The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-10-01

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4ialI 79deHARLEsT6N, s.. C., sept ases 1873. q
JOHN F.. HEtsfs, Esq..o Editor GAs
z2E:rE, Morristowa'hhI, Tenn Dear Sir:
Il could not, Atrpde my Kiiee2wsr and
convictions uponayou and the ctls
zens Of East Tennessee ando invoke
your sympathy and cooperation in
an enterprise that you must admit.
carries ample recommendation upon
its very face. With this i forward
you United States Government Sur
Pvey of Foot Point, Port Royal Sound,
South Carolina. which place. as you
see by the signature, was carefully
surveyed .hy Superintendent A. ID.
Bache, of the u. S. Coast Surveys.
and Lieuts. Mafit and Faunteleroy
of the U. S. Navy, and recemmend-
ed by, them as the most suitable
place south of the Chesapeake BAY
insthe United States. for a Govern-
fmen Navy yard, besides having ev-
cry natural advantage for a. deep
water port it has probably the
healthiest record of any place in the
United States, during the past fifty
years. Here then is everything ne..
cessary in the way Of perfeetocean
terminus for railroads. ytaking a
large map of the United States. and
tracing a route direct to Chicago,
from Lake Superior,-from Chicago.
across the states of indiana and Ken
lucky to Cumberland Gap, Tennesa
see (via1 Nicholasville.s KY. from
the gap via Tazewell across the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad between Talbot and Nor
ristown, from there to Georgetown
Cooke county, along the Big Pigeon
river to the North G. ,rolina state
line, following Pigeon river until. it
strikes Transylyania county, then to-
the upper French Broad. mp the val-a
ley TO Sassafrass. Jones. or some
equally good gap into PickeHs- or
Greeneville county, South Carolina.
making junction. with the Rabun
Gap. Blue Ridge Railroad at or near
Bolton, Anderson eounty-runmng
thence 181 miles direct via Aiken.
South Carolina, to Foot Point, or, if
insisted upon, the route via Paint
Rock, from Tennessee and North
Carolina boundary line, Eup' the
French Broad valley through Madi-5
son, Buncombe and Transylvania
counties to Sassafrass Gap. and on
to the junction with the Rabun Gap}
Blue Ridge Railroad in Anderson
county. AS far as my Judgment and
Information goes, I think the Big
Pigeon route via Georgetown, Cooke
county. Tennessee Haywood and
Pennsylvania counties, the shortest
and most direct, consequently the
most desirable for a main trunk air
line. Objections heretofore used
against the praeticability of this or
that route, is not applicable, where
the three feet guage railroads are to 4
be constructedi roads of this dis
cription are being constructed across
the Andes mountains. in South
America. and while some immense
chasrus between mountains ten
thousand feet high covered with per-
petual snow, require to be bridged.
American engineers are readily |
found who construct suitable rail
road crossings So on the. score of
feasibility, the shortest route possi- |
BILE, should be the route adopted. !
without regard to temporary orlocal |
convenience. What the nation desires
is. the shortest and cheapest high |
way to and from market-and the
question with lis of the Cardinals, |
Tennessee and Kentucky, is whether !
we will play our hand now. and show |
what we can offer, asa ,frStru routeyl
and port Of export and entry? or
whether VIC wil1continue to complain I
Of the Governments hard timcs,' DER
III luck, etc, In9ropnd numbers the
distance from the Atlantic to. Lakesl
Superior is 1900 miles. $40 acres oft
land, a section is one mile square, so
that ten miles deep on each side Of
the route for seyery mile of its
length. there is 6400 acres Fofsland. orsi
1880 acres within ten miles of the
track. Will not this land now av-
erage $2 SO per acre for the entire
distance2- -If-so, we have 12800g
acres oTsIand at S25oZS52y000 peril
mileas the value Of land nov, illtll-a
tiply So, 900 BY ! 200 miles and we |
have SIS. 400, 900. But divide this
land equally by ssala first 1class rail-
road high way, with post engines