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PRESIDENT'S REPORT. 
 
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 , Moeeistown, June 13, 1857. J 
 
 To the Stockholders of said Company : — Gentlemen : 
 
 Wo have thought it expedient and right^aiid conditions mentioned in the Apt, which 
 to present you with a full and detailed his-ithis is intended to amend, but to the extent 
 tory of your Road from its inception to^of ten thousand dollars, instead of eight 
 tho present time, the means of construct-) thousand, per mile. 
 
 fag it, the naturo and character of the^ Sec. 2. Be it further enacted That, the 
 country through which it will pass, its ad ^Bonds of the State shall issue to the Corn- 
 vantages in promoting tho business and de->pasies mentioned in tho first section of 
 veloping the resources of East Tennessee,^this Act, and the tenth and nineteenth see- 
 the character of the Road for a safe andHums of that which this is intended to 
 profitable investment, the necessity for sucloamend, for each bridge that said Compa- 
 a Road and its bearing upon the Commerces or either of them may have to build in 
 cial and social relations of the North ancPEast, Middle and West Tennessee, across 
 South. 5tHe Holston, Clinch, Big Hatchee, Tennes- 
 
 Your Road was Chartered by an ;\ct of^ee and Cumberland rivers, for the maxi- 
 the Legislature of Tennessee Nov. 18, 1853,Wvm sum that bonds are provided to bo 
 with as liberal provisions of Incorporationpsued to the East Tennessee and Georgia 
 as those granted to any Rail-road in. the^Rail-road by an Act passed Feb. 4, 1852, 
 State, establishing only three points of loOentitled an Act to aid in the completion of 
 cation, termini at Cumberland Gap ancV'thc East Tennessee ana Georgia Railroad 
 Paint Rock, and an intermediate point at^Company, and upon the terms and condi- 
 Morristown, on the line of the East Ten- tions mentioned in said Act except the 
 j T7- • ■ t> -i t psecond section ; and also the fifth and sixth 
 
 nessce and V lrginia Kan-road. \ .- „ „ P \ . -, v , na 1C ko 
 
 to ^sections ot an Act passed ieb. 2b, 1852., 
 
 During the Session of the General As-J entit ] e( j an Act to charter the Chattanooga, 
 Kembly of your State in which the Char->Blue Spring and Cleveland Rail-road Con/- 
 ter for your Road was granted (1853-4) a^pany, and for other purposes, and said 
 liberal appropriation was made to it by^bonds shall be included in the aggregate 
 an Act passed Nov. 8, 1854, entitled an^amount of stock raised by said Rail-road 
 Act to amend an Act passed Feb. 11, 1852,^Companies in tho same manner, that the 
 to establish a system of Internal Improve-^thrce hundred thousand dollars of Bonds 
 ments in this State. Tho following is the^loaned to the East Tennessee & Virginia 
 ■material part of said Act. ^Rail-r<\ad Company, under an Act passed 
 
 Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general As-;January 15, 1852, to enable said Company 
 sembly of the State of Tennessee, that theHo build Bridges, are provided to be in- 
 Bonds of the State shall issue to the Com-Muded in the aggregate amount of Stock 
 panics mentioned in the first, tenth and)to be raised by the East Tennessee & 
 nineteenth sections of the Act, which thiss Virginia Rail-road Company, 
 ss intended to amend, and also to the Edge-^ The provisions of the above Acts appro- 
 field and Kentucky Rail-road Company,;prialing State Bonds to the East Tennessee 
 Central Southern Rail-road Company^and Georgia Rail-road for Bridge purposes, 
 Knoxville and Charleston Rail-road Command which is amended bv the above gon- 
 pany, Mississippi Central and Tennessee^eral Internal Improvement Act, granting 
 Rail-read Company, Knoxville and Ken->to your Road the same aid for the bridges 
 tucky Rail-road Company, Tennessee Wes-^across the Clinch and Holston Rivers, that 
 tern and Charleston Rail- road Company, jis provided by said. Acts to the East Tej3- 
 and Cincinnati Cumberland Gap, and Char-^nessee and Georgia Rail-road are as fo,l~ 
 Itston Rail-road Company, upon the terms^lows ; 
 
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ItALL-EOAD REPORT. 
 
 Sec. I. Bo it enacted by the General; been fully completed, the Governor shall 
 Assembly of the State of Tennessee That,c,issue the remainder of said bonds, but in 
 for the purpose of aiding in the completion ( no event shall more than one hundred 
 of the East Tennessee and Georgia Rail- ^thousand dollars in bonds be issued for 
 road, so soon as the Governor may be (said work. 
 
 satisfied that a good substantial and permao Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That said 
 nont bridge has been constructed and^East Tennessee & Georgia Bail-road Corn- 
 finished ' complete across the Tennessee cpany shall procure bona-fide, good and 
 River at cf near Blair's Ferry, ready for .solvent subscriptions in amount sufficient 
 laying down the iron rails thereon to bc-,to grade, prepare the timbers, and prepare 
 begun, carried' on and completed under the (the whole line of said Road proposed to 
 direction and superintendence of the Engi-^be constructed, ready for the reception of 
 neer of said Railroad, and to be perfected (Iron, and these facts, shall be certified to 
 by him and accepted as finished, then and^the Governor by the written affidavit of 
 in that case it shall be the duty of theSthe President and Chief Engineer, and also 
 Governor to issue to said Company Coupon(by a majority of the Directors, before the 
 bonds of the State of Tennessee, sufficient /Governor shall issue the Bonds provided 
 to pay for the construction of said bridge, (for in this Act. [Passed Feb. 20, 1852. 
 provided he shall not issue more than one? The above Acts were amended or modi- 
 hundred thousand dollars in bonds as)fied by an Act of the General Assembly of 
 aforesaid for said object, and which said (the State passed December 17, 1855, which 
 bonds shall bear an interest of six per cent (granted to your road special privileges, and 
 per annum, and have not less than thirty ^muxes the terms for obtaining the State 
 nor more than forty years to run to ma--,appropriations more favorable than the 
 turity. Passed Feb. 4, 1852, which was (above, which is as follows: 
 amended the same session of the Legisla-j Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the 
 tiire of the State, as follows : (General Assembly of the State of Tennes- 
 
 Sec 5. Be it enacted by the General )sec, That an Act to Charter the Cincinnati, 
 Assembly of the State of Tennessee That, ^Cumberland Gap & Charleston railroad 
 the Act passed' by the present General (Company, passed Nov. 18, 1853, shall bo 
 Assembly of the State of Tennessee, en-(so amended that whenever said railroad 
 titled an Act to aid in the completion onCompany shall have subscribed in bona- 
 the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, (fide stock, an amount sufficient to grade 
 be so amended that the provisions of saidPsaid rail-road from or near Paint Rock, the 
 Act be made to extend to the abutments^Southern boundary line of the State to its 
 and embankments, connected with said (intersection with the East Tennessee and 
 bridge, and also be so amended that on ; Virginia Rail road at Morristown, or from 
 the certificate of the Engineer that one(Cumberland Gap, the Northern boundary 
 fourth of the work in value on said bridge dine of the State, to the East Tennessee & 
 has been completed according to contract, /Virginia Railroad at Morristown; they 
 it shall be the duty of the Governor to is-Sshall have all the rights, powers and privi- 
 sue twenty thousand dollars of said bondsjjleges conferred by this Charter for ninety 
 to said Company, and upon a like ccrtifi- .and nine years, and shall be entitled to all 
 cate that one half of said work has been^of the benefits of State Aid granted to 
 completed the Governor shall issue anothensaid Road by existing laws, 
 twenty thousand dollars of said bonds, and? Sec. 2. 3e it enacted, That the Presi- 
 »pon a like certificate that three fourths)dent and Directors of said Company niaj' 
 of said work has been completed the Gov-< draw and expend any surplus amount of 
 ernor phall issue another twenty thousand, the bridge appropriation for the Clinch and 
 dollars of said bonds, and upon a likc^flolston Rivers mentioned in said laws, to 
 certificate that the whole of said work has'bc expended in constructing bridges over 
 
