The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-11-17
The Memphis, selma and EiirIus
Ingham Railroad.

information. We cannot
The Memphis, selma and EiirIns
IRghom Railroad.
II we are to have a new railroad
the managers of the company will
best consult their own interests by
building it Immediately. The crops
in this portion of the country are all
gathered, and the amount Of iule ma
terial for labor will remain unprece-
dented in this State until next Febru
airy Not only is the number Of
unemployed laborers exceptionally
large, but owing to tie hard times il
is extraordinarily cheap. The com
pany proposing to build this road
liz it be actually ia earnest, will save
thousands oil dollars by going to
work at once. There are thousands
Of idle men along the proposed line
who will be glad to work at almost
any price, but who cannot be con-
rolled if the company continues It's
policy of mastery inactivity until
the time Of planting cotton again ar
rives. The golden opportunity of
the company lies in the present hour
Holly Springs Reporter
The people along the line Of the
proposed Memphis, Holly SpIings
and Selma railroad, who were so
much elated few months ago, by
the bombastio speeches Of Mr.. Wolfe
the president OF the new company,
have at last become distrusttul Of the
sincerity Of his expressions in refer
ence to the building of the road, aud
the Memphis Appeal, as well as The
Holly Springs Reporter, has intima
ted that this dilly.dallylng IN the
matter was begethng impotence and
disgust. A man who means business
don't waste time in blowing his
bazoo -Tupelo journal
Both the papers above quoted
know nothing at all Of what they are
complaining about In the first place,
the Holly Springs Reporter mus.
certainly know-if its adipose and
ponderous editorial mind is capable
Of knowing anything at all-that
HolnNSprings hoe oilcady had fayors
bevond its~SQmmercial merits. Il is
a little town ofNsome fifteen hundred
or two thousand Inhabitants, situa-
ted way up IN the sane-lills OF Mar
shall county, remote fr0f4 any IN
telests beyond that of some very
good schools and a few candnd9tes
for Office, and is only important in
legal point Of view in the Carotu
case.
We happen to know that the road
between Memphis and Selma will be
built. We happen to know further,
that Marshall county resisted the
payment of the bonds voted in good
faith by its citizens to aid in the con
struction of the road from Memphis
by the way of Holly Springs, to
Selma, Alabama. We happen to
know still further that Holly Springs
carried the bond case Of Marshall
county into the courts and plead for
a judgment in her favor, based on
an Indiana decision against the right
OF corporate taxation. In word,
we happen to know that Marshall
county did this while Shelby county
in Tennessee, was wasting a five
hundred thousand dollars subsciip-
ton in the efforts Of Gen Forest to
build the road through to Selma -
The road between Memphis and Hol
~ springs was graded and furnished
with cross ties and could have been
easily completed if Holly Springs
had shown sufficient spilig OF enter
prise to desire it. The cross tics
were allowed to rot or furnish fuel
for negro cabins, while Che earthwork
filtered through the sand and mud Of
Nonconnah and Coldwater, equalled
in the sluggish course only by the
sluggish nature OF those that are now
crying out against Wolfe for not
building the road 10 two or three
months, which they could not have
had the remotest chance OF ever OBJ
tainiug will out him. and which they
permittel for ten years to lie in utter
waste and desolation, If the Re
porter and Tupelo Journal will but
consult the facts 10 the case they will
see that Mr.. Fred Wolfe is pushing
the work from Eutaw on towards
Memphis as fast as money and the
labor obtainable can do it. The
sincerity Of bis purpose is nantes,
in bis acts, and Trey speak louder
than words. The Memphis Appeal
ought to know better than TO have
in the.uilImate intentions
of the Erlanger Syndicate TO build |
the road, since it could have read |
the last report made TO the Syndicate
in London, aud which especially men |
TONED the importance the manage
ment attaches to the early compile |
lion Of the Memphis and Berming |
nam connection in their vast South |
3rn system But the Reporter and
Journal, not having by nature orl
otherwise any extensive source oil
Information, can be readily excused |
On the ground OF ignorance aud total !
ieprayity. -Vicksburg Commercial /
Tennessee marble is supplanting |
Italian in many sections of the
ounlry.
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