Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-04

Memphis to Selma, and its rela-
tions to the Kansas city road. Provision,
more or less perfect, has been made by
organized capital to finish at Oncs the
whole line Of road, now only partially y per-
fected fromKansas City through Memphis
to Selma.
EASTERN RAIL SAYS.
Along the eastern shore of the MIssis-
sippi, from Memphis north, the Mississippi
RiverRsiIwsy has been graded forty miles,
and from Paducah south sixty. five miles
are finished. The short intervening link
will be perfected, It is believed, within
the year, and at the same time the road
from Paducah, through the coaI-felds, to
Louisville. The route Of this last-nsmed
road is not defined on the map. 1t is
under contract, and when in operation
will reduce the cost Of fuel in this city
to a minimum, giving Memphis access to
G0ALFIELDs
In Kentucky as rich and inexhaustible as
those in Alabama, l2O miles distant,
opened by the road from Memphis to
Selma. Nearer still are cOalfelds in
northern Alsbsma, not far, as it appears on
the map, southeast from COrinth. These
ooalfsIds will soon be made accessible by
a branch of the road from Memphis TO
Chattanooga.
OTHER RAILWAYS.
From Memphis to Louisville, Cinein-
natl and New York there is almost an
air line system Of roads, and that through
Indianapolis (see map), Vinesnnes and
Paducah will soon be perfected. But the
SHORTEST ROUTE TO EUROPE
lies just now through Norfolk, the Ameri-
can port ofthe Allan line of steamers.
There is not a deeper, broader or safer
harbor, or a better railway line in the
world than that connecting Norfolk and
Memphis. No second-class cars are used
on Southern rosds, and yet emigrants are
transferred from Liverpool, through Nor
folk, to Memphis, for forty-fvs dollars in
American paper currency, ten dollars
less than the cost of travel through New
York. By paying this sum to the Mem
phis agents, Donoho and Bulkley, the
passage to Memphis of any person in Eu-
rope holding their receipt is secured.
ST. LOUIS, ARKANSAS AND TEXAS
are more cheapIy and directly reached
from Europe through Norfolk and Mem
phis than through New York or New
Orleans. From Memphis, St. Lou
is Is accessible by magnificent
steamers and by railway lines
at less cost to an emigrant than by the
route through New York. From Liver
pool through New York to st. Louis, the
cost Of passage is now 500, instead of $40,
in American currency, to Memphis.
Moreover, during the winter months the
Southern or Norfolk route is infinitely to
be preferred, both On the score Of safety
and comfort. It is never closed by snow
orice.
OTHER hallway LINES
There has been accumulate ed by General
Forrest q capital of about three millions
Of dollars to complete the unfinished pOr-
tion Of the road from Memphis to Selma
| and Pensacola on the Gulf, and Bruins
wick on the Atlantic coast. The compile
ton Of this Selma road, now progressing
rapidly, will be effected within the next
year,
THE COUNTRY IT PENETRATES
Is the richest upland region in the South.
ern States. From Memphis to Holly
Springs, As miles, the lsnds are very fer
tile, elevated, somewhat sandy and pro-
ducing cotton and grain in great abun-
dance. South Of Holly Springs
nature spreads out a reproduction
Of the rich prairies of Illinois, save
that in the prsiries of Mississippi, POM
grsnates and tropical fruits grow, and
redundant cotton crops enrich the farmer
more rapidly than elsewhere in the South,
save in the lowlands along the Mississip-
pi river. Midway between Selma and
Memphis, twenty miles east Of the rail-
road, are the iron and cOalhelds of Ala
bama. Even now the iron used in making
tires for locomotive driving wheels, the
toughest and most durable in the world,
is drawn from these iron fields of Ala
bama, as rich IN ore as the adjacent beds
OF coal are invaluable and inexhsustible.
Whenever Memphis has access to these
coal, iron and pine fields Of Alabama an
impetus will be given to manufactures
never known before. In fact, artizans
should never forget that here machine
~ and operatives never stand still in
winter because of cold, and that three
fourths of the year hesrthstoues are fire.
less.
TIE COUNTRY SOUTH
Of Memphis along the lins of the railway,
as shown on the map, to New Orleans, is
an elevated plateau, somewhat sandy, and
very productive. The finest specimens of
cotton sold in Memphis are produced in
this most attractive farming district be-
tween Grenada and Panola, within one
hundred miles OF Memphis. Along this
road almost every farmer owns three or
four times as many acres as he can oulti-
vate. The late war left Southern farm
ers without any sort Of personal property,
and accumulated debts which force them
to subdivide and sell their farms. If la
borers would buy, the land is for sale; If
they would toll for a share of the pro-
ducts, most advantageous terms can be
made. The primary necessity Of the
country is populRtion-an industrious.
farming population. Food is abundant
and ohesp, since Memphis is the great de-
pository Of food for all this Valley, and
clothing, in this latitude, costs the least
possible. Land among the hills, such
as produce without manure,
thres-fourths of bale of cotton
OF i've hundred pounds per acre,
costs from i've to twenty dollars per
acre, the price dependant upon the rels-
tive area Of rich and poor land, and upon
the proximity Of railways and nayigable
streams.
A PARADISE.
The country sverywhare around Mem I
phis east Of the Mississippi Is high, some
what sandy, rich, producing the finest
grade of upland cotton, grapes and
other fruit, aa luxuriantiy as the Eaost
favored districts Of France and lfaly' !
There are bright and sparkling springs