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RAIL-BOAD REPORT. * 
 
 <'hc French Broad and Pigeon rivers, or auy'the grading of your Ro id, ten miles North 
 other bridges along the line of said Roadcof the East Tennessee and Virginia llail- 
 upon the same terms and conditions im-)road at Morristown extending to Bean's 
 posed by the Internal Improvement laws^Station and twenty miles south, extening 
 of this State. Soon after your Road wascto Newport, in Cocke county. The Board 
 Chartered the Commissioners therein ap-5were of opinion that it would best serve 
 pointed to open books for subscriptions of^the interests of the Company to put under 
 Stock, proceeded i,n the discharge of duty ('contract the grading and masonry of the 
 imposed upon them, and met with suclofirst thirty miles rs above — taping as it 
 success that in a very short time succeed-^would on the North a very rich valley of 
 fid in raising the amount of Stock requireoVland, in which is situated the most exten- 
 by the Charter to organize a Company, cal-^sive qna?ies of the finest quality of Mar- 
 led a meeting of the Stockholders for that<ble in East Tennessee, or probably in the 
 purpose in the Town of Tazewell, on the^United States, and penetrating on the 
 15th day of May, 1S5 J-, at which time andpSouth at the mouth of Chucky and along 
 place the Company was thoroughly organ-vthe French Broad river one of the most 
 jzed by the election of a Board of Direc- (fertile valleys of land in the State, which 
 tors, who soon thereafter were fortunate inWould thereby cause your Road to pay lar- 
 employing the services of R. L. Owen, ascger dividends to the Company when finish^ 
 Chief Engineer, whom the Board found to^ed, than any other thirty miles, either 
 be possessed of superior ability for theSNorth or South on the whole line of th'j 
 work of location, and who succeeded verycRoad, they were also of opinion that it was 
 happily in finding very favorable passes c duc to the friends of the enterprise both 
 through the ridges upon light grades and^North and South of the East Tennessee 
 favorable curves, in no instance adoptingcand Virginia Railroad, and that they should 
 a grade exceeding OS feet to the mile oivin that manner indicate a determination 
 u curvature less than a thousand feet radius. Sto build the whole Road from Cumberland 
 Alter the necessary surveys and estimates<Gap to Paint Rock, which has ever been 
 of cost had been made and reported to.their purpose and from which, no copbi- 
 the Board of Directors by the Chief Engi- ^nation of circumstances can cause them 
 neer, the Board met at Beans' Station, and.'to swerve, and which policy they further 
 definately located your Rjad as follows : ^believed would give more general satisfac- 
 Begin.ning at Cumberland Gap and run-aion to all of the friends of the Road ; be- 
 ning from thence via Tazewell, Notchie^sides the law expressly requires that the 
 Gap, Beans' Station, Morristown. near tbe^first thirty miles graded shall have a con- 
 Mouth of Chuck}', along the valley of thecnection with some other Railroad in oper- 
 French Broad river via Newport to Paint^ation, or commercial pojnt to entitle you 
 Rock. The Board of Directors having;to the ten thousand do liars per mile ; and 
 succeeded in raising the amount of stockaiftcr the completion of said thirty miles, 
 as they believed, sufficient to entitle your or even sooner if the state of the Compa- 
 Road to the benefits of the State approprk-ny, or interests cf the Road required; the 
 ationfor bridge* purposes, whenever the re-?Board of Directors contemplate extending 
 quired amount of bridge work was don&Hhe work both North and South, pari pas- 
 proceeded to advertise proposals for work,,vu until the entire line of Road shall have 
 and at a meeting of the Board held at been finished— they have already resolved 
 Beans' Station, Sept. 4th, 1855, let to con->to commence the work in Claiborne county 
 tract two of the most costly bridges on the 'so soon as the County Court of said coun- 
 whole line, and "soon thereafter accordingly, shall issue the Bonds subscribed by 
 to previous notice at a meeting held in;said county to the Company, and shall in- 
 Tazewell, Oct. 18th, 1855, let to confract^dicatc in that manner a desire to have the 
 pn quite favorable terms, thirty miles of work begun there. And in fact, the re- 
 
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 mninder of the work not under contract, in^of said bonds — they proceeded to make out 
 the counties of Cocke and Grainger, could';a full and detailed statement of the Com- 
 be safely put under contract and would be,spany, giving the name ef each stockholder, 
 provided said counties would come forward, ^and the amount subscribed by each, and 
 and make as liberal subscriptions as Clai-Sthe amount subscribed by counties — the 
 borne has done, and the whole work be^estimated cost of grading and masonry on 
 pushed through in a very short time. I^theline, showing that the stock subscribed 
 feel confident that as the work progresses^exceeded the cost of grading said road from 
 that those counties will appreciate the im-vPaint Rock to the East Tennessee and Vir- 
 portance of this great enterprise, and thatrginia Railroad at Morristown, and that the 
 they will come up nobly to aid and forwardCamended charter had been adopted bj the 
 its completion. c Company — to all of which, the President, 
 
 The first work done towards the gradmg^ Chi(3f Engineer and a majority of the Di- 
 of your road was commenced on the 15th? rectors certified before an acting Justice of 
 day of November, 1S55— Hie work, both^ the P^ 00 . to the Governor of the State, 
 grading and masonry, progressed rapidlyA the y als0 appointed agents, the President 
 and public confidence was inspired in the/ and OollWm. Houston, with bond and secu- 
 success of your road, the masonry in the< rit y for the faithful application of the bonds 
 construction of the Holston and other^ to the P ro P eI objects of the Law, to make ap- 
 minor bridges had so far advanced by the)P lication to the Governor for said bonds, 
 33th of May, 1856, that the Chief Engineer- and reccive Mti receipt for the same.— 
 and board of directors were of opinion that? The a S ents soon after their appointment 
 your road was entitled, under the laws ofpproceeded on the business assigned them, 
 the State, J.0 twenty thousand dollars in-Jhad an interview with the Governor— found 
 bonds of the State, appropriated to thc^all was not well with him. He indirectly 
 building of the Holston bridge and otherSexpressed doubts as to the meaning or in- 
 bridges on the line of the road, it appearin^tention of the law, by way of suggestions 
 on an estimate of the Chief Engineer, that?aiid suppositions, which induced us to be- 
 over one fourth of the work, in value, had' lieve that he desired further time for con- 
 been completed according to contract, whichs sideration and probably the aid of legal 
 fact was certifiedto the Governor of the^ counsel . and from that impression proposed 
 State, by the written affidavit of the Presi-) the propriety of submitting the ^vhole mat- 
 dent and Chief Engineer, and by a majority ^ ter <•<> the Attorney General of the State— 
 of the Board of Directors of said road, also> the lfi S al ad viser of the Governor and the 
 that the said Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap r ;S uardian of the interests of the State. He 
 & Charleston Railroad Company had pro^P™ 11 ^^ replied that he preferred its taking 
 cured bona Jide subscriptions in amount^that course, and that he was upon the evo 
 Sufficient to grade said road from or ncar^of making that suggestion, which he prom- 
 Paint Rock to its intersection with the Eastased us should be done as soon as practicable. 
 • Tennessee and Virginia Railroad^at Morris-^I at once wrote to the Attorney General of 
 town; and thus, in due form of law, as they^the State, the intention of the Governor, and 
 believed, made application to his Excellency (made to him a statement of the nature of the 
 the Governor of the State by an agent)claim of the Company. We returned home 
 properly and legally authorized by them to^with the assurance that the matter in con- 
 receive and receipt for the said twenty thou-?troversy would be submitted to the Attor- 
 sand dollars in bonds of the State— but the)ney General of the State for a settlement, 
 said application proved unsuccessful. In- with as little delay as possible. The friends 
 consequence of which the Board of Directors^ the road felt safe that thei? cause should 
 were again called together on the 6th day ofrthus be disposed of— having an abiding con- 
 June, 1856. for the purpose of obviating the^fidence in the legal ability, justice and im- 
 ©bjeeiionsof the Governor to the issuance?part|ality of Col. Sliced, the Attorney Gen- 
 
