Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-09
Railroad News.

Railroad News.
Fifteen miles of track have been laid on
the Atlanta and Macon division of the E. T.,
Va. & Ga. Railroad. Eighty miles of the
rails are at Macon, and the division is ex-
pected to be completed by June 1.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON.
The Banker and Broker: East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia and Memphis and
Charleston Companies executed agreement
consolidation yesterday. Outstanding cap
ital stock of Memphis and Charleston
amounting to SIS, 312, 1875 be retired, in
place of which East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia will issue on 200 miles Mem
phis and Charleston 81, 387, 900 incomes,
81, 387, 900 preferred stock and $1,000, 900
common stock Income bonds bear six per
cent. interest, payable April and October.
Most of road laid with steel, has iron
bridges and ample equipment.
THE GREAT TENNESSEE RAILWAY.
Nashville American: Cur Franklin cor
respondent says that gentle men are endeav-
oring to put under way the building of IA
line of rail from Bristol to Memphis. We
have set out this line and its advantages and
urged its building by the road which owns
vile. That the road will be built is a GER
tainty 1t is not only road from Bristol
to Memphis, and hence link in the line
from the Pacific coast to Memphis, but it is
link in great transcontinental line from
the Pacific to the Atlantic at Norfolk. We
have before set out its advantages and urg
ed it upon the attention of capitalists and
railway men, as link in a great through
line and set out its value as a local road. In
either aspect it ought to command immedi-
ate attention. AS a local road it will COM
mand immediate profits.
We differ with our correspondent as to
the precise location, and we do SO from
very thorough knowledge of the country. 1t
will be found better to run by way of Gin
ton, Cheeks Cross Roads and Rogersville,
perfectly level and very fertile countay, al
most from Cumberland mountains to Bristol.
than by way of Powelrs Valley. To this
there is no strong objection. 1t would lie
rather closer to the East Tennessee and Vir-
ginia than would be desirable, if there
were not strong compromising advantages.
These are to be found in the fact that in order
to pass by Jonesboro, the East Tennessee
and Virginia was run through the poorest
part of East Tennessee, from the New Mar
ket valley up. The new road will strike
country which is not only similar to, but
the same as that unparalleled New Market
valley. This country stretches almost from
Clinton to Bristol
The entire line from Bristol to Memphis
will touch more fertile land and more varied
resources than almost any road of its length
in the United States Its poorest lands will
be the Cumberland Mountain plateau, with
its great coal fields, the best in the State,
and the section between the basin of Middle
Tennessee and the Tennessee River, with
its great iron resources. 1t strikes the two
undeveloped and, by railroads, unpierced
portions of Tennessee. These are the north
eastern portion, lying along the Kentucky
line, and the Virginia line from the Cum
berland Mountains to Bristol, and the por-
ton along the Alabama and Mississippi
lines, which is cut nearly centrally by the
Tennessee River.
The road will be for this reason, the
| greatest material blessing which could be-
fall Tennessee. 1t will, when built, leave
the State crossed in almost all parts by
main through lines, and leave nothing de-
sirable in the way of rail transportation, so
far as the interior transportation of the
State is concerned, except supplementary
short lines. Leading out of the great CEN
ter of Memphis, great now and destined to
be greater, it will touch the great collecting
and distributing and manufacturing city of
Nashville, and connect both closely with
the Atlantic at one of its best ports; it
will have the finest iron and coal sup
plies of any road in the United States !;
it will cut an agricultural country which
is one of unsurpassed fertility. We have
been over every foot of it from Clinton to
near Bristol, and those who regard 1t as a
wilderness have not seen one of the fairest
portions of Tennessee, that between Gin
ton and Bristol and especially that portion
of it which corresponds with and is exactly
like the famous New Market valley which
lies along the East Tennessee and Georgia
road for few miles, beginning at Straw.
berry Plains, few miles above Knoxville.
We are glad to see Tennessee capital NOV
ing in this matter. Wehave capital enough
to build it and make it the richest road il
the South.
SWEET BREATH AND GOOD DIGES-
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