Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-01
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Colonel John 7. Trezevant, now
/ conducting with signal ability the
| Augusta Ark Bulletin, says Of the
/ Little Rock railroad that, under the
energetic management Of Tate and
/ Greenlaw, that portion Of the road
/ between the Mississippi and St. Fran.
| els rivers may be raised high
| enough to put it beyond the reach OF
/ high water. This must be done, or it
will not be that highway" between
the East and the West which the
/ great volume Of travel will demand
and will have. If this be done, it is
| evident that the most important
branch Of that road will be the one
we advocated in 1856, from Madison
I to Augusta. Look at the map. 4
road is built across the st. Francis
/ bottom, forty miles wide. That is the
great trouble. It Is surmOUnted. AT
Madison, or some point west of that,
should begin the Memphis and Kansas
City railroad.
augusta Is nearer Madison than ana
other point or White TiUer; and the
route would run, all the way, through
one Of the most fertile sections of all
the West. 1t would open the best
lands in st. Francis and Woodruff
counties; and in the latter it would
pass through the richest of the "De
Vieu Colony" the garden Of Wood
ruff. Augusta and Woodruff are forty
miles apart; and al this place it would
strike the core Of the White river val
ley. Here, it would not only tap
White river, but White RiverNal-
ley railroad, passing from Pine Bluff
up to JaCksOnpOrt. Less than twenty
miles from Augusta north will put
Us in connection with the Cairo and
Fulton road, and thus, the Memphis
and Little Rock railroad would tap
White river Just at the point where
the trade of this whole valley will
turn to Memphis or Cairo. This con-
nectiOn that we SPEAK Of-this branch
road from Madison to Augusta,
through "the colon" the only way
TO prevent all of the cotton of this
region going to Cairo in two more
years. Within that time, the Cairo
and Fulton railroad viii be completed,
and the great eastern lines will
draw everything that way, unless
Memphis can secure this branch road.
Instead Of building eighty miles to
JacksOnpOrt, over an entirely new
route, let her aid in building forty
miles from Madison to Augusta, and
make her Memphis and Little Rock
line more valuable by throwing upon
the forty miles next to Memphis all
the trade and travel Of this rapidly
growing section. This is the true
route Ofthe Memphis and Kansas City
railroad; for Jackson and Woodruff
counties have each voted one hundred
thousand dollars TO the White River
Valley road; and that sun will grade
and tie it to JaCksOnpOrt. Jackson
port would as soon reach Memphis
via Augusta and Madison as by an
independent line. But forty miles are
to be built. This county will vote one
hundred thousand dollars when she is
asked. Augusta will vote twenty
five thousand dollars; and at least
twenty-five thousand dollars can be
raised in this Woodruff county. In
deed, the " colony" alone will raise
that sum. Six thousand per mile
will grade and tie it. Here then is
more than half the money in this
county, which produced twenty
thousand bales Of cotton last year. |
VIII our friends Greenlaw and Tate
think of this? Will our friend
Wieks do so? viii our friend Boyd
do so? Their roads are deeply inter
ested in the concentration Of cotton
snd trade at Memphis rather than at
Cairo. Above all, will our Memphis
merchants think Of this? MAY we
ask our friends Of the Memphis press
to discuss the matter?