Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-21

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they will See and Learn.
Car Packet uIass-How to Deal with them.
FIRES Trade and Sailors Bights-Ths Coming
Imperial Greatness Of Memphis.
The infinite Importance Of ch~espening
the cost Of transferring freights from the
river to the bluff and to the several rail-
WAYS, is not justly appreciated Inc
business of reshipping trelghts, designed
for interior markets, has been almost
wholly lost, and all this source OF wealth.,
| once mOnopolized by Memphis railways,
| has been ~mOnOpOlizsd by the Iron Noun
ain Mobile and Ohio and Mississippi
/ Central roads,. The Nashville and North
western road runs TO the waters edge ~
/ Hickman. and the Mobile and Ohio at
Columbus. Freights even ascend the
Mississippi instead OF coming down to
Memphis, to reach those places Wnlcn
recognize practically, as Memphis does
not. the principles and facts of free trade.
Ii NAV be said that Memphis loses
nothing. that through freights and travel
] would avail Us nothing. 1t happens,
however. that our railway lines are the
primary sufferers. They ara deprived OF
through business, and as a neces-
ssry consequence local freights must
make up the deficit. Memphis mer-
chants pay enough on each ton Of
freight that ascends the bluff from the
river to pav the cost of its railway trans
Dortation fifty miles. We thus lose the
| traffic in incoming freights, of an area
! of country fifty miles in width. Our rail
roads are deprived of through trelghJs
and must make MP the loss on local
traffic. The burden falls on merchants, who
must add losses thus sustained, and losses
in the contraction Of the area OF trade, to
the cost of their goods; and thus trade is
/ driven to rsmOter cities. Practically. 81
Louis is nearer Holly Springs than Mem
pbis. and thus St. Louis is enriched and
Memphis Impoverished by the stupid
system OF transferring freights from the
river to railways. Even now, because
the railroads run 20 the waters edge at
Vieksburg. where an elevator is build
ing to perfect the system OF rel trade,
goods are brought down from -. Louis
and shipped over railways TO points on
the Mississippi Central railroad within
6fv and sixty miles of Memphis. To
avoid Memphis. heavy freights pass from
ST. L0uis eight hundred miles south, and
then return by railroad two hundred and
fhv miles north to avoid the evils OF
weather. skiddsge and drsyage, to which
goods aud wares are subjected at our
wharf.
WISDOM OF ST. LOUIS, FOLLY OF MEMPHIS.
st. Louis has gone further in hberaliz
ing and thus in extending her system OF
trade. wharfage charges have recently
been reduced nearly one half. She boasts
of nine different packet companies, n
each line has its own whartbOat, so con-
s5-ucted that drays drive on board.
Freights are deposited within q Few feet
of the steamer. There is no possible loss
III ---HLa. n FnnfAnnF
which, in the diversion of trade, has cost
this city millions of money.
FREIGHT ELEvAToRs.
Reside these wh~arfboats, there are at st.
Louis two freight elevators used in facili-
tatiug the transfer of frsights from the
river and in unloading boats. II any one
would see how cheaply the bluff may be
dug down and paved, so that it will never
more cost tax payers q dollar, It is only
necessary to examine the simple machin-
srv by which treights are lifted, by send
less chains from the holds Of the larger
steamers at our wharf, Mechanism OF
the same sort could as easily and
chesply unload every boat that lands at
the wharf and through freight elevators
such ~ are used at 81, Louis relieve the
wharf Of drsys and mules, and employ
these in distributing burdens and freights
heaned M at some depository on Front
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be doubled in extent by doubling the
quantity and value of freights to be dis
tributed. and all that business lost by the
system of operations adopted at Hickman,
Columbus and Vicksburg, to which Mem
phis is legitimately entitled, and OF
which we have been deprived, would re-
vert TO US.
NECESSITY FOR WHARFBOATs.
Every packet company, if it need one,
! aLarTH huwn Sta WharfhOHE- NJ naInHn
is this necessity that, whether the boon
be granted or not by city's laWgivers,
wharfboats VIII be brought hither. The
Memphis and Arkansas river and st.
Louis and New Orleans packet companies
can no longer submit to evils imposed by
the preiudices and selhsbness, and ruin
Gus systems of the past. Sklddege must
skidaddle-terms as baTbarOus as the
commercial necessities and charges which
tbev define. Taxpayers will no more
groan when they read that a wharf-paying
bin is necessary to be paid. Iron track
WAYS and steam will supplant dray
wheels and mule power, and Memphis
commerce will receive an impetus such as
3, no stroke Of fortune has given it since oul
. first railroad was built. Let these steam
b0stmsu have their way. Their Interests
are identical with those Of the great mass
Of the people. Their interests can only
be promoted by promoting trsde ana
travel Destroy them and memphis u
! DESTROYED. If we would compete VIE
, a.. Louis we must extend to steamers
That sustain our commerce, the same IA
~oilitjes given by st. Louis to Arkansas
and 81. Louis and Red river lines. Steam
boat companies employ every ART ina
% busiDess tact suggests or that money may
q n-omote TO transfer to St. Louis tins
6E,asifL and traffic of rivers SOuth and
West of us. Memphis stupidity imposes
3 restrietions, deniessprivileges, gladly con
3 coded by St. Louis, and thus absolutely
p nromotss The purposes of our great rtvs
r Already too favored by fortune, and more
3 bv its own wisdom and energy
eEoeRAPHIcAL ADVANTAGES.
Wa have from Memphis a shorter
lehesper and more direct route TO Europ'
than st. Louis or New Orleans, ana yes
; because we offer no lnducenlsnSS 70 sLaue
r beoRuse we impose every possible rssJrlc
/, tion. because we still live in a by-gont
ACE there are no accruing advantage
d, 49,, fsots which nature surely designed
, ~ result in beneicenoe and in splendiC
J, fortune to Memphis Why shouiu cOGSoI
> pass by Memphis to ST. LOUIS on II,
r JVav to EuroDe from Red r1VerT is no.
t{roa n~nonev9 and Is not interest on tbs
f, vaIna of this cotton lost for each day
: Ioet IN the transfer to Llverpooll
; Ara vel because Memphis makes no Of
, fort. even by removing restrictions ant
: mean little charges OF anu MuAl31t
, age and skiddage, the great tlueo WealeL
/; Avoids us al if this city we're q p~est-house
. infested bvlittle vermin layying exactioni
4, upon the life-bloOd OF trade, ana Preylhs
upon every artery Of commerce.
COIL WRONG TO s-TEAMBoATHEN.
How strangely it is true that while the
! prass and cities and State Legislatures
! have bsnkrupted treasures snd exhaust.
ed vast public domains IN endoWlng ans
t enriching railway corporations, no single
t. beuefactfon has been rendered steamboat
I lines. They are cheaper public carriers
; than railways, they build as many cite.
/, and enrich 50 many marts OF trade Ihey
difuse inteiliQenee, and make the wood
chopper and pione8r think, even as a loco
. motive sets in active motion, from sheer
sympathy, the machinery Of tne dulles'
. intellect, Cities exempt depot grounds
: from taxation, and invest profuseiy
in railroad stocks, None Who are