Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-08
OUR RAILWAYS.
Highly important Railway News Affecting
Memphis.
Extracts From a Private Letter From a
Railroad Man.

We are permitted by the friend to
whom it was written to make the follow
ing extracts from a private letter from a
well known and Weu posted railroad man.
1t will be seen at a glance that The infor-
nation is in the highest degree important
to Memphis and our railroad interests
and connections:
at is not possible, under the present
very powerful state of things, for Edgar
Thompson to control the Cairo and Full
ton railroad. st. Louis has that enter
prise now fully in hand, n it will ter
inmate at that city. The line of the track
Qook at the map) of the old Cairo and
Fulton railroad, crossing at Cairo, passed
through the lower tangent or division OF
the State of Missouri. This was trans
ferred to Allen, of st. Louis, by act of the
Legislature of that State. He takes up
all the iron between Cairo and the Arkan-
sas line. and uses it on his st. Louis and
Belmont road-thus perverting the oTlgt-
nagpurpose to reach the East via Cairo,
and turning the Cairo end Fulton into a
st Louis and Fulton railroad. So much
for MANAGEMENT. That invincible word is
potent in every earthly enterprise or pur-
pose.
ton driving your steamers out Of the trade
most UaEudbLe to you, you are TO contend
NTH her for railroad influences or lose G1
yOu hare aOest Of the Mississippi rlUer.
IT tell YOU that you must have the
Memphis and Kansas City road. or you
are gone. Thank God it is all %. k
The directory and the people are
going to work. They organized
on the LIST. Judge VIM; Byers
President: J. W ..Eldridge, Vice President
and Secretary, and General R. F. Patter-
son, Treasurer.
They placed chief engineer Capt. Robt L.
Cobb on the work at once and he left on
a trip of observation yesterday to the
Missouri line and then back here to
Memphis by the 18th. On the 10th, the
directory meet at Wittsburg, Arkansas
He will report and take his men and IN
struments and go to work. l say to you
we have begun the greatest enterprise in
which your city is interested and we viii
finish it. "
In continuation of the above all i'm
portant subject we make the following
extract from a late copy of the Little
Rock Gazette;
1.-THE city of Memphis, from the time
the subject of a railroad from that point
to California was first broached IN thls
paper-in IS46-and which idea was
at the time eagerly seized on and adopted
by her press and people, has been suffer-
ing the evils Occasioned by not devOting
her wealth and credit toward giving the
idea practical effect. If Memphis had n
finished railroad connecting with the
great West-one single line penetrating
the Indian country and Texas, beyond
Arkansas-the whole system OF roads OF
the eastern Cult States would be made to
converge at that city. As much as any
other inducement the possible construc-
ton of the Memphis and Little Rock
road has already drawn to Memphis a
line from Louisville, another from Nor
folk and Charleston; a third is in
process of construction from Selma,
Alabama, and the Gulf coast, and a
fourth from New Orleans. All these roads
should combine their wealth to complete
the railroad to Little Rock, and hasten its
extension to Texas. The result would be
uAat the 800, 900 bales Of cotton which
4emphis claims are now shipped annu-
ally to that place, would be at once
swelled half a million in humble Cattle
aud wheat from the Indian country and
Texas would seek a market through that
CITY, and the number of roads from the
east would be multiplied. The whole
State of Arkansas would share the effects
of this concentration of railways at Mem
phis, until increasing wealth n popula-
ton enables it to complete its own
magnificent system of projected roads,
through which wealth is 10 flow enrich
ing every field and village and county in
the State"