The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-01-05
An Interpreter Badly Needed.

81 AASSA pASSOA ASe-AAJ 0COUCA'
in the local columns of the Memphis
appeal of the Sd instant there is de-
sidedly muddled communication, which
we are utterly at loss to explain, and
give it verbatun ct Hteratum, and the
comments Of the appeal upon it, in an
other place in this paper As far as we
can make it out the substance Of che com
aiunication is this
Three persons, Williamson, Griggs and
Jones, who are said to be Commissioners
of the Memphis and Raleigh Air Line
Railroad Company have agreed with J.
r. Mosby, whose name is signed as Chair
man of the Board Of Commissioner Of
she proposed Jackson and Memphis Rail
Tosd, to submit tax of 100000 in Fay
,etto county, to be paid to the Memphis
and Raleigh air line and Jackson and
Memphis road, upon their consolidating
Now, the trouble we have in understand
ing this communication, which the Ap-
peal says explains itself, while it is evil
dent to al that it don't explain worth
cent, is as fellows:
/. We know of no such railroad, or
proposed railroad, by the mama of the
Memphis and Raleigh Air Line Rail.
road"
2. Raleigh is only eight miles from
Memphis, and is in Shelby county. This
being so, why should Fayette county vote
a tax to build road from Memphis to
Ealeigh3
3. Why should Shelby county road
have commissioners in Fayetts
But if We understand the communi
cation to mean the Memphis and Knox
Eille Railroad Company instead of the
memphis and Raleigh air line" still it
Is beyond our comprehension.
First, because there was noOne at that
lime authorized to consolidate the Mem
phis and Knoxville Railroad with any
railroad whatever, or make any PROPOSE
zion looking that way, and the Commits
.sioners and Stockholders agreed that
there were two distinct reasons why
consolidation with the proposed Jackson
road could not be effected. First, be-
cause there tpas nothing to consolidate
with Second, because even if they had
comparatively any stook subscribed it
would be imrolitic, aid the Commission
lers of the Memphis and Knoxville Rail-
road at Somerville were notified of this
fact SO that, surely, they cannot be said
20 be acting for this railroad. Besid,s,
che Memphis and Knoxville Railroad
has already fully organized, and the
Board Of Directors unanimously oppose
consolidation with any proposed railroad
until they have first built their olrn road.
The editorial referred to which we copy
from the appeal is like all the editorials
of that paper upon this Subjects often
.sive to our people and does them injus>
tice every way, by refusing to recognize
the magnitude Of our enterprise or the
rights of our people, and by mixing up,
IN confused, jumbled mass, the Mem
Phis and Knoxville Railroad with all the
wild cat propositions in West Tennessee.
If tho appeal suppoees that it can
Snnzzle the Memphis and Knoxville Rail
road Company, and tie the hands of the
people of Shelby, Fayette, Hardeman,
McNairy, Hardin, Wayne, Lawrence and
Maury, it is certainly time tie scales
should be falling from its eyes, for such
thing cannot be done.
We shall take occasion to ventilats the
course of the Appeal on this subject
hereafter, and show that it has ever
Atriven to treat the subject of connecting
&he counties named shove with Memphis
by an cir line railroad with the utmost
contempt.
Here are the two articles referred to
both the communication and the edi-
.torial-whieh appeared in the appeal of
che Sd instant: