Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-01-13
FIR M LOUISVILLE TO tn
ATLANTIC.
E&F-F EEE
Important Conference of Railr
men.

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Flom the Raleigh Observer, January 10th.
There was full meeting of the Di-
rectors of this road yesterday after
noon, but no business of Importance
was transacted. sr
Last night the Board of Directors
was in session in the Governors office
to meet Col. C. NJ. McGhee.s Capt.
Richards, of Georgia, and Col. Josph
JaQues, who had come to Raleigh to
meet the Board of Directors, and con-
suit with them about the completion
Of the Western Road. "a
Col. McGhee is President of the
Knoxville and Ohio Railroad, Vice
President and managing director Of
seven or eight hundred miles Of rail
road, including the main line from
Bristol on the Virginia line to Mem
phis, and what's more important'tous,
is also manager Of the Morristown
branch of the East Tennessee, Virgil
MIA and Georgia Railroad, that runs
down to the North Carolina line.
When the Board had been called to
order Col. McGhee spoke as follows:
GENTLEMEN The East Tennessee.
Virginia and Georgia Railroad Com
pany and the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad Company have been
watching with intense anxiety the pro
gress your company is making in the
construction of the missing link to
connect the railroads of North Caro-
lima with the Tennessee Valley.
When your road reaches the Ten
nessee line, the, line from Salisbury
ola Knoxville and Asheville gives 8
direct routeto Chattanooga, Nashville,
Memphis and the Southwest, and also
to Selma, Montgomery and New Or
leans, and to most of these points it
will afford the shortest route.
| When the connection between Knox
vile and Louisville is made, your road
land the EastTennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad becomes portion
of line connecting four millions Of
population on the Eastern Atlantic
slope with the West.
At present, commerce between Nortt
Carolina and her sister States on the
Eastern slope, which is immense, ne
cesarily seeks circuitous routes oftran
sportation to the West.
| When your line is completed, being
the direct short line to the West, il
can have no successful competitor,
and as our road is to become a com
ponent part in this great line, it is
easy to account or the interest we fee
in it's completion.
In consequence of. this interest, il
was resolved, at a recent meeting o.
the Board of Directors OF the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georges
Railroad, to appoint Capt. JOSEPH
Jacques, Mr.. R. III. Richards and my.
self committee, with instructions to
visit Raleigh, N c., and get reliable
information as to the time at which
your company would be able to reach
the Tennessee State line at Paint
Rock.
AS you are aware, our branch road
is now running to within four( A. miles
of the latter place. The unfinished
portion of this branch we are willing
at any time to construct, when its
completion will in any way facilitate
or forward your company in the
great work which it has undertaken
A road now reaches north from
Knoxville forty (40) miles inthe direc-
ton of the Ohio River, and branch
of the Louisville, Nashville and Great
Southern Road extends las southeast
from the city of Louisville, leaving
of unfinished road to eonnectthe Ohio
River with the Valley of Tennessee
67 miles. .-.....
read copy Of letter addressed
by DR.. Standiiord, President of the
Louisville, Nashville and Great South
ern Railroad, and myself to the
Governor Of the State of North Caro-
lima upon this subject.
From this you will see that both
companies are committed to the
early completion of these links. All
that is required upon your part to put
the state Of North Carolina in direct
communication with Louisville and
the Northwest, andwith Memphis and
the Southwest, is that you finish to
Paint Rock. atI I
The great importance Of securing
this connection Ia 50 apparent to all,
that deem it scarcely necessary TO ais
Jude TO it.
A glance at a railway map shows
the railway system of North Carolina,
Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina,
converging at point near Asheyille,
aud extending to the various parts OF
those respective States. Looking
westward upon the map you will oh
serve that no direct con meet on can be |
made with the great West 40 direct as
over the line of railway between
Lynchburg aud Atlanta, a distance of |
naarIv 300 nnilea. a no mimi In thin