The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-10-12
NEW RAILROAD TALK.
Press and People are Beginning to
Wake Up to the Importance
of Competing Line.

of a Competing Line.
The Columbia HERALD, seconded
by the Mt. Pleasant Chronicle, Is ad
vOcatiug the building OF II railroad
from Maury county to the Tennessee
river. Come alcng with 1T gentle
men. We have just discovered a
large coal field in this county and
right in Savannah would be "A mag
nificent place CD bIili iron furnaces,
cotton factories aud other industries.
We have the capital and 1t will be
easy 10 get hold of it 10 aid In the
building of such load.-5avannah
Courier.
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There is nothing at present more
essential to the development OF the
phosphate interests OF this immedi-
ate vicinity than several large fer
tilizur factories. La fact, we have no
doubt but that If Maury county had
had another railroad line, Mt. Pleas
ant would have had several long be-
fore this. Many Of our phosphate
men, aud others, have considered
the advisability OF locating such a
factory here, or in Columbia, and in
every instance the problem to con
front them has been that OF trans
portation. With fertiliz r factories
we would have market here at
home for our phosphate rock; we
would be loosened from the clutches
of the great fertilizer trust, and Mt.
Pleasant would continue to grow
and prosper regardless of this mon
ster which Is endeayoring to force
the prices of our product so low as to
prevent its being mined prof1 ably.
The benefits to the entire district
through which the proposed road
would pass are too numerous to
mention, and 1t IL altogether unnec
essary to discuss them at length.
Anyone who knows anything OF the
present state of affairs will readily
admit this. We all recognize it to
be fact. and the question arises,
how are we to get the new railroad
built?
In our next issue we hope to have
this question answered. through our
columns by one OF the most success
full and enterprising business men
and phosphate dealers In the Mt.
Pleasant field. Mt. Pleasant Chron-
icle.
Iere Baxter.
1t seems that Nashville Is awaken
ing to the need of new railroads.
Whether this il merely one of those
spasmodlc evidences of aroused
public opinion which have been seen
In our capital city ever since 1886
when the first Midland fight was on,
or whether the citIZ9ns are at last
really determined to break the
bands of mon poly, remains to be
seen. The hope, and only hope, of
Nashville in this direction lies in
the masterful grit and lesourceful
determination of Jere Baxter No
living Tenuesseean has struggled so
hard against such odds to achieve
great things for his State along ma
trial lines. Ii the people of NASH
VILE will stand firmly by Mr.. Baxter,
the problem OF increasing popuia
ton, of securing new manufactures
and stimulating business circles,
will be very quickly solved by him
and for them Every loyal Tennes-
seean wants to see Nashville prosper.
1t is idle to deny the fact that Its
progress of recent years has not been
as steady and substantial as Its well
wisher5 might desire, OJher South
ern cities are outstripptng it. New
blood at the helm, more aggressive
methods and better provision of the
agencies which nave advanced rival
communities are needed. A leader
appears for every great emergency,
and Jere Baxter is prominently the
man needed at the helm of the in
dustrial affairs of Nashville. Had
the city rallied to him ten years ago,
it would to-day be- tar ahead of
Memphis, and decidedly the most
prosperous inland city III the South,
Ii the business community will rally
TO this man of iron will ana really
wonderful creative genius, he will
usher in new era, and the next de-
cade will see our capital city over
take its rivals anu pass them. But
failure to act wisely ana aggres
sIvely now will be costly, indeed, to
its future. - FraL kiln Review
Appeal.