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 eral-thcy also felt a further assurance in his ed on an interview with the Governor that 
 decision from the fact that many of the most he had not yet submitted the matter in 
 eminentlawyers in East Tennessee had been^dispute to the Attorney General, and that 
 consulted in regard to the meaning of theche would not do so in writing, but on his 
 above laws, all of whom were of opinion ( coming to Nashville he would get his opin- 
 that the Company w^re clearly and ufl-Mon, but at the same time expressed an 
 questionably entitled to the bonds — aiukunwillingness to be governed by it. From 
 knowing that the Governorhad issued bondSfthis state of things, we thought it best to 
 to the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad-consult with gentlemen of the highest order 
 Company, upon the opinion of the Attorney <of legal attainments in reference to the mat- 
 General of the State, after his predecessor, ^ter, as instructed to do. AVe consequently 
 Gov. Campbell, had decided that the law'called udcii R. J. Meigs, Andrew Ewing, 
 did not warrant the issuance of bonds to ; and Gov. Neil S. Brown. We requested them 
 said road, they were doubly confident of'to look into the law carefully and give us 
 success. After some time had elapsed, the^their opinion in regard to its meaning, and 
 Directory of your road were unable to learn>what it required your Company to do to 
 that any reference had been made, or would^entitle it to the State bonds for brid ge pur- 
 likely be made, and in the event it shouldvDOses — the next day, or the day after that, 
 be, they had reasons to believe from recent ( they were all prepared to give an opinion, 
 information, that the Governor, from some' : Mr. Ewing a verbal opinion, Messrs. Meigs 
 cause, best known to himself, would notcand Brown written opinions, all of whom, 
 issue the bonds to the Company, though the^agreed in the main fact, that the law clearly 
 Attorney General should decide in youi (entitled your Company to the twenty thou- 
 favor. This impression going to contractors-sand dollars in State bonds, provided you 
 and stockholders and causing general dis-'had the amount of tuna fide stock we 
 satisfaction, the former fearing delay in(|claimed fur you — they were also of opinion 
 payment for work dene, for which the States that you might serve a mandamus upon the 
 had provided, the latter seeing a large debt^Governor, and make him show cause for 
 hanging over them, which they had notcrefusing the bonds, and if not justifiable- 
 provided to meet, relying on a compliance ^compel him to issue them, but they doubted 
 with the Law on the part of the Governor^whether the courts would exercise such 
 of the State, and all seeing that if the Statecpower over a co-ordinate branch of State 
 appropriations were withheld from the road, ^government, and that to litigate 'the matter 
 it must suffer temporary suspension. With^would likely require a longer time than the 
 those facts before the Board of Directors, it 'term of office for which he was elected, 
 became evident that promptness in decis->and that it would likely be better for the 
 ion was necessary, a meeting was called, ^Company to await such time, These opin- 
 and the President and Chie f Engineer werecions given by men of such profound legal 
 appointed agents to wait again upon his ex-5knowledge, strengthened those entertained 
 cellency, with instructions to have the mat.pby the Board of Directors of your road, and 
 ter decided either by the Governor himself, (those of other eminent Jurists of Tennessee 
 or by a reference to the Attorney General, ,and was a fair prelude to the Attorney 
 if it had not yet been done, and ifherefused^General's of the State. On our failure to 
 to give satisfaction, to consult counsel in <get the bonds, or even a reference, caused 
 regard to the law in the case, and if, in their ^a general murmuring with the friends of 
 opinion, your Company were entitled to the^the road, and especially with contractors, 
 bonds, and a successful suit could be pros-<the Board of Directors were soon after call- 
 ecu ted against the Governor to the advanced together, and resolved to suspend the 
 tage of the Company, to institute suit -work until they were enabled to procure the 
 against him forthwith; the agents appointedraid of the State for bridge purposes. They 
 as above, proceeded as directed— they learn -£ were un willing to apply the subc. iptions of 
 
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 the Company to purposes for which theP It is duo the Attorney General of th« 
 State had provided ample means, if it could.State, that I should state, that the informa- 
 bc avoided, or to incur further liabilitiesaion upon which vhe above opinion was bas» 
 until the executive of your State woulcDed, was given to him by me soon after the 
 learn to see the laws as others see them. agreement on the part of the Gov. to submit 
 The suspension of the work caused several^ the matter in controversy to him, which was 
 of the contractors to institute suits against/ that your Company had one fourth in val- 
 your Company — the amounts sued for how- sue of the work done on the Holston bridge 
 ever are inconsiderable — the whole present^and had bona lide stock in amount sufficient 
 indebtedness of the Company would proba->to grade your road from Paint Rock to Mor- 
 bly not exceed twenty thousand dollars, not .ristown, and over and above that amount a 
 so much as the estimates on the bridge work^considerable surplus, to all of which the 
 done on the line, for which the State has^p res ident, Chief Engineer and a majority of 
 provided. About the time of the suspension the D j rectors had ma de certificate before an 
 of the work on your road, we learned tnat( . T • , „ • mi , 
 
 the Attorney General wa,s then in Knoxvillc, actin S Justlce of the P cace - lhe abova 
 in attendance on the Supreme Court thervopimon of the Attorney General is fully cor 
 in session, supposing that-he had seen Gov.Si'oborated by that of Return J. Meigs, Esq.. 
 Johnson on his way to East Tennessee^and Governor 2s oil S. Brown, which are as 
 through Nashville, and that his opinions ofpfollows : 
 
 the law had been given, and the matter inc £)e,ui Sir : you have asked me the following 
 dispute settled, I addressed him at thatWiestions : what is the Cincinnati Cumber- 
 place, to which he replied promptly, as fol-';land Gap and Charleston Railroad Compa- 
 lows: cny required to do to entitle it to demand 
 
 Knoxyille Sept., 30th, 1856. S t he bridge bonds allowed them by the 
 Mir Dear Sir: — ksevera'i acts of Assembly ? This company 
 
 Yours of yesterday is this moment re-^a^ chartered by the acts of 1853, chapter 
 .ceived. Soon after your favor was received^oi, passed November 18th, 1853 ; by the 
 the points of issue between your Company? ac t s of 1853 chapter 131, section 2, bonds 
 and the Governor, in order to avoid delay> f the State for building bridges are to be 
 and to be ready when called upon by the^ SS ued to this Company upon the terms and 
 Governor for an opinion, I investigated the^conditions, mentioned in the act 1851 chap- 
 matter fully, and the result or my investiga.^ter 224, sec, 5& G, namely, upon producing 
 tion was that your Company is entitled tobto the Governor the following evidence, first 
 the twenty thousand dollars ofbonds claim-<^a sworn certificate, signed by the President, 
 ed — the Governor has not yet submitted the''Chief Engineer, and a majority of the Direc- 
 matter to me but I presume will do so upon^tors, that the Company has procured bona 
 my return to Nashville next week. I have;fide, good and solvent subscriptions suf- 
 but little doubt but that the bonds will be>ficient to grade, prepare the timbers and 
 issued, as I do not think the question in-sprepare the whole line of the road for the 
 volved in the slightest .doubt. In my cor-^reception of the iron, act 1851 chapter 224, 
 /espondence with the Governor, I prom-)section 6th. Secondly a certificate of iho 
 ised to call at his office, and confer with^Chief Engineer that one fourth, one half, 
 •him about the matter dunng the last week^three fourths in value, or the whole work 
 in August last, or the first week of the pres->is completed acts 1851, chapter 224 section 
 ent month. I called at his office during' ; 5th. By the act of 1855 chapter 49 section 
 both of those weeks, and he was absent in'lst, it is enacted that this Company shall 
 East Tennessee, so I have notyet seenhim, I;be entitled to all the benefits of State aid 
 will return to^Nashviile next week and wilKgranted to it by existing laws, whenever 
 at once confer with the Governor in refer- \said Company, shall have subscribed in 
 ance to the matter.. Yours &c. Sbona fide stock an amount sufficient to grade 
 
