The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-08
BOLIVAR, TENN.
THE TOWN WAKING UP FROM
IT'S LONG SLEEP.
Indications OF Material Progress
and "a Healthy GFOwth-NeW
Railroad Connections.
IOoA REsPoxDEKoE or rHE APpEAL.l

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cient town of Bolivar has at last be.
gun TO feel the throbbings of pro.
Rressive spirit, and after lengthy pc.
riod Of dizziness, il not of actual de-
cline, the de;r old burg seems TO be
giving out evidences OF prosperity.
Other things may have contributed
something to raising the hopes OF our
people, but the location here of the
Lunatic Asylum has done more than
all things else to g We spur TO business,
and to cause us to discuss the feasibil-
ity of other enterprises.
Positive advantages over some dozen
other places having excellent claims
for the location gave Bolivar the asy-
luD. This is something to boast OF.
because the requirements which had
TO be complied with in securing the
location show that our town
possesses superior advantages in
point of health, accessibility
and surroundings. That these
claims will now be more clear
ly seen and appreciated is
scarcely to be doubted. That enter
prises will follow that wi add to our
material prosperity is legitimate con-
clusion. We eXpect TO secure other
railroad facilities in the coming years,
with the accompanying advantage Of
competition in freight rates. The
narrow-gauge-Ripley and Ship Island
will eventually make an important
northern connection at Bolivar. To
do this only seventeen miles of ex-
tension from Middleton over en- "easy
grade" across IIatchie Valley, will
have to be built. This will give us
another connection with TIE Mem
phis and Charleston and, of course,
with Memphis.
The Illinois Central having secured
the Memphis and Tennessee will
doubtless perfect her Memphis con-
nee ions by building line to tap the
main line somewhat northeast of
Memphis. A careful survey will
show th.t a direct line from Memphis
to Bolivar will be, all things consid-
cred, the cheapest and be route. A
shrewd corporation like the Illinois
Central will hardly build over twenty
miles of road across two river bottoms
to reach the main line at Jacs son, as
has been conjectured by some, when
itCal make the desi ed connection by
tapping the same at Bolivar by line
sixty five miles long direct from Mem.
phis.
These good things secured, di ect
line to Nashville will seem a neces-
sity. You see we have proceeded to
build all these roads con paper" but
is not that the way in wheel all great
ent rprises are begun? So this same
gray goose quill set forth the advan.
tages of Bolivar as n most suitable
place for a lunatic asylum twelve
years ago when that question was ag-
itated in Gov. Browns administration,
and named with fair descrip ion tie
tract of land on viii h it has been To-
Gated. II has come to us in time, and
If philosophizing were in order, it
m ght be remarked that there is an
eternal fitness in things" that in.
spires forecast, even in simpe
minds, that fCr the nonce surpasses
the nieCture9 OF the wise.
A stranger would be favorably inn
pressed with our clover fields and ever
increasing PASTURE lands Young
calves by the dozen skip over our
meadows, and MS t. Leroy and Tray
eler colts the woods are full of 'em.
Our gardens abound in choice vege-
tables, and the lusc GUS s rawberrv
will soon be here. Clucking hens and
spring chickens Gil our back-yards,
and eggs are only ten cents a dozen.
Some of us have very little money, ms
we sold poor crop of cotton for
small price, and, as usual, we are pay
ing big per cent for g DDS bought on
credit. We know it to be ruinous
policy, but then it seems so hard to
abandon the old ways. Wen quit
them bye and bye, perhars. Bolivar
will be unusullay lively the ensuing
GUNNER, because of the building of
the asylum and the coming
of more than our ordinary
number of visitors from Memphis
and other business centcrs. We have
two well.Conducted hotels, fine livery
service, excellent church advantages
and the best water in West Tennessee
only three miles away, at the DUNLAP
Springs. These springs are owned by
parties in Memphis, and it would
seem most opportone time to put
them, at least, in as good repair rs
formerly, and invite the attention of
the public to their health giving quail
tiles. We desire said owners to give
some attention to this matter before
we get our new railroads to run.
ming, s,uLAx.