Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-03
9 mi MEMPHIS.
The Mississippi aad the Gull.

Inc mtosteoippt alu Auc WI.
The interest manifested by the mer-
chants of Mobile and Memphis in a direct
railroad between the two cities is q
cheering sign. This has been a favorite
project with our people for some years;
put OuE Mobile friends have never before
regarded 1t with kindness. That they do
so now, is an evidence hat they now look
upon Memphis as the most important
point on the Mississippi for obtaining
their food supplies, and for i~nauguratlng
a commerce between the millions OF this
rich valley and the Gulf islands Mobile
or Mississippi City is the Gulf door, open
ing up to Memphis a trade of which Lieut..
Msury has said so much, and which would
add another chaplet to her commercial
crown. Any map will show that an air
line from Memphis to Mobile would leave
Grenada but a few miles on the west, and
Meridian but a few on the east of it.
There is, therefore, but n link to be
built-that from Grenada to Meridian;
unless it be deemed best to strike direct
from Grenada to Mobile, so as altogether
to ignore. the monopoly of the MO
bile and Ohio railroad. At the request
of Col. Frank White, / ran the lin
from Grenada to Meridian, in the winter
of 1868, and found the route an excel
lent one. The distance is aboEt I24 miles,
the line passing through some b or six
counties, tina produced 500 bales of
cotton. and an abundance of food, in 1860.
If this link were built, Memphis would
be nearer to Mobile and the Gulf than she
is to Knoxville; and st. Louis would be
nearer TO Mobile and the Gulf than she is
to PittsbcTE. Memphis is at the foot of
the grain region. She is deeply inter
ested in the growth of every town and
district south of her which may need sup
plies Of food; for it seems our Southern
planters will never learn the necessity of
raising these. And if they must buy
them, then let Memphis supply them by
drawing on the great grain regions north
Of her. Memphis is also at the head Of
the cotton region of the South; and it is
her interest to see cotton factories multi
PLYING north of the Ohio river. Thirty
wears ago, but little morethan 10000 bales
Of cotton were annually manufactured in
the Ohio valley, or west of Pittsburg.
Now, the amount exceeds 100000 bales.
Cotton is the chief article of her COM
meree, 1t has been and is vet the magnet
which attracts to Memphis the attention
Of this country and Europe. 1t is what
has built her up. 1t is her supremacy.
and neither manufactures nor anything
else can be substituted for it. Dozens of
cities north of her can and will forever
DEFY her in manufactures. They have
population, food and fuel. But they have
no cotton. Neither st. Louis, Louisville
or Cincinnati can present to the manu-
featuring or specializing world any claims
as a cotton market. Memphis has this
supremacy, and il is her policy to retain
it. To do this, she must cultivate still
more intimate relations with the cotton
regions around her, but especially South
and West. The most important of these
lies between the Mississippi river on the
west, the Mobile roa on the east, and
the Nicksburg and Meridian rOa on the
sOuth-an area of about 100 by 200 miles
and containing about twelve million
acres, capable of producing an abundant
supply Of food, and two million bales of
cotton annually. These are her resources
for cotton, and she should do all she can
TO encourage the development of them,
n then direct the current of trade to her
streets. In twenty-five years more this
cotton belt viii have its full supply of
cotton labor; for the adult negroes of
Maryland, Virginia, The CarOlinas and
Georgia, are gradually seeking those
regions which pay best. The more cotton
produced south of us, and the more
avenues we have to that region, the more
we shall get; and this will but en-
the magnet we now hold for all the
spinning world. But there is yet
interest in all this. Every cotton !
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additional purchasers of Memphis cotton.
Every factory south of us buys cot
ION around it. Every one north
Of US buys cotton at Memphis or from
some other Southern point. 1t is evil
our policy, if possible, TO transfer |
New England factories 10 the Ohio valley, |
and let Memphis be the point where a
bales can be bought for their
and spindles. The more Manches-
yers we have north of us, b greater our
Liverpool. When the Ohio valley will
annually need a half million bales, and
can find them at Memphis, the advanta-
yes resulting will be felt by the whole
community around us; for, the
markets govern prices. The small
factories throughout the country never
,reate any but a local demand for cotton,
that demand is easily and promptly
supplied often by a few townships. The
demand-the demand which
from countries that do not produce,
but that consume the great bulk of
crop, can be supplied OaIV at
yreGt cOuOR-trGde centerS, and every
within 200 miles of Memphis is
interested in her becoming one of
Cotton is yet king Of Commerce."
Will be so as long as it is the fabric
clothes fOur-fths of the human
-ace, and which, by machinery, can be
converted into so many different utilities.
Let Memphis do all she can in building
up manufactures; put let her look to her
'otton laurels as richer than any others.
Savannah, New Orleans, are all
the trade of that rich region south
If US. If Memphis can obtain il, she will
bring to her the the wealthy buyers of
he North and East in still larger num-
You know l have always believed
conventions" Commercial ones new
n do anything but good. They awaken
thought, suggest enterprise and arouse
energies. See Whist they have done, DUR
-ng the past two years, in di-
-ecting public attention 70 Norfolk.
stimulating the energies of her
sluggard peoplel See what they
done for Memphis in obtaining
An emphatic Endorsement of a Southern
Pacific railroad, not only from every
State, but also from the two
cities of the Ohio Valley. No one
will question the influence which his
expression Of opinion is exerting on Con-
yress, radical as it is. Let US, therefore,
a railroad convention here in No
Every railroad leading INTO
demphis-every one projected as a Mem
)his road, whether as an Independent or
!, branch lne-is interested in building up
,ur city; for the growth of Memphis
lresuppOses the Improvement of the sur
'ounding country. Let our railroads and
teamers proclaim that railroad delegates,
With proper credentials as such, will be
,assed free, coming and going. The
Whole country in every State around US
) moving upon the subject of railroads as
he main levees of prosperity, and if
Memphis will only do what her interests
she can gather here, in Novom-
'er next, an assemblage of thinking,
PRACTICAL, energetic men from the sur
Ounding States, who will appreciate our
r. - anA 0mhA .~Tn 49, -
arnestly determined to arouse their peO-
lie to the Importance ofthe speedy con
Of lines which will pour mil
ions Of wealth into our streets. We may
n write and talk 70 Zach other about these
hings for years, but all this will not help
Iemphis unless we can convince sections
.ot now trading here that it is their in
crest as well as ours to do so. Conven-
ions will do this. Let us have one in
november. J. T. IRRELEVANT. |
June 80, 1870.
p. ST. propose to say something, soon,
bout Railroad Rings;' and there is
round to believe that Memphis has been
Ovsr-reaehed by one. Did you ever
of roads being leased, or The CON
-act Of them obtained in order 20 pTeUeRt
heir extension and connection with other
nd rival lines? Did it ever occur to you
nat charters are sometimes sought and
btained to pre0ent the construction Of
Dads, and thus maintain monopoly?
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