Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-02-22
COOPERATION.
The Memphis and Kansas City Rail-
roRd-ThOuEbts for Thinking
Business Men.

EDITORS APPEAL Too much cannot
be said in refeIence to the Importance Of
connecting Memphis by rail with Kan
sas City, MISC uri. Our eastern coDnec-
tions are, Of course, Of great moment,
and the efforts being made to perfect
these are receiving the attention they
properly deserve. But 1t Is to the west and
northwest tnst Memphis must look for
the material out of which to build her
commercial growth and expansion. AS
the elements constituting those manu-
featuring enterprises, into which coal
and iron 30 largely enter, and which
must soon find In Memphis an attract.
i've fiald fer their develoI msnt-as
these elements exist In unlimited Rbun-
dance within the bordsIs of Tennessee
herself-they will in COED time, by the
operation Of the rule OF seli-iuterest, find
their way to this city, seeking cheap
and safe outlet Vid of our great river, to
the markets of the wUrld-so the rich
mines Of our commercial prosperity lie
In the fer west, and it is our interest,
and manifestly our duty, to provide SAFE
and speedy means Of transit and trans
portation to and from those mines and
the city Of Memphis. RsiI cOmmunica
ton with Kaasss City will enable the
merchants OF Memphis to successfully
cOmpste with st. Louis in tbs sale Of all
those articles OF commercs-and their
name is legion-which make up the
miscellany OF western produce" The
common-sepse Eoglish Of this is, that
Memphis grocery merchants, pro-
duce merchants, feed-stOre merchants,
ct id onlHe genus, could sell TO the peO-
pie OF Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama,
rbo
groceries, including lumber, leather,
ETC., cheaper than these articles can
now bs purchased in st. Louis. The
rsa'on why is obviOus. The main
source of supply OF these articles to the
st. Louis market is the country Of
which Kansas City is the great business
center. Tap this center by line of con-
tinuous rail fcom Memphis, and your
more eligible commercial position Iela-
tive to the 8 a.es named above, and the
less frequent handling of the goods In
cideDt 10 shipment from Kansas City
to Memphis, compared with that round
about way from Kansas City by way of
st. Louis, at once enables the Memphis
merchant to Cu.strip his competitor of
ST. Louis A railroad from Kanse City
to Memphis-sbapdCning for the nonce
the question CT interest which 1t has for
the latter city-must necessarily be a
paying enterprise. Were 1t to sIriEe
the Mississippi at Hopefeld, with dense
unpeopled swamp on the eastern side Of
the Mississippi, rs would be the case at
any other place on the river between
Memphis and Nicksburg, the enterprise
might fairly bs abandoned in despair.
But the Kansas City terminus would
md st Memphis q city Of sixty thou
sand people, In direct rail commuaics-
tion, by many outlets, with the north
and south, the east and west-a growing
and powerful city, destined to be the
commercial emporium OF the lower
Mississippi valley. This fact alone
would insure the Kansas road from all
dagger OF failure, rsdistiDg, rs would
that road, from q center, to which
emigration, capital and enterprise are
instantly g.avitAting. TheD, the liue
Of the rosd would psnetrsts one OF tue
fin at agricultural regions to be found in
the whole county. A continuous line
Of towns, each epresenting districts at
Oncs fertile, and Inv ting and Inhabited
by thrifty and enterprising peop.s