The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-20
Mineral and Agricultural Regions Sur
neutrality-suspicious., Commerce,
Schools, Banks, Hotels, Churches,
Courthouse, ETC., Etc.
Leading Manufacturing, Mer-
.canti1e, and Other BuSi-
ness Establishments.
CHATTANOOGA.

| Nature seems to have since the forma
ton of the continent intended Chatta
nooga for great railroad, manufacturing
and commercial emporium. At any rate
the ranges of rock-ribbed and impossible
mountains, constituting part of the great
A pilachian chain that belts the country
from northeast to southwest, forming bar
riers that the engineering skill of the age
is vain to overcome in securing practi-
cable pathway for railroads through these
regions rich with iron and coal and marble
and zinc and copper and lime, and clad
with vast forests of pine and oak and hick-
ory and walnut and ash and cedar. find
here at Chattanooga the gates a jar, the ad-
| amantine barriers broken down and the
| pathway smo )thed by the hands of pri-
meval forces for our great highway to pass,
uniting the railway systems of the North
and West with those of the South Atlantic
| and Gulf States. Here at Chattanooga con-
verge six great lines of railroad all taxed
to their utmost to transport the travel and
the traffic that comes to or departs from
Chattanooga. The Cincinnati Southern,
the most thoroughly built and the best
equipped railroad upon the continent,
reaches away to the northward 1856 miles
to Cincinnati, where it meets the vast net
| the North and from East to West across
| the continent. Passengers are carried over
| this incompatible highway with comfort,
expedition and safety. Its night trains,
which are not excelled by the equipments
of any American railroad, carry travellers
in only twelve hours time from Cincin-
natl to Chattanooga in sleeping cars as
comfortable as the most luxuri us of bed
chambers In from 18 to "a hours after the
bills OF lading are signed in Cincinnati
freight is landed in Chattanooga. Cotton
from the fertile fields of Georgia, South
Carolina and Alabama thence find means
of transportation to the warehouses of
Cincinnati and thence to Eastern sea ports.
Marble as beautiful as that of
the mountains OF Eegeia, is quar-
ried from the bluffs along the river
and fioated here to be transported over the
same great line of railway. To the north
east from Chattanooga runs the East Ten
nessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad. in the
direction of Knoxville, 112 miles distant,
throu b a region rich with fields Of coal
and iron, and by beds OF priceless mar
bles, in extent absolutely inexhaustible.
To the southeast runs the Western & At
lantic Road to Dalton, 50 miles, and to At
lanta, 14O miles, with the various lines con-
yergirg in that thriving and beautiful city
To the southwest stretches the Alabama &
Great Southern Road, upon which are
many fine towns, inclusive of Birming-
ham, the great iron mart of Alabama, 143
miles distant from Chattanooga. To the
west reaches the Memphis & Charleston
line on which are Huntsville, 81 miles,
and Decatur, 122 miles distant. To the |
northwest runs the Nashville & Chattanoo-
ga line, that has ridden this city until the |
business men were ready to sing hosannas
when the backbone of the monopoly was |
broken by the completion of the Cincinnati |
Southern and its opening under its present |
efficient management
These are the completed railroads that |
form the present system whose focus is |
Chattanooga. At Dalton, thirty eight miles |
south on the Western & Atlantic line,
the Selma Rome & Dalton Road comes in,
the distance from Dalton to Rome being
forty miles, making the latter city seventy
eight miles from Chattanooga. Within q
few days more direct line leading to Rome,
Ca, sixty five miles in length. has been
placed under contract, and the work will
be promptly completed, making seven rail-
road lines converging here instead of six as
1T present
The crop of cotton grown in the United
st .tes in 1879 is now shown to be some
], 600 900 bales. worth on o reasonable es-
innate $500 900, 600. This enormous yield
Of staple in demand throughout the
world is mainly grown in the ten States of
Tennessee. North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana.
Arkansas Texas and Florida. From the
corporate limits of Chattanooga five of
,hese States may be seen with the naked
,ye, and the railroads centering here pene-
rate them all In addition to this enor.
nously profitable crop grown in an area
If which Chattanoo "a is fast becoming the
.reat manufacturing center the city is
ikewise the heart of section rich in iron,
.oal, timber and marble almost beyond
precedent throughout the world.
ITS GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION.
1t is the breaking down of the great
system at this point and the !
'pening up of pathway through lie nat
lral gateway to the SoLCb ALiautic and /
1ulf States that enables lac CTTssfs : Fssssss.
southern Railroad to Iour into Chatta
looga, as through funnel. the gas& com
nerce of the North, and vice versa, Tor
to gather from this great cot
on region. and return to Cincinnati the
PRODUCTS of territory as vast as an empire
This eeoeraphical position alone would