The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-04-09
TENNESSEE CENTRAL RAILROAD.

From late number of the Nash
vile Union and American we clip the
following, which will be of interest TO
the friends of this road. We hope
the people of Davidson will endorse
the proposition, as it is very much to
their interest to have the road opened
as soon as possible.
To the worshipful County Court of
Davidson county: For the information
OF the members of your honorable
body and of the citizens of Davidson
county, of whose interests they are
the guardians, the following facts and
suggestions are respectfully submitted:
Under very favorable and liberal
charter, granted many years since,
which was renewed four years ago by
the Legislature with amendments,
giving eight years longer for the COM
pletlon of the enterprise, the above
named Tennessee Central Railroad
Company was organized according to
the provisions of the charter, and some
months since commenced the work of
construction, and have progressed with
energy, Notwithstanding the pecunia-
ry difficulties of the period. They
have now over fourteen miles of new
roadbed graded, with log drains, tres
ties, ETC., nearly complete between
Trenton and McLemoresville, in addi-
ton to the nine miles of old graded
road between Huntington and McLe-
mOresville, conveyed by the Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis Railroad
Company to the Tennessee Central
Railroad Company. They have near
ly the whole line of roadway from
Huntingdon to Trenton, SO miles
cleared of timber, and a car load Of
terracotta or stoneware tile pipe on
hand for the smaller culverts on the
portion of the road not yet graded.
The work is now progressing at vari-
Gus points along the line. With some
aid in the way of endorsement of the
corporation bonds of Trenton and Mi
Ian, it is confidently believed that the
rOadbed from Huntingdon to Brazil,
s miles west of Trenton, will be pre-
pared for the reception of the rolling
stock and equipments, which, by con
tract with the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis Company, will readily
be obtained by their endorsement of
the first mortgage bonds of the Ten
nessee Central Railroad Company.
1t is now proposed to make applica-
ton to your worshipful body to submit
a proposition to the vote of the citi-
zens of Davidson county, for trans
ferring 5000, 1000 of the stock of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company to the Tennessee Central
Railroad Company, in lieu of an equal
amount of the stock of the latter COM
pany. If this be conceded, it will
enable the latter company to carry to
speedy completion an enterprise more
fraught with beneficial results to
Nashville and Davidson county than
all similar works now in contempla-
ton. For if the Central road reach
the Mississippi river, by the aid and
of the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad Company and
the enterprising and successful Col.
Thomas Allen, of St. Louis, of which
we have assurance, it will be speedily
to a connection with the Cal
70 and Fulton and the St. Louis and
Iron Mountain railroad at White riv-
er, thus giving an outlet to all regions
beyond the Mississippi to the Pacific
Ocean.
VIII your worshipful body and the
citizens of Davidson county sieze this
opportunity, in concert with the Ten
nessee Central and the Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis railroad, Of
securing forever the growth and pros
perity of your beautiful city, by plac-
ing her on the line of the most direct,
and ultimately, the most mter-oceanic
railway route from the Pacific coast
Western, Middle and East
ern Tennessee and Virginia to Nor
folk, Washington and to all of the
seaports and cities of the Atlantic
coast? VIM. w. LEA,
Pres't Z. G.. r. Il. Co.