The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
VOL. ls.
EDITORIAL MATTER,
an, TrI Wa oLIv ta,,,as n Mon day a nd II rid

The Extension Of the AhersRee
Branch Railroad 10 the .Ai;a-
bama G0al Fields.
The projectors Of line of railroa
that propos to connect Merida
with the Alabama coal fields, inter
viewed the merchants OF Mobile
| few days ago, and in bringing tn
matter to the attention OF the Boar,
Of Trade Of that city, Col. Stansel
of Pickens county, is relorted BY tn
Register to have said, among othe
things:
| 1--WE do not want dollar from
Mobile, but we DO want your mora
support. We want the endorsement
of your Board of Trade, your Nor
chants Exchange and your Cotton
Exchange, SO that Congress will give
us land grants and thus assist us tC
open region tributary to Mobile
and to furnish you with cheap Goa
from the heart of the Warrior field. ,
| We always have favored liberia
land grants to railroads, believing
that such grants assure the opening
up of the lands to settlement by
providing cheap means of transpor-
tation for products to the settlers
coupled with a provision in each
grant fixing the maximum price pc,
acre at which alternate sections shall
be sold to those who propose to cul
tiyate them-and we have noticed
that those portions of the West have
always prospered most that are on
the lines of land grant railroads; and
that the lands sold by these railroads
to settlers are held higher by their
purchasers than lands located elses
where. But what we started out to
say in this connection, Was, that such
a war has been waged OF late against
the system of land grants that there
is not in our opinion the slightest
possible chance for the projectors of
this new enterprise to secure such
aid even though backed by all the
prayers of all the Mobilians; in fact
we doubt very much whether the
solid vote of the Alabama delegation
could be secured for the measure
while SO many bills are pending be.
fore Congress seeking to abrogate
grants already made,
Now. while Col. Stansell and the
other enterprieing gentlemen having
this scheme in hand appeal to Mobile
for "moral support" to help them
reach the coal fields, we would again,
even at the risk of boring the COM
mercisl and manufacturing men OF
that community, suggest an applica.
tion of their dollars or their in
fuence in pushing "The Old Rolia>
BILE" up to an application OF its doll
lars or its credit in extending the
Aberdeen Branch of the NJ. & o. r |
g. some forty miles to coal fields in
Alabama that if so connected would |
make the Gulf City the great coaling
station and manufacturing town OF
;he Southern coast.
We cannot, like Col. Stansell,
promise that "if this road is built
l50, 600 bales of cotton will come to
Mobile that otherwise will 20 else
for though tolerably apt
land at statistics we cannot find out
where they are to come from; but We
;an assure our friends OF that an
'ient city that ii this extension is
made, coal will be laid down at her
vharves and depots, by barges load~
I'd at their river dump in Aberdeen,
nd cars loaded ut the mines. at
over prices than any other city on
he American sea- board can boast,
nd that the natural result will be to
make Mobile not only great manu-
acturing city,but the coaling station
or all the steamers that plow the
southern seas, as we'll as the supply
epot for the West Indies, Central
Mexico and Texas Mo-
ilians, give the other project ae
,uch ''moral support" as you can
pare, but put your money "where it J
I'LL do the most good and devote
our influence and energy to the ex>
snslon OF the Aberdeen Branch OF
our own road to the Alabama coal J
elds. Q
OUR usually liberal ueiobhor of tbo | n