Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-06
NEW RAILROADS I'm TENNESSEE.
ATLANTIC AND LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN


ATLANTIC AND LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
RAILROAD.
This road on the border of our STATE
will be of importance in developing iroI
and coal resources. It runs from Ringgold
Ca, distance of % miles to Cooper:
Spring, one of the sources and head water,
of Chattanooga creek, and will cost 81, 95z
per mile, making S26S, 1886 necessary to con.
struct it. In addition to the opening Of
exhaustless coal and iron deposits In Look
out and Pigeon mountains, which have
measureless mines, the road will penetrate
asection of country seven miles long and
twenty broad, known as McLemore's Cove,
one of the most fertile districts and pro-
ductive agricultural valleys in the South.
To Atlanta the road will be of great i'm
portance and much benefit, supplying her
with coal and iron sufficiently cheap for
manufacturing purposes.
| MEMPHIS AND PADUCAu RAILROAD.
| The prospect for an early completion of
tie Memphis and Paducah Railroad are IA
lorable. A part of the route between Gov
ington has been let to responsible contrac-
tors who agree to put the road through
without delay. A committee has also been
! appointed to locate the depots between
OOfAlS,bOu huu Will ICCClbC
| untold advantages as it gives a northern
ontlet competing with the Louisville road.
| The road at Paducah connects with she
i Paducah and Elizabethtown road, which
permeates the, finest coal section of Ken
tucdy.
DUCK RIVER VALLEY RAILROAD.
This road, which is to be narrow gauge
is one of the most important ever cor tenn
plated or run in this State. The road is to
start at a locality in Perry county,
near Perryvile on the Tennessee
river and run by Linden through
the counties of Hickman by Centerville,
Maury by Columbia, Bedford by Shelby
vile, and thence by Wetumpka, Coosa
county, Alabama, TO Tullahoma, Coffee
county, where it strikes the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad. The road will have
various ramifcations which will be of great
local importance. The fact of its being a
narrow gauge will enable it to be operated
so as to be selfsustaining. One of the
branches will run from Centerville to John
sonville, connecting with the Nashville and
Northwestern railroad. Another is to run
from Columbia via Lewisburg and Peters
burg to Fayetteville.
At the recent railroad meeting in COluu-
bia, Mr.. W. j. Sykes made most practical
speech concerning this railroad and the ad-
vantage of the narrow gauge. An amount
sufficient has already been raised for the
survey, which which will be commenced
at once. A strong argument is
TO be had, favoring the extension of the
road from Shelbyvile to Winchester. From
Lewisburg to Columbia there is an mex
haustible amount of excellent marble,
which extends near fifteen miles along Ell
river, embracing twenty-seven different
kinds, but no white or black, and at one
point on the proposed route, cropping out
with perpendicular front of two hundred
feet, good slate beds abounds and thick
quarries of sandstone. At q distance of |
thirteen miles from Winchester, two and a |
half degrees south of west coal is found, |
and may be in deposits of large quantities |
The sand on Elk river and tributaries at the |
upper end ofthe marble deposits is superior |
and well suited for glass and other purposes.
From ShelbyviIle the road may be extended |
eastward via Woodbury., in Cannon county, |
to Sparta, White county.
ER. S. Montgomery, Palmetto, Col. VIM
A. Allen, Martin Eulis, A. Friersoo, T. S.
Steele, of Shelbyville, have been recon-
mended as the railroad commissioners for
Bedford county.
DUCKToWN RAILROAD.
This road which is to be narrow gauge
as we learn, viii run from Cleveland, Brad
ley county, to Ducktown, Polk county. Its
local importance can not be too highly es-
timated. In order to ascertain the cost,
survey is already being made. After the
active measures will be taken
to build the road, which is destined if con-
structed to open one of the grandest min
eral sections in tennessee and prove a
great blessing to the DucktOwn Copper
Mining Company. 1t is thought this COM
pany will build the road when the coun-
ties of Bradley and Polk subscribe $15O,00O
in stock, which amount may easily be Sc
cured. We could, if necessary, show rea-
sons why the citizens of the above counties
should manifest liberal spirit in this en-
.erpri5e. We are glad to know that a gen.
eral preference is being shown for the
NARROW GAUGE RAILROADS,
IN relation to the advantages and merits
Of which we take the following extract
rom a pamphlet entitled "The Narrow
Gauge Railway System fully Considered
BY Col. E. Hubert, of Atlanta, Ga, a GEN
.leman well versed in the subject and of
most practical experience in railroad in
erests: "The narrow gauge having in the
meantime demonstrated its capacity to be
equal to, if not superior, to the broad, the
shareholders being in possession of certain
md reliable dividend paying stock, and the
public being in the actual enjoyment of low
'ates and all their concomitant advantages
esulting in rapid development and conse-
Iuent wealth, ,giU be 10th to go backward
o high broad gauge rates, and thus
heck Development. On the other
laud, the shareholders would hardly
consent to destroy the value of
heir narrow gauge stock by converting
heir road into non-paying broad gauge
inc, with capacity of at least one thous-
md per cent. greater than the business of
he section would demand. Should the
business reach an amount rendering a
ransfer of freight seriously Objectionable
n point of time or expense, connecting
ines competing for the business will BE-
Had to lay down third rail for their Oavn
"The time of transferring need not be
,ut very little, if any, greater than is now
necessarily consumed in the inspection and
epair of cars at intermediate points. which
re sent over long lines. The shipper can
yell afford slight delay If he thereby
ares largely aTa cost Of shipment.
'The tendency of our railway is to a con-
olidation. These consultations result in
iscriminations against our interior cities.
'hese determinations are seriously Grip
ling them. The remedy is that of local t
Dads, owned and controlled by them and .
leir citizens, and discriminating in their IA
or. This will bring the so-called trunk
mes to acknowledge the fact that they have
,rminis. Nothing else toiH.'