Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-06-13
FRIDAY, JUNE Is 1879.
THE LOUISVILLE CONNECTION.
Interesting Correspondence On the
Subject.

subject.
The following correspondence on
the subject in which Knoxville and
all East Tennessee is deeply con-
cerned will be read with interest,
We find it in the Spartanburg Is.
c. Herald:
FLAT Rock, \. c..
May 26, 1879.
Col 7. StO6O FdTTO1g, Editor Spartan.
burg Heard:
DEAR COLONEL: The information
sought of Mr.. IL Il. Wilson, of New
York, was furnished me lat his re-
quest TO Col. McGhGe) by Mr.. Moses,
Secretary, Treasurer and SupeTintend-
ent of the Knoxville and OHIO Rail-
road, in two letters, one received
directly after your article appeared,
and the other yesterday, lin reply to
some additional queries of mine.) His
statements are SO clear and so satIsfac-
tory that l send you his last letter for
publication, and my plea to him for
The liberty taken with his cOmmuni-
cation must be the anxiety OF your
readers TO know how to get to Louis
Vile and the Northwest:
OFFICE IL. q u. IL. Il. 90 -,
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, May II, 10.
I. Coleman, Esq, Fiat Rock, ". O.:
DEAR SIR: L nave yours Of the l4th,
and am able, having conferred with
Col. Adrian Terry, OF this city, for
merly our Chief Engineer, 10 give
YOU substantially the information you
desire.
In my letter of the u h, gave the
approximate distance from Boston
(Keutucky and Tennessee State line)
10 Livingston as 90 miles. Ii is, J
learn, ABOUT 63 miles, of which IL
miles, including the heaviest work,
have been graded, leaving 81 miles,
the cost of which was e-tinatsh in
1866 or 1867, at prices then prevailing,
st $50, 600 per mile, complete, with
crOss-ti and rails-using a maximum
grade of IS feet to the mile.
From the Kentucky State line,
south to Clinton, ton the Knoxville
and Ohio Railroad about 46 miles,
the maximum grade is C6 feet to the
mi!e-maXimum curvature GO; and
This maximum curvature is used on
some OF maximum grade; aud the
same figures represent the maximum
grade and curvature between Clinton
and Knoxville, (abOut 20 miles with
the exception of short distances where
the grade rises TO 50.
The city of Louisville is very aux-
iOUs for an extension of the Knoxville
branch OF the Louisville aud Nash
vile Railroad to a connection with
the system of roads in the Tennessee
Valley.
They made some years since sub
scTiptiOn Of one million dollars to the
stock of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company, to be paid at any
time that the Louisville and Nashville
Company would construct its road so
as to form the connection as above in
Dictated.
The management of the L. s. Y. r.
r Company about that time turned
their attention in the direction of con-
nectiOns in Alabama. The panic,
which soon followed, so embarrassed
the Company as to render il prudent
TO husband their resources, and take
care OF the lines already acquired.
The Company Is now in good finan-
Cjal condition, has resumed payments
of dividends, and is in the hands of a
man Of great ability as well as enter
prise.
The city of Louisville is ready and
willing To hand over TO the Louisville
L Nashville Company her bonds to the
amount of one million dollars, to be
USED In constructing this link.
The bonds of the city of Louisville
are worth I06. The work to be ac-
cOmplished, at the present low prices,
can be finished for sum but little in
excess of the amount subscribed by the
city of Louisville.
In an interview with Mr.. McGhee.
President of the Knoxville and Ohio
Road, some six months since, DR..
Stamford expressed himself as ready
10 undertake the construction of this
road at any time when he could be as
suTed that connection could be had
through TO Asheville, North Carolina.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad Company VIII aid
the Knoxville and Ohio Railroad
Company in completing the twenty
six miles in Tennessee. Thus il Will
be seen that ali that is asked is that we
shall De assured of the connection
with North Carolina, and no diff.
Guilty exists as 10 completing the link
North of Us. 10 the meatime, the
Cincinnati Southern Road will be
completed, and the lessees of that
Road will also see the Importance of a
connection with Knoxville, aud it is
by no means certain that they will not
contest the question with the Louis.
vile aud Nashville Company as to the
control of this valuable key to the
Respectfully,
JOHN l.. MOSES,
Sec, TT. and Supt, X. & o. h. r.
My estimate to grade from Cumber-
land GAP to Livingston was 81 $50 600