The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-08-27
T0iaI number nIIes in Tennessee- 3


East tennessee 500
Total number miles in Tennessee 2,1os.7.
II viii be seen that of the ninety
six counties in the State, hirty-tlrc
lone third hare no railroads al all. Mid.
die Tennessee, by reports of Kille-
brew, Hawkins and McWhirter, rich in
everything, from a smiling sky to a
teeming land, and peopled by high,
proud people, skunk along, and now
skulks behind poorer places elsewhere
located, with its soil and grand re
sources, has fifteen counties as yet un-
traversed by a single foot of railroad,
while three of the twenty-five
counties which have railroads have
only l5A miles.
The same may be said of both East
and West Tennessee.
From the following list of railroad
charters-which compose only forty
ive Of near one hundred on file in the
Office of the Secretary of State-it will
also be seen that the still-born rail-
| road schemes-if the Railroad Com
mission had not killed them before the
breath Of life came upon them, and
they had Justify hved-would have
/ put railroad IA erery county IN Ten
nessoe. Trace the lines of railroads
marked by these charters and you
may form some faint idea of what a
load of actual wealth might, under
7 favorable auspices, have been poured
into the State.
The following existing charters in
Tennessee are Of record in the Office Of
the Secretary OF State:
Charlotte, GAINESVILLE & Bon Air Rail
road Company-FrOm any convenient
station on the Nashville, Chattanooga &
St. Louis Railroad i'm Dickson County,
through the tOwa Of Charlotte, via Cum
berland Furnace 10 GAINESVILLE in Mont
someTy County.
MOBILE, Clarksville & Evansville Rail
road Company-From some point on the
Tennessee and Kentucky State line
through Montgomery, Dickson, Kick
the Alabama State line, to Mobile via
Florence, Ala.
Tennessee & Kentucky Railroad Com
pany-From a point on the Greensboro
4 Nashville Railroad through Robertson
County to Nashville, in Davidson
County, Tenn
Memphis & Bristol Railroad Company
From Memphis, in Shelby County,
through the counties OF Fayette, Harde-
Perry, Hickman, MAury. Williamson,
Rutherford, Wilson, Davidson, DeKalb,
Putnam, White, Fentress, Cumberland,
Morgan, Scott, Anderson, Campbell,
Union, Claiborne, Hancock, or Granger,
Hawkins and Sullivan, 70 Bristol, on the
Virginia and Tennessee State line.
Sparta 4 Cincinnati Railroad Com
pany-From Sparta, in White County,
through Van Buren, and Cumberland
the Cincinnati. New Orleans & Pacific
Railroad in Morgan County.
GAINESVILLE & Kentucky Railroad Com
pAny-From GAINESVILLE, Montgomery
County. to point on the Kentucky and
Tennessee State line, in the direction of
Princeton, Ky.
Nashville & Knoxville Railroad Com
pany-From a point on the Cincinnati
New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad,
ton and Putnam counties, TO the Cum
berland River, in Smith County, with
branch to Sparta, in White County.
Middle a. East Tennessee Central Rail
road Company-From Gallatin, in Sum-
ner County, through Trousdale, Smith,
Putnam, DeKalb, White, Cumberland
and Roane counGes, TO Knoxville, in
Knox County.
Grand Belt Railway Company-From
Wilson, Rutherford, Williamson, Mar
shall, Maury, Lewis, Hickman, Dickson,
Houston, Stewart Montgomery and
Robertson counties, back TO Gallatin, in |
Sumner County.
Tennessee Southern Railroad Com |
a point on the Mississippi |
and Tennessee State line, in Shelby |
County, to Memphis, through Upton, |
Dyer and Obion counties, TO |
4 u n
Brownsville & Jackson Railroad Com |
Brownsville, in Haywood |
County, TO Jackson, in Madison County. |
Somerville & Jackson Railroad Com
pany-From SOmeTville, in Fayette
County, through Haywood or Hsrde-
man counties, to Jackson, in Madison
County.
Nashville. Jackson & Memphis Rail-
road Company-From Nashville, in
Davidson County, via Franklin, Centre
vile. Linden, Lexington, Decaturyille,
Jackson, SOmerville, through the coun-
ties OF Williamson, Maury, Hickman,
Perry, Decatur, Henderson, Madison,
Hardeman or Haywood, Fayette, 10
Memphis, in Shelby County, or via
Waynesboro, Savannah, Adamsville,
Purdy and Bolivar, through Lewis,
Wayne, Hardin, McNairy and HArdeman
counties.
Company-From point on the Tennes-
see and Alabama State-line in Wayne or
Lawrence County, through Wayne or
Lawrence County to Centerville in Hick-
man County.
Valley Mountain Railroad Company
From Sparta, in White County, to Bald
win Knob, in Van Buren, County.
Sparta a Southeastern Railroad Com
pany-From Sparta, White Comfy, Van
Buren, County to Tennessee & Sequatchie
Railroad in Cumberland County.
Selma, Marion & Memphis Railroad
Company-From Memphis, in Shelby
County, to Tennessee and Mississippi
State-line, in the direction of Selma,
Ala.
Tennessee River, Rhea Springs & Cross
vile Railroad Company-From Brady's
Ferry, in Rhea County, via Rhea Springs
tersecting with the railroad project from
Nashville to Bristol through the counties
of Rhea and Cumberland.
Griffith Creek Coal & Railroad Comps
ny-From Victoria in Marion County to
Tracy City in GrJSpdy County, via Grit
fifth Creek, Miller's Mill aud n point
where May Greek empties into Collins
River.
Tennessee & Iron Mountain Railroad
Company-From Elizabeth, in Carter
County, via Limestone Cave and Erwin
through Unicoi to the Tennessee and
North Carolina State-line.
Tennessee River & Ooltawah Railroad
Company-From Tennessee River juno
ton, in Roane County, through Meigs
County to Ooltawah, IN James County.
Coal Creek & Winters Gap Railroad
Compaay-From Coal Greek, Anderson
c. 81.