The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-12-09
From the Cuthbert GA; LiberaL1
The Columbus Il Florida Railroad.

From the Cuthoert (3a. LberAL1
The Columbus Il Florida Railroad.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun seems to have
its heart set upon the upper route for this road,
as will be seen from the following extract from
Sunday:
1.-THE Central Railroad is to soon build an ex-
tension from Blakely via Columbia to Newton
Ala. That hits Columbus again. The sooner
we build South of US the better. Up to date,
when we wanted road, we bad to help build il.
Every railroad coming TO Columbus has large
share of Columbus money in it. We shall ex-
pect no alteration of the rule in the present case,
and our people will do their full share Chief
Engineer Greene has just returned from an in.
spection Of the line secured az far South as Wes-
ton. He is very much pleased with the country.
The timber interest on the line farther South is
immense. The fertility of the cultivated lands
is exceeded by none in the State. The line from
Weston TO Albany will be very light and easily
built, we learn. Everything looks favorable for
prosperous railway If this route is adopted"
While the Enquirer Sun is so enthusiastic over
the upper route, we have no apprehension as to
the route that will be finally determined upon
when Chief Engineer Greene and Engineer
Cowan have finished the survey of the upper and
lower routes, especially when such practical
business man as G. Gunby Jordan is at the head
OF the company that will make the decision.
The route which travels closest the Chattalioo-
Columbus, is the one that will prove most benc
fetal to Columbus. After crossing the A. p s.
L. road, the cotton over the proposed upper
route will, from force of habit, 60 eastward un-
less extraordinary inducements are offered to
turn 1t toward Columbus. The cotton of Chat
tahoochee, Stewart and @ uitman counties has
long been the legitimate tribute of Columbus
If the road be built over the upper route, the
cotton ofthe whole of Quitman and the western
half of Stewart counties will most probably bt
diverted from Columbus for all time to come
with no compensating gain from the eastern hall
of Stewart and Quitman counties, and of the
greater part of Randolph county, great deal o.
which was formerly shipped up the river, until
the uncertainty OF navigation in the cotton season
turned It In another direction. The unbroker
and almost inexhaustible pine forests of thu
counties south of Randolph offer an inducemen,
equally as great as the cotton of the c0untie.
north Of US. This, If the upper route should be
selected, would be lost TO Columbus and to the
road, with no compromising gain in kind The
lower route Offers the most direct route to Flor.
ida, with the advantage Qf a road be built from
this point to Albany Of three: Atlantic ports ant
a. many Gulf ports through which TO reach for
eign markets. The lower route offers 90 many
moro and greater inducements, that we cannot
for . moment, doubt that the road will be bull,
by Cuthbert to cambridge. Still, our people
must keep these inducements continually anG
prominently before the protectors Of the road
and offer such other reasonable Inducements a
they may AK, In order to make its building Thu
way certainly. The day of building railroad,
to people who are NOT willing to pay somethina
for them 10 past What people want must b
asked for and paid for nowadays.