Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-11-17
MIR. c. II. Vance.s Paper,


That Memphis has become a center of
railroad systems is now an accomplished
fact. Some OF them being competitive
systems gives her commerce such advan-
tage in rates as Will necessarily make her
a great diNributive point of commercial
commodities.
To carry cotton, grain and flour to Eu-
rope through bills of lading at competitive
rates n be procured of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad system, the Chesa-
peake, Ohio and Southwestern system,
the East Tennessee and Georgia system,
of which the Memphis and Charleston
railroad is part, and the Chicago, st.
Louis and New Orleans system, to which
the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad issa
part, and so likewise of the Anchor-Line
Packet Company, whose boats daily run
from Memphis TO New Orleans.
Wherever ocean rates are cheapest,
whether at New York, Philadelphia, Balti
more, Norfolk, Newport News Whining
ton, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick, |
Mobile or New Orleans, the exporting |
merchant OF Memphis can have his choice. |
This is an advantage necessary to a great |
distributing point, and when this advan- |
tage exists and the town is located at the |
crossings OF great streams OF commerce, it |
necessarily grows into great and wealthy |
| commercial metropolis.
MenpnlS mas 1keWlS6 Ine OF
competitive markets and routes for the |
cattle, hogs, sheep and cereal products of
the Northwest.
With st. Louis, one of the greatest
markets OF these products, we have the
competitive system of the Chicago, st.
| Louis and New Orleans Company, the
| Paramore system, and the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern system, which
connect with the Kansas City, Springfield
and Memphis railroad and the Memphis
| and Little Rock railroad, and we have
| likewise the Anchor-Line Packet Com
pany, making their daily trips between the
| cities.
We have likewise competitive routes to
| Chicago by way of st. Louis, and also ria
Cairo.
The great Mississippi and Missouri,
White and Arkansas and st. Francis
| rivers give water transportation to al
most every point of the Northwest,
West and South. Besides, within few
months of completion another great rail
| road from Memphis to New Orleans,
| and connecting that city with the
great Southern Pacific and the Texas
Pacific with the cities on the shore of the
Pacific ocean, will be completed And it
will not be long in the future before we
will have direct railroad connection with
the coal and iron fields of Central Ala
| bama by means of the Memphis and Sell
ma railroad. Financial difficulties have
! for the present suspended the work, but
| it is hardly probable that the millions al
ready expended will be allowed to be ire
trievably lost by the capitalists who have
already invested. This road, when built
will bring Memphis within 2lO miles of
the richest coal and iron fields in the
Southwest.
Another great system of railroads has
been completed to Memphis mean the
Kansas City, Springfield and Memphis
railroad. This road gives us direct rail
road connection with Fort Scott and Kan
sas City, the gateways of the great plains
of the West. They are the centers of the
adjacent feeding districts in Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska for corn-fed cattle,
hogs, sheep, horses and mules. In Kansas
City alone within the last nine months
there were received by her merchants
$4,000 head of cattle, $4,000 head of
| hogs, 81, $50 head of sheep and 800 head
of hnrSos and mules the total money
value being not less than S2S,000,000. In
the same nine months she received 6,l13,-
054 bushels of wheat, S,535,054 bushels OF
corn, 366, $40 bushels of oats and 132, sos
bushels of rye. In pork-packing she is
only second to Chicago. Three pork
packing establishments alone represent an
investment of Sc, 100000 in buildings and
capital, and employ an average of 1900
hands the year round, who are paid ST.
$50, 900 per annum in wages These three
pork-packing establishments support not
less than 5000 people. During. the
last nine months, from the 1st of Octo-
Der, 1882, there were slaughtered 1885,
06S hogs at cost of S9,500,000, and
$1,000 cattle at a cost of 81 ,S20,0 900, making
Sl1 100000 paid out for raw material
Adding wages, ETC., this branch of trade
alone must aggregate Sl5,000,000. Her
manufactures of furniture amount to
81, ,500,0 900, and agricultural implements
manufactured there amount to S5,175,-
600 since the lst of October, 1882.