 JOHN L.'T. SNEED. ^said Railroad from Paint Rock, or Cumber- 
 
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 land Gap to its intersection with the East/between your Company and himself in a 
 Tennessee and Virginia ftailroad at Morris-<!formal manner, which appears from a letter 
 town, ctvrittfin by him to mesOon after his arrival 
 
 What the Company has to do then tO(in Nashville, which is as follows : 
 cntitlo itself to demand the bridge bonds} Dr. M. Carmger: 31;/ Dear Sir: — 
 seems to be to produce to the Governor the'Govcrnor Johnson submitted tome your' 
 following evidence. , claim on behalf of the Rail-road Company,' 
 
 First. A written certificate signed and;over which you preside a k-w days since, 
 sworn to by the President, Chief Eegineer, and upon his presentation of the matter, 
 and a majority of the Directors, that thejthere are some difficulties in your way not 
 Company has bona fide subscription of heretofore considered by me, the invc»tiga- 
 stock in amount sufficient to grade the road tion which I have heretofore given this 
 from Paint Rock, or Cumberland Gap to claim proceeded upon the assumption that 
 the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad 'your Company had strictly complied with 
 at Morristown. cthe law in reference to subsciiptions of 
 
 Second. A certificate of the Chief Engiiwstocks which left nothing to be decided but 
 cer that one fourth, one half, three fourths^the triers questions of law upon which niy 
 in value, or the whole of the work on thecopinions were formed. It seems however, 
 bridge is completed in each of which cases?that my opinions as to these matters of law 
 $20,000 of bonds are to be issued by the^can be of no service to the Governor, his 
 Governor, not exceeding in any evcnt,; c lifficulty seems to arise from the condition 
 $100,000, act 1851 chapter 224 section 5th. - f the stock subscription alone, if you can 
 
 The above is the result to which I comc',satisfy him that the application is in pro- 
 
 and it does not seem to mo to admit oiipria forma, or in other words that all tho 
 
 doubt. ^requisite preliminaries have been complied 
 
 R. J. MEIGS. With, I have no doubt but he will issue tho 
 
 . Nashville August 15th, 1856. (Bonds. These difficulties might disappear 
 
 Dr. Cariger : — rbefore a more full and satisfactory under- 
 
 I have examined the acts of Assembly [standing of the positions assumed by your' 
 
 refered toby R. J. Meigs Esq., in the abovc c Company, and I therefore take the liberty 
 
 statement by him and I concur with himcof suggesting, that you write out your po- 
 
 in the conclusion to which he has arrived, ^sitions in full and submit them to the Gov- 
 
 as to the requisites for obtaining bonds in^ernor in reference to the question, as to 
 
 the case stated. I am unable to see any.'whether or not" you have the amount of 
 
 difficulty in the matter as a conclusion of stock required by the act of 1855, chapter 
 
 law. I have deemed it sufficient to state -10. Perhaps it would be better for yourself 
 
 my opinion in this form as I could add;or your Chief Engineer to come to Nashville 
 
 nothing to make it more explicit than Mr/about the 10th or 15th of November where 
 
 Meigs has done. <Ja full conference can be had on the subject. 
 
 NEIL S. BROWN. S Respectfully, yours, 
 
 August the 18th 1856. JOHN L. T. SNEED. 
 
 In addition to the above opinions in re-' After receiving the above information- 
 g&rd to the law concerning your road, the,and friendly advice from the Attorney Gcn- 
 opinions of many other gentlemen of high- era], Capt. R. L. Owen, Chief Engineer 
 legal attainment could be adduced concur-! and I). Morris, a Director went to Nashville 
 ing with the above but we claim it unneces- at the above appointed time, and on their' 
 ary for our present purpose. Soon after- return reported that the Governor was in- 
 thc above communication from the Attor- ^disposed to issue the Bonds to your Conr 
 ncy General of the State ho returned tocpany, or to be influenced by the opinion of* 
 Nashville, had an interview with the Gov- -the Attorney General his legal adviser, thus 
 trnor, who submitted the matter of issue Obstinately refusing your Road the aid 
 
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 EAII.-KOAD KEPOET. 
 
 gnintcd b)' the State, and forcing YOU UU- 1 Amount of solvent individual subscriptions,... .J158 4n 
 
 , ,, . r , ., , ' v 1 " " Stock of Union Stock Company, 125 WX) 
 
 •expectedly to pay for WGlk provided to be^ " « Stock subscribed by Claiborne co 64 219 
 
 paid for by the State, and not provided forS " " Blidge Appropriation guo ooo 
 
 by your Company ; wholly upon the ground, $ Total amount subscribed, $541 wo 
 
 as we are informed by the Attorney Gcner-' M. CARRIGER, Prest. of 
 
 al, that your stock subscriptions are insuf-) Gin. Gumo. G. & G. R. R. Co. 
 
 fieient to grade the Road either from Pain! G. W. BARNETT, Sec. & Treat. 
 
 Rock, or Cumberland Gap to the line of the'STATE OF TENNESSEE— GiuisGER Co. 
 East Tennessee and Virginia Rail-road at ^—Personally appeared M. Carriger, Presi- 
 Monistown. The law expressly declarescjdcnt and G. W. Barnett, Secretary and 
 that whenever your Company shall have f Treasurer of the Cincinnati, Cumberland 
 subscribed in bona-fide stock an amount^Gap and Charleston Rail-road Company, 
 sufficient to grade s&id Road between Paintcjbefore the undersigned, a Justice of the 
 Rock and Morristown, or Cumberland GapSp on „„ iv,„ c „;i «^.,^<-^ „ j i ,. . 
 
 ,1 m~„ • i *u t *i v n i 4 -,i v ieace l01 said county, and made oath m 
 
 .and Morristown, that they shall be entitled?-, c . . , ' 
 
 to all the benefits of State aid g. anted by< due form of law thafc fl, ° m tha swo ™ «- 
 existing laws ; and farther, whenever they^P orts and estimates of the Engineer in Chie* 
 shall show that fact to the Governor, they?of said Road, Capt. R, L. Owen, there is 
 may draw and expend the surplus amountsSbona-fide, good and solvent stock, inclu- 
 of the bridge appropriations over the Clinch ^ding individual Stockholders, Companies, 
 and Ilolston rivers, which may be expen- cont?actors and thQ surp , us gtate app n . 
 dec! ,n the construction of any other bridg- atioi , for the CHnch and HolstQn BHd 
 es along the line of said Road. (See act of and exclusive of the Claibourne county 
 Dec, 17th, 1855, chapter 49, page (.5.) } Bmd subscript ion and so much of the 
 For the purpose of showing how far the j Bric]ge appropria tion as is necessary to 
 Governor has been justified in refusing to< build the C]inch and EoMon Brid ty 
 assue the Bonds of the State to your Road<, grade said Road) including Masonry, from 
 upon the ground of the insufficiency ofc the . South Eastern terminus at or near p ainfc 
 your stock to grade as above required, and> Rock on the North Caro]ina line to MornV 
 whether or not the facts in regard to it were tpwn on the Eagt Tenncsseo and Virginia 
 truthfully presented to the Attorney Gcner-cL .. , , r „.',,,,«.>*■»,•» 
 
 i r. t lr • v t t- • iw 10 (Rail road. M. CARRIGER. 
 
 al, h. J. Meigs, Andrew Ewing and >.cal S.) T , ri r , ,, „ „ -...-. _ 
 
 ■o \ • i ,u • • ■ ? Ires - 0. G. G. & G. R. R. Go., 
 
 Brown, upon which their opinions were) n ,,_ ' 
 
 founded, I will leave to bo determined byr ,, ^ „ 
 
 ,, ,.„ .. . . , . , :i Secretary & Treasurer. 
 
 the following facts, which were sworn to; 
 
 by the officers of your Company as the law ''* Svvorn to and subscribed before me, this 
 required. (the 7th day of.April, 1857. 
 
