The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-12
To the Citizens of Hinds County.

ton shall be submitted to the qualified Vo-
tiers of the county. and if two-thirds shall
vote q For Subscription" then the Board OF
supervisors shall subscribe the amount so
voted; and when the subscription is TO be
paid, shall issue the bonds of the county,
: at par, for the amount of the subscription
that these bonds shall draw such rate OF
interest and run such length of time as shall
: De agreed upon; that when any taxpayer
OF the county shall pay taxes to meet the
interest or principal of these bonds, he
2 shall receive a special receipt, which, when
presented IL the Com pany, shall entitle him
10 stock in the Company, on which he shall
: vote at the elections OF the Company and
shall receive dividends in common with
other stockholders In other words, that
FOR all taxes paid on account Of the sub
scFlption TO the railroad, the Taxpayer shall
have stock in the road and voice in its
management.
Under this provision of the charter APP
pllcat1on has been made to your county
TO subscribe the sum of two hundred thous-
and dollars. 1t will be voted on at the next
election. If granted by two-thirds vote, a
contract will be made with the county that
TWO hundred thousand dollars of the coun-
~ bonds, at eight per cent. interest, shall
be delivered to the Company, when, and
only when, the road shall be completed to
jackson. These bonds will run such
length of time as will be deemed best
but viii probably be twenty year bonds, thus
really putting of the time of payment for the
road twenty years after it is built, and until
sucu Time is, on account OF the increase of
wealth and population arising from having
| the road through your county, YOU can paw
the debt without feeling the burden at all
BY the express terms of the proposition no
bonds are TO be delivered to the Company
until the road is built to jackson, and
the Company is required TO build the
| same within thirty months or the con-
| tract fails and no bonds will be issued. In
short, it Is proposed that il the Company
will build you first-class railroad within
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lcountv's bonds or notes at twenty years,
for the moderate sum of two hundred
j thousand dollars. If the road is not built
in that time you give nothing, and the
| road costs the county nothing. 1t is to
you, as a prominent citizen of the State
remarked in speech on the subject,
like buying a hat, and after you had
got the hat, giving your note for it,"
No road, no pay-thus securing the county
against possible loss by the possible failure !
lof the Company; terms certainly fair and
as favorable as any one could ask who |
desires the road, and who does not ear
/ Destly desire this great road through your
county, and that as quickly possible 4
The road viii run from Mobile to Helena, |
| With a branch from point in Coahoma /
| county to Memphis, and western division |
from suitable point on main line, up Deer |
Creek to the Mississippi river, opposite Ma /
pOleon, Arkansas. Besides extending north |
ward to the fine city of Memphis, the road |
will connect direct at Helena, Arkansas,
With road to St. Louis, the great produce |
market of the West, and cars loaded with
york, bacon, flour, corn, oats, hay, mules,
horses, etc, will be run direct, without un-
Heading, to stations in your county. In
return, lumber and Southern fruits and
vegetables will be sent, without breaking
bulk, to st. Louis and on to all the great
cities of the Northwest, affording an unlim-
tied cash market at good prices for all your
people will have to sell. The value of these
articles, when ready, accessible market is
found, will enrich every farmer in your
county. The whole Northwest is devoid of
timber; Mississippi has a mine of wealth
in timber and lumb Der alone, when this vast
market of the Northwest is opened to her
by this road. Sweet potatoes, which grow
so prOfusely here as to have no value fn-the
interior, command from two to ten dollars
a bushel in the North, to which market by
this road they can be readily sent. To the
South the road opens you to the great cot
ton port and market, Mobile, and by rail
connection to New Orleans. Your cotton,
which now must be hauled many miles by
wagon, over bad roads, and then shipped ut
exorbitant rates OF freight, will by this road
be taken almost from your very gin houses.
at cheap rates, to either OF the great COM
peting markets, Mobile or New Orleans.
You will thus secure the best market and
the lowest rate of freight. The advantages
in these items alone Will each year more
than doubly pay all the taxes you will have
to pay for the road, and you still get stock
in the road for your tax also. Again, the
saving on the cost of your supplies of mer-
chandise, western produce, mules, horses,
etc, when the great markets are so directly
opened to you, and when the freights so
reduced, as they will be by the competition
of this road, will largely exceed the tax you
must pay. Thus you, in two or three ways,
will get back more than you contribute TO
the road, without mentioning the great con-
venience of a great through railroad, with
its facilities for travel, mails, etc. Neither
is any mention made of the great increase
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known to follow the building of railroads,
that 1 will make no argument on it here.
The total valuation of your county will be
doubled the first year the road is opened.
WIZ the people of Kinds county hare The
RdilroddP
They can if they will turn out and vote
the aid asked of them. 1t is but a trifling
part of the entire cost of the Road, but
fraction of the cost through your county.
Built and equipped, the road will cost fully
$2S, 900 per mile. You can compute how
small a share is asked of you, and that not
in money of which you have no considera-
bic amount to build Railroad, but merely
in your promise to pay twenty years from
now. A great Railroad il offered you for a !
small part of its cost on long time. viii
any man refuse the boon? The project is ,
now so far developed that | can safely ,
pledge you that the Road will be immedi- J
ately built if the counties along the line ,
vote the proposed subscriptions. The ..
money is arranged for, from Foreign Capt. |
taIists, conditioned on this county aid from :
the different Counties being given. That :
Foreign money will be spent in your
county largely, will make money plenty
with you, will give an impetus to all bust
nesses and values. Who will refuse the
pittance to secure all this Foreign Capital c
to be distributed in the country, and the
building of this great Road? NoTE-that Z
the Company does not ask dollar unless
they actually build the Road. They ask
no money to make surveys with, nothing
until their work is done. The surveys
have been going on by four large parties 9
of Engineers at VARIOUS points for several /
and now are approaching compile '
ton, and contracts for the whole work c
will be let as soon as the elections are G
held, provided that the aid asked is grant Q
ed so that the contract for the Foreign loan "
can be completed.
The opportunity is now offered you to
get a Railroad on the cheapest and most
favorable terms. /, confident of your ia I
yorable response, because of the vast adj !
vantage to you, ask every man in the county I
to put his shoulder to the Railroad wheel 4
and secure the great project at once, by |
going to the polls on election day and
Voting for Subscription to the Railroad. i
Let no man who wants to enjoy the adj :
yantages of modern civilization, one of the :
greatest of which is the Railroad, fail to {
vote to subscribe to the MOBILE AND :
at the next election. See
that your ballot has on it, "FoR SUBscRIP-
TON"
Respectfully,
w ID. MANN,
For Mobile and n. w. Railroad Co.