Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-12
NASHVILLE AND RAILROADS.
Another Outlet Demanded.

Another Outlet Demanded.
To the Union and American:
Let others, if they must and will, con-
tinue their indignant TRADES against our
railroads and their management. By such
a course they only remind me OF the drown
ing boy who ignorantly but earnestly cried,
l l0iH drown, and nobody shall help me. l
have no quarrel with our railroads, nor with
our railroad agents. | only wish we had
more of them. Tbs interest of Nashville
demands-imperativel demanGs-that this
should not only be the terminal point of
the Greensboro and Russellville and Gin
cinnsti railroads, recently offered to us on
such liberal terms, but should be the pro-
iscting point of third independent SOUTH
ern railroad, running by College Grove,
Chapel Hill, LeWisburg, Cornersville to
Huntsville, Ala, and thence across the
Tennessee river to Guntersville, and there
meet the railroad now under construction
for Opelika via Oxford, Ala. This railroad,
almost an air line to Columbus, Ca, has
long been a child of my brain, and is to-
day a necessity known and felt by at least
every intelligent merchant of the city.
Nashville must have enlarged transporta-
ton to meet her constantly increasing
Southern business.
Four well equipped railroads and ten
regular packet Steamboats, (not to mention
minor and irregular transports) are daily
croTiing cur 3epots and packing our
wharf VIA mai chandise; while we have
only the Great Southern and Nashville aud
Chattanooga Railroads as outlets to the
South. With such means for receipts and
no more capacity for discharging, how can
we expect anything else than ever-recur-
ing and eveT-an1oying freight blocksdes9
Only two methods of eliefpresent them
selves to my mind: First, the construction
of this direct Southern Railroad, via Hunts
vile, Guntersville, to Opelika, as indicated
above This railroad is no cliB1erd, but
from Opalika all the way down to Gadsden
is live corporation, and is in running or
d r for fifty miles or mOIe. Huntsville has
already sent el4gates 10 this city 10 ask
that we unite ia behalfof their enterprise.
The line of this road will pass through and
open up some Of the best country in Ten
nessee aud Alabama, and would have am
pie territory on which 10 draw TO make its
local business meet ali local expenses. This
railroad ought to be built-can be built
must be built-will be built (and want TO
sSy) shall be built.
The second method would be to lay dou-
bic tracks on Nashville and Chattanooga
and Great Southern Railroads, which we
suppose could De accomplished at one half
the expense of constructing new railroad
of the same length. These methods have
the same object in view, but need not inter
fere with each other. Either of them would
be beneficial; but both carried out fully
would not more than NEE the present and
| prospective demands Of the city. Men may
croak, for crackers have been the curse of
every age, Safe and city, but the business
| of the city Of Nashville has increased ten
fold in the last .tfUe gears, and may, if her
| CO.'S and fathers are worthy of the destiny
| of the City of Rocks, in the next five years
increase one hundred fold. ..-
| MERCHANT.