Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-20

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yard. -Four miles from Paint Rock we
stop to examine railroad affairs at Wood
vile. The road defects further to the
south at this point than at any other.
There Is perfect "pocket of noun
tains'' here, and two miles farther we
pass through Stevens Gap, the heaviest
rock-cutting ON the road. We flew
through this artificial canon like thun-
derbolt, and passing out of its rocky
shadow we beheld the finest effect of
accidental shadows on the mountains
we ever witnessed Your Carl Gutherz
should have been there to have caught
the spirit of the scene and transferred it
to his glowing canvas. At Boyd's
Switch, thirtv-two niles from Hunts
vile, we found the extensive lime-kiln
establishment of Grider q Denie, of
your city. This looks like enterprise.
Now we are moving up to Larkins-
vile, a pleasant village, surrounded
by lovely country, "a land
of wheat and barley, and vines of
fig trees,n of cotton, corn, but
ter, fruit, and honey, "a land wherein
thou mayst eat bread without scarce
ness; land of fountains and OF depths
that spring out of valleys and hills; a
land whose stones are iron, and out of
whose hills thou mayst dig brass" The
land of promise was not richer in ma
terial blessings than this part of the val
ley of the Tennessee. This is the region
of cedar, chestnut, walnut, and white
oak. The soil rests ON q substratum of
limestone and red clay, is rich in phos-
pilates, shells, and alluvial deposits, and
hence produces splendid crops of corn,
cotton, fruit, etc. Around this favored
region nature is as beautiful as she is feT-
tile, and mountain and valley are
smiling at their own loveliness. Ten
nison's " bugle songn comes involun-
tarily to us at this and other points along
the line Of this road. But here especial
ly we fancy We hear,
"The horns Of eIf-land family blowing"
while " the purple wales replying " bid
us, for the nOnce, forget what fine con-
dition the Memphis and Charleston
railroad is in along this modern vale of
Tempe! Let il not be forgotten that
land within one mile of this railroad
from Larkinsville to Scottsboro can be
bought at two dollars per acre-land as
good as any at present under cultivation.
And here we see at ScottsbOrO another
mountain child of health and comforta-
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warm friend here in Colonel John Snod-
grass, who commanded the twenty-fifth
Alabama regiment during our war.
This town is in High" Jackson county,
and is f1eurishing like a green bay-tree.
Much of the best butter, eggs, garden
sauce, ETC., found in the Memphis mar
ket comes from 'tHighn Jackson county. |
But we may not tarry long. Away,
now, for Bellefonte, crossing another
f. T. It. bridge over Mud creek, and |
still another magnificent structure over
Grew creek, with bridges costing forty
three thousand dollars. And now we
are rushing into the presence of the de- |
ightfully-situated town of Stevenson. |
Here we find large brick depot and
hotel, the former one of the best ap- |
pointed along the whole line; the latter, |
decidedly the best We have found in this |
valley. Let it be known that NJ. D. |
Van Horn is proprietor of this neat, |
clean and well-appointed hotel, and let |
the traveller to Stevenson take heart of |
grace when he thinks of Vsn Horn, |
and clean sheets, tender beefsteaks and |
polite attention. Stevenson and en-
virOns are full of interest, especially the |
region of Sand mountain, some ten |
miles distant, but we must wait for a |
more convenient season, when we can |
stay long enough at Van Horns to "do" |
this, the terminus of the Memphis and |
Charleston railroad.
Thus your correspondent has followed |
the line of this road for two hundred |
and seventy-twO miles, and found it, in |
every respect, in good hands, and with |
a promising future. One circumstance
alone would prove the good manage
ment of this great highway. Every |
agent ON the line of the road was asked |
by Mr.. Galloway, the purchasing-agent, |
if anything in the way of supplies was !
needed to facilitate the business of his
station, and the reply invari-
ably was: "We have everything neces-
sary; nothing is needed" Will the
New York World make a note of this? |
There are only two things necessary to |
make the Memphis and Charleston rail
road all that the travelling public could |
desire, to-wit: more and better hotels |
along the route and the attaching to |
ecery night-train Pulman's sleepers |
We are glad to learn that these missing |
links in the chain of perfect appoint |
ment, which makes this road a success,
are already being forged.