Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-12-10
Nashville Hankers After the Mo
bile and Evansville II. IL.


Mr.. II. NJ. Doak, editor of the
Nashville American writing in last
Tuesdays edition of hat paper, and
commenting on letter written to
his paper by a prominent citizen of
our city in regard to the above NAM
ed road makes the following sensible
remarks bearing upon the great i'm
portance of the road. a perusal of
the extract which we give goes to
show how great an interest is begin
ming to be felt all along the line of
the proposed road and even by
those cities which are removed
many miles from the road and can
only hope to be benefited by their
connections with it. He says:
Our correspondent does not exag-
gerate Its importance. To say moth
ing of the iron of the Tennessee
counties from Montgomery county
to the Alabama line and of the
Goals of Tuscaloosa, the country
from seven miles north of Clarks-
vile, to about ten miles north of
Princeton, Kentucky, about seven
ty miles, is not eXcelled anywhere.
1t is so out of the world that the ex-
istence of such country is not gen.
orally known. We haYe spoken of
it as only inferior to Maury county.
Those of our readers who have seen
and noted the distinctive difference
between the best lands of Maury
and the best lands of Sumner will
be able to understand what kind of
country it is. The entire line be-
tween a point a few miles north of
GAINESVILLE and a point a few miles
north OF Princeton, and for miles on
both sides resembles the best lands
in Sumner county. Indeed Sumner
and the Kentucky counties through
which this line lies are parts of the
same region.
Crittenden county presents differ
ent features, but, with the exception
of a sandstone ridge cutting the
country nearly centrally, from
north to south, it is a very fertile
and productive hill county. North
of Crittenden the line reaches the
coal of that portion of the Illinois
belt lying in Kentucky, which is call
ed the Tradwater region. The coal
and iron are matter of secondary
interest to the merchants of Nash
Vile; commerce is the first interest
of most of our business men and the
trade of Nashville can reach no finer
country, or more of it in a body,
than between GAINESVILLE and
Princeton. Opened up it will be a
prize which Evansville will want,
and the longest pole must knock
the persimmOns. The proposed
road will run within a few miles of
Nashville; how close we may be
able to determine, along with our
connections. The growing manu-
featuring interests here have deep
concern in the coal and iron, in the
immense timber resources of coun-
ties which are agrieulturally poorer
than those we have mentioned, and
yet not on this account to be despis-
ed as markets. The cooperation of
commercial, manufacturing and
lumber interests may render this
road important aid, secure to Nash
vile and its trade and all its COM
bined interests, the roads eentering
here as well,'a new and valuable
supply source as well as an outlet.
If Nashville is the great manufact-
uring point, the great commercial
and distributing point |
we think it is, it should welcome
railways from all quarters, and aid |
in building them free
lines to all, relying upon its position
for the outcome.