The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-19
MORE FINE GRAVEL BEDS.
ANOTHER INTERCHANGEABLE SUPPLY
ON THE TENNESSEE MIDLAND.
A Special Train. Bearing the Roads on
GERS, shelby's Road Commissioners
and Other Quests, Run to the Pits
Miscellaneous Railway News.

The Tennessee Midland Railroad Com
pany has struck something that will give
it a pull at the public crib Of this and other
cities and towns, and make 1t rival in the
business with the Memphis & Charleston
Road.
1t is fine article Of gravel, equal to any
known. and used in this part OF the coun-
try, and being extensively utilized to make
first-class wagon roadways.
When workmen engaged in constructing
the Midland. Road eastward from Jackson
struck the mountainous country which
lines to great depth the Tennessee River,
they felt that the heavy and expensive
labor of securing grade would. not be
entirely lost TO the company. Something
would turn up to offset the unusual out
lay. One hundred and thirty-one miles
OF the road have been constructed, and
the workmen were advanced In their pro-
liminaries one mile and half, or 10
within three miles and half OF the river.
There they found beds Of gravel stretching
for miles and TO magnificent depth, con-
tanning supply ample for any possible
demand for many years to come. The
gravel closely resembles that from Tsho-
mingo County, Miss, and is pronounced
by engineers who have used the latter to
be somewhat harder and better adapted to
the various purposes for which it is used,
especially in preparing roadways and
pavement foundations.
President 0veiton, General Manager
Wilson and Superintendent Meredith col
lccted a party OF gentlemen Wednesday
and made special run TO thegrgvel fields.
The guests who started from here were
the County Road Commissioners, Justice
ID. G. Slaughter and Messrs. Joe Weir and
George b. Coleman, the boards engineer,
Maj. George b. Fleece, City Engineer
Niles Meriwether and Messrs. Joe J. Will
liams, Cheatham, b. S. Kimbrough, w.
X. Cross, Joe W. Allison, @. w. Schultz,
b. NJ. Stratton, S. J. Camp and a number
OF others.
The train pulled out from the depot at s
o'clock a. NJ, made few stops along the
line, reaching Jackson at IL am. There
reiniorcements, consisting OF the Mayor
and Board Of Aldermen, were taken
aboard, and when Lexington was reached
still further increase was made 10 tho
numerical strength OF the party. Att
O'Clock the end OF the road was reached,
and the party, sixty strong, began It's
lively tramp across the country.
Arrived at the destination, three
or four hours were pleasantly and profit
ably spent with an eye single 10 learning
everything possible about tho newly dis
covered and valuable article. When the
members began TO groan under the pangs
OF hunger, an invitation went along the
line, the return trip TO the special
train was made, and there
everything that an hungered and
iamished man could desire, was found in
abundance, the whole rounded Off with
fragrant cigurs. The train left jackson for
Memphis at 0 O'Clock, pm. reaching here
at 500 o'clock.
In addition TO the good service Of the
gravel in ballasting the road, n grca. deal
OF ii will be- purchased by Memphis, Jack
son, somerville, and the counties along
the line OF railroad.