Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-17

the Selma road are not standing still, and
that the officers of the Charleston road are
sanguine OF securing the cancellation OF the
lease of that road to the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad.
The Kansas City Railroad.
For more than ten years past, says the
Kansas City Journal, the one unrealized
ambition of Kansas City has been the gen.
eral demand for live, enterprising and we'll
equipped line of railroad between this city
and Memphis. "On to Memphis" was the
watchword of progress in 1872 and before, as
it has been in 1882 and now, No other rail-
0y enterprise; no other route has had such
persistent pursuit, or met with go many I'm.
surmountable obstacles TO success as have
the attempts at opening line from Kansas
City to the Mississippi river, with the terminal
point at or near that vigorous distributing
center, Memphis. No other line, unless it be
the very first one leading into Kansas City,
has ever won more energetic effort or more
united confidence in its advantages as a trade
promoter, or its importance as a commercial
adjunct, and yet seemed so utterly impossi-
bic 10 secure as this Southern outlet. The
history OF the various enterprises for the
accomplishment of this great desideratum
under diversified titles and of various dates,
have been cnronicled in the Journal and is
not unfamiliar to a majority of its readers.
The realization OF hope so long deferred
is reserved for 1888, and even now i; is
rapidly approaching absolute, undoubted
consummation. Its possession as an exist
ing fact will not be less gratifying from the
ease with which 1t Is secured 10 us, and the
positive manner in which il Ia being carried
to completion by the liberality. enterprise
and able management of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott and Gulf railroad as an extern
sion Of its system from the old line at Fort
Scott, Ks, through Missouri in a southerly
direction in Arkansas, over the Ozark range,
and being put through with vigor and de-
termination which leaves no doubt of its
final accomplishment at an early date. Com
pleted In manner IN which the Kansas
City, Fort Scott and Gull Company do such
things, and operated in the same spirit of re-
gard for commercial interests and public
welfare which this popular old line has al
ways manifested heretofore, the new Kansas
City and Memphis route cannot fail to prove
itself, what our citizens have long asserted it
would be, One of the most valuable and
magnificent of our railway requirements.
Opening up, as it does, a hitherto untena-
BILE section OF country as trade relations with
Kansas City are concerned, its advantages
are manifest in the traffic it has already be-
gun TO secure and will, when completed, in
sure a new field to our jobbers, our maniac
turers and our producers of meats and bread
stuffs. The satisfaction expressed by all
classes Of our leading business men at the
promising outlook through the possession Of
this new trade factor is scarcely greater than
the qualification OF the citizens OF our sister
city, Memphis, at the prospect of a prosper
Gus and profitable trade interchange between
the tive trade centers soon TO be linked by
the new southern route, the Kansas City,
a,,d Gu1f raiI N;th
| mense advantage in its favor in the matter
of distance, a. compared with Chicago, it
must take the place vi .lie eity of the lake in
| supplies for Memphis as a distributing point
| for the South. We can enter on equal terms
| with St. Louis for the Memphis trade, and in
the shipment of grain, hay, -four and pro-
visions can more than hold our own with
| any city, and can lay down the above
enumerated products in Memphis al figures
that will secure rs the bulge on this class OF
shipments.
The Kansas City, Fort Scotland Gulf Com
pany has been so active in its work, and yet
so quietly has the pushing forward of this
important line been made, that probably not
one in a thousand of the people OF our live
| city know how near we are TO the realization
| OF our ambitious hopes, or are even aware
| that freights from Kansas City are already
received and forwarded to West Plains, a
distance of over 800 miles in the direction of
Memphis; or that passenger trains will be
running TO the same point during the pres.
ent month.
Asmay be seen by reference to the map of
| the line given herewith, the Memphis exten.
| sion DIVORCES from the main line at Fort
Sect. nearly niuety.nine miles from Kansas
| City, in direct southerly direction. From
] Fort Scott the route is southeasterly across
| the southwestern portion of Missouri via the
prosperous towns of Springfield (where it
| intersects the St Iouis and San Francisco
railroad). Seymour. Cabool. West Plains and
| Augusta. on the dividing line between Mis-.
to be an important town on account Of
| it's location in the midst of sec.
ton which will contribute a fine traffice to
the road: and as a distributing point for the
valleys between which /, ia centrally located
II has already been desipnated as nrinci.
pal station. and an important growth is be.
ginning there in advance of he LAYING of
the iron rail which ia TO make Augusta. in
brief period. the most important town be-
tween Springfield and Memphis. After the
Goa. producfnp section adjacent m and a
| few miles east If Eort Scott ia nassed The
line iniersects a anlend;d GRAZING and gr.;n-
producing county with = prosperous and
well.to-do class of residents. whose thrift
| and DEVELOPMENT of the agricultural ares ia
one of the ADVANTAGES N he secnred nv tb;s
route. They will secnre q ore.t Grain
ket and an nneoualed market for their boa.
and cattle ga wall contr;hn,;na oliLa - ,LDf;e
| benefits "a producer and to Kansas Gil. -,
a trade center. The oonntrv intersected Il q
splendid one for farming and stock RAISING
| from Fort Scott tbrouob The entire section
penetrated no to the heavy timbersd section
beginning at and beyond the Ozark range
1 -
ash, and other timber is well known and will
form one of the most desired staples for the
| Kansas CITY market.
The timber is unlimited in quantity. and
une1celled in quality, and in view OF the
vast growth of Kansas City and demand for
building material, must prove of great
benefit for local use alone, when the cost of
delivery ls considered with That OF lumber
shipments from lineage, Michigan or the
! Northwest, whence our present supply comes.
The demand Tor railroad ties has already
become SO great for lines leading out of
Kansas City as to have created a problem as
to the means OF supply which it is said only
finds solution IN the splendid timber
region opened up by this new line 10 Mem
phis. This great timber supply and the
unlimited supply oil granite, and OF lime
stone suitable Tor building purposes, found
In the ozark region near the southern line
OF this State, viii offer labor to hundreds
and thousands who WIZ draw their living
stores from this section through our JOB
ping houses. Inere as wen as the cotton
growing uistrics III the river valleys
penetrated by the line IN Arkansas
will be demand for our pork, bacon, corn
and flour. In the timber region they will
not raise their breadstutts, we must supply
them. In the cotton. producing sections they
use immense quantities OF bacon and ether
commodities which Kansas City need not be
behind in supplying. The situation is not a
| aauy ono IN onr char, N, t,fo nt raro