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

as any in the country. This will furnish al
| other source OF competition among The roads
and will cheaper Kentucky sm Pittsbur!
| coal. A rich iron country is adjacent. TW,
| years from next April the line will be flo
/ ished 10 the Brunswick sescoas,. When III,
road is completed 10 Aberdeen IL will insur,
| 100, 900 additional bales OF cotton 10 Memphis
| Mr.. Wolfe, president Of the road, sayH tn
when the road is completed he will send cir
cnlzrs all over Germany, end he can soor
I'LL the country with emigrants- Owing L
| tue healthiness and fertility OF the country
he anticipates no difficulty in geitips. any
amount of settlers. The benefits to be- de-
| rived from this road are many. Ga every
bale OF cotton coming in as much as SlOwill
be left in Memphis. INDUSTRIOUS, thrifty
settlers will raise the price OF land, and the
build new towns, increase the area OF
production n,arvelously, and will add
thus another tributary of weslth and
progress to Memphis. The road will spend
about Sl00.e00 in improvements and build
ings. The depot will be located Ia The south
ern part OF the city, aud that section will
undergo considerable improvement. The
APPEAL reporter who called upon Msjor
Busby Tor information concerning the road
found him very enthusiastic on the subject.
He says his correspondence with Mr.. Wolfe
shows that that gentleman Is no less so. The
m jor regards fhe road as destined to affect
most favorably the trade Of Memphis. The
APPEAL is indebted to HIM for the facts
above written. -
The Mississippi Valley.
Another road which viii soon be feeder
for The business p1aek and enterprise iof
Memphis il The Mississippi Waller. other
wise known as the Memphis, Yicks6urg a nd
New Orleans. II would be uselessto coness Al
the fact any longer thai MrC. P Hantisiz-
ton, the great railroad man, Is equally inter
ested in this road with Mr. Z. I. Wilson, Of
New York. Hsyinz snoczssfQlly reae he'd
Memphis. two spIsndid fe1ds invite bio 10
future conquesf- The southsszt Portion OF
cent cotion-growing qualttles, - resdy
10 be subdued by the IRON horse. Ga The.
other hand, the land between the Mississippi
and Tennessee road and the Mississippi
rlver-the finest piece of cotton land in the
world-has been alluring him, and not in
vain. Three water courses run through this
part OF Mississippi as perpetual souTc OF
life to land. The soil there is so splendidly
adapted TO embarrassing that the
draft OF Thousand wears upon its
fertility will not destroy it. lis richness,
moreover, Is constantly being added to. IL
is decidedly TO Mr.. Huntington's interest to
have slice of this road, and there seems no
reason TO doubt bu. that il will be part of
the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
system, which is assuming every day proper
ago the APPEAL said:
the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
BY going south to Chicot, Ark, thence on to
Monticello aud thence to Texarkana, would
give Huntington the desired connecting
link and he would only have 10 span one
river. III he crosses the Mississippi here
and strikes southwestern line for Texar-
kama he will have to cross four rivers the
White, st. Francis, Arkansas and Red, be-
sides any number of bayous. From this il
you'd seem that The southern route through
would be preferable, though both
would pay we'll. Two or three million bales
OF cotton can be raised on the Mississippi
country the road will open up All of these
improvements will help Memphis, which is
so fitted by nature for becoming the greatest
cotton market in the world"
One hundred miles of the Mississippi VAL
ley road has already been contracted for,
and the present condition of the road is this:
South OF Vicksburg twenty-one miles OF
road is actually built; between that
point and Fort Gibson there is a space of
eight miles let out; between Fort Gibson and
Baton Rouge 1870 miles is probably now I'M
Ter contract. Four parties are engaged in
location now between Vicksburg and Baton
Rouge. Between Baton Rouge and New Or |
eans, ninety-two miles, the entire road
las been located and let to Rogers & |
Ballantyne, who control in a measure the |
convict labor of Louisiana. This work, ac-
'ording to reports, is being pressed with |
yreat vigor. Between Memphis and the |
Bolivar county line locating parties are al |
'eady engaged. The APPEAL understands |
hat it is the intention of the company to |
place work under contract as rapidly as To- |
,ated IN sections OF twenty five and fifty miles.
The officers OF the company express the be- |
lef that the entire approximate distance |
VI $50 miles between Memphis and New Or |
cans will be spanned and the road in full |
operation within the next eighteen months. |
Some surprise has been expressed that Mr.. |
Wilson at his age should enter upon the act
We work OF constructing railroad. He is |
worth S10,O00,000 and is over seventy years
u ago. II seems he loaned S400, 900 to par
les interested in the road, and in order TO |
protect himself he had to buy out the whole
Dad. When he had done so he had occa=
ZION to 60 through the land through which |
he proposed route was to go. He |
vas SO much captivated by it |
hat he became personally interested
n The building and completion of the road. |
de has therefore made up his mind to push |
he work through. He is president of the |
Dad. John A. Grant, of New Orleans, il
1ice president and chief engineer, and J. NJ. |
cu"dfusJ Vi NlCk5oufSJ Is genera mAnaseF.
The Florence ana Birmingham.
The latest proposed road is the Florence |
Ind Birmingham. The large fields Of coal |
md iron about Birmingham which have so |
ong been allowed to remain unworked, have |
1t last attracted the attention they deserved. |
A short time ago, it will be remembered, an |
.ffort was made 10 consolidate the Memphis |
md Charleston road, the East Tennessee, |
Virginia and Georgia, the Shenandoah Val. |
ey and the Western Maryland as through |
route from Memphis to Norfolk, and from |
Memphis to New York 9id Baltimore. The |
fort failed. The Memphis and Charleston
have taken hold of the mstter |
and are to pay the present lessees 100000 |
bonus to recover the road. A. S. Colyar, OF |
he Memphis and Charleston, who ia head Of |
syndicate owning $4,000 acres OF land at |
which is rich in minerals, coal |
and iron, has suggested the building of |
4 road from Florence TO Birmingham. Coal is |
'raught to Memphis now by the Louisville |
md Nashville and the Chesapeake, Ohio and |
for ten cents per bushel. II the |
Florence and Birmingham road il put
trough, the price OF coal will probably be !
educed to eight ?snis. II we can get crude |
IRE from the iron mines we can enter upar
he Manufacture OF iron here on q ls-ese scale.
Y is by all means ds-i-soie that Colonel
Joiysrs n Ia should be carried through.
From COrinfh TO BirmfagEam.
In the course OF an interview with Colonel
Josiah Patterson relative 10 the Florencs
ranch to Birmingham, he said that it had