The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-02-10
AN INTERURBAN PATHWAY.

an iuterurban railway has been FLEE
at Nashville. The road is to b,
called the Nashville & HuntsyilI,
Railway and is to be the middle
section Of the vast rapid transi
electric railway to be run eyentu
ally from Memphis through Nash
vile, Birmingham and Montgom
cry to Pensacola, Fla. The CAPT
tai stock of the company asking
for charter is Just $4,000, but
it is said the road will cost millions,
and that capitalists worth many
millions are back of the big enter.
prise. 1t is proposed to begin
work Immediately as soon as
officers can be elected. The line
from Nashville is to run through
Nolensyille, Murfreesboro, Shell
byville, Fayetteville and Hunts
vile, effecting a iuncture at the
last named place with the South
ern Division of the great system.
From Nashville the line will run
in a southeast direction, crossing
the Nolensville pike at Nolensville,
and continuing on to Murfrees-
boro. From Rutherford's county
seat it will run on an air line south
through Shelbyville and Fayette-
vile to Huntsville. The sec
ton to be traversed by the road is
one Of the richest in the State.
The Alabama survey to Pensa-
cola has already been laid out for
Eastern capitalists and the charter
granted. In Alabama the line
runs from Huntsville to Birming.
ham, from Birmingham to Mont
gomery, from Montgomery to
Pensacola by way of Haynesyille.
A branch runs west from Haynes
vile to Camden, Ala, crosses the
Alabama River at Camden and
continues west to Pine Hill, Ala,
efecting juncture with the Mo
bile & Ohio Railroad.
From Nashville to Huntsville
the line will be LOG miles long and
315 miles from Huntsville to Pen
sacola.
New York, Chicago, Philadel-
phia and St. Louis capitalists with
unlimited funds are back of the
enterprise, says Mr.. Conner.
The entire system, when complet
cd from Memphis to Pensacola,
will be known as the Southern
Air Line Railway Rapid Transit
Company. The trolley system will
be used at first and the road will
acquire high speed.
The above is reproduced from
the Nashville papers. The pro
ject is not an innovation nor is it
visionary or impractical when
compared with improvements of a
parallel nature now in operation
in the North and East. Especially
is the Nashville and Huntsville
branch proposition which CAPT
talists are very willing to consider
as an investment
We do not present the subject
merely as a matter of news, but to
call attention to the fact that above
all things an enterprise of this
kind is needed in Obion County,
and if properly put before men Of
the right character would, we are
confident, be very carefully inves
tigated. An interurban railroad
from this end of the county to
Reelfoot Lake has already been
commented upon by men who live
where these things are in daily |
,ise and successful operation. The
reH@rk was made to us by one
GENTLEMAN who travels through
this coantry, a man who has al
ready made comfortable fortune
of his ownA that he bad no hesitan-
cy in saying that the commercial
and natural opportunities afforded
for a line from here to Reelfoot
Lake would be promptly taken up
if presented to practical men in
that business. The bulk Of our
people know very little about the
existence and operation of these
roads and hence read such articles
as these with a grain Of salt. They
are If course. as rood people as