The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1871-11-25


E $4,000 to the latter Enterprise.
The revived trade and business pros
perity of Hickman has the effect of re
vlving ID The minds of our people variou.
projects of public Improvements
Prosperity works encouragement ant
enterprise. Trade, rich and bountiful
is within the reach of Hickman, if she
will reach out her hands with the proper
energy. The status of the Nashville
and Northwestern Railroad is now fixed
permanently, and affords to Hickman a
permanent chance for future railway
connections. We regard a branch OF
the Iron Mountain to Hickman a fixed
certainty of the future. 1t may be
years before this connection is realized,
but the policy now proposed to be in
augurated by the Nashville and North
western, must in time effect it. The
policy of Hickman and her citizens will
contribute largely towards retarding or
| fastening this connection. In addition,
We need Southern connection, running
through Obion, Dyer, and Gibson coun
ties, finding connection with some Of
the great Southern arteries. In this
last project the whole of Fulton county
is interested, and especially that portion
lying west of the Mobile and Ohio
Road.
The enterprise of building levee
from Hickman to Tiptonville is begin
ming to assume more reasonable and
plausible shape. There will be no diff
Guilty in obtaining charter on the basis
of the old company. 1t is believed by
some, also, that substantial aid will be /
given by the State towards the reclama-
ton of these overfowed lands, and an
effort will be made to obtain such assis
lance. This levee, when built, will not
only redeem and render habitable thous-
and of acres of good, rich lands, direct
ly tributary to Hickman, but will open
out the whole Madrid Bend country and
fifty miles below to our trade, and to
which we are now inaccessible for want
of roads. To all of which country
Hickman would be the most convenient
market Besides this, the levee would
give Hickman chance for the trade
beyond the Mississippi below New Mad
rid and Point Pleasant. tits no ezag-
seration to estimate this trade at more
han million dollars, aud careful
of the field will more than
Justify the estimate. This is the key for
he prosperity Of Hickman, aud if our 7
itizens will use it, in aiding the land
wners to build the proposed leyee, the
Investment will prove rich results. The
own of Hickman should give 5000
owards the enterprise. If she viii, =
his immense field of new trade, directly y,
-ibutary to Hickman, will be opened -.
Re want a new era of enterprise in n
1gurated. A comparison of the wealth ,r
Hickman with neighboring towns, On
hough We eonfess to a powerful sight
poverty establishes the fact that the
lterprise is within reach, and the sub
.ription suggested eminently demanded.
or instance, the city of Paducah shout
ers over million dollars Indebtedness,
nd yet prospers far beyond Hickman.
q Columbus the rate of taxation Is just I
ouble that of Hickman. Union City,
it'll not half our taxable wealth, sub
tribes more than double the whole debt
f Hickman to one Railroad, and yet
ouses are rushing up like magic within
err corporate limits, and the value of 7
lie country for miles around increasing
re these examples not worthy candid
,nsideration If our neighbors can pay II
ore than double our rate Of taxes and
ourish and prosper, why may not we? ha
specially, when the taxation is directed CC
the opening of a trade through te,
untry which will be almost exclusively Gil
ibutary to Hickman. We commend :"
ese i'll shapen ideas to our business tn
en- and property owners, confident that to
they will give the enterprise a serious wi
ID liberal investigation, it will receive III
cir hearty encouragement. The char
r will be obtained this winter, and next an
ring our people will have an oppor
nifty of pronouucing upon it.
LII WOOL FRENCH MERINA, at fifty ex
4 and sixty cents per yard. At the IN
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