Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-03

General Agent anu superintendent
(. T. ROBSON, Asst Sup't.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: LEAVES
Mail.....- ..........-----.-. $3.50 pm. l0:45 AIN.
| Junction accommodate S:l5 Am $3.50 PM
Somerviile accommodate 9:45 Am. 4;40 pm.
Freight, with coach al
TicRet ONCE rs Main st. cor south Court.
MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
ARRIVES: LEAVES:
Day Express --....---.I2:I pm. 400 am.
Night xpress.--..----.--.- 4:OO Am. l:t5 pm.
Brownsville Accom-----. $40 am 5:l5 pm.
Railroad time IS minutes faster than city
time. Depot at head of Main street. Ticket
Office @7h Main St, one door north Jefferson.
ARRIVES: LRAyEs:
New Orleans Man, daily 2:5 pm 1906 pun.
E ElRS ys1co5is ;a $50 am 4SOp-m-
Depot at foot or Main street. Ticket ONCE,
1914 Main street, one door north OF Jefferson.
A. S-LlVERAORE. Genl Sup't.
Gardens in the city and suburbs have
proven wonderfully productive and prof
table. An acre and q half within a mile
of Court Square, has produced a crop of
onions that sold tor $l632. Tomatoes
flourish luxuriantly. General Boyle
made arrangements some time ago to send
through to Chicago cars frsighted with
NdI6I uiSlDIS Aduu NtKObdOltSs IsdTS
grown in Southern Mississippi,
near Stonewsll, on the Mobile and Ohio
road, are sold at Sl.5O each in Chicago.
Early fruit and vegetables from the Gulf
coast will Don constitute the bulk of
freights shipped North. In this crossing
of different parallels of latitude consists
the great value of roads, like that connect
ing Kansas City and Selma through Mem
phis. Memphis will be the great point of
interchange of products. The new North
west will EXCHANGE corn and bacon for
luscious.truits of the Indies, South. Amerl-
can and Southern States n in early sum-
mel months Memphis gardeners will have
a market over this road for all products
of industry. Gardeners will then sell at
wholesale prices to shippers, who will sup
ply cities along the Union Pacific road from
st. Louis to Omaha. Rich a. the swamp
will soon become across the river, capable
of creating and maintaining many such
cities as, Memphis, the gardens which yet
must bloom on the hillsides around Mem
phis win give this city its source of meal
culable wealth. Their perfection will be
reached when the Welsh railways are ex-
tended in every direction and suburban
population is densiied and manufactures
are created simply by the 'c~heapness of
living. Let us have gardens and cheap
food and then immigrants will come, and
then labor will be cheaper and manufac-
turing mOSt prOQIaDk6.
In a letter addressed to the Chamber of
Commerse we are told of the extraordinary
advantages to accrue to Memphis and ST.
Louis, from the construction of the Mem
phis and Savannah road, nOw under con
tract from Opelika to Tuscumbia. Some
years ago Alabama was requested to con-
tribute a block of marble to the Washing
ton monument. it was furnished from
the quarries near Tailadega, on the line
81 ahsu AT4nawkEa n-nIs1. cd
road, and rejected by the inspectors at
Washington, on the ground that no such
marble was found in b United States,
and was only found in qusrries of Italy.
The Identification of the marble was es-
tablished by the proper afiidayits of the
parties through whom the contribution
was made, but so incredufous were the
inspectors that they still refused its recog-
milton, alleging that while they did not
call in question the truth of the atlantis,
they could not bring themselves to be-
lieve that there was not some mistake
about the matter, SO different, and so
vastly superior was the sample to any
thing hitherto disco gered in America. |
Whist became of Aiabama's contribution, |
we are not informed, nj it Is gratifying /
to know that there is plenty of the same
sort left. The facts related above should
serve as the strongest certificate of the
superior quality of the marble on the line
of the road. The coal from the Coosa coal
fields has long been recognized rs the best
in the State. From them was obtained
the coal used in manufacturing the hesvi-
est ordnance made az the Confederate
Arsenal at Selma, where 1t was deemed a
sine qua mon to success, in this very heavy
and difficult description of casting. This
coal field is not more than n hundred
miles from 0pelika, while iron ore of ex-
cellent quality is found within seventy
five miles.