The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-09-27
WHAT CAN BE DONE?
In Order to Bring Another Railroad
to Huntsville.
Huntsville independent.

Huntsville Independent,
Maj. VIM. J. Sykes had fins au
diences at New Market and Merid
ianville, last week. The people APP
peared deeply interested in the sub
jects discussed and listened with
marked attention to what was said.
At New Market they called a meet
ing for October to form a farmer S
club. This is move in the right
direction. At Meridianville they
appointed railroad committee to
make arrangements to have Madi-
son county represented on the com
mittee to visit st. Louis and
Chicago. The committee consists
of A. j. Bentley, Esq, Thomas B.
G immett and Robt. N. Strong.
Major Sykes, towards the con
clusion of his speech said;
"You expect me to say some
thing in regard to a railroad
through this section. 1 have not
much to say on that subject, and
what 1 say may do no good. /
was in Huntsville four years ago,
and urged the building of road at
that time to connect with the Duck
River Valley Railroad. Had that
been done, the Duck River Valley
road would never have gone into
the hands of the Nashville &c Chat
tanooga Railroad company and you
would have had a competing line
to the north. How much that
would have benefited Huntsville
and Madison no man can tell.
Columbia is feeling the benefits of
the road even to Fayetteville and is
showing signs of it every day.
Nothing however, was done and no
steps taken. What can now be
done, if anything, is the question.
In my opinion the only hope for
railroad through this country is
enc from Cairo, Illinois, at thejunc
ton of the Ohio Il Mississippi
Rivers to Savannah, or Brunswick,
Ca, all under the control of one
company. This road would be of
more value than any road in the
southern states. 1t would run
through a region of greater wealth,
developed and undeveloped, than
any line of the same length goo
miles) south of the Ohio river.
1t would cross all the important
railroads in the southern states and
run parallel with none of them.
From Huntsville to Cairo it will not
run through a single poor county,
but will go through the best ,por-
tons of Middle and West Tennes-
see and western MISUNDERSTANDING
the grain, provision, cotton and to-
bacco country, as well as through
beds of iron ore. AT
Cairo it will connect with the Hi
nois Central leading to Chicago
and st. Louis and with the Texas
& st. Louis, running through Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Texas into
Mexico. No road will pay better
and none will be more valuable. A
committee from Fayetteville, Pulas-
XII and Columbia, and perhaps from
other towns on the line, will soon
visit St. Louis and Chicago to see
what can be done towards securing
this road and placing it in the hands
of a strong company who are able
to build it through to the Atlantic.
''Does Madison county desire to
be represented on that committee?
If so, select your best man and put
him on it. 1 do not know that any
thing can be done, but an effort
will be made in that direction, and
an enterprise of this magnitude is
certailly worth not only united
but a powerful effort. 1t is the on
ly hope that l can see, for the pres
ent at least, for Huntsville and
Madison county to get a northern
outlet, which she so much needs,
and for want IF which she is suf-
ferino so much"