The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-27
Do Our People Want the Memphis
and Knoxville Railroad.


We have again aud again in our col
umns set forth the general advantages of
this road, and particularly its advantages
to our town. We have shown that Jack.
son, although situated in county of less
productions than Hardeman, has increas-
ed twice as much as Bolivar, because she
has superior railroad advantages: because
she has voted within two years, $3.50, 600
to various new railroad projects, and as
consequence has attracted attention a.
broad, and drawn to herself population
and capital If Bolivar had the Memphis
and Knoxville Road extending even from
Pulaski or Fayetteville through the iron.
marble and limestone regions of Middle
Tennessee to the Mississippi river, giving
Us direct and cheap transportation to
Memphis, Bolivar would grow with a
rapidity greater than jackson, because
she would enjoy all the advantage of be.
ing on this, the leading mineral railroad
OF Tennessee. We have answered all the
objections urged against the road, the
principal of which was that it would take
our trade to Memphis. We gave Browns
vile as an example to show that direct
railroad to Memphis will not injure a
town, for Brownsville, in 1854, only had
$l38,000 worth of real estate, and now,
since she Is on direct road to Memphis,
she has over a million dollars worth of
town lots The same is the case with
Columbia and Pulaski, that are on a di-
rect road to Nashville, and not distant
more than 46 aud II miles.
The building of the Memphis L Knox
vile Railroad will secure US the Cairo
and Brownsville road, which will then
run from Cairo through Brownsville and
Bolivar to Middleton, and there connect
with the Middleton and Ripley Railroad,
which will then be extended to the Gulf
of Mexico. Whether our town is to en-
JOY these advantages and become equal
to any interior town in West Tennessee
depends upon the action of our people
nOlO. Gen. Nicely has done all that any
man can DO, and has accomplished more
than ever was accomplished in this State
under the same circumstances. If our
citizens will sustain him by their means,
even to a small extent, he will accomplish
still greater results. He has done his
whole duty, and if the enterprise, unfor-
tunately for our town, shall fail, (Which
We will not permit ourselves to believe
the fault will not be with him. Now is
the best time to press forward the enter
prise in the way of getting up stock to
carry it through. By next fall times will
be easier than they have been in years.
The farmers will not be able to raise so
much cotton, and will be compelled to
raise corn, meat and other supplies less
money will be borrowed to carry on cots
ton planting the country will be less in
debt, and on account of the reduction in
the quantity of cotton made the price
will be increased. In August the con-
tracts along the whole line should be let
out, and then no calls would be made on
the stockholders until the next crop com>
menced coming in. If we cannot, or oiH
not THAT is the word commence the
work all along the line this year, we fear
it never will be built. If we do, it will
be completed in two years We have
done much to push forward this enter
prise, and are still willing to work in its
favor, but if our citizens, who are largely
interested, can do without it, so can We.
We feel the importance ofthis enterprise,
and hope it may meet the encouragement
it so richly deserves at the hands of this
eutire community.