Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-12-16
CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAIL
ROAD

The discussion of the Cincinnati
southern road question continues t.
claim good dead Of space in the pa
pers of that city, aud IT we may judge
rrom the p pers, the people are ais
! ,alkiug us well as thinking about the
policy which has been adopted by the
Trustees in reference 10 the construc.
! zion Of the road. The discussion be-
guns to take wide range, as will b.
seen by the following extract from b
communication published in the Com,
| mcrcidi:
Touching Mr.. Bishops statement that
this DAD would pay when built, remind
your correspondent of conversation he
mad with q Southern railroad gentleman
| himself an extensive bui der of roads, about
the time of letting the Tennessee contracts.
| tie bad but just passed over the line from
! Chattanooga to South DanvilIo with the
view of building on large portions of the
| road Incidentally the opinion was eX-
pressed that the road wou d not pay in if-
| ty years. lie replied: " 1t will not pay in
u hundred years. 1t will never pay !"
This correspondent then asks:
What has become of the Cincinnati
! Cum berland Gap and Charleston Railro d =?
| The grade was finished, perhaps, twenty
| years ago from Morristown, Tenn ssee, 10
the Gap, as well, other expensive sections,
and but thirty fOur miies are now running
1t can be bought cheap That link"
that General Coombs, before the war; so
fOrcibly brought to tho attention of our
citizens, by which the North and South
] u,a IN, ha ~ NIT aN htyt hi5 gh,rt I'D
| Lexington TO Danville, is now the property
of the Trustees or the city, and would it
not be good policy to first finish it2 The
abutments across the Kentucky River and
| the grading done between Nicholasville
and Danv lie are also the property of the
same parties. 1t appears to one who is not
/ much of railroad man that Hooper is
right
Another correspondent of the same
paper processes to give heviews of Mr..
Hooper, one of the Trustees, who, it
is claimed, is not satisfied with the pol
icy now prevailing. He says:
Hooper tells the whole story. He is inside
-one of the Trustees-acting on response
! bilIty, thoroughly Informed, q solid mana
/ safe man, who has not failed in his business
| who Is nOtR schemer, not an enemy of the
| road, not a scandalmonger, has a good
| stomach-the one thoroughly competent
man. He tells US it is notorious, the road
can not be built for ten million, and that
| the plan Of building it adopted will scatter
/ this sum along the whole line, give US an
unfinished road and force the city TO spend
other millions
These extracts, which We might
multiply at considerable length, go
to show that there is pretty formula
BILE public sentiment in Cincinnati
against the present management of the
road. 1t is feared by the conservative
people of that conservative sort of
city, that too much money may be re-
quired to build the road as it was orig
inally contemplated. 1t is this class
that opposes building bridge over the
Ohio, which will cost millions, and
favors adopting the Kentucky Central,
from Covington to Lexington, as a
part Of the line, for the present, at
least. On this subject Lexington
correspondent Of the Couricr-JOurnaE
of late date says:
Under the circumstances, it is pretty safe
to predict that if the road is ever made. il
will be by the adoption of the Central. as
far as it goes, and the continuation of the
route from that point. This is TO be re-
GREETED on account of the disappointment
our Scott county and other friends will
ieei, rs well az Tor other reasons; but it
really seems TO be the only way out of the
difficulties with which the project is envi-
roned. Nobody who knows anything of
tho difficult nature of tho country through
which the road must pass need be told that
1t will take every dollar the Trustees can
raise on the sale of their bonds TO build il
from Nicholasville to the Tennessee line,
II, indeed, they can do it for that And
nobody who knows anything about Gin
cinnati need be told that not one cent more
Will be voted by that city. AS for the Ken
lucky counties and towns along the route.
they are prohibited from taking stock.
The Indianapolis Journal makes al,
fusion To the correspondence of the
CoTier-JoTnd. After giving "a his
tory Of this Southern railroad project,
and alluding to the controversy which
has recently sprang up, it says:
Then, too, the wrangling has had the re-
suit to depreciate the cityis credit TO that
extent that it is next to impossible TO nego-
tiate the balance of the $4,000 600 of bonds
which the city was authorized to issue, and
so tho trustees find themselves out of
money. All this lends a strong degree of
probability TO the statement of the Louis
vile COu1ier-JourHGPS correspondent AT
Lexington. who says there are serious an.
prehensions there that the whole project is |
to be abandoned. This may, however, be
only the expression of LouisVille's ieal- |
ousy. Should it be true, Cincinnati NAV
as well fence herself in and devote her en- |
ergies 70 developing the hidden beauties of |
Eden Park and the construction of those |
wonderful Fills" which annually torture |
the soul Of the weary taxpayer, only OPEN |
ing the gates once year 10 admit the peo-
pie who generously come forward TO put "A
little life into her by visiting her Exposi-
ton.
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