Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-12
THE CINCINNATI SOUTHERN.
A Correspondents Impression Gathered
Through "a Car Window.

| CINCINNATI, Oct. S.-When the Clncin
natl Southern Railway gave its openln.
excursion some two years ago, ioineC
the Atlanta and Savannah party in tn,
| pleasures of the trip, as well as in som,
of the discomforts that attach themselve,
! to such occasions.
| From Chattanooga nearly all the wa,
| to the Kentucky line the road ran through
a Wild rough country, a high range OF
| mountains being on either side. through
| Tennessee. The narrow valley was too
| rough and broken for extensive farming
operations.
remember how my good friend Dave
| W. Appler, as he viewed the rocky, bar
ren country, shook his head when l re
marked that there was future" for tha
section. / saw at a glance the buried
! wealth IN those trOwning hills and way
ing forests. | knew that the development
Of this wealth would build up towns along
the railroad and people the rugged hill
sides with a sturdy and prosperous class
of settlers.
Within less than three years | see my
prediction coming to pass. All along the
line of the road the traveller now behOlds
the active industry characteristic of min.
ing towns, and iron ore and coal are IA
miliar sights. This shows that the wealth
OF the hills Is being dug out, while scores
OF saw mills, StaVe factories, tanneries
and other like industries Erove that the
forests are fast yielding up their stores o.
wealth.
Added to the above, in some sections,
noticed that live stock was being raised
quite extensively for shipment, and nearly
every station was provided with stock
haf -t.fr, IsNTt tt,,,s,
forests for the lumber and stave mills and
tanneries, are readily adapted to stock
raising and vineyards. Thus as one pay
ing industry clears the rugged hillsides
another follows and takes advantage OF
its predecessors labor.
OF course this
VALLEY REGION THROUGH TENNESSEE
was not entirely uninhabited when the
Cincinnati Southern Railway wound
slowly along its rivers and around its in
Vulnerable curves. Here and there the
smoke of a cottage chimney could be seen
rising above the hIlltops, and the sound
of the sturdy w0Odman's axe could be
heard ech0ing through the forests.
The opening of the road from Cincin-
natl to Chattanooga, and the making of it
a great through route of travel. not only
brought hundreds of immigrants and set
tiers into the country, but opened up
those paying industries that spring into
life along the line of all new railroads.
Granting that the larger portions of
these products of the mines and forests
come to Cincinnati, as some re-
turn for the S20,000,000 she eX-
pended i'll building the road, the State of
Tennessee is vastly benefited in the in
crease Of her population, the new towns
created, and the numerous paying indus
tries, all of which by steady increase
and development are yearly adding to the
growth, wealth and power of the State.
However much Ohio may draw from that
section, Tennessee will eventually be the
greater gamer,
And yet to reach Cincinnati all the pro-
ducts of the Tennessee region along the line
of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad have
to he carried long way across the State
of kentucky, passing through Lexington
and its famous "blue grass" stock farms
The contrast is very marked. Leaving
the rugged hills, the winding rivers and
the numerous tunnels behind, and losing
sight OF coal and iron mines, saw mills
and tanneries, the traveller gaZes out upon
a smooth and fertile country, with gently
undulating hills, and instead OF ''the cat
tie upon Il thousand hills,' he sees nearly
a thousand cattle upon one hill. Much of
the products of this older and richer sec
ton of the South finds its way to Georgia
and Florida, and will continue to do so
until our farmers learn to raise their own
mules and horses, and have their own
corn cribs and meat houses at home.
Chattanooga, since she has come to the
front as great manufacturing city. has
reached out her grasping hands and drawn
to herself no small part Of the iron and
coal business of the Cincinnati Southern
Railway. This give the people of that
section nf fHnnnnCGaa -of I,,t a.
sides for their products.
II WAS HOPEFUL
of this country when the road first opened.
and there were but feeble signs of the
life and activity that have since been devel-
oped, am more than hopeful now. 1t is
bound to become a valley Of busy indus
tries, great route of travel through
steadily growing communities. As Cincin-
natl and Chattanooga spread out their
borders and grow stronger and greater
all this section will also expand. And as
the Cincinnati Southern Railway and
the Western and Atlantic Railroad are
closely allied, it is safe to presume that
our own State of Georgia will draw no
little benefit from growing industries and
increased population Of this once wild
and rugged region.
North Georgia is a country rich in
mineral resources, and yet her railroad
enterprises, humble though they be, have
struggled almost hopelessly for years
| past, making very little if any advance.
One need but pass over the Cincinnati
Southern Railway to see what a railroad
can do for mountainous country.
Dahlonega is still shut off from the out
side world because her little narrow
| gauge railroad has halted i'm its slow pro-
| gress. And yet Lumpkin county and the
region round about is rich in mineral
wealth. Let her have the benefit OF rail-
road development.
| SO, too, the North Georgia and Marietta
Railroad and the Cedartown Railroad are
| pushing their way into newer and richer
mineral regions. and il there is no decline
in iron and coal interests, Georgia's
wealth will s0Ol gain large increase in
| those sections. ! am more than eyer con-
vinced that railroads are the salvation OF
mountainous and rugged regions, as they
| afford the only really profitable channel
| through which to reach the outside world
SIDNEY HERBERT.