Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-11-05
WHOLE NO. 2,396.
A New Halfway Project.
Nashville American.

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A new railway project Is attract
ing Considerable attention in Clarks-
Vile and in counties along the pro-
posed line. which may prove OF
some interest to Nashville directly,
and can be but beneficial to Nash
Vile and the general interest of the
state in the development of the
country through which it will pass.
The line is intended to run FROM
Evansville to Selma, Ala, crossing
the Nashville d Northwestern at
White Bluff, or somewhere near
that point. Starting from Evans
vile, it is projected through Crit
tenden county, KY, county in
which there is great mineral wealth
and much fine, but rolling land,
through Princeton and the magniti-
cent level and fertile country be-
tween Princeton and Clarksville,
from Clarlxsville through the iron
fields of the southern part of Mont
gomery county, Tenn, Dickson.
Hickman, Lewis and the western
part of Lawrence to Tuscumbia,
Alabama, and thence through the
coal fields of western Alabama and
about Tuscaloosa to Selma. After
leaving Evansville it will pass
through the best tobacco and wheat
lands of Kentucky and Tennessee,
through the western iron belt CEN
tralIy to the Alabama line, through
the richest and best coal fields OF
Alabama. The advocates Of this
line claim TO have a backing OF am
pie northern capital and the aid OF
Gen. Gordon on the south, Of what
system OF roads in Indiana or Iili-
nois we are not informed. The
special interests of Nashville in a
road to run so near and yet just TO
miss this city by q few miles, we
leave to future developments and
further discussion.
It is most excellent line. We
have been over every foot OF the
road from near the Northwestern
road to the northern boundary OF
Crittenden county, KY, and large
part of the line runs through cOun-
try now far from market, and yet
not surpassed anywhere for fertility
and crops its mineral resources
will be almost unrivalled. We see
in it a line of great value to Ten
nessee, ard with equitable rates ii
may be of great value to Nashville.
1t is a line which is absolutely de-
manded by the interests OF the
country through which it passes.
By far the greater part of that coun-
try in TenneSsee-all of 1t except a
few miles-is far from market, and
without river or rail transportation
AS merely local road, it would
well pay the Louisville & Nashville
system to go on with their branch
from DicksOn's station south to
Tuscaloosa and north from Dickson
to Clarksville, and from there
through fifty miles of as fine coun-
try as there is in the world to Prime
eton, or to make such arrangements
with the new company as will give
them the benefit of the local freights
of that line. The importance to the
growing trade of Nashville of the
Kentucky counties through which
this road will pass cannot be over
estimated. We speak from thor
ough knowledge of the country and
its productions when we say that,
except Maury county, Nashville
has no commercial territory equal
toitand certainly none that tsurpasses
ii for fertility, level lands and pro-
ductiveness, even under conditions
of production which require almost
the cost OF produce to get 1t to mar
ket.