The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-05
THE TENNESSEE CENTRAL.

Messrs. Wise 4. Cooper, Jno. H.
Glass and Wis Williams, Of Trenton,
w. NJ. Mccall, S. f. Rankin and w.
A. Wade, eff Milan, spenttwo or three
DAYS last week in Nashville in the
interest of the above named road.
Considerable interest is being NANTES
ted there in lis favor, and it IS hoped
money enough may be raised ofn;sh
it at an early dry. The Nashville,
Chattanoogs and St. Louis road pro-
poses 70 iron and equip. it as socn as
the rcad-bed ic finished between here
and Huntingdon. 1t is thought ar
Engagements can be made to raise the
balance of the money if subscribers to
the stock along the line will be fiber
al and pay up promptly, We under
stand an accurate estimate OF the
amount. Of money required to finish it
win be made N a few days. When
this is done, We will publish the state
ment and urge upon our people the
importance of pushing it forward as
fast as possible. Our country friends
will have a chance to subscribe and
pay in cross-ties and timbers necessary
for the construction. The Nashville
business men will, we hope, take 9
liberal amount Of stock. 1t VIII pay
them TO DO so. Now is the best time
that Nashville viii probably ever have
to secure the trade Of West Tennessee.
If she does Tot take advantage of it,
she will not de2arve it. Louisville
and Cincinnati are wide awake, and
will make great efforts to secure it.
We would rather give it to our capi>
tai .eityM-.I she ,ca,1ts it.
We copy the following from the
Nashvile American Of last Friday.
Much more could have been said in
the way Of argument, and We propose
20 give Nashville capitalists ard bust
ness men something to think about
before long;
Nashville ought to have direct COM
snun'cation with Milan, and our mer-
chants ought to wake up to a realiza>
ton that i would ada hundreds of
thousands of dollars to our commerce.
A town that has arisen from nothing
since 1867 to 2. 500mhab;tants, whose
property in 1872 was valued at S216,-
300, apd increased tc $3.50. 600 in the
following year, is a town well worth
cultivating. The construction of TWEEN
ty>one miles Of railroad from Hunt
ingdon TO Milan would furnish Nash
willie an opportunity net only to sell
goods to merchants az that point and
vicinity, but it would bring to Us d.
coo bales Of cotton annually, a large
amount of tobacco, cereals and stock.
Heretofore the tobacco and cotton
have either gone to Memphis or New
Orleans, whereas the producers were
really disposed tc send it to Nashville.
Shall we turn away his trade by
failure to take proper steps to obtain
i when within our very grasp Nash
vile cannot afford to be slcthful and
nonSprogressivc, and yet our merchants
seem to be in a sort Of commercial
)ethargy. One of the committeeman
trom West Tennessee remarked that
PRODUCERS had often come to him to
ascertain the ila!nes Of our tobacco
dealers Unable to tel them, he
scanned >, the AMERICANS columns in
vain to find even the. smallest card
with reference to that business. And
50 with otlTr lines of business. People
outside Of Nashville naturally expect
70 find the names Of al least promi-
,nent firms in the paper Ct thsir own
city.