Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-03


Memphis. Mr.. Tooi will, rumor has it,
Le succeeded by MI Buck, Of New Or
lesus, TO whose abilities We owe the lest
annual crop state neHt .! the National
cotton exchange.
TIIE RANSAs CITY AND MEMPHIS
RAILROAD.
The revival Of buAiness and tine daily
iuC..4s.ug act witty fIn all branches OF
trace make this q good time 10 invite
the attention Of our citizens 70 the i'm
porila ce Of q line Of railroad long pro-
jectld, tu! Ecsniagly ss far as ever from
coazguma,ior. More than five years
agl .La Kansas City and Memphis rail-
IosI Was frs. brought ID the Lotice and
attention o, hs people of Memphis, who
for while manifested some interest in
il, bat gradually allowing 1t to drop out
Of yiew have a. lss. all but given it up
az a hopeless enterprise. Toe daily
pres then tsemCd with statistics Of the
war. MS counties in Arkansas and Mis-
s9ari through which the proposed line
d. 90 pl-a. and meetings and speeches
wsrs ma Pc. followed by surveys
and ui-'r'. tons OF lands aHd moneys,
ali of whi.h 10 The great body Of this
public, is Low regarded as 60 much time
and money thrown away. For two
years pzs. but little has been heard from
this side Oi ths line, save elections Of
officers; ah.la fi0m tee other, through
tle Kansas city papers, we could learn,
lstteriy, osTecial'y, Of but little that was
more rlc u.aging. For us there is
much of good excuBs. II has been found,
i1 ths last three years, impossible TO do
anything. The cholera, the yellow. fever
and tie panic have successively inter-
posed % prevent anything aud every
thing .n the shape OF public enterprises;
50 that wla. we rcslz=d as one OF the
m1-i imp1rrsI- railroads ever prCj scted
iu cur iLtar5s,s, with Others Of only less
smpH anc-, have had 10 be laid aside for
m1Je convenient season. Our friends Of
Ka1pa- Cry have been more fortunate;
they have no. been in any way
afH lel = We except the panic aud
present financial pressure, and have,
therefore Deen enabled ID DO somsthing
toward the construction Of the road to
Memphis. bu. that sonnet ling is not
aud ue say T. with ali respect-at all
commensurate with the high character
f5r enterprise and progress so long and
w5-lh3y enjoyed by them. Tdey have
E-afed b5. Feen eighty and ninety miles
1ltls rJal-acd, aud there have stopped,
having exhausted their means, the man.
agcmelt. according TO some, being re-
spur-lhle l9r misspplicztion or misap-
r-6urlat 5n OF the funds committed to it
D. public who reposed in it the utmost
conf 1-cce. Accordingly, while ST one
end gf lhe line We have been compelled
90 plead poverty, al the other we are
called upon TO witness another OF the
halafll rsu'ts susndsnt upon the
eT5rs o. men u grow rich with
nl. labor, Snd through an abuse
az goa, p5ulc trust. In Memphis
ile company chartered by the State of |
Arssles- is quiet biding its time,
while TIA. iu Kansas City, chartered by
thl STATE % Missouri, is under the ban
and i.s conduct Is subject O: public triRl
and Investigation. TINS, 10 say the least,
j. v-.y dsc7uEasiug, bu. bearing in
mind the Importance and magnitude OF
the rr.i, tae p9pulstion and wealth CT
lhe crundss through which 1t is TO pass,
ana the vast scope Of country it is de- |
slnsd e. drain, We feel that 1t will survive
pre- 'aU, disaster aud trouble, and at no !
di tl-t isy be the means OF all the good |
A-d bsled lJb1th communities so often I
pTsll ID. and especially will this be |
the c.as a. tie investigations nov being /
hsI l Kansas City result ia a revival Of 4
pub g. ir,eres: there, and the people Of |.
Memphis can be reswakened to a sense !
a. .l..r luty in the premises. Kansas |
C-E is already the seat of
great aud growing trade, the di- /
r.s. rasui. ot :he dozen or 50 railroads /.
whose rains enter and depart from it |
every day. The gateway TO Kansas,
d. NOW controls, and in all likelihood F,
viii continue iO control the trade O! that /
-.-'H, whose agricultural resources are I
a-m.taf % ba in no degree second to !
that u, any other Ia the Union. What /
they aTe .lis year We gather from the /.
report q Hon. Alfred Gray, secre- |
tsry # tIe state board Of agriculture, /
who says theIe will be gathered and /
gsr-ar5d 76,VO,0O0 bushels OF corn, on /
a-a.r---- 0f 100000 Scres He esti- 1
ma - ylJ 600 bushels FOR export. He /
also g-llatas yield Of "A 600 900 or
I5a51,o03 bushels OF wheat, Of which
$500 800 bushels will be Tor export. The
surplus corn viii make 100 80 carloads;
tue surplus whest, 30, OO0 carloads. Mr..
Cray estimates Of oats and other grain
as.U. j. coo carloads, making ia all
225.O.O carirads, or IA cas for each
aud every day 10 the week throughout
the ya-E Most # 3his, together with 8
lasg ara from contiguous counties in
Missouri. g.l tild its way TO Kansas
CiLg,tGuj Mush OF il would no doubt
- Memphis, Il only the Memphis
and kar- Is City railroad were flushed
The distance between Memphis aud
Kansas city is only one hundred miles
greater than tnRt between the latter and
st. Louis, which is mole than compen.
ssiod Tor % the ftcl that iu reaching the
ssaD3sri the longer line SAVES over two
hundred aud eighty miles OF travel /
over the shorter. Besides, Memphis is 4
s.. the head Of perpetual navigation on |
the Mississippi, and so enjoys over St. |
Louis sUptuO. merits that in any cslcu- /
lali0ls for g revival Of the river trade
cEBuol b O. overlooked. The river here is !
never too low for navigation, and is
never blocked by ice, so that barges
aud steanGOats are always sure OF unin-
teuupted navigation. Besides this, we
nave already several important lines
II railroad connecting with sll the lead
ing lines Of the country affJrding ample
facilities for 2 grain and provision trade
on - large scale az the figures
from Kansas would indicate. But
&c was not 10 make an srgu-
msnt for tle Kansas City and
Memphis railroad that We commenced
this article. Our DE purpose was 10 in
vita Te1eWc attention 10 il as TO an en-
tarprise that we think should he among
the first 10 receive the public support,
and 20 urge uIol cur brethren OF Kan
fss City esIeeielly 'he necessity Of clear
ing up al encumbering complications