Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-01
Deaths in henderson County.

d. T. Powers and Z. A. MOsier.
Monroe Alexander and Nancy
Maness.
Deaths in Henderson County.
The Lexington Reporter publishes
the following list of deaths in Hen
derson county. As we have large
number of subscribers there, we
copy them:
At Decaturvllle on the 23d, DR..
Henry Fryar.
Near Mifiin, on the goth, Mr.. j. ].
Crook.
Four miles Northwest of Lexing-
ton, on Tuesday evening last, Mrs.
Eliza Kiser, wife of w. A. hiser.
Five miles east of Lexington, on
the 18th inst, Mr.. Allen Azbell, of
pneumonia.
Mr.. Azbell was one of the earliest
settlers of the county, having been
a resident over so years.
On the 18th inst, at his residence
near Lone Elm, DR.. Brewer, of
pneumonia.
HessrS. Editors,
In your paper of the 18th inst,
find the following in letter from
the Hon. Milton Brown, in relation
to the 'fElyton, Corinth, and Ten
nessee River Railroad"
The provision in the charter that
the Company shall not charge ever
three cents per mile for passengers,
and not over five cents per ton per
mile on freight, will, until changed
prevent the Investment of capital in
the enterprise. No road through
such a country as this must pass can
be run at these rates. The provis-
ion that the commissioners of each
county, through which the road
may run, may order the road fenced
at the expense of the company, is
also very embarrassing provision,
putting it in the power of local pas
sions and prejudices to greatly en-
barrass andinjure the road.
Upon this letter you say:
We differ from Judge Brown,
however, in one particular-that is
where he says mo road can run and
carry passengers for three cents per
mile" We think there is mistake
in the minds of almost all railroad
men-especially in the South-on
this subject. We have always be-
lieyed, and have so argued with rail-
road men for the last fifteen years,
that if passenger fare was reduced
to two and half, or at most three
cents per mile, that the receipts
from that source would begin at
once to increase, and that this in
crease would be perceptible to the
dullest intellect. We still think so.
We have full faith that the south
ern people, like all others, would
travel far more than they do, if the
tariff for passengers were rednced
one half.
Please italicise the words ''no
road through such a country" in
Judge Browns letter, and compare
them with your quotation from it,
and you will discover the error
made in your editorial.
The present prosperity of Jack
son is largely duo TO the railroads
in operation, and its future will be
greatly influenced by the construc-
ton of the contemplated roads
especially those which will con-
meet your city with coal aud iron.
Jackson has great advantages for
the location Of manufactures, and
your city should aid, to The ertent
Of her ability, every enterprise
which will contribute to induce for
eign, as we'll as home capital, to in
vest in them.
In your efforts, however, 10 do
this, do not fall into the popular er-
ror that railroads are corporations
to the interest Of the
people, and that the lower the char
ges for transportation, the greater
will BE the net'revenue.
This latter theory, when applied
to the larger portion of the South
err States, is about as sensible, as
to suppose that railroads built with
foreign capital, on the island of Ju-
an De Fer nandez, would have made
larger earnings by reducing its
rates for the transportation of Rob- !
inson Crusoe and his man Friday,
and their articles of production
and consumption. If old Robin
son had been an American, he
would not have been satisfied at p
cents per mile for himself and Fri |
day, or the charge Of cents per
ton Imile on freight, but would |
probably have issued his ROYAL man F,
date for dead head passes.
There is, however, an underlying /
principle of the nett earnings of a /
railroad, based upon cost of con-
struction and operating expenses,
and the population and production, /
which is fixed and determined by
natural laws; which are being de-
and better understood as
railroads are increased, and as these
characteristics and accounts are
kept so as 10 make reliable compar-
sons.
The Railroads "t England and
Europe cost from $1,000 TO $3.50, 600 /
per mile, aud they are constructed
where the population is from $50 TO
10 $50 per mile. In the North