Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-02-17
sTHR CITY.
NASHVILLE As A RAILROAD CEN.
TER.
Commercial Connections with the
World.

world.
1t has long been fact apparent to every
close observer of events that Nashville is
eventually bound to be one of the most
important manufacturing points in the
Southwest. This conclusion is fortified by
the rapidity with which our city is be-
coming great railroad center for con-
vergiDg and diverging roads. As the
spring trade Is upon Us, and the summer
season Cf travel is approaching, we have
thought proper TO advert briefly to these
connections. But few years past we had
bat one railroad, the Nashville and Chatta-
nooga, leading to and from Nashville, with
no connection to other points. We are
the center of, or terminus, so to speak, of a
great network of railroads, giving us rapid
and convenient business connection with
all parts of the United States from the At
lsntic to the Pacific, and from the lakes to
the great Gulf The ripsDed fruits of
| California, the fresh fish ard oysters of
/ Chesapeake Bay, the fabrics of New
England factories and workshops, and the
golden oranges from the sluggish banks Of
| st. Johns in Florida, are daily brought
to our market, and to our deal
| ers, by these tireless railroad lines,
which as 80 many commercial nerves thrill
and vibrate in ceaseless activity through
out all parts of the country. The sdvsn-
tages afforded by Nashville as a great rail-
road center are being fully appreciated,
and are attracting the attention of capital
lists, manufacturers, business men and
tourists everywhere. No city in the South
or in the Southwest possesses such ready
travelling and transportation facilities
The Nashville and Chattanooga road gives
a direct line of travel through the central
Southern States to the Gulf, with its many
connections East and West The NASH
vile and Decatur road, leading off more to
the Southwest runs through magnificent
country, linking North Alabama and the
Tennessee river with its connections and .
tributaries. The Nashville and Northwest
ern road connects us with the Ohio at
hickman, and with the great through route
to Mobile, New Orleans ard Memphis st
Mckenzie. By the recent arrangements
of this road and the Chattanooga road,
through transit with s.. Louis IS establish
ed bringing the great West to our doors.
The Tennessee and Pacific road, darling
across the classic stream of Stones river
to Lebanon, brings rs il neighborhood
communion with the city of Cedars. By
the Chattanooga road and its connections
Knoxville and the East Tennessee region
are brought into immediate connection
with US.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
which terminates here, and connects US
with the Ohio at Louisville, gives US IN
broken connection with the North and
East and Northwest
The Edgefeld and Kentucky Road. con-
Meeting with the Evansville, Nashville and
Henderson Road (Which is nearly com
piete) at Guthrie City, connects Us with
XIV, and the Ohio river at
This important highway
opens up to US the vast coal and mineral /
resources as well as the p.Oducts of Ken
lucky, and connects US with the Ohio river
rade at Henderson, which are no unim-
portant considerations. The completion
Of this read to the Ohio, also gives direct
and through connection with Chicago and
the great and growing Northwest.
Besides these, we have connection with
the Cincinnati Short Line Road, aud the 1
navigation of the Cumberland, which,
when the contemplated improvements are !
made, VIII be- uninterrupted ths year
around. With these connection aud ad-
as a railroad centre, and the most
exhaBstless home resources around her, il
requires no prophetic ken OF supernatural
sagacity to penetrate into the future, when
Nashville will be a great manufacturing
and commercial city, as well as a favorite
resort Tor the tourist and the sojourner.