Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-01

an early day pass9nE6r ana Inel&hS cars
will be transferred on huge steamers rom
one to the other shore of the Mississippi,
and The wealth of Arkansas VII be coal
centrated at Hopefela on the opposite
shore Of the river. Over this line viii be
shipped the cattle osTeN as, a resOurce OF
bo1RdlessnweaIthe now m~spoPolzsd oy
railways e0nzerg Is 3 =. Enl-
cago. HeweEsr eauA6atae oetton nehs
OF Texas and OF the Ouachita and Red
rivers, whenee this rosd may bring an
nually 3 half q million bales, they viii not
furnish this city with resources compare
BILE TO these begOtten by the concentration
at this point OF the cattle trade OfTexas.
Today in proportion to population Ar
kansas is more productive Of annual
wealth than any American State, and
they are the greatest and Wtsest OF our
bsnefactors who
KUILD rH MEMPHIS ct Lou ROAD.
Il leaves Memphis at Hopefeld, and ex-
tends dong the river shOre and will
connect with tho st. Louis Mountain
road at Morley. Ths Company owns
q miller s-res Cf land sfong the road,
worth itsy dollars per acre when the o
u finishad. Corn and cotton fields viii
sapplant csnebrskes, ami the completion
/ of .Ebs road, 70 which Arksusaa gives q
sabvention. o 5sEee, 81 SM0e per
/ mile, wall be equivalent to SIC accession
OF another cotton state 20 the Union.
There is no uch productive valley
on the ointment % that between the Mis-
sissippi|and s.. Francis rivers, and if the
prosperity Of the city and adjacent coun-
try equal expectations now ensertaiHed,
wealth viii be drawn hitler during the
commerciai ysar that D~agin4to-1ay, 70 en
extent never anticipated. hsn There VII
be no difficulty in executing the purposes
of those citizsns who propose 20 combine
uLder q Local charter, and undertake the
immediate completion Of this road. This
only becomes necessary in case contrac-
tors, paid il land along The road, and
whose profits will De enormous, faal to ez
eeutE tisetask. If Memphis we're stripped
OF every esouree save the m6tchless yal-
ley over which One-fourth OF b supeSa-
baEdant watsrs-O OF the MississiPpfaF5 now
annually discharged, this single highway
accomplishing it purpose of redeeming
the valley az the Sc. FranCis from over
| how, would malntsin here a mighty COM
mercial emporium. Hardly less in
valuable to the city becomes 4
NARROW GAUGE KANSAS CITY RAILRoAD'
Protected from foods by the road to ST.,
Louis and penetrating for ninety miles q
country3nOw sparsely populated, it would
soon create towns and villages in the low
lands, and build cities on rivers Of Arkan-
/ sss. Mountains Of marble and sandstone
would be brought to u very DOORS and
above and beyond all this, the agrieuitu-
| raj products of Western Missouri ana the
commeree of KANSAS City will nave dis
covered a shorter and cheaper route to the
Lsea., Brazil, and Cuba n Mexico would
I be supplied with bread from the North
west, and Memphis become the depository
of food for many peoples. An extension Of
this Koad to the Gulf coast Is found in the
sELMAAND MEAPHTsKoAD,
for which a Lsx Of s5O0.G3g paysbts n
Eve years. was recently levied upon
this Gty and county. ~ IS
thus trae thai while Ksnsss city and
Westsru Missouri are building the
northern portion ofthis highway, there IS
no iust re- ron for Complaint against
MemrhB when tbs city builds the south
ern division Of this great work which
first connects Msmphis and Selma, ind,
extending to Savannah and iPsnsacola
and Mobile, pla 81 Kansas City in direct
communication with Hsvsna. 1t may
not ) enough for as TO build che south
eru half of the Ksnsss City and Selma
road, therefore the day may soon come
when Memphis must ed il thet task on
the western side OF tho river. SO
palpable however, is the pront-
ablenessi of a highway controlling the
trade Of the ST. Francis and
White rivers that private enterprise VIII
hardly suffer M%issOUTlans to cross the bor-
a 2 IA IA aNA - Ar~@ A4I1-N ~
this city before, 2slefSt, ninety miles are
finished from Memphis to B~s5esville or
J~seksonport. As q feeder to this and to
the road 20 Little Rock and Shreveport,
none now il sxistepCs viii surpsss n
value the
MEMPHIS AMI PADUCAH, Oh MISSISSIPPI
RTvER RAILWAY.
