The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-02-02
Duck River valley Railroad,

Major Boiling Gordon, of Hickman
County, Tenn, is taking great deal OF
interest in the Duck River Valley Rail-
road, and is doing yeoman service in it's
behalf. Il the young men, who will be
as much benefited ae Major Gordon,
will do half as much valuable work to
get the peop'e interested in the road,
it will be built JIM short time. lie re-
Gently wrote letter 10 Ben. Edwards
Gray. great Railroad man OF Column
bus, Ky. who il said to have always
succeeded in his euterprises) and re-
ceived the following reply:
FoRT's u. o., ALA, JAN. Is, -
Il. GORDON, ESQ.-Dedr Sir: 4 am in
receipt of yours of the Sth inst.,, and re-
gret your signature is SO written as TO
leave me in un42rtainty whether | read
it Alright. Your letter was forwarded
to me from Columbus, Ky. | am On
nv plantations in this county during
winter and spring, and at Columbus III
summer and tall, occasionally during
spring. ] shall be very happy to meet
with you or any of your friends at my
residence miles from Columbus, at
any time when | am there. There are
crossed over the river at Columbus Ky,
from l35 to 200 loaded Railroad cars per
DAY Oh the Inclined Plane" there
(withG.lt ''breaking bulk ", en- route
from st. Louis viz Iron Mountain
Columbus, Dresden, yonnsOaVille, &c.
to Nashville, Chattanooga, Savannah,
Charleston, &c, dc.
ST. I.ouis and Columbus, Ky, are the
great Railroad centres of the west.
The main central stem of tho Southern
Paeilic" Road will be across leEas and
Arkansas, bv Little Rock, TO COlum-
bus, Ky, and thence along the Elias
bethton Road, by Louisville and mouth
of "Big Sandy" jCattlesburgl to New
York.
We, at Columbus, saw the Importance
of great nWtk line Hallway from st,
Louis to Atlanta. Georgia, on the most
direct and the straightest route. That
Atlanta and 81. Louis, and that Nor
folk and st. LOUIS. should be connected
by the straishtest railroad line possible.
We say shat that route would be from
st. Louis, 10y Columbus, ny, and Co
lumbia. Tenn, Ii was not gntil after
we set about obtaining the charters for
said Railroad in Iennessus aud Ken
lucky, thst We heard oi y our efforts 10
build that road from Columbia Io john
sonyillc. Ii was 70 Us, "A most agreea-
ble sU.p,iae to find public sentiment in
Middle Tennessee t.ad already been
| drawn to and in favor Of t.,is great
t'HRk Inc to connect Norfolk and At
lanta with s.. Louis by more direct
route than that via Nashville.
/ eNp.ct to he at Frar kfort, Ky, i'll a
| few d IS, where TIE Kentucky Legisls-
ture Is now in session, 10 cooperate. with
large delegation, now al Frank fort,
XIV, 10 secure the charter from the Leg
isiature, for the kentucky portion of
this Columbus, Columbia. and Atlanta
railway.
We have other measures before the
Legislature. but tho obove is one of the
most proinlleli.
Ii possible, | viii, on ..,y return from
Frankfort, stop at Columbia, IenI.,
and confer with YOU and your friends
over there. Ii c1uuot Sop then, l Will
do SO in Inc sp-ing.
ALLOW me 10 suggest. # this road
between Columbus, Kentucky, and Al.
lants, hy Columbia, ought not To be oi
The sane Grade a. that from Columbus,
az St. Louis. 10 - Paul and Duluth?
also the same as that from columbus,
Nv, hy st. Louis To Omaha and San
Francisco? also the same as that east oil
Columbia to Norfolk and to Atlanta!
This our new rouis will be the great
trunk line connecting the Mississippi
River and the great west with Norfolk,
and with Charleston via Columbia.
From 1t. Louis, 10y Columbus, Ky,
| and Columbia, Tenn, to the Atlantic
ports of Norfolk and Charleston, ought
Ia be he same gauge, and the full
width of GrSt-clasS road, and cars
should run from 81. Louis TO Norfolk,
and from 81. Louis TO Charleston, with
ont breaking bulk. Cars now run from
-. Louis, by Columbus, Ky, to New
Orleans, and To Mobile, without un-
loading
hoI,e 10 hear from you more fully,
and have the pieaeure Of personal in
;erview with you and your friends soon.
am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, BEN EpNARpS NRAi,