Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-31
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The People of West Tennessee Taking
b High Road 10 Prosperity.

The Bolivar Bulletin gives some very
cogent reasons for the early completion OF
the narrow-gauge road proposed to con-
meet Memphis with Savannah, in Hardin
county-a portion of our State entirely
without IN outlet or the doubtful u Of
the Tennessee river Is exceptedl for ite
products. Corn, of which five hundred
Thousand bushels annually Is produced In
HARDIN COUNTY,
is now selling in Savannah for twenty
five cents 8 bushel, while the price here Is
sixty, and on the line of the Mobile and
Ohio and the Mississippi Central railroads
sven as high as eighty-hve cents. Mem
phis, in food supplies alone-all the way
from butter, eggs and poultry to bacon
would repay half the cost of building this
road in two years from its completion
There is enough solid limestone
rock, underlying the high lands
upon which Savannah is situated, to
supply building material for all the
cities, towns and railroads In the Missis-
sippi valley, which can be chesply
shipped over the narrow gauge to either
the Mobile and Ohio or the Mississippi
Central railroad or to Memphis, where II
is needed in the construction of durable
business houses and residences. When
the monster railway bridge Is built over
the Mississippi river here, and it is as Ger
tain to be built as the sur shines, the
vast uniform stratss of rock now laved
by the blue waters of the Tennessee will
enter largely into its construction, having
been freighted over the narrow-gauge
railroad.
M'NAIRY COUNT
Now ships Il. 900 bales of cotton annually
to Mobile, at an average cost Of four dol
lars per b-sle-expends $4,000 ayear to
get one product to market. With the mar
row-gsuge road to Memphis the tariff
would not exceed two dollars psr bale-e
saving Of $4,000 q year to the farmers OF
one county in one item alone. We think
a few minutes figuring will convince the
~hsrdworking farmers of "Old Snake" that
the road is to be Of great money value to
them.
HARDEAAN CoUNTY.
Hsrdemsn is now shipping annually to
Memphis 10, 900 of her IL, 600 bales Of cot
ton at a cost OF $225 per bsie. Now, If the
narrow-gsuge railroad is built this same
amount of cotton would be transported to
Memphis for one dollar per bale. This
would save to the producer 81 25 on every
one Of the 10000 bales, which saving, in
q year, or upon ose crop, would amount
to $l2,500. Now multiply this by ten,
and you will ind thai in ten years the
producers of cotton will have actually
saved SI27, 900 on the transportation OF
this one srtiele-almost enough to build
and equip the road through Hardemsn
county. And to go from Bolivar to Mem.
phis and return, on the cars, 1t now costs
s 20. Build the narrow-gsuge rosd and It
viii not cost more than $3.50 TO maxi the
same trip, and that, too, in much less time
than it now takes, without the necessity
of changing csrs or running the risk OF
misconnections.
MADISON COUNTY,
The Jackson Wing and Tribune, in sn
article calling the attention of the people
of Fsyette and Madison counties TO the
necessity of a chesply constructed yet ef-
fcient line of railroad to Memphis from
thRt town, makes some excellent points,
among which is the following: at Is very
evident to every rejecting mind that the
road by Jackson Is THE ROAD for Fsyette
county to ally herself to. We need not
enter into any argument to convince the
wide-awske and intelligent citizens OF
Fsyette county that the road to this city
is the only chance she has for msny years
for an outlet eastward. and to induce them
to Jay hold upon the Jackson and Mem
phis road. The road from Jackson to
Memphis built, and it will go on eastward
in the direction of Nashville or Knoxville,
of necessity; and besides, when it reaches
Jackson IL has a network of railroads
already built and In course of construc-
ton, which will give them an outlet in
any direction which may be desired. Do
they wish to 90 EsstS The extension Of
the Nashville and Northwestern rcsd
from Huntingdon to this place, now -
unquestionod oe~rtainty-Tdii at once give
tsc@ihzF6Utlet. Do they wish TO 20 to
Mobile, or New Orleans, or any inter
mediate point7 TIE means of doing so,
without let or hlndrsnce, is slresdy at
hand. Do they wish to strike for Louis
villa Hfnnfnnaef ~ Euanuvfl1a nv onr 90 I
the cities on the Ohio river7 An outlet is
now provided, snd still better means will
be secured by the tins we can build our
road from Memphis to this city. II they
wish to reach Cairo, st. Louis, or any Of
the western cities, the wsy CT doing go Is
provided by the Mobile and Ohio
rosd, snd its connections"