 We the undersigned, the President and) WM. HARRIS. 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer of the Cincinnati, s Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Cumberland Gap and Charleston Rail-road^ A certificate similar to the above was 
 Company, do hereby certify that the follow- ^gned and sworn to by a majority of the 
 ing is a true statement of the solvent bonaCRoard of Directors of your Road, also the 
 fide stock subscribed upon the Books oPfollovping statement of Capt. R. L. Owen. 
 the Company, including the State appropri^Chief Engineer, which are now on file in 
 ation for bridges, (which the law provides<the office of the Executive of the State, 
 shall be included in the aggregate amount; Cost of grading and masonry of Road 
 of stock of the Company,) and exclusive of<f rom p a } n t Rock to the line of the East 
 near nine thousand dollars of the stock<Tenriessee and Virginia Rail-road at Mor- 
 on the Books which is deemed doubtful, rrislown. 
 
 all of the stock included in the fbltowrag< Gost of Graduation, $161,493 90 
 
 estimate is believed to be bona-fide, good^Cost of Masonry, 110,490 00 
 
 and solvent — to-wit : (-Twenty five per cent, added for 
 
KAIL-nuAD REPORT. 
 
 9 
 
 land damages, cross tieSy CNorthern End 20,19* 04 1,931 00 22,163 00 
 
 salaries of officers, Ac., 67,095 97 j ~— -~ — ~ 
 
 Total estimated cost of grading " TOTAL COST OF CONSTRUCTION OF 
 
 and masonry, $339,979 87 ROAD, 
 
 which amount of cost deducted from $541,-$ The Report of Capt. R. L. Ovvcii, Chief 
 646, the total amount of stock of your^Enginecr, of June 1855— based on thepre- 
 Company will leave a surplus of $201,666,->liminary surveys then made, estimated the 
 13 ; after paying for not only the grading of) total cost of grading, masonry and a full 
 your Road, but also the masonry, and ali'cand complete equipment of your road at 
 other contingent expenses necessary to pre-^$2,310,0U0, which amount of cost is believ- 
 pare the Road bed for the laying down the<ed can be reduced in a definite location of 
 Iron— to be applied to the construction of; the whole line of road to $2,000,000. 
 your Road north of the East Tennessee and^ Have your Company the ability with 
 Virginia Rail-road, with a prospect, Iwould'their prospects ahead to meet that sum? I 
 say almost a certainty of obtaining the fob,- say without hesitation they have. There 
 lowing additional subscriptions, as the workjare but few Railroads in Tennessee that 
 advances, and full public confidence is hadjwere chartered or received State aid at the 
 in its success. Airne yours did, that have a brighter future 
 
 Amount of additional stock by contractors^ before them > or the P^spects of which are 
 on work not under contract,$100,000 00<more certain. Let us look to an actual 
 
 Amount of probable stock by ^calculation and see how the matter stands. 
 
 Cocke county, 05,000 00/ Amount of actual and prospective means 
 
 Amount of probable stock by $ n f rtit. r,™^, m , • 
 
 i~i • i >-f- n-nn r- .-, 'Ol tile Lompanv : 
 
 Grainier county, <o,000 00> T ,. . , , , . ,. *.-«. tn w «•.« 
 
 l c t 1 1 i ,v l Individual subscription, $152,427 00 
 
 Amount of probable addition- (__ . „, , _ l \ nr . nnn ™ 
 
 , .5 . ,. ., , R .-(Union Stock Company, 125,000 00 
 
 al stock by individuals, 50,000 00- , „•_. ., L •", „,«.,« «^. 
 
 . c ■ r i oai nw -io' Stock of Claiborne countv, 64,219 0O 
 
 Amount of surplusabovc, 201, b6G 13)_ ... , . . "„ . ' 
 
 '; Probable subscription of Cocke 
 
 *foi rrc t< ? county, 65,000 00 
 
 $491,065 I3< „ ■ u o{ Graingcr . 5)000 0Q 
 
 Making the above total amount of means,, Additional stock b y ind i vidua i s 50,000 00 
 
 for the construction of the northern por-S ,, ,, . . 1nnf , n « nA 
 
 . _. , F " " contractors 100,000 00 
 
 tion of your Road. Ihe following state ( m , , , r , , , . •,. 
 
 ' , , , °„ , r lotal amount of stock by indi 
 
 ment will show you the total cost of work. . , , 
 
 ■", , , * , victuals, counties, companies, 
 
 done on your road and by whom done : s , , , *„„, „,„ rtni 
 
 COST OF WORK DONE SOUTH OF | . Md c + °^actor S) $6*1,84* 0a 
 
 ■"ArnrRrsTftwX" , Amount of state appropriation 
 
 for bridges 200,000 00 
 
 MASONRY GRADING TOTAL. ( ° ' 
 
 5, J. Casey '...'100.83 1917.28 2,018.11. '. Amount of State appropriation 
 
 Peter Joice 3.15 00 4.211 45 4.526 45 ' ' r t ■> • ± /i 
 
 Geo. Croft k sanipaw. 1.212 50 1.212 50 j for Iron and equipment (ten 
 
 — — ■ ■ — — thousand dollars per mile) 
 
 $1,623 3S 6,128 73 7,75:06; 90 mi!e9 900,000 00 
 
 COST OF WORK DONE NORTH OF ; Making lhe totaI mean3 of . 
 
 MORRISTOWN.' the company $1,731,646 00 
 
 masonry grading TOTAL, c Which "deducted from $2,000,000, the esti- 
 
 I". ^.Burton 00 ' \ '. '. '. % hf\%\l 1,31! 73 ( IQated cost of the road . will leave $268,35 4 
 
 Jacob Hill 5,768 70 5,768 70 (to be supnlied by other resources. 
 
 J. W. Shelton 317 50 1.67100 1,958 50 I _, ',.,,,. .„ , 
 
 Wm. M.Thurman 4,087 40 810 06 4,397 46 c io meet this deficiency as you will have 
 
 _ u Q d j wou i d p r0 n 0S3 + issue mortgage 
 
 20,18154 1,98106 25,165 60 C ' ,, " F t . . , . j 
 
 TOTAL COST OF WORK "DONF ON ; DOnc ' s to that amount, which can be dispo- 
 
 THE WHOLE LINe'oF ROAD < sed of at or near par m P uttin £ the remaSn - 
 
 masonry grading toia:. < der of the work cn the line undcr c <^act. 
 
 £4uthem End ..1,628 33 6,12*8 73 T.757 06 'There cannot be much difficulty with 
 
10 RAIL-ROAD REPORT. 
 
 contractors in disposing of so small ( an^seventh of the whole taxable property of 
 amount of bonds for a fair consideration. Sthe county,and about double the amount the 
 The only difficulty in the way of putting<,law will now allow any county in the State 
 the whole line of your road from Cumber-cjto take in proportion to its taxable property, 
 land Gap to Paint Rock under immediatemnd that, too, to build a Railroad that will 
 contract, and in having the steam enginesnot likely be extended beyond the coal and 
 to pass over it from on end to the other in)iron banks of Anderson and Campbell 
 a few years, depends wholly upon your; counties, except it may be through Powell's 
 success in raising about fifty thousand dol-s valley to Cumberland Gap, and there enn- 
 lars of additional individual subscriptions,)nect with your road. Campbell county nas 
 $65,000 by a county subscription of Cockebalso subscribed fifty thousand dollars to the 
 and $75,000" by a county subscription ok same road, and is expected to subscribe 
 Grainger, which I hope and believe w T ill be^fifty thousand dollars more as appears from 
 removed in a very short time. I am wellSthe late report of Col. Prichard, chief en- 
 satisfied, that thera are along the line of thecjgineer of said road, the taxable property 
 road a sufficient number of persons of spared of which county is even less than that of 
 means, that have not as yet taken any stocky Anderson. Such examples are well worthy 
 and have been holding back, waiting Wof imitation, and speak well of the intelli- 
 see your road placed beyond doubt as to its^gence of the voters of said counties, and 
 immediate completion, and many others thatsshould arouse the friends of your road to 
 hold themselves in readiness to assist fur-cjredoubled exertions. You should also feel 
 ther whenever necessary to press the work)further encouraged that you have the ability 
 to a rapid completion. And as to the county<j without burthen to take the small amount 
 subscriptions of Cocke and Grainger, abovc?of stock necessary to complete the whole 
 referred to, I feel assured that they will not^work. That your road is the only one that 
 falter when they thus see that no more isswill ever be built through Claiborne, Grain - 
 wanting to build the road in a very short^ger, Jefferson and Cocke counties, that will 
 time than the above amounts. 1 feel confi-^constitute an important link in the great 
 dent there are enough public spirit and^route South — a tier of counties that are 
 enterprise and a sufficient appreciation ofrunsurpassed by any in East Tennessee in 
 the importance of this great work, to induce; the natural elements of wealth — rich in 
 them to step forward in the discharge ofsagricultural productions, as corn, wheat, 
 duty to themselves and posterity, to give-'oats, potatoes, gp,ss and fruits; and in many 
 the necessary aid. But few counties in the; valuable minerals, as lead, zinc, iron, mag- 
 State have refused to subscribe stock by amnesia, marble, burr rock, and hydraulic 
 vote of the people to railroad improvements?lime. At the Northern terminus of your 
 proposed to be run through them. Many^road, commences one of the most extensive 
 counties have acted nobly, by voting largevcoal fields in the world, which extends 
 amounts of stock for Railroad purposes,)North of Cumberland Gap to the distance 
 uninfluenced by bigoted demagogues, onof about one hundred miles, through which 3 
 blind prejudice, looking, with a far-seeingcthe Kentucky Union Railroad will pass and 
 eye, to their interests and the high destiny^connect with your road at Cumberland 
 that awaits them. SCap. The immediate vicinity of said coal 
 
