The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-04-07
TIE RAILROAD PROPOSITION.
To the Citizens of Greenville and
Washington county.

To the Citizens of Greenville and
Washington county.
The above proposition, which
you will decide on Saturday, the
9Th inst, by your votes, is of such
Importance that we are induced to
address you in Its support. You
are called upon to indicate whether
you desire to be placed IN comm1.
nication with the outside world.
and have the means Ofquick transit
Tor yourselves and. your cotton and
treights, in contrast with mud
roads and mule locomOtion which
should belong to a past era.
The proposal from the Memphis
and Vicksburg Railroad Company
is to build road from a point
from their main line on Deer Creek
in Sharkey county, via Lake Wash
lngton, Silver Lake, Lake Lee to
Greenville, and thence in the di.
rection of Egypt Ridge, in Bolivar
county, to be continued through
that county to intersect the main
line at point north of here.
The entrance and occupancy of
the Yazoo Delta by one of the
most powerful Railroad corpora
tions of the Nation is an event
profoundly marking its history.
No other portion of the South is
endowed by such advantages and
resources of agriculture; combm-
ed with such obstacles and ene-
mics to their development, which
have long kept at bay the magic
touch of the Railroad. A soil of
exhaustless fertility, adapted to
such Il variety OF productions that
should make the wealth of a coun-
try; VIC nevertheless witness on
every hand actual rctrogression
and decay in place of progress and
prosperity. Chiefamong the causes
to this condition are the dangers
and fears of annual iuundation ;
the want of capital to utilize and
proftably handle our productions;
our isolation from ways and lines
of travel and transportation Dy
which our advantages might be dis
played and farm products cheaply
carried to market; not only the
want of, but the impossibility of
making, good country roads, with
out which no country can prosper ;
the natural result of these envi-
ronmcnts is our restriction to a
single product, cotton.
Through Railroads, the king of
progress, all of these enemies will
be conquered. awe will get out of
the old ruts that VIC have been in
so long, and with the help Of the
Railroad enter upon a new depart
ure of progress and enterprise.
The interest of this great corpo-
ration, with G. 7. Huntington and
r.. Il. Wilson, of New York, at its
head, will become identical with
ours as regards the leyec system
and the maintainance of our levees
and in protecting the Delta from
overflow.
The building of these roads will
bring us new population, infuse
fresh blood INTO our debilitated
social system, add to and fix the
value of our real estate, and to the
volume of business of all kinds ;
they will give daily mails, reliable
and cheap telegraphy; following
the completion of these railroads
will come the building of man.
ufactories in our midst, and means
afforded for the speedy transmits
sion of diversified products, thus
enabling us to cut loose from the
policy of raising cotton as our only
crop for export. This is only a
brief and imperfect showing of the
benefits and changes we may rea-
sonably claim that will follow in
the train of Railroads through the
Delta country.
The citizens of Greenville we
especially urge to support this
proposition. Carried into effect,
it not only guarantees this town
against decay; but opens upa wide
field for the expansion and cxer-
else of our mercantile enterprise.
But it is our mechanics that are
especially interested. The check in
the growth of the town is already
being felt by you. To change all
this, and to give the growth of the
town a new and.enduring impetus,
turn out and vote for the Railroad
and get your neighbors to do like
wise.
w. A. POLLOCK,