Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-07-19
Distances by the Henderson sta
ten and Paris Road.

When that road is built, Lexington will
be, by railroad, within 100 miles Of Nash
vile, within 80 miles Of Paris, go miles of
Louisville, 463 miles of New Orleans. 1t
will be only five miles farther from LeXing-
ton to Mobile, than 1t IS from jackson TO
Mobile. Lexington will be on the shortest
line from Mobile and New Orleans'tO Nash
Vile, Louisville and Paducah. 1t win be
much nearer Nashville and Louisville than
either Bolivar or jackson. There IS no
reason why cotton cannot be carried either
| to Mobile, New Orleans, Louisville or New
York, as cheap from Lexington as from any
/ part of West Tennessee. These are facts
that eaEIlat aa ~ : ', ~ ii..sS
| we will thus get the benefits Of competi-
ton. Lexington can then buy all the cot
| ton raised IN the central part Of our county,
| and will become hOurishing town. Who
| does not wish it!
The above we clip from the Lexington
Reporter of the 10th. 1t is ingenious and
| calculated TO deceive the unwary or those
who never look beyond assertions. Men Of
| experience or reading, however, know that
nearness to market does not always cheaper
railway freights, but that competitions al
lodyS does. Lexington, with the Hender-
son Staten railroad may be nearer Mobile,
Louisville and Nashville as TO miles, than
Jackson, but Jackson, with her competing
lines is and must remain nearer all the
great markets in freight charges than Lex
| ington, on account of competition. This
fact the author of the above knows full
well and which he has absurdly attempted
to hide by figures that in railway matters
mean little, and by assertions that thinking
men will actually laugh at. Competition
to the great markets Of the country selves
the railway question, as between jackson
and her rivals. So far as Henderson county
and Lexington is concerned their interests
demand acoHnectiOn by..rail with a compel
ing point to the great markets. At Hen.
dersOR Station there is no competition, at
Bolivar there is none, and at Paris there is
none Then in fact what has Henderson
county to gain by such connection owe,
what she already has !? VIII 1t pay Hen
deTsoR county TO invest 100000 in rail
way both ends of which places her at the
mercy Of monopolies against which The
farmer OF the country are rising: Would
it not be better to wagon cotton TO a marke
, where there is competition between rail
ways, than to ship by railroad to poin
where reshipment 1t the mercy and pleas
ure Of bloated monopoly is absolutel,
necessary? Now think of this men o
, Henderson, before you abandon the Jack
son road for a wild goose chase among tn
, hills between Henderson Station and Pans
But a few questions to the friends of tn
Henderson Station and Paris road, whicl
| we ask in all kindness and for information
VIII the 100000 proposed secure the roa
! through the county? How will the roar
! be built through Carroll county: How
will it be built through Henry county ?
Will these counties vote tax? If not wi
a the people (can they) subscribe suflicien
to carry it through? Is there not DANCE
r that the Henderson tax, if voted, will b
exhausted before any road is secured ?
Should it be completed to Henderson SIS
y ton, seriously, in money value, what j
gained to the county? Think over thes
pertinent questions and answer them
possible. But suppose you vote or sui
70 scribe S1OO, 900 to the Jacksun and Tenne
see River road, will not the Jackson sui
scTiption insure ut once its construction
= VIII 1t not secure for Henderson count
cheap transportation to a competing ma
ket where there Is competing lines to a
the great markets: Men of Henders Of
think before you desert daylight for a bri
D and Improbable season Of mOOnsAine.