The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-03-18

steck In the Railroad Nerthward.
In our advertising columns will seen .
Notice of Incorporation Of company
TO construct, maintain and operate rail-
road commencing at Tallahassee and run
ming through Leon county, Florida, and
Thomas county, Georgia, to some point
on the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway. The list of incorporators IN
cludes the names of Colonel J. Fl. Estiil,
of Savannah, and S. G. McLendon, Esq,
of Townsville, in addition to those OF
leading citizens of Leon county. ms
means business, and strengthens the con-
viction, already fixed, that the road which
| is essential to Tallahassee will be speedily
built, for it would seem that the stock in
an enterprise that promises to pay so well
will be quickly taken up.
If any one doubts that railroad from
Tallahassee northward to the Georgia
System would open gateway into Flor
ida through which mighty tide of travel
would pour, let him look at the map and
note the comparative nearness OF this
point in Florida to vast area of popu-
lous country. The Savannah, Florida
and Western would be an important con-
nection eastward, and its line to Albany
and the extensions into the heart of Geor-
gia, connecting with roads running to all
the points of the compass ana to various
States would be the avenues by which the
multitude would reach the Tallahassee en-
trance into Florida-their shortest route.
Provide the shortest route and travel IS
sure to seek it.
Every day stream of travel is pour
ing along our northern boundary within
less than forty miles of us, but obliged
to pass OH far to the eastward OF US to
get into the State. If this stream were
tapped part OF the through travel would
flow this way, and many more persons,
soiourners for time, would visit ITALIA
hassee if for no other reason than the
ease of coming and choice OF routes IN
departing. Those who come In here
from the north could go out east or west,
and those from the east or west go out
northward. Travel gathered from both the
Georgia and Florida systems would con-
centrate over our short connecting link
between the two, and that it would GER
tainly do heavy business is so obvious
| that it would seem that capital must seek
| the stock as a frst-class investment. Cal
cuation Of the revenue of the road must
not be based chiefly on estimates of local
business, but on the fact that it will be a
central gateway into Florida at this point,
and thence to other parts of the State.
Thus its construction is of Importance to
the State at large, for more people will
come into it when shorter and quicker
route is opened to population Of many
millions north and northwest of us.
| The more roads the more travel is the
| rule, and another and convenient route
| to Florida would be sure to bring more
| persons into it. A vast number of per-
sons come to Florida again and again,
year after year, on business or as winter
soiourners for health, pleasure or comfort,
and these would vary the sights and ex-
reriences of travel by varying their
routes, and due proportion OF them
pass this way into or out of the State.
The necessity of this road to Tallahas-
see and Leon county is already fully I'M
derstood and appreciated as bearing upon
our general welfare and progress, but we
would further argue that in addition to
such advantage is the promise OF direct
profit 10 citizens from investment in the
stock. This is the object of what we
have written, but the reader must form
his own conclusions as to whether the
road will or will not be much used. II
much used the stock must pay, and 1t
seems quite impossible that it will not be
much used.