Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-11-24
A NEW RAILROAD
BEING LOCATED FROM GLEN MARY TO
THE Coal FIELDS IN FENTREss
COUNTY WHAT 1T SIGNIFIES.

Engineers are now locating line
upon which II railway will be construct,
ed at an early day, from Glen Mary,
Tennessee, on the Cincinnati Southern,
to the vast coal fields of Fentress coun-
ty. Tennessee.
The enterprise is in the hands of
Pennsylvania capitalists of large ex-
perience and means, who by expensive
drilling during seven months past, have
demonstrated the extent of coal basins
in that section to be immense, larger
continuously perhaps, than any known
in the South and more superior in quail
ity. To make this wealth available is
the present purpose of the railway pro-
iectors, though the entire significance of
the movement is not confined to this
since, 10y reference to the geography of
Tennessee, and tracing from any point
on the Cincinnati Southern Railway
near Glen Mary or Snbrlght, "a west
ward course, about twenty miles, vii!
bring You to the western escarpment
of the tableland of the tabl"land Of the
Cumberland Mountains at "A point
known as Buffalo Cove, where the coal
is accessible, and which will he pres
ent terminus of the railway; from this
point, the tableland proper, affords a
most feasible route for Il railway, II dis
lance of thirty miles enthusiastically
towards Sparta or Lebanon, Tenn, now
connected hy rail with Nashville; fur
. thermore, an easterly course from Glen
Mary on the Cincinnati Southern.a dis
lance of less than twenty miles, brings
YOU in contact with direct railway con.
nection with Knoxville; hence, it is not
Improbable, that the short line now
contemplated may prove an important
factor towards securing much needles
and long talked of r.ilway, connecting
directly Knoxville and Nashville.
! Fentress county, which, it has beer
S proven, contains wealth enough to war
rant the construction of railway
twenty miles in length to reach it, and
from the above, it seems may result il
still greater benefit to the State, ha
:! hitherto been considered Inaccessible
and unproductive by most Tennesseans
yet, as the projectors claim, the railwa,
construction will he followed by tn
manufacture of coke and iron on larg
scale, and the distribution through tn
South of large quantities of coal AM
If coke, superior in quality TO most u
y that now offered. In addition, thongl
u secondary to this, tbsHes wi viii 6e sac,
:. -..-Ty s--I->s ea.1ss 3 -.
l. successful farmers, already Identified
: with the Anglo German settlement @
: Allardt, whose prospect, although high
n ly promising at present, is thus practi
e cal y settled.
J. An important auxiliary to the devc1
n opment Of that section is the selecto
, Of most charming site for "a town, %
J. the line of the new railroad to I've Gale
II Allardt, which has been judiciousl
J. sub-divided, and already boasts of
il post-office, two hotels, store and sa
mil and perhaps half dozen privat
dwellings, among which is very hand
d some residence, owned and occupi d b
the prime mover in the railway ,nte
prise, whose faith in future events Ina
been rs boundless as his zeal in thos
~ of the present. -ChaHanooya Time