Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-06-03
The Tennessee and Pacific Rail-
road TO be Completed.
Nashville American, June LIST.

For several months Governor
Porter has been quietly and dill
gently laboring to carry The Tennes-
see and Pacific Railway from Leb-
anon to the Virginia line. When he
entered the railroad field it was with
laudable ambition to win distinc-
ton in his new field, and to do a
service to the State, and he has been
impressed with q belief that he can
do the State no greater service than
in the building of this line, which
will make the capital truly railway
center, bringing all the products and
all the coal and iron and other min
eral wealth of the State into close
communication. We have already
pointed out that what we most lack
in Tennessee is a line leading
east through almost the CEN
ire of the State. The road will
run from Nashville to Lebanon,
twenty, eight niles, to which point it
is completed, thence to Gordonsville,
near the Caney Fork, ffty-four and
5 half miles ftom Nashville, thence
to Big Sandy river, 128 miles from
thence to Wartburg, 1876 miles from
Nashville, thence to the junction with
l the Knoxville and Kentucky railroad,
t two miles from Clinton, 165 miles.
!, From Nashville to Bristol, to its con
nection, therce with the Bristol and
=. and Norfolk line, the Norfolk and
- Western, 268 miles, by way Of Clin'
" ton.
n The road cuts one of the fines
coal regions in America in the Cal
10 Killer valley, on Emery River, on the
le southern slope of the Cumberland
- mountains, north of Wartburg, ant
= on the eastern slope of Walden
Vi Ridge. There are $500 feet of Goa
ne measures, with dozen different bed
I'd of coal, of an aggregate thickness
III at Winters Gap, for instance, of 2
:: feet of solid coal. This coal bel
Il allowing fifteen miles on each side a
~ available, contains / 500 square miles
of lying fifty miles along the roat
IL Prof Stafford regards five solid fee
i over this entire area available to tn
- road as very small estimate.
le' also crosses large deposits of irol
~ and runs through the undeVelope
en- oil region of the State.
ad AS paying road this will prov
bv the best investment in the Sout
Dr beyond all question. It's commerce.
- connections, the minerals, the liz
DIS agricultural country, it's connectio
I'd. with Norfolk by the most diret
to route, and the immediate trade an
he travel with and to the port, all mal
10 it the very best of all Southel
roads.
ia' Governor Porter is now in Ne
TN York pushing the enterprise, al
di- while feeble obstructionists 81
ed making unavailing efforts to destrt
nd the credit Of Tennessee he is uslr
that credit he has done SO much
Is preserve in the promotion of Il
the interests of his State and his peopl
lpe It is the progressive builders
prosperity shame the distractions
3o- The people Of Tennessee can see
results like these with whom the
Or true interests lie. Governor Port
mt. is meeting with success in the lab
ng, of bringing this matter to the attic
rk ton of capital, when, but for o
81 restored credit capitalists would n
u even listen to the proposition. Z
eW morrow we shall set out more ful
is the facts and connections and poin
eat of the line.