Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-03-13
New Railroad for Hunts.
vile.
Huntsville Democrat.

HutsTille and Madison CoUh-
~ have two opportunities to
form a rev railroad connection,
If we are credibly informed, and
we believe we are, two Railroad
companies are ready TO lend
their aid to run a railroad from
Hnntsville-the one, the Louis
vile and Nashville Il. II. CO.,
from Huntsville TO Fayetteville.
Tenn.-the other, the Nashville
and Chattanooga r.. r. Co.,
from Huntsville 10 Rock Spring,
intermediate between Winches-
ter and Fayetteville, Tenn, and
the people of Madison Co., Ala,
shall make Il roadbed for a
narrow giiage railroad from
Huntsville TO Fayetteville, a
distance Of about30 miles, there
to unite with narrow guage
road from Columbia to Fayette-
Will The other is that The peo-
pie of Lincoln and Madison
counties shall make a roadbed
for broad guage railroad from
Rock Spring, Tenn, to Hunts
vile, a distance of % miles. As
advised at present, we have no
special preference for the one
over the other, believing that
either would be of incalculable
benefit to our city and county.
What we desire is, the opening
up Of a new and beneficial com
munication with tie outside
world, SO that we shall not be
solely dependent upon one COM
munication, and, therefore, COM
PEELED to submit to whatever
rates of transportation of man
kind CT. merchandise, and what
ever delay or Inconvenience
that one medium of communi-
cation may, voluntarily or in
voluntarily, impose. we have
no sentiment or feeling of hos
Utility to the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad. No one,
along its whole line, has been a
more jealous advocate of the
construction of the III. & G.. r.
L. and of its legitimate inter
ests than we, but our people-th
people of MadisoD-who con-
tributed more towards its con-
struction, according to popula-
ton, than all the rest of the
country from Memphis to Ste
venSOn, have not, since the war.
reaped the benefits to which
they were justly entitled
Without the aid of Huntsville
and Madison county, the Road
would not have been built and,
now, Huntsville has become
nothing more than way station,
and we are freed to pay a most
eXtravagant rate oflocal ffeights
paying more Gas we are credi-
bly, informedD for frcights from
Decatur to Huntsville than is
paid on the same articles from
Nashville, Tenn, OF even Louis
vile, KY, to Decatur-disian-
ces from nearly five to fifteen
times as great. We are inform
ed, too, hat parties, wishing to
ship cotton from Huntsville to
New York, have shipped their
cotton from Huntsville TO Mem
phiS and back over the same
line Of the Nj. 81 G. r. r. TO
New York, to avail themselves
of the through lrcights from
Memphis to New York, and
saved money by the operation.
Our conclusion is that our
people ought not to be in the
power nj any monopoly, that
can force them to submit 10 any
such Terms. Hence, we are in
favor of a new and competing
road, which shall furnish us new
and Independent outlets for our
produce and inlets for our mcr-
chandiSc, and, by competition
with the NJ. 81 G.. II. r., give
us fair and living rates of ,raus-
portaiion and travel.
We understand that a direct
proposition from the Nashville
& Chattanooga II. II. Co. is
ready to be presented to cur
citizens to furnish all the iron
rails and rolling stock for
railroad from Huntsville to
Rock Spring to be built during
the year 1879. We have moth
ing so definite from the Louis
vile 81 Nashville 4. Il. Co. as
to the extension OF the Column
bia and Fayetteville Road 10
Huntsville. But Colonel Cole,
President Of the n. 81 G. r. r.,
has expressed a desire to confer
with our people with regard to
the Rock Spring connection,
and we are requested to call
meeting of our citizens, especi-
ally Of Huntsville and New
Market, and of the intermediate