 Anderson county, with but little over r . banks to, and their connection with the iron, 
 half the wealth of Cocke, and containing less^lead, and zinc mines of Claiborne and other 
 than half the taxable property, in value, ok counties on the line of your road, together 
 Grainger county, as appears from the reportc with the facilities the French Broad and 
 
 of the Comptroller of the State for 1855— >s uth Carolina Railroads will give to the 
 took $100,000 of stock by a vote of the?, , ,. , , ,, 
 
 people, in the Knoxville and Kentucky J tran3 P 0rtatl0n ofraw cotton, mustmake the 
 Railroad, an amount equal in value to onetime of your road distinguished for the 
 
RAIL-KUAD REPORT. ] 1 
 
 manufactory of iron, lead, zinc, cotton goods,? to agriculture and manufactures, that it 
 
 ami prove a source of immense wealth toSwill form an important link in a great Kail 
 the country. In passing South from Cum- c way line extending across the. Union from 
 berland Gap, you road will pass through a;laketo ocean, from Sandusky and Chicago, 
 gap in Poor Valley Ridge, which has em-^via. Cincinnati and Louisville, the great 
 bedded within it, the most extensive veinsccommercikl centres of the upper and lower 
 of dye stone iron ore in the world — it will^Ohio valley converging at Lexington, Ky., 
 then pass on into Powell's Valley, one of) the largest inland citj of the State, situa- 
 the most beautiful and productive in thected in one of the richest agricultural dis- 
 State, and from thence South through anvtricts in the United States, into one mighty 
 uneven belt of country some eight or ten channel of commerce and travel, and from 
 miles wide through which Powell's river ;thence will pass on South to Cumberland 
 runs. In this section of country are situated ^Gap, for the most part over a continuous 
 the lead and zinc mines of Claiborne county, ^bed of stone coal., and by or near Goose 
 which are very extensive and bid fair to be ; Creek Salt Works, at which point or fur- 
 very productive, and mus6, when fully de-,-ther South at Bean's Station, it will send off 
 veloped, become objects of great local and sa great commercial artery to Norfolk thro' 
 national importance, which will furnish r the Virginia and Tennessee Rail-road which 
 your road with large amounts of freight. — ds now finished to Bristol on the Tennessee 
 Your Road will then pass on south insline, and has direct Rail-road communica- 
 Claiborne county through the gaps of a- tion with the Atlantic seaboard at Norfolk, 
 succession of ridges, Walden's, Powell's Sand which in passing further south, will 
 and Coma, all of which have immepsescross the East Tennessee and Virginia Rail 
 quantities of the best iron ore, also in^road at Morristown, 44 miles East of Knox- 
 Walden's Ridire it will cross beds of fine;ville, where it will form a communication 
 marble and mill stone rock in endlessjwith the whole Southern system of Rail- 
 quantity, then passing south to Clinch?roads in the direction of Nashville, Mem- 
 Mountain in the valley north of said moun-Sphis, New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, Sa- 
 tain in Grainger county along the line of? Y annah and Norfolk, and in passing from 
 your Road are found immense quantities>thence further south to Ashetille, N. C, it 
 of marble. Passing on south of saidWiU send off another great commercial ar- 
 mountain into the valley of Bean's Stationary to Beaufort and Wilmington on the 
 and Rogersville it will cross the belt f> Atlantic sea bcard of that State > and W > U 
 marble rock that leads East through Haw-^ thenC8 P ass on to Charleston on the line of 
 kins county, which is considered to be the> fche - Greeneville and Columbia Rail-road, or 
 finest in the State, and probably in the^the Spartanburg and Colnmbia Rail-road, 
 United States; the full development of or both, getting strength every step as it 
 which must add immense wealth to thebadvances towards the harbor of Charles- 
 country and furnish a large amount of freightcton, thereto distribute to the world in pro- 
 for your Road. ^fusion, its rich abundance. Besides your 
 
 I shall next proceed to show you the ne- f . Road well deserves the appellation of a 
 cessity of your Road, that it must evercMilitary R»ad, and the fostering care of the 
 stand without a rival, that no other Road)General Government in the event that the 
 can be constructed between Cincinnati andpeountry should become involved in a san- 
 LouLsville on the North, and Charleston'guinary war with some powerful nation, 
 and -Beaufort on the South, that can sup->and the enemy should be thrown upon your 
 plant if, either in regard to distance, cheap-sAtlantic shores and sea board cities in for- 
 mless of construction or in capacity to de-?midable numbers, murdering and plunder- 
 velop 'ho large area of country, and wiloing the defenceless citizens,and burning and 
 thereby give the greatest facilities to com-psacking defenceless towns and cities, from 
 merce and travel and the highest stimulus- what quarter could relief bo expected with 
 
12 RAIL-ROAD REPORT. 
 
 more certaint}*, and in so short time than 'of Rail-road between Cincinnati and Charles- 
 from the hills and valleys ofEastTenncssce,cton over the Blue Ridge and Knoxville and 
 Western Virginia, Western North Caroli-JJKentucky Road of ninety-four miles, the 
 na and the State of Kentucky. The hardy ^same proportional difference also appears in 
 yeomanry along the line of your Roa d withra comparison of distances on the two lines 
 brave hearts would rush to the relief of ( between Morristown and Charleston, and 
 their brethren of the South upon the short- 'Knoxville and Charleston, 
 est notice, and would make an impregnable? Distance from Morristown to Charleston, 
 bulwark of defence to the Southern sea^"« Paint Rock, Asheville and Columbia: 
 board ; if this great Southern work werecDistance from Morristown to Paint 
 completed, which must stand through all? Rock, 39 miles 
 
 time without formidable competition, which? " " Paint Rock to Ashe- 
 
 will appear obvious from a comparison of; ville, 43 " 
 
 the distances and costs of your Road with? " " Ashevile to Colum- 
 
 the Blue Ridge Rail-road, the only line that? bia, 100 " 
 
 can have the least claim that way. " Columbia to Charles- 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Charleston) ton, 129 " 
 
 via. Lexington, Cumberland Gap, Morris-') . — ~ — 
 
 town, Paint Rock, Asheville and Columbia-; lotal distance > 871 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Lexing- Distance from Knoxvil! e to Charleston, 
 ton, 96 miles. ^Anderson Court-Hcuse : 
 
 T . , , ■ , -Distance from Knoxville to Anderson Court 
 
 Lexington to Cumber- tt .■„■ .. 
 
 i in ioq -i House 197 miles 
 
 land Cap, 128 miles. , u . * i n 
 
 „ , . "' „ < Anderson Court 
 
 Cumberland Can to t T „ „ , r „ , . _,-„ , 
 
 House to Charleston 22a " 
 
 Morristown, 51 miles.; 
 
 Morristown to Paint C 
 
 Rock, 39 miles.? 
 
