The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-02-25
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.

1 FREIGHT MONOPOLY AN EXTEG-
SION OF THE NJ. & B. RoAD-COMPE-
TING FREIGHT LINES BADLY WANT
ED-GEoRGIA RIPE FOR 1.-THE
RETURN OF II. 1. KINIBALL AND THE
SENSATION THEREON, ETC., ETC.
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 16, 1874.
DEAR GAZETTE 1T has been now
more than month since l left the
chill country of East Tennessee
for these low lands of sin and misery,
and in that time have not had the
pleasure of looking upon your most
agreeable face. But it will be so
again, for enclosed please find an
order from one of the largest cotton
houses here for your immediate and
regular appearance in this city
hereafter.
The business of Atlanta is grow
ing very rapidly. Witness: last
year the cotton receipts at this place
were about thirty thousand bales,
while this year they will not be less
than sixty thousand, and may posi-
bly, reach seventy.
Our two mutual friends and fellow
citizens, Geo. w. and Theo. F. Par
rott, are here doing a very fine bust
ness. They keep "wide awake and
duly seber;'' and after the cotton
season is over, which will be in a
month or two, they will solicit con-
signments of produce from East
Tennessee and elsewhere. Knowing
their connections here, am free to
say that they will do driving bust
ness.
Produce is commanding very good
prices here now. Cornis worth from
95 to CSC. per bushel. If the freight
on our East Tennessee produce was
not so great, or, if it were as low in
proportion as it is from the western
States, our people would feed the
people of Georgia, and make fair
living by it. But with the present
monopoly in freights, we may not
expect anything better. have been
interesting myself in a bill now be-
fore the Georgia Legislature, looking
to the extension of the Macon and
Brunswick railroad. My idea is to
get it extended to the Tennessee
line, in the most direct possible
route to Knoxville. This will carry
it from Macon up the Ocmulgee river
to Covington on the State road.
From there to the Tennessee line,
the citizens have chatter and the
right of way guaranteed, besides
large subscriptions of stock. Now,
if you will look at the map, you will
see that, by this route, Macon will
be brought about as near to Knox
vile as Atlanta now is; i. e., one
hundred miles nearer than at present
It will also give us a competing
freight line, which will more than
pay East Tennessee for their part of
the road in the first ten years. I do
wish our people could be brought to
see the practical advantages of this
road; for if they could, know they
would not be slow in having it built.
The advantages to accrue to Geor-
gia are immense, and are seen and
felt by the people. If they could
have any assurance from our people
that they would be met at the State
line, it would not be q year until the
work would be well under way, and
would be completed in the shortest
possible time.
The sensation in this place now
is the return Of HI. /. KimbaH, Esq.
He ran away from here about two
years since to keep from being mob
bed, he says; but it is still the opin-
ion of a great many that it was be-
cause his conscience convicted him
of being a swindler, and that the
time he has been away has been
spent chiefly in destroying evidence
that would have been damaging to
| his character.
hope to be up to see you in a
week or two, at the farthest, and
then will talk over matters at greater
length than can afford to write.
B.