The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-08-27

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New River Railroad COmpany-Fr0m
the Anderson County Coal Company's
Railroad, in Anderson County, via New
River. via Burch Fork, to the Cincin-
natl 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, 70 Boyce
Station or Chattanooga, in Hamilton
County, through the counties of Meigs,
McMinn, Polk, Bradley and James.
Kingston & Emory Gap Railroad Conn
pany-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, to a mt on the
Tennessee and North Carolina State line,
on the borders of Carter or Unicoi coun-
ties.
Kingston & Cleveland Railroad Com
pany, from a point in Roane County
through Meigs County, via Riley's Creek,
10 Cleveland, in Bradley County.
Sweetwater a. Tellicoe Railroad Com
pany-From Sweetwater, in Monroe
Comfy, via Madisonville, to Tellicoe in
Frentress County, with the authority to
connect with any line runDii & from
Murphy, y. c to connect with the Gin
cinnaii Southern Railroad, extending
through Scott County. and the counties
of Monroe, McMinn, Roane, Loudon and
Meigs.
Emory River a Carey vile 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,
NC.
south Atlantic & Ohio Railroad-Fro
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.
Rogersville & 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
a point on the Tennessee and Virginia
State line.
Knoxville & New River Railroad Com
pany-From Robertson, in Scott County,
10 the summit of the divide between I
Birthstone Greek and New River.
cambridge & Messy Creek Railroad
Company-From cambridge to Messy
Greek, in Jefferson County.
Tennessee, Iron Mountain & Carolina
Railroad Company-From Vanderbilt,
Unicoi County, along the line OF Nola-
chucky River, TO the Tennessee and North
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
tanooga in Hamilton County.
Clinton, Poplar Creek & Huntsville
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.
Cincinnati, Green River & Nashville
Railroad Company--From Nashville, in
Davidson County, through Sumner (via
to a point on the Tennessee
and Kentucky State line. This COM
pany proposes to construct their road
lnQcT tue C1dIlcI VI luc NuinOcIlduQ O.
Ohio Railroad Company.
Atlantic, Gulf & Northwestern Rail-
road Company--From a point on the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, at or near
in Roane County, through a
portion of Loudon, McMinn via Athens) |
ind 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 |
n their confines, and the silence of |
heir groves still unbroken by train, |
al 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 |
:uerdge ydIUes of land pre- |
sent an appalling consequence to be
visited upon those who deferred the |
spirit OF improvement from their Dor |
iers. The lowest average value of |
and in these counties is 81 cents per |
mere in Fentress and the highest $l2.36 IN |
Smith, lrhile the general acreage of the |
land IN all these fifteen counties teltea- |
qnted by 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, il would be fair Though
a 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
their country than to stand
the penalty of being 'redd out Of The
party" for daring to oppose
the commission. The bare truth
OF this iniquitous railroad
warfare has done more to cripple Ten
nessee than a 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
vultures, to prey upon its
half-dead body. Falling in line with
her sister fanatics, she has by her Rail
road Commission, and her Board of
Tax Assessors, unjustly assessed the
railroad property of the State at from
TO one hundred per cent.
higher than any other State in the
Union, warned capital and enterprise
to keep from within her borders, and,
az it were, placed Chinese wall
around the State. 4
Wise men of the day-of all par
ties-must soon be turned upon this
awful calamity that has been foisted
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