The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1895-08-15

and One Which Does Not. lts
p Contsrts 0noutd @bs Studied
With the Greatest Care
Col. Boone, whom the bankers In
New Work consider to be the great
est railroad Promoter in the
United States, has written letter
to a gentleman in Maryville in
in which, among other things, he
says:
1.-THE reports received from your
county crafty me greatly. The
Kindness shown me when l was
in Maryville a few weeks since was
characteristic of Southern hospital
ity, and left in q state Of uncer-
tainty, not knowing whether the
kindness extended me were only
the hospitality Of your people or
whether deep-felt interest had
been awakened in what l believe
to be the greatest railroad ever
conceived of in the United States.
Believing the reports almost daily
received from your citizens, / am
forced to believe that you are wide
awake to your future interests; net
only that, but the interest Of the
rising generation as we'll as the nm
born.
say it is a source 81 gratifica-
lion, because / had been told over
and over and over that Bl0unt
county would not awaken TO her
own interests, and because i had
never constructed a road through y
county without forming close and
sincere alliances with the citizens
So, II / had gloomy forebedfngs,
they no longer exist, and r now feel
that II must be left to some other
county than Blount to stand as .
barrier to her own development
and greatness. A railroad iB like y
bank or a merchant, and those that
! have constructed are no except
IONS to the rule In one respect If o
banker or merchant repeatedly 80
licits business or trade with an in
diviiual and fails to attain that
sought they cease their efforts and
expend their energies in another
direction. ShOuld the business or
trade solicited and abandOned'ffna}-
ly offer itself it is received, of,courss
bot ii fav0rs are to be shown. and
there are always favors to begrant-
ed in everything, it is the. inva-
riaS'e rule to grant favoss whore
favors are most generously
given. II is so with railroads.; 1t is
sO with all business; it Is 80. even
with professional men, asdi 1t is
80, more or less, with the farmer
whee deals with but few.
One respect in which Il differ
greatly wiAh other railrJasi project.
Oss. isr wherever ! 60 in parteneE
ship, with the people bind ns
read in freight contracts far99l yrs
naasing them - binding ssright-O'
Way contracts, 1t the same time
binding those who have ;reightasee
to permiH nay road to carry a given
pen cent Of their freightss, Novi1e.
Ennv rates. dD:nOt excede theratessOi
othsr waals that may come after
rns. I ~ once begin bending: my
energies to insswee capitalists to- in,
vest in the various resources. the
swnens Of wh1eh / have also bound
b me in contract, and sA the time
poad is. completed Through lie
county, with which I have gene.in
partnership, ] have a splendid line
bef freights hasSlt up. vow cam nead'
lilly see the difference my road will
maks between a county baking
stock and one which does, nol tata
STOCK
u state these facts i'm answer r.
the many questions asked me. upOI
this line. When your oiti1snt
thoroughly understand them, aaG
when the results Of the election
which I will ask fca, are known. i
is nay candid belief that Bloun$ viii
lead Knox where but 81 votes wer,
cast against the proposition. 1nat
arally feel that j owe Knox soani,
much because OF the nnaniEnity o
the vote of her citizens, and it Il
with just pride that say l nov
have some stapepd0Hs undertak
ings on foot for Knox which viii
soon be real, living evidences of m
appreciation of their faith and sur
port.
/ hope TO be with your citizens i
a few days, when we can talk
each other like business men-lik
brothers,
| am your most truly,
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