The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-03-12
The Memphis and Knoxville MARI
oW-Guage Road.

above r, ad The citizens If Hender>
son, and all along the line to Memphis,
are anxious 20 push the work through
to our great commercial city as early us
p ssible. They have taken stock liber>
allv, and have had the rnad-bed cons
pleted to Bolivar Only fifty TN usand
dollars was asked for from Memphis;
this amount was promised IL be raised,
vet a dead lock has taken place and Moth
ing has been done. We need not remind
our friends at Memphis, of the great
advantages they would realize bv the
compietiun of the road even from here
To that city If they will make a calcu-
ation they will see that Memphis is
losing $1,000 bales If cotton annually,
for the want of such connection by
ra !, to say nothing of the vast amount
of trade, in every branch now obtained
in other markets, that Memphis could
supply. Well, if Memphis can stand to
miss this road we can for as certain
as there is anything in the future, the
road Will be finished from here = Boil
war If we have To negotiate with the n.
o., st. L. /. Chicago Co, to change iG
TO a bruad>gauge and make it a feeder
to that road This will give US direct
communication with New Orleans, and
a competing line with the Mobile and
Chic road. At meeting oil the Stock
holders of our road, at Bolivar, last No.
vember, Il resolution was adopted authors
izing the Directors to open negotiations
with any party or company looking To
the finishing of the road from Henderson
To Bolivar So with n sincere desire
to make connection with Memphis we
must yet say, if you give US the cold
shnuder, 10. we turn TO the Creoles.
Henderson AdUoc0te.
The particular attention of our mer-
chants Is called to an article from the
Henderson Advocate touching the So
long delayed construction of the nars
rOw>gauge railroad between this city
and Knoxville, by way of Henderson
and Bolivar. Only fifty thousand dol>
lars IS a. Aed from US, in order to insure
Us all its benefits. so fully set forth In
the article iD question. A sum so small,
Just now. when there is a plethora of
muney in our banks, ought certainly
to be forthcoming, in order to secure
and make sure of a trade that other
wise, as eur contemporary hints. will be
directed to New Orleans Next TO the
Selma railroad, so desirable because OF
the connection it will give US with H0l-
y Springs, We know of no railroad en-
tsrprise more deserving of the earnest
attention of our people and their -olid
help and assistance. Are we TO have
the fifty thousand dollars, or. refusing
it, to lose the trade of important coun-
ties in our own State ? That the ques~
ton Memphis ApseaL.
The building of the narrow gauge
railway from this city to the Tennessee
line, through Bolivar aud Henderson,
sixteen miles south of jackson, is again
agitated vigorously by those who have
the enterprise at heart The grading Of
the road be. ween Henderson and Boil
war, a distance OF twenty FIVE miles,
has been completed for some time the
stock is nearly all subscr bed, and Mem-
pbis Is only asked tu aid the scheme
to tn, amount OF $4,000 Several
thousand bales OF cotton aad large
traffic would naturally seek this mar
ket were this road completed, all of which
now goes elsewhere. Memphis AUa>
LQnche
That thc road from Bolivar east will
be pushed forward, SO SOON as the ppo-
pie living along the line can recover
from the effects of the money pressure
and failure Of crops, we have never
/ doubted. The pref ct is mot dead but
sleepeth." The road will be in operation
from Bolivar 10 the Tennessee river in a
very few years, either under the con>
troll of the present management or under
that of some otl er,-it may be the n.
o. St l. q C.. Rail Road Company
Our people want the road, and when il
comes to the question who SHALL put it
through to success they will ask but
one question, "N no will build it most
rapidly and substantially, and run it
most efficiently p The work already
! done secures he crossings" at Bolivar
and Henderson, but that ehouId not
render the people bet cen these two
points Indifferent, but should make them
more Jealous in lendiog every encour-
agement to it's progress. The neceSSi-
ties to the people from here to the Ten~
nessee demand that the Rad should be
built, and with the start already made
at it, they vii! not be slow to see that
it will add greatly to their material pros ,
perity. The arguments in its favor have
often been laid more forcibly before them
than we can express them in this place,
and they have doubtless treasured them
up and will act at the proper time.
As for the line west we can very
we'll afford to leave that to Memphis and
to Shelby and Fayette counties who are
more vitality interested in it than we
can possibly be. The reasons for this
are palpable, while it is a mooted ques-
ton whether we can derive benefits by
extending the road to NJ mphis sufficient
to exceed in value those derived from
having the road stop here where we
should have the great depot of re>ship>
ping" of commodities to and from New
Orleans.
True, the people east of here greats
lY prefer to see the road 20 through to
Memphis, but with the terminus here
they would b. placed in easy com NUNS
cation with the Crescent City, and the
advantages thus gained will be sufficient
to cause them TO urge the building of
the road east, without asking for the
additional advantage of reaching the
MississinDi at Mempbis-an advaDta,e