The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-11-02
Pnlaski as a Railroad Center.

Pulaski as Railroad Center.
The Opportunity is now within /
the reach Of cur people TO make /
Pulaski a great railroad center, and
we desire to state in a very brief
and CONCISE manner how such a
result may be brought about. Our
readers already know that there
Is aroad to he called the great Ten
nessee Central already projected
from Memphis to Knoxville, via Sa-
vanah and Mc9Iinnville, which is
destined to become a part of the
main trunk railway from the Allan
tic 10 the Pacific. The building Of
the road is = certainty and the route
has been definitely located as far
as Savannah, on the Tennessee riv-
er; but the route to be taken from
that point is yet to be decided.
Great effort is being made to take
it via. Columbia, but that route
would leave out the great iron and
timber regions Of Lawrence and
Wayne counties-to say nothing
of the German colony established
in Lawrence, and the great water
power that would be tapped by
road through that region to Pulas-
XII There is not the shadow of a
doubt that this road viii be built,
neither. is there doubt in the
minds of those who are familiar
with the routes proposed but that
the one through the counties
named to Pulaski, and thence
through the great agricul-
agricultural regions of Giles and
Lincoln to McMinnville, is by far
the most feasible and could be
made the most proftableto the road.
To secure this road through our
town and county, there is only one
thing necessary to be done. Our
people have only to manifest a de-
sire for it. Other counties are
wide awake and bidding high
for it, but there is an evident ten
dency for the road to come this way
and our people may secure it ii
they wiR only try 1t is greatly to
our interest to get the road for
many weighty reasons. First, il
viii afford a shorter route from
Nashville to Memphis than any
other, as it will also from all points
cast; and being a part Of the main
trunk route the great tide Oftravel
from East to West will be thrown
through our young city.
Second: The building of this
road to Pulaski will force the pro
jected road from Cincinnati 70 De-
catur to terminate ct this point;
for where would be the sense or
necessity of going 45 miles further
to Decatur for connections which
are even le's desirable than those
to be obtained here.
Third: The building Of these
roads would also force to this point
the projected road from Aberdeen
Miss, to Decatur, Ala, or to some
point that will afford northern anC
eastern connections. Our readers
can see that those connection
would be afforded here better THAI
at any other point, and that tn
company would be forced to reacI
this point, via Florence.
Fourth-The Blue Mountain road
already completed from Taledeg4
to Jacksonville, projected to Deca
tar, for the sake of connection
would also be forced to this point
via Huntsville and Elkton. Thu
the reader can very readily see tn
importance to US Of attracting til
Memp- and Knox. road TO Pulaski
Our future prosperity depends up
, on it. If we let it pass. we loose al
the others, and become o bacl
, woods town. Property in town ant
county will go down to nothing ant
we will become emphatically mourn
ers over lost opportunities. Al
tract the road thither and we a
once make Pulaski great railroa
| center. Her population will increas
to ten; fifteen or twenty thousand i
a few years. Property in Town an
country will more than double itsel
, Immediately. Immigration {
Colorado and other Western State
and territories would cease, an
immigration set in here, and on
, people would become cOntented
! prosperous and happy. Let u
, wake up, Giles countians, to the i'm
portance of this subject.
The TRgislafnPe