Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-01-03
The Cincinnati Railroad.

In the controversy now being carried on
in Cincinnati over the long projected
Southern railroad, the Commercial thinks
the city had better pay some reasonable
bonus, say one million dollars, to some re-
sponsible company that will build the
road, and enter into written nstipulationsnot
to discriminate against Cincinnati freights.
The Gazette has met this suggestion with
the answer that no organization or indi-
vidual stood ready to build the road on
any such terms. The Commercial makes
the following reply, evidently by authori-
ty:
The parties who have recently bought
the KnoXvilleand Kentucky railroad, COM
pleted from Knoxville to the State line,
liorty-two miles control the stock of the
seaboard aud interior lines running south
from Richmond, Virginia, and have se-
cured by leases other lines, giving them
the control of two thousand miles of rail-
road in the South. One of the points
covered by them is Knoxville, and they
propose now to extend the Knoxville and
kentucky railroad to connection with
the Kentucky Central railroad, thereby
connecting their own with the Western
system of roads at Cincinnati.
While they have q large private interest
to subserve in securing such a connection,
an interest that is real amt substantial,
represented by. money and valuable prop
erty they feel that very important adj
vantage will result to Cincinnati by the
accomplishment of such a connection, and
that they may, with reason, ask co-Opera-
ton and moderate financial aid from our
city to that end. They present it as a
project whereby Cincinnati may 'cheaply
secure highway to East Tennessee, the
Carolinas and Georgia, and incidentally,
! an approach to Chattanooga, much better
than the one we now have, in the use of
all of which Cincinnati would have Just
consideration. In fact it would become
part and parcel of the great system of roads
| controlled by this party which is in coop
Grafton with the Pennsylvania Railroad
| Company. There are bit ninety miles oJ
this road TO Chattanooga no1O to build Oi
! course, it is not the most direct route. The
| following are the figures:
. Miles
Cincinnati to Knoxville, via Paris, Rich
mond, and London.................,... E4
Knoxville to Chattanooga ...................,,1l II.
| Cincinnati to Chattanooga, via Knoxville. 3Sl
| Cincinnati to Chattanooga via Louisville
| and Nashville ..a.............. AZ
Cincinnati to Chattanooga, by proposed Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad ad,,......,".,...... 33-
1t will be noted that while this road tC
Chattanooga is fifty two miles longer thar
the shortest proposed line under the Fer
guson bill, it is fifty-seven miles shorte
than the route to Chattanooga by way o
Louisville and Nashville. And we may
add IN favor of this route, that if Cncin
natl should go into it, she could undoubt
edly secure such consideration that hel
products would be hastened in a most graf
flying degree on the way to Southern
markets and those rich mineral lands anC
glorious timber regions of which we have
heard so much would be opened for us a
thoroughly as by any of the routes con
templated by the Trustees of the city un
der the Ferguson plan.