The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-07-30

ago they were beth small villagcs,no diff
fcring very much in size How Is it now?
Jackson has three times as much tax
able property aud population as Bolivar.
Why is this? Jackson gets railroads,
universities, workshops, and other i'm
pTovements. 1t cannot be denied tEat
| this IS greatly owing to tbe Hberatity
and enterprising spirit of her citizens.
Within the last four years she has voted
| 1925, 600 to build railroad from Mems
rhis through jackson to the Tennessee
river, which subscription, if | mistake
not, now stands in full force; 100000
to the Birmingham road 500, 900 to Sc
cure the workshops of the New Orleans,
St. Louis and Chicago railroad. She
has grown with readiness and rapidity
unexampled in any interior town in
| Tennessee that has no manu- featuring
establishments. This, it must be ad,
mitted, is owing greatly to the libara!ity
and enterprising spirit of her citizen 5.
Hardeman is as good a county as Madi~
son, and Bolivar has as. many natural ad-
vantages as Jackson-many of you say,
more. Why then, does not Bolivar i'm
prove as jackson does 1t is for want Of
the same and similar railroad facilities,
and these are now offered. Will you re-
iect them and Epermit.your handsome
town, n It'll its elegant society, to be a
mere Tributary to other more enteprising
towns and cities or will you, by the use
of proper means, place your iowa on, the
high road to prosperity aud enable her to
go forward in the paths Ct progress and
improvement until your streets shall be
mads vocal with the music Of spindles
0 and your growing city shall be enyel'
= oped in the smoke of many furnaces p
The speech vas closed by Maj. Sykes
S IN an
APPEAL FOR MEMPHIS.
e He said: 81 must earnestly entrea
e you to make another effort to take thi
2 road to Memphis | know you feel cha
2 grined at what you consider the indiffer
3 ence towards this road M anifested 81,
y emphis, but there are causes for thi
apparent want of interest, which
need not now explain at length. l be
Iieve there is more interest felt at Men.
$ phis in this enterprise than many CT 30
:, think. l ask you to give them a fair tria
u Send an agent, or agen is, to Shelby an
Favette counties. L ct them see ever
ie business man and .property-hOlder /
Memphis and give them an opportunit
CT to subscribe. Let them also go to ever
E. man living within within three miles c
III the line of this road, in Shelby and Fay
80 cite counties, and give them the SAN
i0 opportunity, and | believe you can g
enough subscription in two months
Justify putting the road under contra
Of from Memphis to Bolivar 1t Is wort
k, the effort. If Memphis refuses, then L
of one can complain if you seek auothr
le outlet the Msson sissiPpi river abo
Its Memphis, as some are now prcposin
to | am aware that a system of roads cor
de ing from the mineral regions Of MIdd
it, Tennessee, passing through Bolivar al
IRE Brownsville on one line, and throu
5 Milan and Trenton on another, conce
en- trating at Fulton, or some point on t
nd Mississippi river above Memphis, will
to very damaging to that city, and thel
lb- fore l am using my utmost efforts to pI
OF vent this, because l believe all Tennt
RS, see, and especially all West Tennesse
ShA is interested in building up at Mempl
great manufacturing and ..commerc
city on the Mississippi river Let {
our other earnest effort be made, and if th
ties, Memphis should reject the prefer
the offer and throw away the rich pr
3D." which would be within her easy graI
we'll she will be the architect Of her own ru
!ec- and will haYe none to blame but
the own people.