Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-29
MEMPHIS APPEAL
SUNDAY, IS: APRIL 90, 1888.
MEMPHIS AND THE CHESAPEAKE
AND OHIO HALLWAY.

Among the railways now connecting, or
about connecting, with Memphis, the Chesa-
peaks and Ohio deserves especial attention
from the vast extent of country it lays open
to Memphis trade and travel. The New
York Public has an interesting sketch Of the
road ard the facilities 1t offers, and those
especially who are deciding upon their ap-
preaching summer tour will find it's details
valuable. The road extends from LeIIng-
ton,iKy., 10 Newport News, Va, on the Allan
tic coast, where an immense dock has been
built, by which the locomotives and trains
can run up close 10 the aide. Of the sea ard
river steamers lying in water twenty.eight
feet deep. The view from this dock is one
worth gazing upon. Eastward lies the vast
bay, an unbroken inland sea, past the rip
raps TO Fortress Monroe, Old Point
Comfort, and on to the csPts Of
Virginia. Southeast, thirteen miles away,
across a bay az wide az that Of New York
harbor, Norfolk and Portsmouth are seen.
Northwest the view extends twenty miles up
the James river, there from six to eight miles
wide, up which steamboats, pass 10 Rich
mond. Two years ago, % the traveller
looked over the headland known as Newport
News, be saw only grassy slopes and here
and there a group of trees. To-day there is
a FIRST class hotel, the Warwick, large ele-
vAtor, vast depots, streets, now receiving
payements and sewers, and all the appliances
of an enormous traffic; immense accumuia-
tions Of coal lie ready for ooaiing steamers,
lines Of which run 10 New York and other
points East, to Charleston and to Savannah,
and direct 10 Liverpool and the Brsz.ls.
Every Southern railroad system transporting
freight northwarj must bring it to the Chesa-
peake and Ohio, at some point, nearer to
Newport News han to sny Northern seaport !;
and there ia a large saving of distance on
shipments by way Of Newport News as COM
pared with shipments by way Of Baltimore,
Philadelphia or New York. Crossing west
Of Richmond, the shortest route to the North
ern cities is by the Chesapeake and Ohio to
Charlottesville, and thence in an airline TO
Washington. From Charlottesville 10 New
port News is only 172 miles, while by Phila-
delphia it is 254, and by New York 334
miles. To Toledo on Lake Erie, Chicago,
Indianapolis and St. Louis, the road is very
direct by way Of lines through Louisville or
Cincinnati. These advantages enable the
new route, even now, to compete in Western
cities for east. bound traffic. Its alliances in
The So"ihwest are rapidly approaching COM
PletIOn. The Southwestern from Louisville
TO Psdueab, and thence TO Mem
phis, is now in operation, a line
of 392 miles, which gives direct
connection with New Orleans and with the
Iron Mountain and The Texas Pacific sys-
tenn; thence to FL PAsO and by the Southern
Pacific to San Francisco. A still more direct
route will soon be completed under the same
capitalists who built the Southern Pacific
and reconstructed the Chesapeake and Ohio.
Til 'il1 -,a-e-. 1ie--t,L.;- ~ad CALVES
ton, and there the Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio and Southern Pacific give
the shortest distance between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans that be constructed upon can
United States territory. With the San Fran
cisco and Galveston line in full operation,
and the Memphis connection completed,
there will be a transcontinental system reach
ing from San Francisco to Newport News.
The traveller by this route to Newport News
has therefore at the latter place a
choice of running up the James or
the Potomac, visiting Old Port Com
fort, or taking a most delightful
trip along the coast to New York. From
this brief glance we see that BY its connec-
ton with the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the
Huntington system Of lines generally, Mem
phis is brought into very advantageous con-
nection with some OF the moot important
places in the Union, and is situated directly
on the shortest line between the two oceans,
Such connection cannot bnt add to our
commerce and bring us increase of wealth
and population.