Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-04-09
NASHVILLE AND KNOXVILLE.

The desirability Of more direct
railroad communication between
Nashville and Knoxville will be ad-
mitted by all. Heretofore, for sew
eral years past, but little has been
said about such line,' but recent
events have made its construction a
matter of greater interest to Nash
vile, and it is being talked
of. The following dispatch
to the Cincinnati Commercial, shows
that Col. Cole, decidedly one of the
ablest railroad men in the south,
is thinking about it.
"Colonel B. w. Cole told me to-day
he had been invited to go to Jackson,
Tennessee, to have a conversation
with prominent citizans with refer.
ence to the construction of railroad
from that place to Nash vile, Tennes-
see. He thought the project aD en-.
tirely practicable one, and had no
doubt it would be pushed forward
with as much celebrity as possible.
The road once built to Nashville,
would be extended to the Cincinnati
Southern. This would give to the
road direct communication with Gins
cinnati and Chattanooga, and thus
secure business from cities both north
aud south. But the road would not
stop at the Cincinnati Southern. 1t
would, in all probability, run into
Knoxville and there connect with the
eastern system of railroads 10 Norfolk,
one of the finest harbors in the world.
Whether this enterprise was carried
out or not, he felt that Cincinnati was
bound to have more direct connec-
ton with Nashville, and the lime was
not far distant when the Cincinnati
Southern would find it to its advans
tage to build road from some point
on its line to Nashville. Cincinna in
fact, could not, as a commercial propo.
sition, afford to ignore city of sixty
thousand or seventy thousand people,
and the i'm meDse trade they were now
constantly developing, having line,
as she does, running within one hun
! dred and twenty mites OF 1t. He pre-
dicted that Nashville would be one OF
the largest manufacturing cities 10 the
| south. This prediction was basel
upOn its location and the untold min
eral resources near at hand. Not only
was it near the richest beds OF miner
ais in the country, but in an agricu
tural region that was not surpasse
anywhere. " N.s
HE had not looked upon this maj
and traced the proposed road from
Jackson to Nashville to its final pos
sible ach ievements. but Intended to d,
so. Heintimated that this connection
would be one of very great import
ance TO the Illinois Central, inasmuch
as it would give 10 Chicago direci
route with Jackson TO the easter 4
coast and would enable 1t to obtain
business fIom that direction that did
not now come to 1t. He intended
making an extended survey of the
| map and would be better able, witt
his knowledge OF the railroad system
of the south, to give a more practice
idea hereafter as to what might be de
veloped by a road that would run from
Jackson across the state of Ten nessee
Colonel Cole has often remark &c
since he resigned the position of presi
dent OF the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis railway, that IL he en-
tered any further RAILROAD enterprises
he would not have to leave Nashvill,
to do so. These remarks may be con
sidered as having been significant o.
his intention to aid in the building o.
through line to Knoxville with the
help possibly of the Chicago, st. Louis
| ADD New Orleans, the Cincinnati
Southern and the Knoxville system
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