 Paint Rock to Ashe- 
 ville, 43 miles 
 
 Asheville to Colum- 
 
 Total distance, 422 " 
 
 Making a difference in favor of the French 
 Broad and Charleston liae over the Knox- 
 ville and Rlue Ridge Road of fifty -one miles. 
 
 Distance from Knoxville to Charleston, 
 bia, 160 miles/, • .v ■& „i m ■> it- • • *> i 
 
 ~; .. „, via the hast iennessee and Virginia Rail 
 
 " Columbia to Charles- 'r> i x -»r ■ * i • t? i t> i 
 
 ^Koad to Morristown, and via rrench Broad 
 
 ton » 129 miIes ^ valley, Paint Rock, Asheville and Colum- 
 
 . bia. 
 
 Total distance from Cincinna- 'r,- . „ r • ^ -,, , ir 
 
 t Distance from Knoxville to Morns- 
 ti to Charleston, 646 miles. 
 
 ? town, 44 mucs 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Charleston-' 
 via.j Lexington, Danville, Knoxville and' 
 Anderson Court House: 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Dan- 
 
 il Morristown to Paint 
 
 Rock, 39 
 
 " Paint. Rock to Ashe- 
 ville, 43 
 vilIe - f 32 miles.; « « Asheveill to Columbia, 100 
 Danville to Knoxville, 186 miles. < « ' " Columbia to Charles- 
 Knoxville to Anderson ton 129 
 Court House, 197 miles. 
 
 " Anderson Court House Total distance, 415. " 
 
 Charleston, 225 miles. \ Showing a difference of seven miles in 
 
 ^ favor of the French Broad valley, Asheville 
 
 Total distance, 740 miles. 'and Columbia line, even from- Knoxville, 
 
 The above Tables of distances show a over the Blue Ridge & Knoxville road, 
 difference of distance in favor of your line' To show you further the importance of 
 
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 18 
 
 j oilr line of road over that of any other, 1 
 will add the following table of distances: 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Cumberland 
 Gap via Lexington. 224 miles 
 
 Distance from Cumberland Gap 
 
 to Morristown, 51 " ) 
 
 " " Morristown toKnox- 
 
 ville, 44 
 
 " Petersburg to Norfolk, 70 miles. 
 
 'J'otal distance, 742 miles, 
 
 ) Distance from Cincinnati to Norfolk via 
 'Cumberland Gap, Beans' Station, Rogers- 
 
 vilie, Bristol, Abingdon and the Virginia. 
 and Tennessee Rail-road : 
 
 . ^ 
 
 Total distance, 319 " S 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Knoxville,/ 
 via Danville : 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Dan- 
 ville, 132 miles/ 
 " Danville to Knoxville, 186 " 5 
 
 ^Distance from Cincinnati to Cumberland 
 
 221 miles. 
 
 Gap, 
 
 Cumberland Gap to 
 
 Beans Station, on the • 
 
 line of C. C. G. & C. 
 
 R. R. 30 miles. 
 
 Beans Station to Rog- 
 
 ersville, 22 miles. 
 
 Rogersville to Bristol, 50 miles. 
 
 Bristol to Lynchburg, 204 miles, 
 
 Lynchburg to Norfolk, 199 miles* 
 
 Total distance, 318 " \ 
 
 Making a difference in distance of only/ 
 
 one mile against your road, in favor of the; 
 
 Danville and Knoxvill road. ^ Total distance 
 
 distance fhoji cincixnati to knoxville /Making a difference of 7 miles in favor of 
 
 via Cumberland gap, powel's valley, J>the line by Beans Station and Rogersville, 
 
 r35 miles. 
 
 JACKSBOKOUGn AND CLINTON. 
 
 also giving it the additional advantage of 
 
 Jacksborough via P. 
 Valley, 
 
 Jacksboro' to Clinton, 
 Clinton to Knoxville, 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Cumberland 'passing along the whole length of the Ilaw- 
 Gap, 224 miles, skins county Marble quarries, which are 
 
 41 Cumberland Gap to ^inexhaustable in their nature, and the qual- 
 
 ity of the rock unsurpassed by an}' in the 
 40 miles. VUnion, and which would be capable of 
 20 miles. (furnishing an immense amount of freight 
 16 miles. )for the Virginia and Tennessee Rail-road, 
 sto supply the demands in the Eastern cit- 
 Total distance, 300 miles. j; es> which will certainly constitute a very 
 
 Making a difference in favor of the line by< strong motive for that Company to adopt 
 Cumberland Gap via Powel's Valley to< that line in the extension f their Road la 
 Knoxville over that via Danville of 18 Cumberland Gap _ 
 
 miles, which shows the importance of the< D istance f rom Cincinnati to Beaufort via 
 Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad Com- ^Cumberland Gap, Morristown, Paint Rock, 
 pany extending their line of Railroad thro' 5 Ashe7me) Salsibury and Ral eigh : 
 Powells Valley to Cumberland Gap and Distance from Cincinnati to Cumberland 
 
 connecting with the line of your road at 
 that point. ^ 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Norfolk via/ 
 Cumberland Gap, Powels Valley, Abing \> 
 don and the Virginia and Tennessee Rail-s 
 road : ' / 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Cumberland^ 
 Gap, 224 miles. ^ 
 
 " Cumberland Gap to Ab- 
 ingdon via P. Valley, 130 miles. ; 
 " Abingdon to Lychburg, 189 miles > 
 " Lynchburg to Peters- 
 
 burg, 
 
 Gap, 221 miles* 
 
 " Cumberland Gap to P., 
 
 Rock, 90 miles', 
 
 " Paint Rock to Ashville, 43 mile . 
 " Asheville to Salisbury 
 
 via Lincolnton, 13G mile •„ 
 
 " Salisbury to Raleigh 
 
 via Ashboro, 1 17 mile •- 
 
 " Raleigh to Beaufort via 
 
 Waynesboro' 173 mt'es, 
 
 Total distance, 783 mi'W 
 
 The above exhibit of tables of distun:^' 
 
 120 miles, show the following to be the respecfiA 
 
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 distances from Cincinnati to Norfolk, Bu-rville South Carolina, via Asheville ana 
 fort and Charleston : 3 Morristown to Cumberland Gap — the 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Norfolk via^Northern boundary line of the State of 
 Cumberland Gap, Beans Station, Rogers-r Tennessee, which, for convenience, we will 
 ville, Bristol and the Va. & Tennessee Railpdivide into the following sections : 
 Road, 735 miles. C Sec. 1. Line between Greoneville, South 
 
 Distance from Cincinnati to Beaufort, via^ Carolina and Gap Creek gap, thirty nine 
 Cumberland Gap, Morristown, French Jjand a half miles in length, seventeen and a 
 Broad Valley, &c, 783 miles, (half of which are through the mountains. 
 
