Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-08-03
GAINESVILLE AND IT'S OPPOETU.
MITES.


We heard gentleman remark, the
other day, that all which Clarksville
needs to develop its maximum growth
and prosperity, is well directed energy
and laudable public spirit The re-
mark il true. 1t has q healthy and
pretty location, moral and intelli-
gent population, with churches and
high schools, to meet the. wants of
the old, the middlc-aged and the young,
in religious and intellectual improve
Inent and is sustained by surround
ing country, fertile in varied agricul-
tural productions, and Astounding in
valuable timber and eXhaustless sup
plies Of iron ore. In addition to these,
we claim a delightful climate which
invites the raising Of all kinds of live
stock and fruits, and offers a genial
home to immigrants from less favored
climes where the labor of the summer
scarccl y su0iees to provide sustcnance
for man and beast through the winter
Of some eight months.
In point of commercial facilities, it
has a noble river which gives it access
to the upper and lower Mississippi, the
upper and lower Ohio and the princi-
pal tributaries of both 1t has com
minication, by rail, with all parts Of
the North and South, beginning, it IL
true, with single trunk in either di-
rrction, but still giving access to its
branches which reach out to every
point Of the compass. These advant
ucc, aud facilities are, it seems to ua,
sufficient to stimulate our energies, call
forth the manifestation Of enlightened
public spirit and to direct our minds
and means to the fullest Improvement
Vf our opportunities 1t should be re-
mrmbercd, in the consideration of thi-
subject, that neither railroads nor nav =
igablc rivers can, unaided, build cities.
New York, with its great wealth and
teeminS population has reached it.
present greatness not by means alone
of its rivers, its bay, or its railroads
but through the well directed energies
OF its business men; and were that
populou4 city to become, even now, a
hive of droueS, in spite of its natural
and artificial advantages. the lapse Of
generation would make it mass Of
ruins
Railroads, as commercial facilities
are invaluable to an entcrprising anC
public spirited people who appreciat,
The Importance Of creating the means
and the necessity for their construc
ton by multiplying population anC
actively employing it in the production
of such articles, for export, AZ are dc
minded a, we'll by distant localities a
consumers nearer home. 1t is not 81
much what railroads bring to a town
"a. what the town creates for expor
that ensures its growth in wealth an,
population II, with the advantage
It already Possesses, tlarksville will d
nothing in the way Of minulacturin
to invite population and multiply it
resources, dozen railroads pas
sing through il would only serve t
clean il 0ut a dozen times soonc
than the process now going on .-
Machinery and skilled labor are tn
essential elements of progressive an
abiding growth and withou
these, railroads and rivers are but 10,
opportunities The products of tn
coil and the mine are but inert matter
w which wealth may be inherent. br
without the eliminating power Of Sc
cacc aud skill prompted hy enlight
cncd public spirit, they will RENAL
forever NalUcless A. sources Of con
mcrcial prosperity In the action ,
mind upon matter a. demonstrated h
the operations of machinery in N
conversion of crude iron into purc ne
al and the coarse textile into ii
finest fabrics and these again to IL
more convenient use of man, licr Il
secret Of building cities Rihoa,
do uone Of these, Of thomseINes, al
however important as commoroi
channels, they are worthless to tow
that have oothing 10 ship.
4 small Cotton mill would be wori
more 10 the city OF Clsrksvillc than d
anuull sales Of 10000 hhds, Of toba
a. 8 lnill requiring scycniy.hNc 0
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