The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-02
Middleton, Bolivar and Denmark.

Middleton, Bolivar and Denmark.
The communication published in our
last issue signed "Old Subscriber" has
attracted considerable attention, and our
citizens generally favor the building of a
three foot gauge railroad from Middleton,
through Bolivar to Denmark.
The people of Middleton and vicinity.
We are informed, are anxious that the
roal buildins from Ripley, Mississipol, to
that place should b. extended to b ,livar.
and for the very good reason that if the
road stops at Middleton, the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad will charge
them any freights they please to Mem,
phis; whereas, if the road be extended to
Bolivar ana there connect with the
Memphis and Knoxville Railroad, Mid
dleton would have two lines to market,
and the competition would reduce
Ereights to the lowest living rates.
We are also informed that the people
of Denmark and vicinity are DESTROYS
that the Denmark, Bro@nsville and Dur-
hamville narrow gauge should be extend.
ed t. Bolivar, and there to connect with
the Memphis and Knoxville Railroad to
Memphis, and the Middleton and Missis-
sipi Railroad, and with the Mississippi
Central Railroad, which will open New
Orleans to them as a market and this,
we are persuaded, is no mean benefit to
that people, for when the Memphis and
Knoxville road carries cotton from Boli>
var to Memphis-as it certainly will-at
one dollar per bale, the Mississippi Cen
trail will come down in its prices for
everything. and thus farmer near Den
mark viii have the advantage of two
markets, Memphis or New Orleans, and
get his cotton shipped to market and his
supplies returned at through rates Be
sides there are some things in thu buying
of which New Orleans MIST, from it's
location, be always a better market than
Memphis, as sugar, molasses, tropical
fruits, etc. and low grades of cotton.
The Country lying between Bolivar and
Denmark, whether you go north or south
of Hatchie river, is densely populated.
and the farmers are generally men Of
capital and intelligence. On the north
of Hatchie there Is the Clover Creek
country, which is unsurpassed for fertil>
ity. The people are rich IN everything
that viii build up aud sustain a railroad
On the south of Hatchie the line would
run through the splen1id second bottom
lands making out from Hatchie, with as
wealthy, intelligent and Industrious far
mers as any in our county, and ty de.
fecting a little from an air line would
open mp the enterprising country around
WhitevilIe and Centerville.
We are not informed as to where the
friends of the enterprise propose to run
the line, but we are sure that read from
Middleton through Bolivar TO Denmark
thus connecting two independent rail-
roads, each of thraa foot gauge, would
pay, for it would only reGui thirty
miles of road to connect them, and every
mile Of it would be through a good
country, inhabited by an enterprising
people. We are pleased that the ball
has been put in motion, and We now as
sure the people along this proposed line
that we would be gratifed to have the
whole question discussed In our columns
IL Is rumored here that the friends Of
this enterprise will meet IN Bolivar to
day to take some action looking to-
wards a charter.