Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-09
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
Trade aad TRAFFIC - Railroad Facilities
The Fesling for Colonel Sam.
Tste-Briags Wanted.
From an Occasional correspondents

From an Occasional Correspondent.
LITTLE Rock, November s, Is1.-The ques-
ton often asked lis not your beautiful city
o~utgrowlng the surrounding country" "or viii
its fate be the same as thousands Of Others,
outgrow itself and collapse as quickly, as soon
as Fort Smith, Van Buren, aud Camden have
also connected with the outer world by rail-
road?" We answer both questions In the mega
tive. This place is centrally located and Is to-
point in the State. The trade for a hundred
miles of the surrounding country centers here.
All the travel going and coming, east or west,
goes through via Memphis and Little Rock
railroad. The receipts and shipments of meF-
chandise this season have more than doubled
any previous season, and the shipments Of cot
ton TO Memphts and NewOTleans are largely in
excess Of last seasons shipments TO the same
time. Higher prices have been paid for cotton
here in pro ratio for the great staple by our
merchants than what IL was worth and selling
for at Memphis or New Orleans. They are
paying within a cent q pound for IL, OF what
the same grade or class is bringing and selling
for in Memphis and New Orleans. They have
done this all the season. How they manage 70
do II and save themselves sgatnst loss We do
not pretend to understand but 1t is done,
nevertheless. Average price for good style the
entire season thus far, sixteen and a half cents.
YOU great cotton market paying seventeen
aGd seventeen and a half cents. If our famous
Chamber Of m and merchants ex-
hans would spend as much time in the dis
cussiOn or aiding In providing a steam COM
press for the REFRESHING OF cotton as they have
IN discussing and nguting Commodore John
u. Adams and Captain James Sylvesters
Memphis and ST. Louis packet lines for the
past year, permit trade TO its own chan
mel through and BY com petition, a hundred
thousand bales of cotton would be purchased
here annually by the agents OF the eastern
manufactures and shipped direct 10 eastern
markets,tnstead of enrichlng the middleman-
the commission merchant at your city or New
Orleans-ln-the handling and sale OF the pro-
duce, employ by this short-stghted policy
others TO do what we could do ourselves, be-
sides saving and l~eSsentng very materially The
rates Of treIghts and cost II insurance.
Is Colonel sam Tate and his associates have
greatly endeared themselves to the people OF
Arkansas In providing railroad facilities, by
the completion otthe MeEphi and Little Rock
railroad, We sincerely hope that they will not
pause in the good work until they nave brldged
the river at this place., thus dispensing with
the exhorbitant- ferry charges and hack fares
we have TO pay 70 get 70 their road; AS an ex-
ample: If we desire to ride rom the hotel to
the depot, scarcely half a mile, 10 a the
train for your city, II costs one dollar, as much
as the fare for travel on an opposition line of
railroad or steamboat does from New York to
Albany, or from Philadelphia to Wilmington,
Delaware. Besides, a bridge across this
stream would increase the trade and travel
Immediately FROM the counties OF Conway,
Van buren,, White and Prairie would come
here direct, instead OF seeking accessible
points on White river. And the large auanti-
ties of produce that seek a market through
White river would be carried over the road
from here direct to your city. Bnt the high
rates Of ferr1agei with the addlt onaI cost OF
crossing two or three ferries aRd toll-bridges
across insignificant streams MeIo,
Palarm anu CadrOnscreeks-has always de-
tered the trsde and travel from these rich
sections Of country from crossing here. 1t will
always be 50 until the commissioner Of roads
and bridges, McCabe, in conjunction with
County Judge Reeves, commissioner OF Public
Works Thomas, Penttentiary-Bord Hodges,
and Long Island Lewis, are through bridging
streams fOr their own special benefit and use.
Then, If there are any funds on hand notex-
pended for the beuent OF the county clique, or
the SbatehOuSe ring something may be done IN
providing free bridges across these streams,
and the bridging OF the Cadron at Ierryis
ferry, in conjunction with Conway county.
There are other reasons why this place Is
looming up 50 largely, outside OF It's advan-
tages as a great commercial center: Its antlci-
pated and contemplated great railroad con-
n~eetiOnS, though eOmparatIyeI yet few and
but meagre. The only through line Is the one
terminating at your city; Several are, now
ever, under way, and viii be speedily com
pleted, prominent among which are the Cairo
and Fulton, Arkansas Central, Little Rock and
Fort msth Little Rock and New Orleans.
Several new organizations are talked of for
lines to the interior. Prominent among the
latter is a road from this city to Hot Springs,
through TO Sherman or Preston, Texas. A
road to either place Will tap the International
and also the Great Southwest Border and Mis-
souri, and Arkansas roads in northeast Texas,
thus securing avast amount OF trade and tray-
el IN this direction. And Hot Springs is
nearly on an airline 20 either point.
II next spring, 1t can be
completed to the springs next year
The project on foot, we believe, is 20 get all the
Contestants for the possession OF this valuable
property 70 com Dine WIN haIt dozen capital
lsts and entsrprising buslnt IS men IN the for.
nation OF a cJmpaEy TO build TINS road, and
petition the general government, through Its
legislative cIpacity, TO grant Its aid. In do
mating TO the company ali the land OF The
Hot Springs reservation, except the quarter
section upon which the hot water ana springs
are located, snd donate this tract TO the tow
OF EOt Springs, for the pubic use and Dement,
OF the wateis to the people OF the United
States. without regard to lace, color or pre-
vious condition, or any other man for all
time to come, thus ending at oncs this vexa-
tious and procraBtinRted ltts alton for the
posh ession or ownership of this Valu aole
properly. II this enterprise is carried into
eject, this railroad corporation would be n
OF the wealthy companies OF the country.
IL Is estimated that the land that WOuld be
nal value is worth half 8 million OF dollars,
sufficient to build a d rst-clsss road from this
place, with all It's equipments, to the springs