Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-02
RAILROAD MENTION.

The following articles taken from the
last number Of the Gallatin EJdnliRer
may be read Just now in connection with
the excitement or at least discussion over
the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad?
Oar enterprising little sister county of
Allen, in Ky, has raised subscription Cf
$500, coo, for the Cumberland and Ohio
railroad, provided Scottsville is made q
point on the road. In this event the road
will be brought via Gallatin. Our people
should take the action of our neighboring
county as an example, and thus make
doubly sure our chances for getting the
road The citizens of Allen are alive to
their interests, and seem determined on
securing the road through their county.
But unless our efforts and support are
united with h ,irs, neither of us will get it.
The Cumberland and Ohio road needs
no combination except at Nashville and
Cincinnati. Its name indicates the inten-
tion Of those who constitute the stockhold-
ers and directors both in Tennessee and
Kentucky. 1t is intended to connect the
Cumberland river and the Ohio river, and
it is too plain for controversy that such a
road, pToperly managed, will completely
checkmate the Louisville and Nashville
freight monopoly.
The road is now under contract to within
about fifteen miles of the Tennessee State
line, and it is believed that but for the in
reference of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad influence, the whole road across
Kentucky would have been under contract
to-day.
A gentleman writing to the Lebanon
Herald from Nashville, in the course OF
H. rEu lak- - biz
heavy efforts to have the road tilt By
that point; and being identified in inter-
est with Allen, and perhaps Barren county
in Kentucky, she is formidable and dan
gerous rival. Nothing but the most vigor-
Gus and united action on the part of Macon,
Trousdale and Wilson will secure us this
great prize. Macon and Trousdale will vote
the tax of S400, 600, very largely. Regard
that as a fIed fact. We have a private
subscription of S4OO, 600, and State aid to
the extent of $3.50, 900. Now, what ma
teriI, solid comfott has Wilson tor us.
Wilson, it is true, has tax of $500, 900,
to pay for the Tennessee and Pacific Rail
road, but that road will never be first
class road, unless it unites with the Nash
vile and Cincinnati Railroad"
The Hartsville V5dette, of April /, has
the following in reference to the Ouuber-
land ind Ohio Rallroadi .'tWe know what
we are writing about when we say that all
this outside newspaper talk can not affect
oar road. Some effort is being made
to induce Nashville to take stock in
the Gallatin branch, but we have
nothing to do with that branch what
ever. As soon as the Tennessee Board
of Directors can meet with President
Smith and the Kentucky Board, the entire
line will be placed under contract with
abundant means to push the work forward.
The whole line in Kentucky was not let
out on the 14th Of March, because two
counties dying mex, to the State line) had
not held their election to vote their share
of subscription.
The State of Alabama has chartered a
railroad, which is intended to connect the
navigable waters of the North and South,
called Tennessee aud Warriors rivers rail-
road, beginning at Chickasaw, on the Ten
nessee river, and terminating at Tusca-
loosa, on the Warrior river the air line
distance being one hundred and twenty
miles, This road will, necessarily, cross the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad at Dick
son, upon this route, and running a south
easterly course, twenty-five miles from this
place, it will intersect a strata of rich iron
| ore, which is ten miles long and three
miles wide. At q distance of five miles
further, the road will strike the northwest
part of the coal fields of Alabama (Which,
geologists, say, is the most fertile portion,
extending seventy-fVe or eighty miles
through them.