Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-02-27

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west of Georgia, together with their
produce and trade may with judicious
railway locations, be brought many
miles nearer Cincinnati, than ON the
proposed line to Chattanooga-so many
miles nearer, or left so many miles
away, that their trade be either lost or
gained, as wisdom and foresight are
observed or neglected. However de-
sirous the people of the South might
be to trade there, a road from Cincin-
matt to Chattanooga only, viii not now
or hereafter attract them. With such
facilities as their sole dependence, if
not compelled to run over the country
In search of roads centering at Chatta-
nooga-which IN most sections they
would, In order to reach Cincinnati, in
large majority Of districts they would
at least be subjected to the expense
an expense and inconvenience amount
ing to prohibition-of shipping and
travelling over indirect and circuitous
routes to get there,-and this too at a
time when the universal outcry and
demand is for short lines and cheap
transportation. Such facilities viii af-
ford but little encouragement or in
ducement to the people already poor,
to seek new and distant marts for the
purchase of their supplies or the sale
of their products.
Well, suppose the foregoing to be
true,
WHAT BETTER CAN BE OFFERED?
Let us take for granted the location
through Kentucky to the Tennessee
State line as the best the Trustees could
make-that is for continuous line to
Chattanooga-that location striking
the State line as 1t does at point IS
to so miles east of a line drawn due
north from Chattanooga, and but 80 to
35 miles west of q similar line from
Knoxville, and at distance of but II
to 20 miles from permanently located
railway route running IN a direct
course to Knoxville, and which If adop-
ted, will make practically an airline
between the point of crossing the State
line and that place, and which from the
Importance of this connection viii be
built and IN operation years before the
Cincinnati road can be completed to
Chattanooga. Prudence, therefore, as
well as an eye to future trade, dictate
the propriety and wisdom of building
ON the line to Knoxville, instead OF
Chattanooga; and as we proceed In the
development of our system, the impor-
tance of this location Will bemore read
lily appreciated.
By the time the Cincinnati road
could be completed to Knoxville, the
gaps In South Carolina would be filed
and a continuous line opened through
that State to Charleston. Similar gaps
would also be closed in the roads into
North Carolina, making accessible and
establishing business relations with
both States, which never can be secured
by running to Chattanooga. AT Knox
vile direct connections are already
formed with both Chattanooga and the
State of Georgia, making the line COM
plete between Cincinnati, Chattanooga
and Georgia via Knoxville, and dis
lance not exceeding 80 miles or an bour
and half in tire more than the pres
ent proposed line TO Chattanooga. At
Knoxville you establish trade relations
with three States, at Chattanooga one,
and part of two others.
To carry out and perfect this pro-
gramme for the remaining States. Sc
lect favorable point in Southern Ken
lucky, or if the route is practicable at
the State line, branch from the present
located road and run by Sparta and
McMinnville to Tullahoma, there inter-
secting and forming close connections
with the Nashville and Chattanooga
railroad. This proposed line is in oper-
alton between Tullahoma and McMinn-
vile, and large amount of the grad
ing done between the last named place
projected and located with view to
ultimate connections with Cincinnati,
and has therefore the proper direction
for the position here assigned it, and
in all probability could be purchased
by the trustees In the interest of Gin
cinnati on reasonable terms. The
distance from McMinnville to the
State line is eighty-three miles,
and to the present location of the Gin
cinnati road, SO miles. Agreeably with
surveys and estimates heretofore made
by competent engineers, the first named
distance will cost something over 3d.
300, 0Oe, and the last named about 3d.
$4,000. In the absence of necessary
data upon which to base accurate esti-
mates, it is safe to say that both lines
the one from the diverging point to
Knoxville, and the other from the same
to McMinnville-can be constructed at
a less aggregate outlay than the one
continuous line to Chattanooga. But
if they should be found to cost more,
81, 100000 or S2,000,000, which they
they will not, the vast advantage offer
ed by the two lines over the one, to
Cincinnati, and to the South generally,
viii repay many fold for building the |
double line.
line to McMinnYille and Tullahoma, in
addition to that to Knoxville, another |
direct connection Is formed with the |
Nashville and Chattanooga road, with |
Chattanooga and the State of Georgia !
"a connection equally favorable with |
that formed at Knoxville with the same |
region, thus securing the trade of both |
Chattanooga and the State Of Georgia |
with double lines, each as favorable
comparatively both to Cincinnati and |
the points named as the one singleroad |
to Chattanooga. So far we have |
provided the facilities and opened to
the projectors of the Cincinnati road |
the States of North and South Carroll |
ma and Georgia for the sale and inter-
change of their manufactures. AT |
Tullahoma the entire State of Al |
ALBANIA is brought from so to IS miles
nearer Cincinnati than by Chattanooga |
or any other possible route; and to form
the southern extension of the Cincin- |
natl road from Tullahoma into Ala
bama, a company is already chartered, |
organized and providing the means to |
construct road from Montgomery, the |
capital of the State, to Tullahoma-one |
of its principal objects being to avail to |
her people and gulf ports this short
line connection by McMinnviIle and |
Sparta with Cincinnati. Moreover this |
Alabama road to Tullahoma not only |
opens this cutoff line and provides |
transportation down through some of /
the most fertile districts and prosper
GUS towns in this State to her canital