Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-12

WATER VALLEY, Miss, Jan. 6, 1871.
George Delbridge, Esq, Agent:
Dear SiT-WIuy you please to give me
by return train your answers to the fol-
lowing questions:
L. Have you had any orders or instruc-
lions from any officer of the Southern
Railroad Association 10 give any increased
facilities for shipping cotton to New Or
leans owe Memphis?
Ans. i have not.
2. Daring the present season, to which
Of the above named cities have you had
the greatest facilities for shipping cOttOn2
Ans. Memphis.
3. Have you made any discrimination
against Memphis, or have you known any
u connected with the road tOmaks auy2
Ans. 1 have not.
g. AS d general thing, are the facilities
for shipping cotton 70 New York or New
Orleans any greater han to Memphis?
G. W. DELBRIDGE, Agent.
Yours, etc, + d. FROST,
General Superintendent.
WATER VALLEY, MISS, Jan. 7, 1871.
Geo. DeIbridge, Agent:
Dear Sir-Please read the iuclosed let
ter Of W. J.. 5. d Co. and write me the
facts relative TO the cotton Of w. j. S. Il !
Co; state when you receipted the cotton,
ana when you shipped it. Return this 10
me. Yours, ETC., 4. b. FROST,
General Superintendent.
The bale marked Z. o. receipted for
December Il: j.. AZ. A. and J. +. d. re.
ceipted December Is, and shipped on 18th
December. Mr.. Showers says that part of
this cotton was sent TO depot for Messrs.
Martin q Il. ten days since. That is not
so. InclOsed ind his dray tickets, which
viii show the facts In the matter.
q. W. DELBRIDGE.
Attached to the above we find the origi-
nal brown paper dray tickets OF W. J.
Showers & Co, the instructions to snip,
and the marks Of bales written in pencil:
Ship 4 bales, 3 W HI, E o, 10 r. T.
IOEian, Of New Orleans, La.
w. J. SHOWERS & co.
December a, 1870.
Ship s bales, 2 J NJ A, d D, IF Y,
2 W P B, to r, l.. Torsn, Of New Orleans,
". j. SHOWERS q co.
December ID, 1870.
From manifest No. -, forwarded from
Oxford to New Orleans, December u.
1870, we and that five Of the bales OF cot
on referred TO were shipped by car No.
II OF New Orleans and Jackson railroad. }
,~onsiEnOr, ". J. Showers & Co.; consigned,
T.. Torian, marked one bale "E. or;
.wO bales, 81. f. d.; and two bales,
j. N. A" The following kilograms
conclude the exhibit in this case: ,
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MEMPHIS, January II, 2:25 pm. s
,. ". D6lbridge, Oxford: q
Was the cotton sent by W. J. Showers q
Z Co. from store with dray ticket Deem C
,er l4-h, or was il already on platform, or q
.ad il been there before dray ticket issued. d
Z. l. ANDERSON, SUp't.
OXFORD, January II, 2:46 pm. a
!. / Anderson, Memphis: a
Cotton sent with dray tickets. Z
DELBRIDGE. i
In presenting the above we do so in a V
piTit of justice solely. We became the
Of publication OF reflections b
pom the Central railroad in a specific i
ase, which it would seem from the above =
not tensble. But doing this, il is also X
ne TO ourselves to say that we '
elisve that this important line of u
DAD does discriminate against Mem o.
his, as il is clearly its interest
D do, and hence the great necessity for u
Iemphis having and owning a railroad ID
f her own that viii cut the Central and C
beyond Cayil or doubt the trade of IN
section from which we are cut OF, ex- bl
SPIT as the Charleston railroad may exert Ie
to secure it.. As we said in our re- OF
on the 9th inst: So long as the g
road is the only p tina reaches d'
Jolly Springs, so long will it be impOssi-
Ia for Memphis merchants to OntrOl the III
.ade of the country in the vicinity of Sc
town. It belongs TO us-is ours by Sc
ghJ of geographical position and OF sym- Dt
lthy, such as this letter expresses, and IN
g must have it, If we have to build q OF
ilroad 20 reach it. Let US have the
slms road.