Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-15

SINCE Stanton's road has reached
Tuscaloosa, it costs the people very
little more to transfer a cotton bale to
New York than, recently, to Mobile.
The people Of Tuscaloosa are in
ecst8cies because, for the first time,
the antique abandoned capital Of the
Commonwealth has access to the ex-
terror world. Tuscaloosa distends its
fair bosom, draws a long breath,
and huZzas for Stanton and the
heather Chinee. Meanwhile Memphis
is keenly interested in these startling
events in Alabama. StantOn's road
viii be completed during the month,
and StantOn's interests are identical
with those OF General Forrest. Stan
ton wants freight from the direction
Of Selma, and Forests road must be
extended at once to its proposed point
OF intersection with StantOn's. Selma
will thus have a direct railroad route
to New York. The question at once
arises what advantage viii Mem
phis gain by having access to
to Selma. II cotton from the rich
prairie counties OF Alabama be COM
pressed and shipped direct to New
York, what has Memphis gained?
We may not secure the whole cotton
trade Of the codntry about Selma,
Greensboro and Eutaw, but as surely
as the road is built so surely viii all
this rich country be supplied with
bacon, -four and all products Of the
North through Memphis. Heavy
freights follow water routes as far as
possible, and thus Memphis, as
the depository of the heavy pro-
ducts and plantation supplies
drawn from st. Louis and
the West, becomes necessarily
the nearest point at which Selma and
the cOtton-growing districts of Ala
bama can secure supplies to be paid
for with cotton OF the proceeds Of
cotton. StantOn's road must furnish
Tuscaloosa and wide region, hitherto
utterly inaccessible, with cheaper ba-
con and -four than has heretofore been
drawn from Mobile. Forests road
will convey bacon and -four from
Memphis, and Stanton win distribute
everywhere from Chattanooga to
Meridian and New Orleans. Until
Forests road be extended from the
Mississippi to the point Of intersection
stanton's, much Of the products
n the North consumed in Alabama
viii be brought from Louisville and
Nashville, to excite the anxiety Of
Central Alabama for a shorter and
cheaper route to the grain and bacon
fields beyond the Ohio. There is no
ever presented to the people
IF this city and county which prom
sed richer returns for wealth expend-
ID in its consummation than this road
Selma, than this connection with
3tanton's line, connecting US with the
,ountry which produces nothing be-
ides cotton. Stanton may turn much
4 the crop, in compressed bales, to
Few York, but there is no possible
gency which can prevent the
expenditure Of the larger share
the value Of this cotton
D the unrivaIled -four, bacon and
rain market Of Memphis. But along /
tanton's road there is a source Of
reater wealth for this people. The
pal Relds-their southern boundary {
nine miles above Tuscaloosa.
lac construction Of this road viii
pen countless mines, and fuel win !
cheaper IN the Gulf States I
han elsewhere in the United States. !
short branch from Forests road {
7in give Memphis direct access to /
lese inexhaustIble sources Of wealth, /
I'D while this production by STAN {