The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-10-20
Memr his and Jackson Railroad


All along the line of this projected
road, we learn that there exists a most
earnest and liberal feeling. The lead
ing papers Mt Memphis we have every rea-
son to believe, will throw their great in
fluence in favor Of the jackson route.
Memphis needs this as much, if not more
than any that she is now endeavoring to
build, and when the question is fairly
presented she will contribute 0s literally
to build it. Ifayette county too is vitality
interested in the Jackson connection.
That rich county is now in a measure is
olated, but Il small strip OF it being upon
great national highway. She don't want
any more branch roads, as the one to Boil
var would necessarily be, but she wants
great trunk line that will ran through her
center, connecting direct with the Pacific
through Memphis, and the great norths
ern trunk lines through jackson and
Nashville. If Fayette is caught by the
Bolivar bate, she will but repeat the folly
of years ago, vixen she refused to extend
her little branch road to jackson. Why?
Because the road CARRIE to Bolivar would
stop there for twenty five or thity years.
The country beyond Bolivar is the poor
est in the State, and the most rugged. The
people have but little money, and they are
already convenient to railroads and rivers
Each of the counties through which the
road would have to run Is crossed by a
road, or has the river, and the people poor
IS they are cannot nor will not incur a
debt. or contribute sufficient to build one
four OF the road These are facts, and
practical men cannot nor will not ques.
ton their force. But come to Jackson and
how is it2 First you connect at jackson,
over different lines with the entire rails
road system of the North and East. Secs
ond you reach jackson through the rich
est and most densely populated portion OF
West Tennessee, and you pass from Jack
son East through counties full of agricul-
tura! and mineral wealth, and which are
not now touched by railroad, to MASKS
Vile ard via Columbia to Knoxville
through the center, and the richest por~
ton of the State The counties of Hender-
sou, Decatur, Perry, Hickman and Lewis,
through which the road would pass to
Nashville and Columbia, are not touched
bv a railroad, and with one exception they
are good counties of land and possess vast
mineral wealth Go to Bolivar and there
the road stops, being at tbs mercy of a
single line North and South making no
valuable connection whatever
Come to Juckson and you have two out
lets South TIVE North now, and two or
three others in less than four years, and
besides it will surely 50 on to Tennessee
River and thence TO Nashville and Coils
umbia, making great connections and be-
coming an independent trunk line. Let
the people Of Fayette study these facts,
and not suffer themselves divided and de
feated by eide and impracticable issues.
In the Jackson Wing and Tribune Of
last Saturt lay we f, ind the above article
under the head Of deferred editorials, "
and in all candor, We do believe it would
have been far better for the dignity to
which that journal aspires had it been
deferred indefinitely, for it is not only q
tissue Of misrepresentation but is a cru,
ell and most uucalIed for attack upon q
people who have never given it's authors
an unkind thought, much less shadow
of reason for so gross an insult.
Why does the Why and Tribune jecl
and SCOT at the honest, intelligent citizens
of Harleman, McNairy, Hardin anl