Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-02-21

SdnAAALIS TIC AeCO 1elNCI anu Il IlHC0-
ton Railroad Company, when the
great scoop knocked all their
arrangements out of gear, and he
considered that this committee had
no further work to do and moved
that it be discharged.
DIR. Wright opposed this motion.
He considered that GAINESVILLE had
still important railroad interests to
attend to and did not despair o: the
road in question, at least at the
Princeton branch of it. He there
fore moved in lieu that the COM
mittee, which had shown fits,.f a
good working body, be converted
into standing committee on rail-
roads.
After some discussion both these
motions were withdrawn and the
existing committee continued.
Committee on river transporta-
ton. Not ready.
Committee on roads. No member
present.
New business being now in order,
Mr.. Ingram presented the following
resolutions, which were unani-
mOusly adopted:
Whereas, The attention of the
GAINESVILLE Board of Trade has been
called to a correspondence between
Maj. ". ]. Sykes, of Columbia, and
Col. De Funiak, General Manager
of the Louisville, Nashville & Great
Southern Railroad, in which Mai.
Sykes says: ga prompt reduction
Of rates, giving each town the adj
vantage of its geographical position,
a disposition to encourage manu-
featuring by letting us have cheap
transportation on coal, giving Nash
vile and other towns in Tennessee
the same rates to Southern markets
that Louisville has the building of
cheap railroads into our mineral re-
| giOns SO that we can get cheap coal
and cheap iron; these things and
only these will prevent the purchase
of the Nashville & Chattanooga
road from being a disaster to the
Louisville & Nashville Company"
To which Col. De Funiak replies:
81 can only say that your views
perfectly agree with mine, and the
policy of this company viii be ex-
actly what you suggest in your
letter" therefore
Resolved by the GAINESVILLE Board
of Trade, That the policy indicated
by said correspondence will be en-
tirely acceptable and most crafty
ing to the people of GAINESVILLE, and
if promptly put into execution and
carried out, oar trade will not only
| become reconciled to the recent
changes by which the Tennessee
roads passed under the L. d n.
management, but will feel it duty
and pleasure to do all in our power
to protect the l.. & n. in all of its
rights Of property in Tennessee, and
render the operation of its roads
successful, having full faith that
such policy will be mutually ben
eficial to all concerned.
And whereas the people of Clarks-
/ vile and surrounding country have
in contemplation a system of mar
row-gauge railroads for the purpose
of extending shipping facilities to
rich sections Of agricultural and
mineral country, far from transport
| tation, whereby increased produc-
ton may be stimulated, and pro-
duce concentrated at GAINESVILLE to
the mutual benefit of the producers,
the market and the railroads, sus-
tanning a convenient local market
for the benefit of the country; there
| fore,
Resolved, That a committee be
appointed to confer with the Presi-
dent and Directors of the L. & N
and G. s. Railroad and solicit their
aid in building the GAINESVILLE and
PrineetOn narrow gauge railroad.
Resolved flrther, That said COM
mittee is hereby requested to lay
before the l.. d n. managers the
character and condition of the coun-
try through which the road will
pass, the necessities for and value of
such road. and the prospects of its
being a profitable investment to the
builders, and good feeder to the
trunk line.
At the request of Mr.. Ingram.
Capt. F. p. Gracey was appointed
Chairman of this committee and
the President of the Board was adj
ded to 1t. The committee now
stands as follows: F. p. Graeey, M.
H. Clark, NJ. V. Ingram and d. N.
Kennedy.
Mr.. w. II. Turnkey moved that
committee be appointed to take
steps to aid the farmers of Trigg
county and along the river IN ship
ping their tobacco to this market
that said committee take into con-
sideration the propriety of organic
ing q wagon train at different points
and giving through bills of lading
on tobacco from Cadiz to GAINESVILLE
and other pionts by wagon and
aud river.
The motion carried, and the Chair
appointed w. H. Turnkey, Matt.
Gracey, Thomas Herndon, ]. c.
Kendrick and Isaac Shelby as said
committee.
Mr.. Charles 4, Baker moved that
committee be appointed on man
ufacturing, and authorized to confer
with the managers of the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad Company In
regard to freight on coal, and to
solicit such reduction of freight on
coal as the company can afford, and
to take whatever action they may
deem proper to advance the manu-
facturing interest Of GAINESVILLE, con-
ferriRg with the railroad and river
committees that said Committee
use its efforts to bring about organi.
zation and cooperation on the part
OF our manufacturing Interest for
the extension of trade and Increase |
of manufactured products,