Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-06
THE LONG NEEDED LINZ.
President Cole Comes Back IEem
New York with Good News.
Arrangements for Building
Branch Road from, Huntington
10 Jackson Effected

Colonel E. w. Cole, President of
the Nashville and Chattanooga Rail-
road, who went to New York some
time ago TO make negotiation for
the building of a branch railroad
from Huntingdon to Jackson, has
returned, and reports that his mis-
sion proved most satisfactorily sue
cessful. The road will be built next
summer.
This is the best news for Nashville
we have heard in half a dozen years.
1t is the most important railroad
movement, as affecting the CONNER
cial interests of this city, winch it
has been our pleasure TO chronicle
for many day. The BNHEer has
early and late urgently advocated
the building of this link. 4 T.; fer
| ence to any good map VIII be all
I that viii be necessary to convince
| the reader of its direct and imme-
diate benefits to us. At Hunting
/ don, as the Northwestern Road HOW
runs, il makes a detour in IA north
westerly direction to Hickman,
Kentucky. a passenger for Mem
/ phis or New Orleans, by the North
western Road, therefore, mast at
present leave what would he his ma
Jural course, and 90 nearly iiI an
opposite direction, due northwest TO
| Mckenzie, thence southwest tn Nj
I Ian, via the Memphis and Louis vile
/ Road. And if destined for Mobile
/ or New orleans, he must HTst go
/ northwest from Huntingdon ia Nc
/ Kenzie, and thence southwest to
/ Humboldt, bylone change Of car, and
/ thence south to jackson, by another
/ change, going near fifty miles u0s of
/ his way.
The construction of this link be-
/ tween Huntingdon and jackson,
very materially shOrtens the route
via the Northwestern TO Memphis,
and puts Nashville on the immedi-
ate highway between the Northern
cities and New Orleans and Mobile,
via the Mississippi Central, and the
Mobile and Ohio, which form junc-
tion at Jackson.
An editor of this paper some two
or three years since, complained of
Colonel Sam Tate, when lac was
President of the Memphis and Char
lesion road that his railroad inter-
ests were two closely welded to
Memphis, TO entitle him TO the CO.
| operation of Nashville. lie prcmpt-
" silenced that battery by the very
pertinent remark thatNashvi.le was
her own worst enemy. lie added
that if Nashville would build this
Huntingdon and Jackson Ink, he
would put his through sleeping
coach trains on the NOrthU stern
and turn all the passenger travel
through Nashville instead % over
the Louisville road. 1t WAS 20 his
interest as a Tennessean 10 throw
all the business possible in the way
of Tennessee roads.
Independent of these advantages
of connection, this link viii open up
at once a valuable trade TO Nash
vile, which enterprising and pro-
/ gressive Nashville merchants should
avail themselves of. We are rejoic-
ed 10 hear of the success of Mr..
Coles mission. When this Ink is
built we shall begin 10 think there
is really life in the old land vi, and
we can start forward much more
hopefully with the new year. With
this connection, the completion OF
the St. Louis Evansville and, Nash
vile Air Line the extension of the
Louisville and Nashville road to
7 Montgomery, and the Cincinnati
roads south in prospective, we may
reasonably look forward to the bet
ter times next year.-BrHHc.'.