Argument of E. B. Stahlman on behalf of the Louisville & Nashville railroad; and members of the Southern railway and steamship association, for relief ... commerce." Washington, D. C. Submitted
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... the State. I know of nothing on record in the history of the development of the South where a little cross-road village, perhaps not even a village, had at as early a date as 1846 two important railroads leading to the South Atlantic coast, and another pointing toward the great West. These important railway enterprises, inaugurated under the inspiration of the day, gave to Atlanta an impetus which was obliged to put her to the front. These railroads were constructed by the people of Georgia; one of them was built outright by the State, and for many years operated by the State. These roads were controlled by the people who built them; the stockholders, boards of directors, and the managers, all resided in the various portions of the State, at intermediate as well as terminal points. The basis of adjusting rates, which made the city of Atlanta a commercial center, was inaugurated under their auspices and directions; men who would scarcely, forty years ago, have dreamed that their efforts to build up a great railway center in the State of Georgia would be pronounced by the average politician (not statesman) of to-day as gross acts of extortion and discrimination. In 1857 the Atlanta & West Point Railroad Company, extending from Atlanta to West Point, Ga., was built. As early as 1854 the line from Montgomery, Ala., to West Point, Ga., was completed, thus giving to Atlanta another connection with the seaboard via Montgomery and the Alabama River through the port of Mobile. In 1873 the road from Charlotte, N. C, to Atlanta, Ga., known as the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line, was finished, connecting at Charlotte with the Richmond & Danville system. In 1881 the Georgia Pacific Railway Company bought what was known as the road-bud of the Georgia Western Ra...
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