Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-01
MEMPHIS TO-DAY.


the bearer of glad tidings OF great 10
Never, since 1927, when Winchester W
sworn in as mayor Of the then embryo cit
has the future been so bright, so full
promise and OF hope. Three years of e.
emption from yellow-fever and a death-rs
reduced TO less than twelve in the thousau
with sewer aud drainage system hat is b,
yond question "ihe beet in the world" hay
strengthened Tire faith Of eur own peopl
and the con6Genoe Of our neighbors sn
friends ia the adjacent States, inGes
throughout he country. II is now plainl
10 be seen q all men that the dreams O
Judge John Oyeriou, General Andre,
jackson and General Winchester are &
be realized. Memphis is 10 be III
seomnereial center OF the lower valley O
the Mississippi. 1t is The trading capital o
North AIabanrs, North Mississippi, Arksn
sas Western Kentucky and West Tennessee
Here will be concentrated the transcon,i
mental tn ffis moving on an isothermsI lin.
averaging afty-si1 degrees, and which seldom
il tosehed By the extrsmes OF heat and cold,
Here Is to be concentrated the barge Lnsis,ess
Of the great river, because, under al the
changes. Oh ancesL and-accidenfs- =24iaitir..
from the csprices OF the Mississippi, Mem
PbIss at The head of Perpetual and
never-obstEGcted navigation. As a con-
sequence of his here, alEo is to be concen-
trated the grain, pork and beef trade OF the
West and Northwest. The transportation OF
the food products OF those sections OF our
country have enriched Baltimore, Philadel.
phia, New York and Boston. Hereafter they
are to enrich Memphis and to stimulate
the farmers OF the surrounding Sta e.
10 changes in methods that will make
them Independent, cover their fields with
grains and grasses, and their hills with
a thousand herds of cattle, sheep and hogs.
The sag aciy and enterprise CT the founders
OF the lite hamlet at the mouth OF Wolf
is to be justified, their hopes realized, their
dreams fulfilled. The pIucky, enterprising
men OF to-day, rising superior to decimaiing
epidemics and overcoming the opposition Of
larger and wealthier communities, have put
the city in perfect order, and now face the
world with clean bill OF health and popu-
lation Of such energy, intelligence and capt.
tai as gives them rank with that of the
most favored aud foremost cities of The con
tinent. Under new system of government,
in little over two years, beginning with the
spring OF 1880, 100000 have been
expended in hard cash for the paw
ing of ten miles Of stree, with
stone, the putting down eli 40} miles of
sewers and 4OI miles Of snbsoiI drain-ties
Besides this, there has been expended by
citizens, to make sewer connections, more
than 100000. This extraordinary exp,nd- !
iture Of nearly 81 100000 by people in
1879 reduced TO despair by successive cpl |
denies of yelloB-fever, is their expression of |
confidence in the future which now opens so
promiaingly for them. That this oobfid, nee |
is we'll placed, the figures az 10 the present |
deaih-rste OF Memphis eloquently tell. |
Notwithstanding large negro population to
which sanitation even in lis more simple |
forms is almost unknown, the mortality |
has been reduced, as we have said, to less
than Twelve in the one thoussnsd5f This
is due to the abolition OF the old
privy system, to the drainage OF the |
soil, fairly administered scsveoger eye
TEN, to the paving of the streets, thus
preventing sub-soil exhalations, and, above
ALL to the autom atically flushed sewers which
have become The typical system for all com-
munities that would profit by that neces-
sary part OF perfect sanitation. In adj |
dition to this expenditure by our eiti-
zsns, they have paid ont in the last
year nearly $l,375.OOO for the CON
struction and repair of private dwellings, |
factories, mile, stores, elevators and COM
presses, and have invested as much more in
manufacturing enterprises. The increase in |
the number and extent of the railroads ecu
tering here has kept pace with this private
and municipal enterprise. All the old roads
the Little Rock, the Tennessee, the Louis
Vile and the Charleston-report increa |
a,I and an
unexamPled prosperity, especially during |
the summer months, growing out OF the |
greatly increased trade in vegetables and |
small fruits, most of it from this /
city; and the Chesapeake, Ohio and South
western, only one month opened 10 ire flo |
through out its whole length, has been pushed
beyond lis rapidly increased capacity to |
supply double what was deemed a possible |
bul not probable demand, aud has been COM
PEELED TO borrow rolling-st from other !
companies. That this is TO be of great |
benefit TO Memphis as any of the other |
existing lines q railroad we are not per-
mitted to doubt from what it has already |
accomplished. This is its western ter
minus, and here it must make its most |
active canSass for business. Another impor- |
tant road soon TO be completed 20 Holly |
Springs is the Memphis, Selma and Eruns-
wick. This ought to add at least 10000
bales of cotton 10 our neIt years receipts.
and the equivalent of that in groceries and
dry goods Next on the list, 10 be COM
pleteI. we are assured, in March next, is tie
Kansas City road. For this the imments
e evator built during the year is in resdi'
ness BY this road Memphis is to he made
a beef, pork and grain market-one OF the
most import ant on the Mississippi. 1t will
bring the farmers, packers and srain-dealers
of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Northwestern
Missouri nearer to the SEES, by more than 300
iniles, than they now by st. Louis,
and by one days less time face TO
face with the cotton planters OF the great
cotton belt, in the very center OF which
Memphis stands the queen of the VALLEY,
Growing this system of railroads, which
with their connecting lines 90 out to the
farthest parts OF the continent, tying US by
indissoluble bonds with all the States Of our
Union, we are promised The early completion
of the Mississippi Valley railroad connecting
with New Orleans via Friars Point, Vicksburg,
Nllchez, Port Gibson, Baton Rouge and
other towns along the river, ard passing
through that surprisingly rich bottom lying
between the State line ard the Yazoo river
bottom where one day there will be raised