Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-09-23
rhe Gordon Rond lon,n.

The CHRONICLE intends to keep
this grand enterprise before the
people OF GAINESVILLE and Montgom-
cry county, and urge by all the
means in its power, its paramount
importance and absolute necessity
of construction in order TO secure
cheap transportation and the devel-
opment of the splendid resources
for manufacturing enterprises that
will undoubtedly come to us with
the building of this new road. Its
construction will be grand bless
ing to GAINESVILLE; it will be mag
nificent stride towards prosperity
and development which we can
never hope otherwise to attain. 1t
will be built and must be built
through GAINESVILLE 1t shall never
leave us out in the cold.
1t is with infinite pleasure that
we see the plans concentrating and
the signs pointing to its early COM
ing. We watch every newspaper
utterance and every step that is be-
ing taken with anxious, pleasing
solicitude, for its coming will be an
inestimable blessing to GAINESVILLE
and the people. We could write
columns why our city should take
especial and absorbing interest in
its construction. We have not the
space this time, neither is it neces-
esary; the matter has been well dis
cussed, and every intelligent citi-
zen and business man knows its
great importance.
We are pleased to see an editorial
in the Nashville American, wherein
Col. Colyar recounts talk with
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, on
Mobile bay as Southern outlet to
the sea. The Senator assures him
that by means of government inn
provements which have been 60
ing on steadily of late years in the
bay, vessels drawing seventeen feet
can come in, and at high tide those
drawing twenty feet can come in.
The cut has been made through
firm clay and is constantly being
deepened by the flowing Of the tide.
So that in fact Mobile is going to
be permanently one of the best
harbors ON the Gulf OF Mexico. Col.
Colyar continues:
This will not only make Mobile
q great city, but taken all in all it
now promises to be the great coaling
station for the Gulf of Mexico, and
the gate through which he'great
bulk of tropical products will pass.
1t is q most important feature in the
Gordon scheme for a railroad from
Evansville to Mobile. AT present
the making of 100 miles in the CEN
ter of the system is at hand. 1t is
intended by building 100 miles out
from Florence on the Tennessee
river into the ore beds in Tennessee,
and then from the same point into
the Warrior coal fields in Alabama,
OOtAl anu CO<AAB AAnh
capital invested in iron-making on |
or near the Tennessee river can get |
the benefit of both.
But this is the beginning of the |
great scheme. The whole line when |
will pass through the
coal fields between Evans |
Vile and GAINESVILLE, and also |
through the splendid tobacco re-
giOn, then through the immense
iron beds between the rivers, then
through the Warrior coal fields and
immense iron beds by way of Tus-
caIoosa and down to Mobile. Moth
ing in any country will excel it as
a mineral road, and if, when it
reaches Mobile, a fine harbor is
found, and safe pass made to the
deep water, then the whole scheme |
presents as many attractions as any |
scheme devised, and at some point
between the Coal and iron VIII
spring up immense iron Industries.