved in the construction of
highway to the Pacific. stanton, Of the
and New Orleans road. has
advantage, for this very reason,
Southern builders OF railways.
While other roads in Alabama stand still, |
his of stanton progresses with unparal-
leled rspidity. II does not signify who
may build, but who can build soonea the
road. IL we would have Govern
ment aid and liberal and grants there 10
nothing like Boston and New York rings
TO buy Congressman. And, just
here, we may add parenthetioally, we
discover an overriding necessity for
of peculiar training and
of thinking as proper representa-
of b South. OF windmiils we have
lsd enough, and of corrupt incapable
more than could b. borne.
lust now, however, the great question
hat affects this Pacific road IL whether Il
hall be begun at Cairo, as the coming
Convention may insist, or
whether Memphis, Vicksburg, New Or
cans and Cairo shall each have lines con-
at Marshall, Texas, whence the
great trunk line will bend its way to-
ward the western ocean. Cincinnati,
the fact that the North has two
endowed Pacific companies, may
to make Cairo the initial point
II the road, and its gauge the same with
hat OF roads converging at Cairo, instead
If conforming it to the gauge of railways
" the South. New Orleans, Yicksburg
md Memphis have q perfect community
" interest, and the three cities, and all
states west of the Mississippi and south
II the Ohio, should stand side by side in
his convention.