MINER AL
                        AND


AGRICULTURAL PESOURCES

           OF THE PORTION OF TENNESSEE
                      ALONG THE

      CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAILROAD.


  The Cincinnati Southern Railroad has been a favorite
project of leading capitalists, citizens and engineers of C(in-
cinnati andl central Kentucky, for many years.  It was
probably first discussed in 1834. In 1837 C(lonel AW'. A.
Gunn, the present engineer in charge of surveys on the
road, made a partial survey of a road leading from Cincin-
nati in the general direction of Chattanooga. It is a re-
markable fact, and no small compliment to Colonel (Gunn,
that his judgment of forty years ago has been substantially
approved and adopted as the line of the road now approach-
ing completion. In those early days, and ever since, the
lion ill the path which has deterred private capital from
undertaking this great work, has been the (timberland
Mountain, whose rugged peaks have repelled any but the
rudest civilization from an area nearly a hundred iniles
vide over which the route passes. To link Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Western New York, and Pennsylvania to the
great mineral region and rich cotton belt of the South, by a
line almost as straight as the bird flies, the iron chain muAt