In liquors there was trade of $4,000,-
600; in drugs, $l,600,000i III hardware,
81 900, 900; in wooden-ware, 81 ,000, 900;
boots and shoes, s., 100000; clothing,
S3,000,000 groceries, S9,500,000, and dry
goods, 81, 100000 during the last nine
months and other commodities in proper
ton. Kansas City has six elevators whose
working capacity is about 400 cars daily.
She has seven Touring mills which an
nually manufacture 425, 900 barrels of
flour, besides meal and feedstuffs. The
buildings put up during the last year ex
ceed 1000 in number and represent an in
vestment of S2,200,000.
Such are the commercial resources of
Kansas City, the initial point of the great
railroad. This initial point being only
4S6 miles from Memphis and connected
with her by railroad under one manage
ment, Memphis may expect from her
large contributions from her commerce.
Fort Scott, 100 miles south of Kansas
City, is another point on this line OF rail-
way only second to Kansas City in the
commercial advantages which Memphis
may reasonably expect from its traffic.
From this point several railroads branch
out into Kansas, Arkansas and the In
dian Territory, and to this point immense
herds OF cattle are brought for shipment
from Texas, New Mexico and Colorado.
From this point Memphis can compete
with st. Louis in railroad business. Fort
! Scott is in the heart OF the richest agricul-
tural country in the Southwest, and its
cereals can be placed in the Memphis
! market by means of the Kansas City,
, Springfield and Memphis railroad system
as cheap as they can in st. Louis.
, Another important point on this railroad
, is Springfield, Mo-, with a population of
, 10000 people and in the heart of region
, of country abounding in iron and coal.
! She will necessarily become the entrepot
: of large trade in manufactures.
! Besides, in sanitary point OF view she
will be beneficial to Memphis. Located
on the summit of the Ozark mountains,
and abounding in cheap provisions eggs
ten cents per dozen, chickens hit apiece,
butter twelve and half cents per pound,
and the cheapest and most delicious NUT
! ton and leet-here will be summer re-
sort for our people. Nowhere is there a
!, purer, dryer and more invigorating mount
ain atmosphere; nowhere more toothsome
meats, game and fish. Besides, it is only a
few hours railroad travel from the famous
Eureka Springs, Mammoth Springs and
! Rayenden Springs. Here our exhausted
! citizens may inyigoFate their physical sys-
! TENS, and each summer lay IN a supply OF
! health and strength for the tolls of the
coming commercial year.
Connected with Kansas City are two
great railroads TO the Racifc ocean, one
I, | running through Denver, Col. and con-
! Meeting with the Union Pacific at Chey-
|, enne; the other the Atckisor, Topeka and
: Santa Pc railroad, running direct 10 Quay
: mas, port of the lower gulf of California,
and connecting at Tucson with the South
! ern Pacific, terminating at San Francisco
? This places Memphis in central point
= of all the Southern routes to the Pacific
ocean, both on the coast OF California and
| Mexico. And this will bring hordes oi
q travellers through her streets, besides the
4 streams of commercial commou,..Ss pas.
n ing from and to the countries of the At
e lantic and Pacific oceans, the lakes OF the
e Northwest and the gull OF the South. II
e requires time to establish great CONNER
S cial routes; but the future of Memphis
l. as a great entrepot or central city of those
e commercial routes is almost realized now
/ We now feel the distant throbbings oi
h those great arteries of commerce which
e branch out from our city. They will soon
a be filed with rich blood, and that blood
l. will put together and build up muscle
e bone and nerves which viii require miles
: of space to give room for. I viii have to
e postpone the consideration of the other
+ railroad systems which center in Memphis
to another meeting OF the Old Folks.
c. F. VANCE, Historian
e Ne Lesseps at Liverpool.
e LIvERPooL, November l8.-De Lesseps
n arrived to-day and visited the exchange
y He was well received, and made a speech
$ assuring the merchants that he was anx
e ious to do everything possible to meet