The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-01
NASHVILLE AND COLUMBIA
fNTERUReAR RAILWAY.


information received since Tuesdays
meeting, We think We may say with
some assurance that the Nashville and
Interurban Railway is about as certain
10 materialize as any future project OF
its magnitude can be. We do not think
there is any reasonable doubt OF It's
being built, and built as quickly as
the work can be done. The feature
now to be considered is, what effect
will It have on Columbia and Maury
county; and in considering that. We
should view it not narrowly, but from
the standpoint of the general good.
Some Columbia merchants think it
will divert trade to Nashville; and to
some extent that is true; but. not to
any great extent. we think; because
the trade that wants to go to Nashville,
goes there already. And. on the other
nand. will it not bring more trade to
Columbia, than it takes away? We be-
lieve 1t will,
The specialists" who cannot find
things fine enough in Columbia to suit
them, are few; while those who can
find all that they have the money to
pay for, are many. And If the electric
interurban railway will bring the many
in closer touch with the Columbia
merchants, will the local trade not
profit more than it will lose?
Our belief and contention is that
the proposed railway will make trade;
and we base that upon the belief that
II will make a market for much that
now goes to waste, and give the peo-
pie more money to trade with.
BY way of illustration: There will
be an early market" train to leave
here very early in the morning, so as
TO reach Nashville about the time the
sun rises; and there will be stations
all along this road to receive milk and
butter and eggs and vegetables for the
Nashville market; and there will be
some arrangement made with some
dealer there to take all this and dis
nose of it to the early buyers and at
the best city prices; and without 60
ing to Nashville at ALL the producers
of this feed stuff" can dispose OF all
their surplus right at their own doors,
at Nashville prices, plus the small
freight charges. And this money, or
the bulk of it, derived from the Nash
vile trade. will be spent in Column
bia, or the Maury county stores.
It is the little things that count in
life: it is the little things that maks
up the big volume of trade; it is the
little wastes of the farm that the farm
.er does not think worth marketing,
and is not worth marketing If the mar
ket is far from him, that. husbanded,
will make a grand total in year. The
man who has few fruit tress never
thinks of selling any fruit. Some OF
1t is fed to hogs; much OF 1t rottens
on the tree or after it Is pulled and in
the house. The most economical
housewife rarely thinks OF selling a
bushel OF apples, or of peaches; or
Just one barrel of potatoes or the
few surplus berries; or the several gal
ons of turnip green's she has raised
more than she can consume; or the
one extra round of butter, or the one
extra dozen of eggs. But our city
cousins go hungry for these things,
and are willing to pay for them. And
how easy 1t will be for some one in
every neighborhood to collect these
little things and deliver them to the
train every morning and take the com
receipt therefor, and receive
cash in return for that receipt the
next morning These little things will
bring great bulk of money in year;
and that money, nearly ever ycent of
in sense foreign money, win find
its way to the local trade In this town
or county.
This is a mere hint of what will be |
done For the greatest developer that
can come into new country, Is rail
road: and the next greatest, where
there is already railroad for the /
heavy crops, is an interurbar railway
'or the strictly local trade.
The farms all along this route, all
he way from Nashville to Mt. Pleas
mt, will become suburban property,
n one sense; that is, they will be in
iueh easy and quick reach of one town
II the other, that there will practically
,e no country" in the sense OF dis
ance or isolation. Instead of miles,
distance will be measured by minutes;
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