Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-17
creuada. Houston and Eastern
RaiIrOad.
~ No Editor Of The Ledger.


To the Editor OF the Ledger:
0KonoNA. MISS, January IL sd
A short time since my attention was
called to an article in your paper con
corning the Grenada, Houston ana East
ern railroad. Your informant was
slightly mistaken as to his facts. No
consolidation has been effected with any
railroad from Okolonato Passport, Mlssu
because none exists between those TWO
no;nts Onr road is chartered eastward
- nc Alabama line, and as It has only
s,SsS heated to 0kolona, on the mobile
pss" Ohio railroad some friends who
90 anx;ons for its extensioni in the dlrec-
az q" nf Eastport and Nashville made up
~ H. money and paid for the survey from
0Lolona 10 Passport TO induce loca-
IN. GNo IN thatline The company | repre-
cent had nothing TO do withit, more than
70 recommend our engineer, Capt; W, ,;
Moon. of your city, as a suitable ana
competent man to make the survey,
which he did.
Again. our company has made no
!. eraement for a consolidation with the
V;cksburc and Grenada road, for no such
road has vet been chartered. II your
facts had all been correct, cannot agree
with YOU in your conclusions-that.
road from Nashville, by way Of Grenada,
to Vicksburg, would injure the BLUM
City. At present none OF the people OF
Eastern Mississippi trade in Memphis,
.except those living contiguous to the
Memphis and Charleston road. how
CAN'T iniure Memphis to open up another
avenue by which trade may reach Mem
phis that at present is forced to otner
markets. aftr.a ~,
AS far as at present located, our road
il continuation of the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad, and If the cluzens
Of Memphis agree with you IN our con-
illusions, that our road, if built to ileks-
burg, will be injurious TO their interests,
we saw to them as we said to Colonel r,
Nj White "if you will bald our road to
Okolona. we will surrender TO you our
charter privileges, and the assets OF the
comnany.n 1t is the wish of our com
pany to build a road which shall give
Increased facilities Of trade to portion
of country which now suffers from either
having only one road, or none. we
wish to benefit our part of Mississippi,
but neither to injure Memphis nor to
build up any other particular
Mace. One of the great considera-
tions that induced the present or
ganization was to enable our people
10 sell and buy in the Memphis market,
and Il your city will extend the one
hundred miles of road, already built to
Grenada, sixty-fve miles further to oko-
Iona. we will not only wish success to the
enterprise, but will aid to the amount OF
half million of dollars. This shows
there is no desire on our part to lnJure
the Bluff City. :.
The citizens of Memphis were kind
enough to say, last summer, that II
would return about the lst of November
they would give some material aid to our
road. Since my visit to Memphis, ques-
tions have been raised. and are now
pending in the. courts of Mississippi
which. If decided unfavorably TO the
road. might be fatal to our enterprise.
/ prefer FIRST to set my own house in
order before asking assistance OF my
neighbors. | have not forgotten then
promise, and they may hear from me a.
some future day.
Very respectfully,
W. +. TUCKER,
President q II and Il. X. X.