The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-10-23
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ATLANrA, GA, Aug. 21, 1872.
COT. J.E RedsoinS, Ezsxo,. Ea0ze.
DEAR Srk-The interest wb;cL
You have at all times manifestf.d
in the euccess Of the proposed a..
nal, connecting the Mississippi and
tennessee rivers with the AtIant.
ic, and the Importance of th;s
matter to the section of conntrv
Immediately surrounding Gaines.
viiie, induces me TO, address You a
few lines npon opr, purposes and
prospects, which / hope will prove
OF interest TO you.
The great feeder of the cana,
viii pass within mile of vonr
fiourishing1 1city, and, Is ,desi1nsd
not only to supply the summit lev.
ei with water, but also to serve
the purposes Of navigation, giving
you a very cheap outlet not onl1y
to Atlanta, but to Macon, Sayan.
nah and the Atlantic Ocean. This
VIII enable your people to dispose
OF products which have no yslne
now, owing to the expense of banI.
ing them to market. Your gran.
ite, your, limestone, and your tim.
Der are now of very little value to
you, because you cannot sell them
at home, and have no means of
carrying them to where they are
needed, neither can, you procure
yonr agricultural manures. -your
building material, your salt, iron.
syrup, and a great many other
things, except at a very heavy cost.
owing to the some cause. Nature
however, has provided the way to-
remedy this evil, by means of the
rivers and streams that pass near
you. These can be made useful
Tor the purposes of navigation, civ.
ing you way to maket at an ex.
peiIse OF less than one-sixth of what
It now costs you. When this ia
provided, our wheelwrights in AT.
lanta will use your fine mountain
timber, instead OF sending to New
telloes. ''- '.S | NN
There is another matter connect.
ed with Canal transportation
which ehould not be forgotten
Every man has the right to put his
own boat upon the Canal, and to
navigate it himself, paying the Ca.
nal only small fee for the priv.
ilege OF doing SO, and the use of
JOCKS, DC. For instance, your neigh
Dor, farmer O., raises / 1000 bush.
elsof wheat. 1t now costs him. saw
ten cents a bushel, to take it to At.
lan'a. This would be S1Oo. Well.
farmer q concludes that this is too
heavy tax, and determines to
build himself canal boat, and do
his own hauling. The boat costs
bim from 5000 to $500. Bot with
this boat, and four ho rses, be can
haul" from eight to ten thousand
bushels of wheat to market at each
trip, and haul back probably all
that his neighborhood wonld need.
The advantage ofthis kind of trans.
portation will be more evident by
giving a few figures. Suppose we
take Gainesville and Atlanta
They are about 90 miles apart
At the minimum of Railroad
charges it would cost FIVE cents per
busllel to transport wheat to AT.
lanta. BY Canal it would be about
9 mills per bushel. Ten thousand
bushels of wheat would cost $50.
Now $50 would represent what
farmer y. would receive for hanl.
ing with a Canal boat and four
borses twenty four hours, the in
,terest OH the amount invested in
building the boat, and the hire of
two hands for one day. So yon
see that with freight at three mills
per ton per mile, the profit of haul.
ing would be very handsome. r
could say q great deal more npon
this bject, did time permit, be-
cause these points named are the
least important ones. a.i.tI
Our Legislature, 1 am glad to
tell you, is moving in tho matter.
Mr. Hull's resolution, relative to
further and more perfect surveys
of the connecting rivers, was dis.
cussed in committee on Saturday
and unanimously approved. Your
able and energetic representative
in Congress, Col. Price, was pres.
ent and discussed the Canal and its
prospects fully. He las been the
constant and faithful advocate of
this work from its inception and
it is ever completed, (of which
there is no reasonable doubt. y will
deserve the thanks, not only Of our
own State and people, but of the
whole South. Having had occa.
sion both last winter and the win.
ter before to witness the earnest.
ness with which he labors for the
intprest of our Stat1, on,l ,oo,: