Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1871-06-22
FAYETTEVILLE, TENNESSEE 1
Thursday Herring, June 22, 1871
The Cumberland an(
Ohio Railroad
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The meeting of the directors
and friends of the road, at Lcba-
non, Ky. was largely attended.
Delegates were in attendance from
lIartsville, Murfreesboro, Lewis
burg, Lebanon and McMinnvilIe.
The route seeming to have as
many friends as any other, or per-
haps more, is as follows:
Beginning at Greensburg, Ken
lucky, to which point the road is
located; thence, either by Ed
monton, Metcalf county, TO State
Line at Walkers, six miles north
of Lafayette, Macon county,
Tennessee, or from Greensburg
by Glasgow and Jimtown, Monroe
county, to Walkers, thence to La
fayette, the county seat of Macon
county, Tennessee; thence to
Huntsville, the county seat of
Trousdale county; thence TO Leb-
anon, the county seat of Wilson
county, from which place TO Nash
vile there is a road completed.
For constructing this part Of the
line .he resources have already
been developed: Meicalf coun-
ty, Kentucky, S250,0O0; two dis
tricts of Monroe and one in Bar
rem, S70,5O0; private subscription
in Kentucky, 100000; Macon
county, Tennessee, 100000; pri-
vate subscription from Walkers
to Lebanon, SlO0,000-total from
State line to Lebanon, 100000.
The route from Walkers to Leb-
anon has been surveyed. 1t is
thirty-eight miles in length, and
according TO the estimate of Z.
f. Falconet, the engineer, the
road bed, masonry and bridging,
except the bridge over the Cum
berland, will cost $4,000.
Having completed the Nash
vile connection at Lebanon, it is
proposed to extend the road in
the direction of Decatur, Alabama,
running from Lebanon to Muir
treesboro; thence to Lewisburg,
Marshall county; thence along
the Elk River valley, in the east
ern part of Giles county, Tennes-
see, to the State line at Limestone
county, Alabama-the county in
which Athens is situated ; thence
to Decatur. To construct this
part of the road, the following re-
sources may be set down as GER
tain: From Wilson county, $780,
600; Rutherford, 100000, or
100000, if necessary to carry
the road through the county /;
Marshall, $500, 900, or $500, 900,
if necessary.
Gen. d. J. Hill, President of the
McMinnville and Manchester
Railroad, advocated another route,
and pledged the various compa-
MES representing different. rail-
road projects from Opelika, Ala,
to the Kentucky State line, to
consolidate on the following line
which he advocated:
This line DIVORCES from the
Nashville branch of the Cumber-
land and Ohio at Campbellsville
or Greensburg, Kentucky, thence
to the State line beyond Burks-
vile; thence to Livington, Over
ton county, Tennessee; thence to
Sparta, White county; thence to
McMinnvilIe; thence to Dechard
on the Winchester and Alabama
Railroad thence to Rock Spring
ON the Tennessee and Alabama
State line; thence to Huntsville,
% miles, thence at right angles
across the Memphis and Chatta-
nooga road to Guntersville on the
Tennessee river; thence l55 miles
10 Opelika, Alabama, crossing
Stanion's road from Chattanooga
to Meridian, Mississippi, at right
angles, IA miles east of Gadsden,
Ala, and crossing the Rome, Blue
Mountain and Selma road at
Jacksonville.
On this line Overton county,
Tennessee, has voted S250,000;
White county, $3.50, 1000; Put
nam county will vote 100000.
From Sparta to McMinnville
$3.50, 900 has been spent on the
grade, besides $4,000 for a bridge
over Collins River, and besides
the pillars and abutments for a;
bridge on Caney Fork. From
Sparta to McMinnville two-thirds
Of the grading is done. Cars are
already being run from McNlinn-