Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-02
NASHVILLE.
SeWanee Coal az Twenty Cents per
Bushel-The Memphis and Knox
vile Railroad Needed.
The Reforms Needed in Railroad Travel
The SenatOrship the Exciting
TOpIc-0ther Offices.
From an Occasional Correspondent.

From an OCCASIONAL Cores O1dent.I
| NASHVILLE, November 27.-Sinet
I have been in this city l have takeI
occasion to find out the price OF coal az
compared with its price in Memphis
Coal now sells at twenty-five and hal
cents per bushel, OF ninety-seven cents
per barrel, as it is measured in Mem.
pnis. As good coal as comes to this
city, which they use in the Maxwell
house, is the SeWannee coal, and it can
he bought by the carload at twenty
cents per bushei. Why, let me ask, is
coal so much higher in Memphis than
/ in this city? A family, which consumes
a hundred bushels or forty barrels OF
coal in Memphis, has to pay five dollars
and twenty cents more than q family
! consuming the same amount in Nash
vile. If the city Of Memphis consumes
| two millions Of bushels OF coal per an.
mum this amounts to tax Ofone hundred
thousand dollars, (if Memphis coal sells
even at seventy cents per barel) over
and above what the same amount OF
coal would sell for in Nashville. Is
there no remedy? With the Memphis
and Knoxville road completed to Win
| chester or COwan, coal could be deliver
/ ed in Memphis at I've dollars 8 ton, OF
| . y
cents on each bushel of coal used
IN Memphis, would amount TO one hun
dred thousand dollars year, If the
city consumes two million bushels; this
in ten years would be one million dol
lars, one-third Of the whole cost OF the
road from Memphis to Cowan, on the
Nashville and Chattanooga road. Why
Memphis has not had this road put
a 70 a,sfw-
long since, passes my comprehension.
The cotton alone which this road would
secure to Memphis, that she does not
now and never will get until this road
is built, would yield to that city as prof
its sixty thousand dollars per annum, at
two dollars per bale. l have seen men
from Giles, Lawrence and Wayne
counties, and they are anxious to go to
work on the road, if they could get any
announcement from Memphis. As an
evidence of what is in that country, 1
will state that this year an enterprising
northern man came to Lawrence county,
aud made fifty barrels of blackberry
wine, and derived large profit from it.
That is the great iron region of Tonnes
see, now neglected. from Henderson
station this road would divide into two
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toward Knoxville, and the other through
Lexington and Centerville to Nashville.
We will be constantly looking abroad
when our surest road to wealth is in our
own State. The whole OF Middle Ten
nessee looks green with wheat and rye,
and il the farmers next spring
will only plant such ground as they
have prepared we'll, and will also
restrict their expenditures times will be
much easier next fall than they have
been in years. We buy too much in
proportion to what we make. This is
the real cause of most Of our financial
troubles. II the northern States will
contract the currency and make money
scarce our only remedy is to quit buy
ing from them, and then we will not
need so much money. Speaking on the
subject Of cheap coal, might not an ar
rangement be made with the Nashville,
and st. Louis railway, or
with the Memphis and Louisville road.
to take coal from the Sewannee mines
to Memphis and to the interval points
between Nashville and Memphis. We
need competition in our sources of coal
supply. This road from Chattanooga
through Nashville 10 Memphis is be-
coming an important through line, the
fare being the same from Chattanooga
through Nashville to Memphis that it is
over the Memphis and Charleston road.
The superintendent Of the Memphis and
Louisville road at Memphis, John T.
Flynn is not only one Of the best BUSH
ness men in the country, but is one of
the most accommodating superintend-
ents. His services to the Memphis and
Louisville road are incalculable, and l
am satisfied he will do all he can to adj
vance the interests of Memphis consist
emily with the interests of mis-
own company, and you can ask no
more. 1 wish arrangements could be
made to run coaches directly through
from Memphis TO Nashville twice a dsv
without any delay at Mckenzie. The
trains which leave Memphis in the
morning and Nashville at one O'Clock
IN the morning meet with no detention
d consequence. Can it not be SO as to
the train leaving Memphis at half-past
one O'Clock In the afternoon? The train
leaving Nashville at half-past twelve
O'Clock in the afternoon reaches Mem.
phis at three o'clock in the morning
which gives very little delay at MiKen-
Zle. There is some talk Of a company Of
Nashville and Memphis gentlemen
making a purchase o. the Kingston
springs, twenty-five miles from this
place, ON the former Northwestern road,
for The purpose OF making them an at
tfacuee summer resort for the people oil
West and Middle Tennessee, II would