Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30

IN Anderson County, and various
branches forming said Poplar Creek
New River Railroad Company-Frou
the Anderson County Coal Company
Railroad, in Anderson County, via New
River, via Burch Fork, to the Cincin-
matt Southern Railroad, in Scott County.
Hiawassee Railroad Company-From q
point on the Cincinnati Southern, in
Rhea County, via the valley of Hiawas-
see, Cog Hill, in McMinn County, and
Gus Creek, in Polk County, and the
Spring City or Big Emory Gap, 10 Boyce
Station or Chattanooga, IN Hamilton
| County, through the counties of Meigs,
AcMinn. Polk, Bradley and James.
Kingston q Emery Gap Railroad Com
Fpany- From, or near the town Of Kings
ton, TO point on the Cincinnati South
| ern, in Roane County.
Roane Mountain Railroad Company
| From point on the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia Railroad Company, in
| Washington County, 10 a FONT on the
Tennessee and North Carolina State line,
/ on the eorders of Carter or Unicoi coun-
| ties.
Kingston & Cleveland Railroad Com
| pany, from point in Roane County
| through Meies County, via Riley's Greek,
/ to Cleveland, in Bradley County.
! Sweetwater & Tellicoe Railroad Com
/ pany-Froml Sweetwaters in Monroe
| Comfy, via Madis0nville, to Tellicoe in
FrentTess County, with the authority to
| connect with any line runDiI z from
Murphy, n. c., to connect with the Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad, extending
| through Scott County. and the counties
of Monroe, MeMinn, Roane, Loudon and
Meigs.
Emory River & Careyville Railroad
| Company-From Emory Gap, in Roane
County, through Anderson County, to
| Careyville, in Campbell County, via
| Mountain Fork of Poplar Greek, and
Stone Coal Fork and Weldon Fork of
Coal Creek.
Tennessee Central Railroad Company
From Rhea Springs, in Rhea County,
through McMinn and Monroe counties,
to the Tennessee and North Carolina
State line in the direction of Murphy,
N. @. fa4
South Atlantic.& Ohio Railroad-Fr
a point in Sullivan County, on the Ten
nessee and Virginia State line. through
Carter County, via Elizabethton, to the
Tennessee and North Carolina State line.
RogersviIle & Manchester Railroad
Company-From Rogersville, Hawkins
County, through Hancock and Claiborne
counties, to the Tennessee and Kentucky
State line.
Tennessee & Ohio Railroad Company
From Rogersville, in Hawkins County. to
point on the Tennessee and Virginia
State line. V.
Knoxville & New River Railroad Com
pany-From Robertson, in Scott County,
70 the summit of the divide between
Birthstone Creek and New River.
Dandridge & Messy Creek Railroad
Company-From cambridge to Messy
Creek, in jefferson County.
Tennessee, Iron Mountain q Carolina
Railroad Company-From Vanderbilt,
Unicoi County, along the line of Noia-
chucky River, othe Tennessee and North
Carolina State line.
North Carolina, Cleveland & Chatta.
nooga Railroad Company-From point
on the Tennessee and North Carolina
State line, in Polk County, through Brad
ley (via Cleveland) and James, to Chat
tanoogs in Hamilton County.
Clinton, Poplar Creek & Huntsville
Railroad Company--From fClinton, in
Anderson County, through Campbell
County, via Donegan Gap, in Waldren
Ridge, Hellenwood and New River to
such coal mines as may be open in Scott
County. .f-ac
Cincinnati, Green River & Nashville
Railroad Company--From Nashville. in
Davidson County, through Sumner (via
Gsllatin1 to a point on the Tennessee
and Kentucky State line. This COM
pany proposes to construct their road
under the charter of the Cumberland &
Ohio Railroad Company.
Atlantic, Gulf d Northwestern Rail-
road Company--From a point on the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, at or near
lockwood, in Roane County, through a
portion of Loudon, McMinn (via Athens)
and Polk counties, to the Tennessee and
Georgia State line.
With thirty-one of the counties in the
State which have not one foot of rail,
in their confines, and the silence of
their groves still unbroken by train,
all are provided for with chartered
roads. Taking the counties of Can
non, Clay, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson,
Macon, Moore, Overton, Pickett, Put
nam, Smith, Trousdale, Van Buren,,
Wayne and Whitehall of Middle Ten
nessee-the cuerdqe rqIues of land pre-
sent an appalling consequence to be
visited upon those who deferred the
spirit of improvement from their bor-
ders. The lowest average value of
land in these counties is 81 cents per
acre in FeYtress and the highest $12.36 IN
Smith, uhile the general Average of the
land in all these fifteen counties untert-
rnted bu railroad IS less than $500 per
acre. With a railroad through them,
developing and furnishing an outlet
for the inexhaustible iron, coal and
timber in which Killebrew, Hawkins
and McWhirter tell US in their reports
they abound, it would be fair Though
comparatively low estimate) to say
that these lands would be enhanced to
three times their present value, and
thus enrich the people and enhance
the revenues of the State. These
counties had Representatives in the
last Legislature who should not have
been deferred from doing their people
a service, yet under the lash of the
party they aided in the commission
folly, rather doing the misdeed of
wronging their country than to stand
the penalty of being ''rsad ott Of The
the commission. Tue bare truth
of this iniquitous railroad
warfare has done more to cripple Ten
nessee than dozen civil wars. The
whole future of the State depends up
on the integrity of her commercial
system, and yetshe seeks to stay it, and
set her Railroad Commission, like
starving vultures, to prey upon it's
hslf-dead body. Falling in line with
her sister fanatics, she has by her Rail
road Commission, and her Board of
Tax Assessors, uniustly assessed the
railroad property of the State at from
TWENTY-FIVE to one hundred per cent.
higher than any other State in the
Union, warned capital and enterprise
to keep from within her borders, and,
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