Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1872-11-21

been on a railroad it would hav
paid his debts and left his famii,
a competency.
The road charged S25 to carr
a horse and buggy from this plac
to Memphis, and only charged tie,
from Nashville to the, same place
a difference of fifteen dollars. Thi
road charged 95 cents on bacon pc
hundred pounds from here to Mem
phis and only 26 cents per hun
dred from Nashville. What mad,
1t? A want of competition. I
costs oue,third as much to ship cot
ton from Columbia to Nashville
a distance OF forty.six miles, as il
did from Nashville TO New Or
leans, a distance of over six hun,
dred miles. And it is so in re-
gard TO every other article. This
evil could never be remedied ex.
cept by competition. The fare
from here to Memphis was $l3 90
and was only SlI45 from Nash.
vile. 1t cost $3.50 bale to ship
cotton from Brownsville to Mem
phis, 70 miles, snd only costs
$3.50 or 400 to ship it from
Memphis to New York. The
people bad it in their power to
rid posterity of imposition and
ought to do it. A three foot mar
row gauge read had been begun
and l56 miles built, from St Lou
is to Cairo, and it would be com.
pleted by next January. It was
32o miles from St. Louis to Co
lumbil, and when the road was
complete it would give all the
advantages of a competing market.
Itwouldn not be necessary to INQUIRE
what the price of cotton was in
any foreign city, there would be
market for it here. The benefits
OF the road would last forever.
Columbia with the projected
roads would be the best town tor
manufacturing in the country
trains coming from the east would
be loaded with coal, from mex
haustible fields ; and those from
the west with ore from the richest
iron banks in the land. Forty
factories and one hundred toun-
dries ought to be Lcre, and cot.
ton would be seen coming here,
to be manufactured instead of be-
ing shipped of to other places
Nature had made Parnassus for a
magnificent reservoir, not for a
little town like this, bat for a great
city that would extend several
miles in every direction. The
people were losing too much time
IN talking politics instead of de-
veloping the resources of the
country and making it wealthy.
This subject was of more impor.
tanee than President making
Our people to be successful, must
make thei- plows, reapers, now
ers and various implements at
home. The very tooth picks were
made at the north. We depend
too much on other people, and
consequently never advance
The Yankees build cities with
more ease than we did houses.
The speaker then proceeded to
show how cheap coal had been
the making OF Pittsburg. Pa. In
1850 she received 36.6S9,135
bushels of coal, in 1870, l29,- |
5l2,735. An increase in the con.
sumption of coal, 92,S23, 500
During the same period her popu-
lation increased So per cent. or T3,-
1875. Columbia would in twenty
years be what Pittsburg now is,
Maury was q better county than
the one in which Pittsburg was
situated. Twenty years ago Chat
tanooga was a small village on the
Tennessee; now it has ten thou
sand inhabitants. Their rolling
millS and furnaces paid out more
for labor in one month than ell
the stores in Columbia. God had
done everything for this country
but we had buried the talent en-
trusted to US. The people of the
western countries had not been
blessed like us, and were looking
for an outlet. There were two or
three projects on foot and unless
was wide-awake these /
roads would go around it. If it
did, then farewell to it forever.
Some people had said if roads
paid that capitalists ought tocGme
from abroad and build them. But
you say that roads won'tpay as
m investment, but, merely in-
crease the value of contiguous
property. Then how can you ex.
psct capitalists to come from the
north and invest in projects that
will not pay as an investment, but
will merely increase the value of {
property in which they have no