The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-12-10
Scwauec Coal AZ Twenty ate per
Bushci-Ihe memphis and
Knoxville Railroad
Needed.
Correspondence Memphis Appeal.

Correspondence Memphis Appeal
NASHVILLE, November 27.-Since
have been in this city | have taken oc'
castor to tind out The price Of coal as
compared with its price in Memphis
Coal now sells at twenty two and a hall
cents per busIeI, er ninety seven cents
er.barrel, as it il measured in Mem
phls As good coal as to this
city, which they use in the Maxwell
house, is the Srwancc coal, and il can
he bought by the car load At twenty
cents per bnshel. Why, let me ask. Is
coal 80 much higher in Mcup!,is than
in this city A family, Which CONSUMES
4 hundred bushels or forty barrels ct
coal in Memphis, has 10 pay five dot.
lars ana twenty cents more tlan fam
liy consuming the same smount in
Nashville. II the city OF Memphis con
Sumes two mill uns OF bushels Of c0a,
per annum thls Amounts to n tax 0I
one hundred thousanp dollars, it Mem
phiS coal sells even at seventy cents
per barrci) over and above what the
same amount of coal would sell tor IN
Nashville. Is there no remedy I WITH
the MempLjs ant Knoxville road CON
plcteI u chichester or Cnwan, coal
could be delivered in Men! his at ii e
dollars a ton, on twenty cent, Il 5ushcl.
A saving oi five cents on each bushes
of coal used in Memphis, would amour,
to one hundred thousand dollars a y ear,
i; the city CONSUMES two million bush
els this IN ten years would be one mil
lion dollars. one third of the whole
cost Of the road from Memphis to Cow
an. on the Nashville and Chattanooga
road. Why Memphis has not had this
road put under contract to the Ten
ncssec river long since, passes my com
prehrnsi"n. The cotton alone which
lhis road would secure to Memphis,
that size does not nyw aud y viii
get anti this rvai is bUjit, would yieri
10 that city as profits sixty thousand
du.l1rs per arnuln, at two dollars pen
bale. | have seen men from Giles,
Lawrence and Wayne counties, an
they are anxious to 90 to work IN the
road, il they coUll get any encourage
ment from Memphis is. As an evidence
of what IS IN that country, | NiIl state
that tLIs year an entcrprlSjng nOrtheru
nan came " Lawrence county, and
made fifty barrels Of blackberry wine,
and derived a large profit from it.
That is the great iron region OF Ten
uesscr, now neglected. From licndel
sou station this rOud would divide into
two branches. one going through
Wayne toward Knoxville and the other
through Lexington and Cenlcrvjl!c to
! Nashville. WE will he constantly
booking abroad when our surrst roa,
TO wealth is in our own State. Tn,
wheIe oil Middle Tennessee looks greer
with wheat and rye, and if The farmer,
next Spring viii only plant such gronn(
~ they nave prepared we'll. aud viii
also restrict their expenditures time,
will be much easier next fall than they
IltNc bttl III NciIS. we MY 100 Wlltl
in proportion 70 what we make. This
IS the real cause of most of Our (inan
cial troubles. II the uOrt'lprn State,
will contract the currency and max,
money scarce Our uuly remedy is L,
quit buying from them, aud then W,
will not need 50 much money. Surak
ing on the SUI jet of cheap coal, nigh
not an arrangement be made wit, The
Nashville. Chattanooga AMI ST. Louis
railway, or with the ~ilrmphi, ami N
lsviilc road, to take coal from the S.
vance mines to Memphis ami to the it,
t~erval p"luts between Nashville an,
Memphis We need composition il
our sources Of coal supply. This roa,
from Chattanooga through Nashvill
to Memphis is Incoming an impnrtrnt
through line, the fare nriug the sam
from Ciattano'.a through NaShvill,
To Memphis that it is o!cr the Mem,
pbls and Charleston road.