The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-10-01
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line Of three feet. gpage road, affords
an opportunity for ali communities a
little remote from the route. con
structfng their own neigbborhood
roads, Of q three feet guagges,,,. The
average cost of which need not ex-
coed 81 900 to 1o,0oo per hiie, IaH
these branch roads become sources
Of business Of the trunk. and all
being put on the. same. footing as
per established rates. transportation
is practicable at rates now unknown
by tie broad guage lines, Its my
earnest desire to see organized at
the Warm Springs meeting on the
Soth Sept, an association. to be
known as the ''1meri1cctn Fieo1a3ers
Iaer,iottoact Tfua$p6rtatt36 Comp1-
ng." International. because to Sc
cure the most complete system OF
transportation required for the mark
citing Of American farmers produce.
co-operation must be had with for
eign ship owners. and navigating
companies. who will have it in their
power to run their vessels in con-
Junction with the roads beIongingI to
the American Farmers Transports
ton Company. This secures TO them
a regular freight at fair. rates, and
avoids the combinations that arise
in the Northern cities, tie 'fuetua.
tim in rates being regulated only by
the producers necessity TO export
the winter freight rates. in New
York by steam ships, and in fact by
all kinds of vessels was pence
sterling to 8 pence per bushel Of 56
pounds, the early summer and pres
ent rates were advanced to IS and
IA pence nearly double. It is a
regular see saw game between the
Northern trunk lines Of railways ana
the steam ship lines. In winter the
roads extort from the producer, be-
eanse the lakes and rivers are Gro-
zen UP, in the summer when these
thaw, and the railroads have to re-
luce rates, up goes the ocean rates.
SO Giles, the farmer. has to bleed all
the year. From Chicago to New
York the present railroad freight
rates on grain is soc per hundred
pounds. or SO per ton, IS per ton
to Foot Point from Chicago would
be 4 good rate by a narrow glago
road. Sept. 18TH Chicago Times
quotes Lake freights were unchang-
ed, and the schooner Perew was
chartered for wheat to Buffalo at
r5c railroad freights-all Of the
cars that could be obtained were
brought into rcqnisition on yester-
day, the demand for railroad trans
portation being unabated. The
tariff was unchanged, and remained
firm, as folIows-(grain in bulN:'.
ii Bostq2, Es .t}5 55c pc per 1cO poanH44a.sa5 T
sa Philadelphia, 45c :. aHa 'L@
e Harrisburg, rH 45e -2" "ra sa 51i
Baltimore, 45c s'tal ga.s-a.-
Buffalo soc :. &c.,-&c." E
But from the time the ears are en-
gagged for freight until the freight is
delivered in Europe, it has to submit
to all sorts of eXtortionate charges.
until the cost Qftransportation sums
up an amount nearly one and q half
times as much as the graft cost in
Chicago. With the cheapness with
which the road could he run from
Lake Superior to Foot Point as well
as the economy practicable in-thc
handling, storage and shipping Of
freight, at least forty per cent can he
saved between the Lakes. and En-
gland in the freight now charged up
grain, &C. This is not
theoretical cyphering.s 1t needs but
the long trunk lines to be construct
ed straight to Foot Point, where such
steamship lines as the West India
and Pacific Steamship Company (No,
III Leaden. Hall street. London aud
the Royal Mail Steam Packet Com
pany, mo. So Morgate street, Lon
don,1 can run their steamers en- route
to the West Indies. Central and South
Amerlea. sfao1 els g aaaat0 4
s Nowsis the time. to move in this
There are gentlemen in
Tennessee alive to the necessity Of
transportation, in addition
10 what they now enjoys and. if theyI
Judge bnle .presunlptpous in nrging
nbern to come forward and organize
his work, on d anational basis and for
she national good, my excuse can
1ply be that for some years l have
Deenzworking out "a solution of the
American 8 transportation gproblem )
md that the only solution | have
been able to find, or hear Of. is the
one I now ask, YOU to press upon the
of our fellow-eitizens.
O. @. Vanderhoof, Civil En-
tineer. Of Knoxville. and, i believe,
Mr.i r., II. Mckee, of Greepeville,i u
tennessee. take an interest ia this
,roposition.9 but, Mr. Editor. they
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