The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-02-07
EDITORIAL MATTER,
m Tri-we ekly issues Mon day nd Frida,
The Memphis. Selma a. Bruins
wick Rail Road.

completion"
But when? Our information obtained
from gentlemen along the line of the
road is directly the reverse of that OBJ
tanned from the Examiner.
Hopes of completing the road to Holly
Springs. SO long on hand and so far ad.
vaneed, are gloomy, as we learn from
gentlemen in that vicinity.
If Memphis and Holly Springs cannot
move the money power to finish few
miles of railway, so important to them,
the Georgia Pacific may undertake the
job and run line straight to Memphis,
and which would run through country
rich in resources and which hasno road,
and then the connection with Georgia,
Alabama. Mississippi and the Carolinas,
and Missouri, Kansas and the North-
western States would be complete.
The proposed line of road was agita-
ted when Memphis and Selma were to
be connected by a tortuous route, re
garded by many at the time as unfeasi-
BILE, but as Columbus, Aberdeen, Oko>
Iona, Pontotoc and Holly Springs were
considered pledged to the early compile
ton of the road the people on the other
line did not press that route.
There may be something wrong in the
management of the road which stock,
holders might ferret out.-Jackson
Clarion.
The "but when of the Clarion we
regret to say cannot elicit answer as
to time, nor are we over anxious on
that score if confident of the compile
ton of the road in the near future,
as we are; and if completed within
the next five years we would be sat-
isfed though we expect the trains to
be coursipg over it long ere that.
Here in Aberdeen we have good
deal of perseverance, and patience in
the matter of railroads, exhibiting
those qualities to an admirable de-
gree in the building and equipping
of our Branch connecting with the
M. & O., and persevering in our
efforts to obtain railroad connection
with New Orleans through good
and evil report "for over thirty years,
without cessation, until finally the
fruition of our labors aud our hopes
has come in the completion OF the
Canton, Aberdeen and Nashville road
from Kosciusko to this city.
Information from gentlemen
along the line of the road is hard
to get aud seldom reliable, and so
far as our efforts in that direction
have been exerted in reference to
particular locati on, we have found his
but one gentleman this side of Mem
phis who could furnish any at all,
and that was Col j. L. Morphis, OF
Pontotoc; and he obtained his words
of cheer as a general thing from the
same sources from which we derived
ours. The gentlemen from the vi
ciniiy of Holly Springs who carry
our compeer gloomy predictions
should cheer up,for nothing initiates
so much against the prospects of a
struggling enterprise as the despon,
dency of friends who are not called
upon TO contribute much more to
the sub structure or super structure
than their good wishes and enthusi-
asm; in fact if our little neighbor
West Point was on the line OF loca-
ton, we have no doubt but that she
would complete the grade from Holly
Springs to Okolona by mere dint OF
enthusiasm that would be as sonta
geous as the small pox, and inspire
the builders with Zeal that would
greatly facilitate their negotiations.
''Horn blowing has been as effectual
in this country in building railroads,
oil mills, and other industrial enter.
prises, as it was as leveler OF walls
and battlements in General Joshua e
time.
And we cannot see any real cause
for dependency on the part of the
Holly Springs people-if they are
despondent-for have they not O
completed grade to Memphis and
seventeen miles of iron on the
ground9 II we had that much of the
road so far complete, extending east
ward or westward from Aberdeen
we would regard the final completion
as inevitable.
Onr Holly Springs friends may take
the ground that the completion @
the division from that city TO Mem
phis would not pay its owners, as il
would be obliged to compete fol
freights at that junction with tht
Illinois Central system, and at othel
depots with the bids of the Memphis
& Charleston road on the nortl
which would try to control the cottor
within wagon haul'--well that is al
good an argument as we want tt
demonstrate the absolute necessit,
for pushing the road east from tina
} town into country that would b.
J almost absolutely tributary to it; ant
still further east to divide with th,
M. Il O. B. r., and the Canton, Alb.
erdeen and Nashville, the rich pa,
tronage of the prairies; and ye
further east to share the trade of thu
now rail il-roadless but populous coun
ties of West Alabama, and yet furthel
until II etr,,ok tho coal and iron fald.