The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-10-28
MEMPHIS. NASHVILLE AND
LOUISVILLE.
Who is to Have the Trade of the |
Counties upon the Tenn River

Who is to Have the Trade Of the
Counties upon the Tenn River
The Nashville Daily American Of the
23d asks aWby are we cut of from
Clafksville d And states that Nash
vile is almost DOSING the trade of one
of our largest and wea!thiest toxins
through jealousy and bad spirit existing
between our railroads, or through a care
less and short-sighted policy We have
italicised the careless aud sbort-sigbted
policy for the benefit of our friends in
Memphis The prosperity of Clarks-
Vile IS built mainly upon Tennessee
productions and trade Is Nashville or
Louisville either better mart for Ten
nessee. productions than Memphis? It
is true, there Is a natural communiea-
ton with Nashville by the Teunessee
river, Constructed however, By the mus
Gle shoals, } which connects this region
Of country with the city of Nashville
but IN the statement above, tbs river is
ignored, aud this ably edited Journal
Justly estimating the importance of the
railroads in controlling this trade, laws
the fault of the loss of tho ClarksvlIe
trade to the jealousy and bad spirit ex-
listing between them, or to a careless
and short-sighted policy. In this the
American is doubtless corr
But Why should not Memphis control
the trade of the counties of Hardin,
Wayne, Decatur, Henderson and McNai-
ry, instead of Louisville. to which place
much of it now goes through Clarks-
vile Does it result from a careless and
short-sighted policy on the part of Mem
phis We cannot think otherwise
/ The people of these counties including
Lawrence and Giles, desire, and are la
boring to empty their productions into
the lap of Memphis, the great CONNER
cial en- treput Of West Tennessee and
Memphis W i'll not turn a wheel to ac-
| ouire this desirable end a narrow
gauge railroad penetrating the very heart
Of this trade, which would transport it
cheaply to markets, would produce a
a revolutirn in its present destination,
and make Memphis the recipient, rather
than Louisville or Nashville. The ne
eessity of this present trade to Memphis
can scarcely be over estimated. Beyond
this, to her it is intellectually important,
when we take into consideration the in
exhaustible mineral wealth of that re-
gion yet to be developed upon which the
future of Memphis as a prosperous man
ufacturing city must be built; and which
if neglected, may have a much greater
bearing upou the future Of the Bluff
City, than now appears to be imagined
by her profoundly Indifferent citizens
a city built upon the mere handling O
commerce fatransitu, Is like hous
built upon the sands-and when tht
winds blow, and the rain descends and
beat upon that house-but why finish
we all could guess the result Histor3
furnishes numberless examples, IN Asia
and in Europe where cities. once pros
porous, have decayed with departin;
trade and where even the sites OF other
of q more remote peri cd, are marked on
ly by fallen columns, and half burieC
fragments of architectural ohefdoeuvrs tn
( only induces of their former prosperity
t and grandeur. These are they whic
were built upon the rich but transfer
4 commerce of the East, which has Ion
since been diver ted into other channels
. and which although now divided an
subdivided, is still rearing new cities
t and ministerIng to new industries j
I widely separated localities.
: The old cities from which the hight c
other days has departed, stand as. sigr
3 posts of the past, for our guidance i
: the present, so that the way (aring ma
though a fool may not err" and war
Z as of the insecurity Of trusting to trar
8 ent commerce, Misunderstanding is tt
= foundation upon which we may safel
bull; it gives stable wealth to cities
> And the commerce which results fror
the exchange of it's products unit ng wit
L and controlling the current Of academia
commerce gives permanence to trade
commerce y hich cannot be diverted, an
secure lasting prosperity to the CIT
whose foresight and enterprise has a.
. eomplished this imperishable gooC
S Trade can be controlled by facilities 0
+ fered to its advantageous transmissio
! to a suitable market. Aud where thes
u facilities are offered by remote marke
> it will pass away from nearer one,
J would under equal facilities for tran
T mission have preferred. Let Memph
:. think of these patent truths, and ask he
: self who shall have the important trac
Of the country we have been writin
y about, and who shall manufacture
. minerals,
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