 From Cincinnati to Charleston, via Cum-- 5 Total cost of road from Greencville to 
 berland Gap, Morristown, French Broad)Gap creek gap, $1,819,392. 
 Valley. &c, 646 miles. c Average cost per mile $46,000; maximum 
 
 Cincinnati to Charleston, via Danville^grade 70 feet per mile — no tunneling neces- 
 Knoxville and Blue Ridge Railroad, 740;sary. 
 miles. ? See late Report of G. E. "Walker, Chief 
 
 Which places Charleston by the Cumbcr-/Engineer. 
 land Gap and French Broad Valley route,) Sec. 2. This section embraces the Blue 
 89 miles nearer Cincinnati and Louisville?Ridgein North Carolina from Butt mountain 
 than Norfolk, and 137 miles nearer tban>via Pacolet river; distance 19 miles. 
 Beaufort, and five miles further from Cin-^Total cost of construction, $1,240,700 
 cinnati by the Danville, Knoxville and? Average cost per mile $64,890, no tunnel, 
 Blue Ridge Railroad, making Charlestonwinaximum grade 73 feet per mile; see report 
 by the Cumberland Gap, Morristown and^of G. W. Peak, chief engineer. 
 French Broad Valley route, the nearest? See. 3. This section of the line is situated 
 commercial point possible from Cincinnati) between the Blue Ridge and Paint Rock, 
 and Louisville, on the Atlantic or Gulf sea-?and situated in the French Broad Valley, 
 board and five miles further than Norfolk where the work will be quite light.- 
 by the way of Danville, Knoxville and BlueS Distance about 55 miles, dost about 
 Ridge Railroad, a fact well worth the notice($20,000 per mile. Total cost, $1,100,000 00 
 of the city of Charleston and the whole? Sec. 4. Embraces that portion of said 
 State of South Carolina, and with a knpwl-bline in Tennessee, between Paint Rock and 
 edge of this fact will the city of Charleston? Cumberland Gap, distance 90 miles, maxi- 
 yield this incalculable advantage in con-jmupi grade 68 feet per mile, and curvature, 
 trolling a large portion of the commerce oKlOOO feet radius. Total cost $2,000,000. 
 : the world to so formidable a. rival, and one^ RECAPITULATION, 
 
 who is now fully awake to her own com-)Total cost of road in South Carolina 39* 
 mercial aggrandizement after a period of; miles, $1,819,392 
 
 inactivity that nearly proved fatal to her " " of road [in North Car- 
 
 ■,-,. r t -i „, i" ii,„ B »i ohna, 74 miles, j,,6±i),tw 
 
 political and commercial power by the pol-j „ M of ^ . Q Tennessee, 
 
 icy of her more thoughtful neighbors ofs between p. Rock and C. Gap, 
 
 the North. j 90 miles. 2,000,000 
 
 I shall now proceed to treat of the second^ n ~ 
 
 partof this subject, to wit : The cheapness. Total cost of line, $6,lbO,UJ. 
 
 of construction of your line of Railroad,) Let it be remembered that no where has 
 
 which will compare in this respect even a Railroad been made across the Blue Ridge. 
 
 more favorably, than its advantages in with so small cost and so favorable curva- 
 
 regard to distance, with its only seeming^tures and grades-the Baltimore and Ohio 
 
 rival— I mean the Blue Ridge and Knoxville^road— one of the first in importance-has 
 
 and Kentucky Railroad route. The folio w-k grade of 116 feet to the mile in the moun- 
 
 ing are the estimates of cost of the French Jtain section for the distance of 15 miles in 
 
 Broad valley line of Railroad, from Greene- (succession— the Nashville and Chattanooga 
 
EA1T.-ROA.10 REPum, 15 
 
 Railroad has a grade of 106 feet per mile, tfully aroused to a ; sense of Effe importance 
 
 across the Cumberland mountains. Sof controlling a part of the trade of the 
 
 Cost of Blue Ridge and Knoxville andjMisslssippi Valley, after living to see the 
 Kentucky Railroad : tfolly of delay and this vast stream of corn- 
 
 Cost of Blue Ridge and Knoxville Railroad, Smerce, diverted from its accustomed chan- 
 ^ 197 miles, $7,388,854jnels in the South and flowing into the 
 
 See Report of President and Directors ofrNorth Eastern cities, causing them to grow 
 said road, Nov. 22, 1856. <as by enchantment, and their coffers lo fill 
 
 Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad be-Jup to over flowing, which has been accom- 
 tween Knoxville and Kentucky line. Splished in a few years by the vast Railroad 
 
 Cost of 1st division of 30 miles, $900,000^and canal enterprises built at immense cost 
 Cost of 2nd division of 33 miles, 930.000?and extending to the mighty Mississippi, 
 
 Which have in the same ratio impoverished 
 
 Total cost of K.&Ky line, $l,830,000jand dilapidated our Southern sea board 
 
 Total cost of Blue Ridge & Knoxville &>cities. In view of these facts, would not 
 Kentucky road to the Kentucky line $9,21& r Sthe policy of buildingthe Blue Ridge and 
 8o *- ^Knoxville Railroad to the neglect of that 
 
 Jhe difference of cost of ths above Rail-)part of the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap 
 road lines is $3,058,762 or 33 per cent in fe.Jand French Broad Valley Railroad situated 
 vor of Cincinnatti, Cumberland Gap, French?in her border, be considered a monument of- 
 Broad valley, and Charleston line, a differ folly through all time to come against 
 ence equal to the entire appropriation ands which the ghost of the immortal Hayne 
 loan of South Carolina and the subscription?would rise up and protest most solemnly 
 of the city of Charleston, to the Blue RidgeS The State of Virginia has already push- 
 road, all of which might be expended in the^ed her central Railroad to the East Tennes- 
 construction of said Blue Ridge Railroad^see Valley, which is but the dawn of her 
 and when done would be no nearer com-^commercial greatness, she has fully deter- 
 pletion than the French Broad valley line mined on the extension of her system o 
 is now and should the city of Charleston Railroads to Cumberland Gap, and there to 
 and State of South Carolina incre.se their form a Railroad connection with Cincinnati 
 stock : and loans to double the present amounted Louisville through the Kentucky Union 
 which they will be called upon to do beforejRailroad, and there through Railroads in 
 said road is bunt unless abandoned and in operation with Chicago, Sandusky St 
 the course of years it should be finished,; Louis and the whole South West. Cum- 
 and at he same time discourage and defeat berland Gap will soon be reached by her 
 he bui dmgof the French Broad valley line line of Railway West, havingonly the link 
 1 • t' t WlU ^ S ai » ed -t^ between Bristol and that point to make 
 
 completion of a mighty enterprise, with a? which will leave the only remaining link' 
 proportionate waste of money, costing as it~;i28 miles, between Cumberland G™ and 
 will per cent more than any other line, Cincinnati and Louisville unfinished wkS£ 
 and.oiming a connection between Char- no doubt, will soon be in progress of con 
 Si Ci :r! -^ouisville 94struction. The corporation of those two 
 miles far her han any other route, audacities with the counties on the line of said 
 
 STJiSS of 6 /? 7 *T ' ^H*"^ buM ^V P o r «on Sa of 
 sho-t'e runelat ' 1. ' ^ ^T^ " a ^ short ^ The State of 
 
 snorter hne that wdl pass more centrally North Carolina, too, is pressing forward 
 fcroughthe State .yielding the advantage- with her Railroads ^STtet^S 
 ous position which distance gives them in Tennessee Valley from Beaufort and TO- 
 controlling a large share of the commerce mington to connect with your R ilLd t 
 
 rivals Norfolk and Beaufort, which are nowjnection with the Ohio Valley, and share a 
 
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 proportional pari of the rich commerce of; them to grow populous opulent and pow- 
 the wide extended west. Serful and in the same proportion decrease, 
 
 It is hardly probable that the city oDp auper i ze and diminish the power and in- 
 Charleston and the State of South Caroliua,fl uence f their own, 
 
 with this immense natural advantage of po-? t naTe t hus given you a brief history of 
 sition, the great commercial center of this^ your roA ^ j ts condition, future prospects, 
 vast interior, being within 646 miles of an a claims over all others having the same 
 Cincinnati, 89 miles nearer than Norfolk> te rmini, the character of the country 
 and 137 nearer than Beaufort by the Cum-^h r0 ugh which it will pass, its effects upon 
 berland Gap and French Broad valley Eail-Sthe country, as a great national highway 
 road route, and within 740 miles by thej^nd have been forced to vindicate its mer- 
 Blue Ridge and Knoxville route, five miles)it s in regard to distance and eost,. by the 
 further than Norfolk and only 43 miles^aspersions and misrepresentation of others 
 nearer than Beaufort will surrender this^ w ithout any invidious feeling towards them, 
 power inherent in their possession to con-^and from the facts before me feel assured 
 trol the main channel of this immense^hat success will crown your efforts, 
 southern trade, turn it from their own har-^ M. CARRIGER, Pretf.-, 
 
 bour into the lap of sister cities, cause 1 ) Cm.,- Gam. Gap & Charleston Rail Road. 
 

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