Paducah is at the point of confluence of
three great rfyers-the Tennessee, the
| Cumberland and the Ohio. b little
city Of 10000 inhabitants Will soon have
direct railway connection with IndianaD-
oils, the point of concentration Of all the
great rsilwsylinese of she Northwest. A
bridge will span the Ohio, and these rivers
and coal feids and iron mines in Kentucky
will add enormously to the wealth and
; commercial of Memphis. Over
this Psdacah road the richest States and
most populOus cities, even New YORK and
Boston, will find their shortest route to.
the Raeifc coast. The road from Mem
phis to Shreveport will be an extension of
this Padacah road, over which, in winter,
must necessarily be transferred the traf-
fc and travel between the two oceans.
Hardly lass important to this city and
to the district north of it, is the fact that
this Paducsh ROE ] viii attract Eastern
wealth DO b emnloye4 in ths manufse-
fture of eJtton. through the agency Of
this audi the Selma and Memphis n
Chsrlf y ia Ersds saa their branches, coal
and c0tr in and iron may be more eheaply
colloeat d , sfs than elsewhers in the
South. other cities may be nearer one
or the Osher Of these raw materials,
but whea his Psducah roe1 and Othersip
course of construction are finished there
is no plaeein America IN which labor and
ali that il consumes, and all that It trans
forms, Willie cheaE T than in Memphis.
This Pa1ncfh roedts b northern extern
sion of the road - New Orleans, the Mis-
sissippi, she Tennessee, andof the
~vIoKsBgRG MEMPHIS ROAD,
For the construction Ct which a company
hfs beent~orgsnizsd under charters from
Tennessee and MississfHpi. Il seems,
since only twelve miles OF this road must
be built within the confines Of Tennessee,
that the charter is ignored and the pres
emit company confines is operations to.
that partlOf the iils between Nicksburg
and helsns. The purpose of It's builders
is to create a city in Mississippi, opposite
the COMMERCIAL capital Of Arkansas. The
sans boint is designed 5oabe the terminus
OF 8 road. running diag0bsily across Mis-
sissippi ffom Mobile. Builders and own
ers of these highways Wil! hardly be con-
tent with profits on traffic trough to
Helena 1y one or two. or eYen hslf a
dozen roads from tbs Y eat or from st.
lLouis. Altne connecting with She system.
of roads converging at Memphis VIII
be demanded by every exactlon of
travel and Of cOmmerce. No dstrimeut
VIII result TO b contemplated city in
Mississippi, and landowners along the
Mississippi. north of Helena, viii de-
msnd' tbhsfproteetiOn OF their property
by the Eioksburg and Aempsis LeVee
railwsy. lEspeeialiy is this true, II 1t DO
true as stated thss the resources OF me
| Levee Cdmmissionars OF Mississippi are
to be applied to the constr uctiOn OF the
Vicksburg and Helena read, lis comPle-
ton will double, perhaps q~uadruple, the
value of the annual pTOdgCts of N 1ksia-,
sippi. aud however successful the scheme
of LANDOWNERS on the MISSISSIPPI, opp9r
site Helena, and however great the elLy
built, the nights on which Memphis
stands cannot be dug down. BQT the name
| less town opposfte Helens ~upheaved, nor
the mighty systenRaf MaRlP1hs TuHda des
stroved, The more st. Louis Gnd other
towns and cities, FiVals Memphis
prosrer, and the more rapid ther aggrfn-
| dlsement, the more sure and rapid b
growth of Memphis. Memphis must re-
main, Through all time. a distributing
rojut for the peculiar products of
more northern cities, and these cities
nexs A. artOukseiVes, are most interested
in the extension and local usefulness and
perfscLioni Of our railroad system. Tho
relations of Memphis to towns south OF US
IN the Mississippi are PI0cls5iy bhoso sus-
tanned by Memphis to Louisville, Cincin-
matt and st, Louis. Therefore the intel
Iigence and commercial ssgaeity OF Menu
mis- are yell pleased by every act of
| stafesmenor Of communities which adds
wealth and population to the Valley ofthe
Mississippi.
NARRow.GAUGB ROADS.
The utility and proftableness of mar
roW-gsuQe roads will soon b. dstsrmiled
in Alabarha, where a short line Of this
character IL Chehaw is in operation. But
such facts are furnished from
EuroDe that none question the supreme