Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-27
1910.

I the Hopeheld line with $3.50, 600 or
/ $3.50, 900. You avoid building thirty
miles, and lose Si00, 600. If these were
the alternative lines, surely Forrest
Z City is your starting point, with your
small means. The third line Is from
! Forrest City to this place, and thence
Z 10 JacksOnpOrt. On this, too, YOU
would lose the S100, 900 in Cross cOun-
! ty. But let US see what you would
gain. Woodruff county (this county
has already subscribed 500, 900 to the
White River Valley railroad which
comes up
FROM PINE BLUFF,
through Das Arc and Augusta to jack
son, taking just the line from here
TO Jacks0npOrt that your road would
take. and there would be no trouble
about that Sl00, 600 being used for your
road OF the other, OF both. Jackson
county has also subscribed 100000 to
the White River Valley railroad and
there can be no trouble in arrang-
/ ing that sum for this common
/ line between this and Jackson
port. So here are 100000 that
can be used between this and
I JscksOupOrt. Then, again, Jack
son has already voted 800, 900 to your
road. all Of which can be used be-
tween Jacks0nport and Augusta and
Forrest City. Here, then, Is a sum Of
$500 600, already r5tsd, that can be
used on this line via
AUGUSTA.
But this is not ALL This county viii
vote $I00 600 II the road comes by here:
and this town and Jack5OnpOrt will
each vote SO, 600. Here is a total of
500, ,000 On the Augusta line, against
$50 600 on the direct line from Forrest
City. JaCksOnpOrt being your desti-
nation, the question is whether It is
best for you to come by Augusta,
make yoUr road four or five miles
longer, and get $500, 900, or leave out
Augusta and lose $3.50, ,O0O. This
county and this town can be carried
for $100,000 and $4,000. You may
Tsly on that; and also on the help
from the s100, 600 alread voted to
THE WHITE RIVER ROAD,
for our bid would serve both cOmpa-
nies. This is the Egypt Of Memphis.
Below Devall's Bluff the Little Rock
read controls the trade. A6OUe, then,
Is the danger, and the trade in this
valley above DevalP5 Bluff is worth
five times-ysa, ten times-the trade
5e5olC it. Lam for building up, open
ing Up, this charming region.
Now, let me say word more. The
consolidation Of the lines between
MEMPHIS AND NORFOLK,
with one end under the supervision Of
Malone, and the other under WiCkz,
is the next most impurlgHt movement
for Memphis. When J1at is done,
lower tariffs and higher rates Of speed
VIII follow and thus Memphis may
look up. This done, and g line Of
ocean steamers started from Norfolk
% Liverpool or Bremen, YOU may
then hope TO compete with st. Louis
and Louisville. Now, with broken
connections between Memphis and
Norfolk, and with New York
the only real importing city
on the Atlantic, you may expect
TO find that great city using her capi-
tai and her great rival lines of rail
road as means Of building up q region
and cities west Of her whose trade she
may hope to obtain, rather than build
up cities further South whose trade
she may expect TO IOseif Norfolk be-
comes
A LARGE EXPORTING AND IMPORT
ING CITY
TOO. Fast lines and cheap lines come
from consolidated lines. People do
not ask how far it is7t0 New York, but
what Is the time to New York; and
5hey viii risk destruction on a line
ruuping forty miles an hour sooner
than on one going but twenty. Con-
s0lidste the Memphis and Norfolk
lines, reduce your rates Of travel and
freight7, and increase your speed.
Reach New York as soon by the
Charleston as by the Louisville route. I
Norfolk viii feel that influence; Mem /
ulls viii feel its and this Egypt VIII
SHd every interest promoted ia trad
inc with you. Yours truly,
J. Z. IRRELEVANT.