Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-20
CENTER LANDING.


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The Elevator and the Extension of
h Charleston BatIrORd-HOW 20
Pave the Streets OF Memphis.
The landing or river bank between
Adams aud Poplar Streets continues to
crack and slide into the river at a rapid
rate. Lengthy assures twenty or thirty
yards from the edge of the bank appear,
and soon that part between the fssure
and the river commences to sink and
gradually slide into the river forming
the natural slope of the bank. In a few
days this debris washes into the river,
and then another cave-in commences.
Several old brick and frame houses south
of Washington have tumbled into the
river, and ever the coal in the yard Of
Jones & Brown had to be removed back
to save it from the crumbling bank.
The river is very deep Immediately be-
meath the bank, and this, OF course, IN
dermines the latter and produces the
slides or caYing in.
CENTER LANDING.
This portion of the city landing has
been given up for railroad purposes, aud
is already occupied by the depot and
yards of the Little Rock Railway Com
pany, The landing extends from Wash
ington to Poplar street and belongs to
the city; the property Immediately north
of Poplar and Immediately south of
Washington street belongs to private in
dividuals. Here it is hat the Charles
ton Railway Company, by contract en-
tered into with the city, agrees to put its
depots, sidewalks and build the grain
elevator, in conjunction with other roads
or with private citizens who will con-
tribute the necessary amount of funds,
to be added to the fifteen thousand dol
lars to be subscribed by the Charleston
Railway Company for that purpose.
The necessary elevator will probably
cost fifty thousand dollars, and when
finished it will be of vast benefit to our
city, as it will bring a trade to US that
now goes around Memphis over routes
that afford greater facilities to trade and
commerce. Our commissioner passed
up Washington street and inspected the
tramway being put down on that high
way. The road has been cross-tied and
the iron has been laid down from the
Charleston depot yard to Fourth street.
and it has been put down in the
most substantial and approved
manner, built exactly as would
be a regular railroad. Tishomingo gravel
IS carried on cars, and 10 dumped along
the line Of the road, all ready for bal
lasting so as TO make a solid road for the
mule or horsepower necessary to draw
the cars or trains to and from the eleva.
tor and landing. The work is being
pushed on as rapidly as possible, and
will ere long be finished down to the
landing. Cars from the Georgia and
North Alabama railroads can run over
this route into Arkansas and Texas, and
the cars Of East Tennessee and Ala
bama can be carried to these States 80
as TO successfully compete with the coal
trade Of Pittsburg aud other points. All
the Goals used by the Charleston Railroad
Company come from East Tennessee.
THE sTREET PAVING PROBLEM.
The great problem Of paving the streets
Of Memphis is yet unsolyed, although q
few years since it was believed that the
big bonanza had been struck when the
Nicolson pavement was put down. That
costly experiment yet haunts the city
like a ghost or a ghoul in the shape Of
Judgments and mandamuses, the pave.
ment not having been paid for. although
the pavement itself has rotted away so
as TO become a nuisance on our principal
streets and a source Of disease owing to
decayed and rotten wood. The pave
ment Of Washington street with lisho-
mingo gravel and rock may give a solu.
ton to the pavement problem in the
course Of time. The T~ishomingo gravel
when put down forms a very fne
concrete and when rock is placed
upon It it forms a street that cannot pos
ubly year away for numbers Of years.
When Washington street becomes the
best paved highway in the city end when
the cost Of bringing the gravel and rock
Ito Memphis is accurately determined,