Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-14
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Build the Memphis and Knoxville Rail
road.

EDITORS APPEAL-The SOmeTvIlIe
Falcon makes complaint in behalf OF the lar
mers OF that section Of the increase OF ifeIguts
and passenger fare by the Memphis ana
Charleston railroad company. That rOsdr
while reducing through fTeights, seems % be
dispose to initiate other roads IN the pOicy
OF placing local Heights, when the shipper
has no other competing route, at exoroltant
figures. This policy j. injurious 10 the inter
ests OF Memphis, az IL VIII drive many bales
OF cotton to other markets. The people OF
Shelby, Fayette and Hardenan counties nave
il in their power at a small outlay 70 feneuS
this evil and force the Cbarlestou road to re-
duce the freights ana passe nger fare. should
the Memphis and Knoxville narrow -gau &c
road be constructed from Memphis to Bolivar,
Il would not only cause a tumble In rat 5 OF
transportation on the Charleston road Dut II
would bring forty thousand bales OF cotton 10
Memphis that for several years in succession
have gone to New Orleans or New YORK by the
Mississippi Central road. 1t Is a noticeable lAct
that the Memphis and Charleston railroad
company has for some wears DetA 'iIe pulE
road on the east side Of the Mississippi river
that has not Disseminated against memphis
and in favor of other cities me peo-
pie along the line OF the Memphis
and Louisville road are complaining, because
that road mas liked its rates so as TO force sh p
pers to go 10 Louisville, althouSh they reslHe
within a hundred miles OF memphis: Inc
people of Brownsville being alive 10 their IN
terests are looking out Tor another outlet be
sides the road which IS disposed 10 Cypress
them. Let us lCok and zee what may and
should be the effect OF the construction OF Ihe
Knoxville road from Memphis 10 Bolivar.
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point whereas now il gets about one-fourJh OF
ii. Ii would get large portion OF the trade
from MNairy, Henderson, part OF Madison:
Hardin, Wayne, Hickman, and other coun-
ties further east. Wills now not dollar OF III
comes to Memphis. IL would relieve the peo-
pie of Fayette and Hardenan from excessive
heights and fare by competing with the
Charleston road. 1t would force that ROAD 10
place charges so low that great deal OF cot
ion, etc, would come to NJ mphls which now
goes TO other markets. Then, on the other
hand, when Brownsville sees that the road
from Memphis, as far as Somervlue, Is sue
cess, IL will b. easy for her 10 Dulld slHlIaI
road marrow gaugel from BrOWnsVlIle 10 thab
point, and form connection with IL: Ihen the
Haywood county people would nave three
roads competing for transportation OF their
products-the Memphis and Louisville, and
Memphis and Knoxville, and the Charleston,
because the latter having ALREADY GTahfa "a
road running to Somerville Will be
freight coming to that point from
sny quarter Tor Memphis. Again, 10 fuF-
Their on east When the road is completed 70
Bolivar IL completes with the Mississippi Gen.
trail, and destroys the power that road now
has to Injure this city in forcing the products
and trade of Hardeman county from mere
And whe n the road is completed TO BoilNar
direct communication with Inldule N IlI
sippi, from Middleton on the q arleSJon ROAD,
to the gulf of Mexico, will be opened by means
of the marrow gauge road partly IN operation
and now being rapidly punt Ihiou24 tn5t
state This con injection can be made by bulld-
ing q narrow-gauge road from Bolivar to Mid
dleton-seventeen miles. Then trains on the
Ripley, MISSISSIPPI, ndFTOW-BHuRS Cdh Iuii
from the center of that State on through Mid
dleton, Bolivar and Sumerville, 10 Mem
phis, without changing cars or breaking DuIk
But all this depends upon Inc CONSTRUCTION VI
the Memphis and Knoxville road from Mem
phis to Bolivar, which is just Sky miles the
people OF Fayette, around Macon, have already
subscribed sixty thousand dollars and from
the Shelby county line toward this city some
thing more has been subscribed. The success
of the entire enterprise depends no" on the
people of Memphis. II they permit the Knox
Vile road to stop at Bolivar, II VIII but be
feeder for the Mississippi Central road, which
is an enemy to Memphis interests. Now, while
the people of Hardeman and Fayette counties
are smarting under the unjust tarltt-rates OF
other roads, Memphis should push this enter
prise and build road that will have the pow
er TO force down freight and passenger rates IN
favor of Memphis, 1t is shame that within
sixty miles of this city-at Bo1Var-Menphls
gets only one-JougTh of the cotton shipped from
mat point SHELBY.