The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-20

AK. Take the staple products of the |
and see what IL lost BY ship
burg bod told him tn it cost him a IS
per bale to carry hiscotton to Nashville
On wagons 1t cost only 81 % "a ship q
bale from Columbia. -
Maury county raised ten thousand
bales ofcotton per yoar, and hence say
cd $3S0D0 dollars on the. akfpment of
hat staple. The same argument ape
plie1 To Hickman county. Pork in
Hickman county, where they had no
was worth two cents per pound
less than in the town OF jackson. This
is IS 90 lost on each hog raised. Hick-
man produced 5000 head . year and
hence lost, by not having q railroad,
$4,000 per year il her pork. The
amount that land produced did not de-
its value, but the facilities for
90 marhet- regulate 1t. sasss-s-<s'
LAND IN TEXAS
prodnced az much las Ben. Harlan's,
was not as valuable. because there was
no market for the produce 1t yielded.
Peanuts were worth twenty cents
bushel more In Humphreys than In
Hickman county, because there was
ttNfa4f = HAAAkkOAO
to get them to market on. This makes
a difference of ten dollars per aero In
favor of Humphreys county. Land
might produce three bales Of cotton to
the acre, but il it were one thousand
miles from market and had TO be carried
there on an OK Wagon, 1t would be
worthless. When the N. d d. road was
first talked about some peOple said 1t
would be no use to the county. That
there was good pike to Nashville, and
that all the mules and i've stock were
sent to maTke'. Look what
THE RAILROAD HAS DONE.
Every good business house in the
town had been erected since the railroad
was built; and everybody had a market
for everything they produced. a
IMPORTANCE OF COLUMBIA.
Columbia, at present, paid one-tenth
OF the county taxes. Jacks son. because
railroads had made it 30 much larger.
d aid one-fourth of the taxes of Madison
county; and Clarksville for the same
reason paid one-third of the taxes OF
Montgomery county. If Columbia
could be quadrupled-and it could--it
would pay one-third Of the county tax
of Maury county. If the property OF
Columbia could be madeto amount to IS
600 900, which would be the care, If roads
were built, it would pay half the county
taxes. Every body was interested in
the ri sry .,fg .--,-~.---..
,r. GROWTH OF COLUMBIA,
because itiwould reduce the county tax
and increase the value of all the land in
the county The railroads that built up
Memphis didn't cost the State one cent.
Twenty years ago, Shelby was poorer
county than Maury, and now paid ore
fifth of all the tax i'm the State. The
State had lost one and a hall million dol
lars by the Northwestern road; OF this
amount Shelby paid 100000. Some
people said land was too high nOw-that
thetax wss too burdensome. If they
wanted to p iuu.riat ..I..-. 20
To; eiAvoID PAYING TAX, 81.
they could give their property away
He wished he had a SlO0, Of tax to
paw. He knew man who was opposed
TO railroads, vino owned three. hundred
acres of fine land near certain town.
He died. His estate owed about five
thousand dollars. 1t took all his land
to pay the debt, and left his family des-
titute. If the land had been on rail
road it would have paid his debts and
left his family competency. ni g.
COMPETITION. 81
The road charged S25 to carry horse
and buggy FROM this place to Memphis,
and only charged ter from Nashville to
the. same place; adherence of fifteen dol
lars. This road charged 80 cents on bacon
per hundred pounds from here to Mems
phis, and only 26 cents per hundred from
Nashville. What made it? A want OF
competition. 1t cost opo-third as much
to ship cotton from Columbia to Nash
Vile, distance Of fOrty-six miles, as 1t
did from Nashville to New Orleans, q
distance of over six hundred miles.
And it is so in regard to every other AT,
iicle. This evil gould never be RENE,
died except by competition. The fare
from here to Memphis was $500 and
was only s11.45 from Nashville. 1t cost
$3.50 bale to ship cotton from Browns
costs $3.50 or $500 to ship it to New
York. The De pie had 1t in their power
TO rid posterity of imposition and ough!
to do it. Athree foot narrow gauge road
had been commenced and $50 miles
built, from st. Louis TO Cairo, and IL
would be completed by next January.
1t was S2S miles from st. Louis to CO.
iumbia, and when the road was COM
pleted it would give all the advantages
of a competing market. 1t would moi
be necessary to inquire what the price
of cotton was in any foreign city, there
would be a market Tor it here. The ben
efits OF the roads would last forever.
COLUMBIA. with the projected roads
would be the best town for manufacture
ing in the cOuntry,-trains coming from
he east would be loaded with coal, from
inexhaustible fields; and those frorh the
west with ore from the richest iron
banks in thu land. Forty factories and
one hundred boundaries ought TO be in
operation here, and cotton would be
seen coming here, TO be manufactured
instead of being shipped off to other
places. Nature had made Parnasus for
a magnificent reservoir, not for little
town like this, but for
A GREAT. CITY
that would extend several miles in every
direction. The people were losing too
much time in talking politics, instead OF
developing the resources of the country
and IN king it wealthy. This subject
was of more importance than President
making. Our people to be successful,
must make their piows, reapers. now
ers and various implements at home.
The very tooth-picks were made at tie,
DOEtu. we lOo VII OeASi
people, and consequently never advance.
The yankees built cities with more ease
than we did houses.
The speaker then proceeded to snow
how cheap coal had been the making
of Pittsourg, Pa. In 1860, she received
81, $50. l35 bushels OF coal; in 1879, l29,-
81, 49,. iAuincrease in the consump-
ton Of coal O, S23, $50. During the same
period her population increased 81 per
cent, or az 1876 Columbia would in
twenty wears be what Pittsburg now is.
Maury was better county than the ore
in which Pittsburg was situated.
Twenty years ago Chattanooga was a
small Village on the Tennessee now it
had ten thousand inhabitants. Their
rolling mills, and furnaces paid out
more for labor in one month than all the
stores in Columbia, God had done ev-
erything for this country, but we had
BURIED THE TALENT
entrusted tous.. The people of Che west
had not been blessed like US, and were
looking for an outlet. There were two
or three projects on foot and unless Co
lumbla was Wide-a-wake these roads
would go aroundit. If it did, then fare-
well to il forever. ~
Some people had said if roads paid
n f.xNw