Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-23
OVER THE MOUNTAINS.
A Railroad TO be StSies- Sumner Time
in Mountain 6lena-The Use
Of Mari In Hillside Farms.
A Marble Shaft Fer the Hounds at
Fort PlokeFlag.
Coal CREEK, EAST TENNESSEE, I
August is. 1871. i

00AAAs NAAA~A- -
August is, 1871. 1
The auction sale of the Knoxville
ann Kentucky road occurs on the 10th
al September. The States agents
nrou0se to sell its interest for eight
hundred thousand dollars. At auc-
fiou il will hardly command more
4han halt million. ItshOUld be pur-
chased either by Louisville or Cincin-
natl. Both these cities must have ac-
cess to the Gulf States and Southern
Atlantic coast through Knoxville. II
this road, only forty miles In length
falls into the hands OF ring OF specu-
IatOrs, cities OF the Ohio valley Will
ultimately be compelled 20 pay forty
or fifty thousand dollars per mile ior
the road. 1t has cost seventy i've
thousand dollars per mile, sum thai
includes peculations and privileges
that have enriched several faithful
partiEans who have patriotically plum.
dered this charming province Oi
Grants empire. The whole cost OF
the road has been something over
three millions, and OF this sum about
two millions eight hundred thousand
dollars were wrenehed from helpless
taxpayers. The bonds that were Is
sued are still held by the New YORK
ring, whose bogus sales among them.
selves are daily reported In wall
street. The obligation to pay such
debts is certainly remote, ana Wnethef
Ssx-payers of the State viii submit 70
AUGMENTED burdens, TO be imposed by
the next Legislature 70 meet naDlll-
ties inCfrred on account OF twenty
millions of bonds distributed by the
lavish hand of Rsdicalism, remains
to be seen.
INTERESTS OF MEMPHIS MEECHANTS.
Shelby county pays one-fourth Of
she States revenues, and the people
and merchants OF Memphis should in
struet their representatives on this
subiect. When lawmakers reach
Nashville they enter the atmosphere
of Nose who receive and pocket sums
&c, %ed from an impoverished peo-
NE TIE opinions Of legislators slow
iv u,dero . q change. They forget
The neonIe when they themselves be-
,.oyne nsrf az the government. Their
,sT,1,1T,st tEias sIo WY follow those Of the
(;oII6rnin0 class. and Nashville ts the
tsenteT in which is gathered the great
badv of those enrich ed by the State,
Therafore the bOu9 9dless anxiety
which a penniless county member oil
the House often illustrates when he
be0ins blatherskitlng about the sane
fitS Of stolen State bonds in the hands
.of TenorseIess speculator5 and thleYes'
GUonId If NOT be well for the Chamber
nf Commerce to investigate these
questions and give Instructions 70
.,tOn mercantile men who must repre-.
sent q great tax paying commerclal
community in the next legislature
1t is surely almost lnsuneraDie thaI
Wezt Tennessee should be forced tC
pay, as IL must, a million and q nsI
dollars as its share OF the cost OF III
tie road, forty miles long, four nun,
dred miles away, beyond a range OF
mountains almost 1mpassaDle, shu
running in a direction which makes
the road itself commercially valueIess,
save to a very narrow district OF the
State. Of1ce-holders, and the press
fh,H represents them, may wen
nrats about the InYlolablllty
~ pYbIie credit. 1t were
well II ,qfice-hOIders had thought
ofthis while plunderlng the pubic
treasury. This road, which have
traversed. is well constructed, and lbs
eGuipment is constantly improved,
The c0slfelds give it great value, and
At WonId be well If others than the
ring which proposes to buy, at ne
auction sale could BE induced TO Dld
on the 10Th Of September.
MARBLE.
Col. John Williams proposed some
time ago to permit the Masons o.
MemDh{s 10 take from his quarTies
Wi'Shin a mile of Knoxville, the mar.
he r-eouired in the construction OF the
tamnl.S on Madison street. This bed
~ stpne Is on the banks of the HOls-
tor and che stone itself is three hun
drad end seventy feet in thickness
and many miles ineXteDt. There L
enough to build another city like
NaU Work. From the summit OF
hin. one hundred and fifty feet 10
ward the valley, the marble is O
that variegated description OF Whlcf
the coIuua1s that adOrn the interior o
the Capitols at Washington and Nash
willie are made. There is no seam De
tween the variegated and WhitS mar
bIe which extends two hundred feet II
Thickness to the base Of the nil, and
ooIYmn eighty or one hundred feet II
iength. might be cut from the hillside
bsi7 nj Il variegated and half white
the diA'rent cOlOrs extending tht
whole Ian, nth Of the stone. Such a pil
IsT al mary. 9llOus beauty, would be-
ooTna one of ,'he worlds wonders, anC
should glitter in the sunbeams be
meath a Statue o. Andrew Jackson on
the s1mn1if of tNe mounds at For
Pickering. There ARE many nous.
fronts in KnoXviL 9 nlade ol HlaIpI'
from Col. Will tams' quarry
and II special rates %
transportation may be mAde VIII
railways, and the marble may De POI,
ished al the quarry, and eacn Dioei
there fitted for its place IN IN
Masonic Temple, il would be well 10
Messrs. Higbee, Baldwin q JChe
to consider the proposition OF Ooloke
Williams.
Tho farmers Of northern counties o
Sat sTennessee are addicted to tn
nae of mari and gypsum. Mar
abounds IN the vicinity Of Iuka, OF
the Memphis and Charleston road
and therefore have inquired as to II
effect UPON the red hill-sides OF las
Tennessee. Here il has raised farm
rom the lowest state OF exhaustion q
the highest condition Of productive
ness. Found on the surface, where n
cspitaI Is required, as at Iuka, u
exhume T.. he poorest avail them
saIves of t6 benefactiOns. Land
here that. und g the old system OF GU
Fivatiou. ' ere required 70 lie fallow |
alternate ye &, by the use OF mari ar
msde 10 produce heavy crops an
Tnste fheiT owners rich. The fields
ssoufhern districts of New Jersey tina
were almost barren, and almot
vorthless sandy plains, have bee
made. by mari, more valuable tina
once richer fields not far from NeN
York, Counties have been saved Dy
from deD0puIstiOn. The quantit
ased varies with the quality OF t1
mari. lit abounds In carbonate
lime and phOsphoric acid, i Is applle
In vast quantities, and never lnlufs
the crOps. IL 1t contains suiphhte
iron or OF alumina, II must be apple
sDaringly and with care. IL put upo
potstOes. this sprouts ara often kllle
by ii, and fifty tons to the acre ni
destroyed all vegetation. EXperlene
.sO0n.gives ample instruction as 70 t1
proper mode of using 1t.
TIE MOUNTAIN DEFILE.
Hers the sun rises at 8 O'Clock an
,afs At 4. Down ia this deep, naTrO'
mountain dehle we do not Sc
fhe sun till its slanting ra!
nass above the mountain tor
and are projected down into Il
deen valley, It is q delightful spot
suItry days Of summer time, innnite
more attractive than watering place
- --t,s,I, faahfou and folly gather the