The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-10-20
Interesting Facts for The People.


fact Of all the Southern States. is direct
immigration Not few Struggling of
casts from northern cities, but the gener-
al and voluntary influx of the farmer,
artizan ard mechanic Population alone
adds value to lands and property Of every
kind, and Is therefore, one Of the primer
pal sou ces and causes of wealth for
without a population of the proper kind
no Development Of resources can b had.
Railroads, By opening up for settlement
the uueultiyated lands through which
they pass, and by furnishing cheap and
speedy transportation to markets where
the farmer, miner, mechanic and manu-
factprer can DISPOSE of their Surplus
products at profitable prices, are power
ful agents in directing the tide of immi-
grafton. Agricultural products alone
cannot furnish the materials Of an active
commerce. The Ggrmer, mechanic, min
er, and manufacturer are all beneficial to
each other, for the reason that each wants
the products Of every other in exchange
for his own hence the advantage to the
farmer of increasing manufacturing, min
ing and mechanical industry as far as
practicable in his own country in order to
create a market for bis products and to
encourage domestic commerce and slim
ulute home industry This he can do in
the most efcctual manner by conribut-
ing 70 the utmost of his ability both mon
ey and some Of the uncultirated, and cons
sequentIy, improbable acres Of land he
new owns, to the construction OF rail
road.
To TO part Of the country do these re-
marks apply with greater force than along
the line of the Memphis and Knoxville
Railroad Somerville, Bolivar, Purdy,
Savannah, Waynesboro and Columbia
with the cheap transportation narrow
gauge railroad would supply, present ex-
cellent locations for door, sash and blind
factories, Touring mills, paper mills, and
tanyards; for the manufacture of cotton
and WOODEN goods, boots and shoes, har-
ness, and uumberless other industries, the
demand for which IS very great, and the
raw materials abundant and convenient.
Fhe climate is healthy and the cost Of Nv
ing cheap With the Memphis and Knox
vile Railroad completed, men possessing
means and energy cannot fail to appreci-
ate these advantages, and by settling along
the line Of the road increase the value Of
! property more than the cost of the road,
and at the same time make the stock val
/ liable by the amount of freight they would
supply. 1t is useless to expatiate further
on the influence and advantage to be de-
rived from railroads, when it is well
known they are altogether indispensable
to the progress Of the country and the in
| crease, wealth and prosperity Of towns.
a village may spring mp without the as
sistance Of a railroad, but it never viii
/ become any thing else but village, and a
languishing one at that, for its more go,
ahead neighbors and rivals, by means Of
their raj road facilities, will sap its very
vitals, and leave it a fit testimony of tie
slothful Indifference Ct It's citizens who
don't want to subscribe to a railroad"
To any one acquainted with the country
through which the Memphis and Knox~
| vile road is intended to run, and compe~
tent to Judge Of such matters, it must be
! apparent that from the start the local bus
! mess alone will more than pay the cost Of
maintaining and operating the road, while
/ the through freight cannot fail to make
/ its stock a profitable investment The
/ line from Memphis to Columbia viii
! doubtless soon become the trunk of sey-
| eral important branch roads For in
stance from Bolivar through Pinson,
/ MiHfn and Lexington to Jacksonville On
/ tbs Tennessee river, aud there connect
! ing with the Nashville and Northwestern
road. This branch would secure a great
portion Of the traffic OF Henderson, De-
catur, Carroll and Benton counties, and
make the distance from Jacksonville to
/ Memphis Is miles less than By the Pre- sent
route 4 branch road from }Yaynesboro
through Lawreaceburs and Pulaski to
/ Fayetteville, about Sc miles long, would
make direct connection with the Nashville
and chattanooga road at Dvcherd, making
the distance from Decherd to Memphis 81
miles less than it will be even when the
Memphis and Charleston road builds its
proposed branch from Huntsville to the
Winchester and a labama road
Few, if any, railroads projected or
built, in any part of the country, have a
better prospect for doing profitable bus
mess both il local and through freight
and travel than the Memphis and Knox
vile railroad Now, as to the cost Of
building it:
A reasonable estimate for the narrow
gauge viii not exceed so, 900 dollars per
mile. Suppose we say that the road viii
increase the value Of real estate s. 81
per acre for a distance of 3 miles on each
side Of the line-an exceedingly small cs-
timate-and for strip . miles wi c on
each side of the miles already estlmat-
ed, at 81 Per acre, we have
3S4G acres at % 3d.. $4,000,
and 1860 acres at ST.. $500.
SI2 60
The amount which farmer owning
100 acres would have to contribute would
be only $3.50, surprising his land was
within miles fthe railroad, which trif-
ling sum, in proportion to the advantages
1t would secure, could be raised by plant
ing three ceres Of street. potatoes, fair