Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-07-08
An Immense Railroad Meeting.

The article below was crowded out OF
yesterday mornings edition of The CHRoN'
ICLE. -.i 80 -
On the 3rd of july a large and enthusi-
astic railroad meeting was held at SEWER
vile, to consider the practicability of con-
structing narrow guage railroad from
Knoxville to Ii miles east of Sevierville
The meeting. was called to order by D.
P. Gass, and, on his motion, j. H. Jones
of Knoxville, was unanimously elected
President of the meeting, and on motion
off. w .Parmatier, of Knoxville j. III. Cald-
well, Samuel Handles and John Bird, OF
Sewer county, were elected Vice Presi-
dents. .'..''. '"H .'.. '.-i "'
Upon motion of d. p. Gass, VIM. Fowl
er, Esq, was elected Secretary, and Alex
ander Eckel, Esq, Assistant. ..r..-.
w. c.. Murphy, E. E. McCroskey and
G. w. Pickle, Esq, were then appointed a
committee to prepare resolutions express
sive of the feelings of the meeting, after
which J. II. Caldwell, Esq, introduced
Mr. David Richards, of Knoxville, who
came forward and addressed the meeting
at some length, upon the subject of narrow
guage railroads. Mr.. J. II. Jones was
then called for, who made few practical
remarks. Other gentlemen were called
for, but politely excused themselves. w.
G. Murphy being called for, responded in
mastery effort. rg, g,sr.r b. .,n..s
The Committee on Resolutions then re-
ported the following, which was unani-
monsly adopted: -. -l.,...5.-.
We, the undersigned Committee, APP
pointed to prepare resolutions expressive
of the feelings of this meeting regarding
the objects for which it has convened, beg
leave to report the following, and recon-
mend it for the adoption of this meeting
Tl,of 10, fInoc g H.,
people of Sewer county, expressed by this
meeting, that the people of this county, in
order to give life to trade and increase their
material prosperity, need cheaper and
more expeditions mode of getting their
surplus products to market, and as the
present system of narrow guage railroads
recommends itself as best suited to meet
this want, it is y O. ulE ROD
ResOlUed, That it is the feelings of this
meeting that a narrow guage railroad
should be at once constructed from Knox
vile to IL miles east of Sevierville, and
that immediate steps should be taken by
the Commissioners looking to the raising
of the required amount of stock; and
Be it further resolved, That we recon-
mend that the County Court of Sewer, at
this term, take and subscribe the sum of
one hundred thousand dollars of the stock
necessary to build this railroad, and that
the bonds be issued in such manner and
caused to bear such rate of interest as
will authorize money-lenders in paying
one hundred cents on the dollar fort them ;
and fGtHSQaN COZ ~. ~~N''sa'|
Be it further resolued, That we invite the
cooperation and assistance of the corpo-
rate authorities of the city of Knoxville
and the invidual assistance of her citizens,
as well as that of the citizens of Knox and
Blount counties, to aid us in the compile
ton of this enterprise.
e. e. MCCRoSKEY, !
w. G. MURPHY, Committee.
rDNI g. w. PICKLE, J .'o
On motion, it was ordered that the pro-
ceedings of this meeting be sent to the
KNOXVILLE. CHRONICLE, and it requested
to publish the same. ff2fE 81 20
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
VIM. FOWLER, Secretary.