Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-11-16
WHICH Is TO BE THE GREAT COM
MfRCIAL CITY OF the WEST1

WHICH Is TO BE THE GREAT COM
MtRCIAL CITY OF the WEST
The Advertiser lately published letter taken
from the Portland Advertiser, which decided is
question in favor Of Cincinnati. We have a dH-
irsent answer, before giving it, II is hut fair to
give the reasons OF the letter writes for his decision.
Hc saws:
"Ti,c beautiful situation Of Cincinna,i--,hr
great enterprise and rapidly increasing wealth.
OF her ciIzrn.-,hc rich country ar"nnd with her
Mimi Canal, tia, passes through tho city, from
every direction, aud its being the greatest pork
market in the world, toe ether with the important
fact of its being in a non >avrhodng State all
combine to add rapid, To her population and hus-
ness and MAKE II ccran that she is destined 10
be he CRrAr WEsrrnN Cry"
Louisville p,ssc,srs all the advantages here at
tribu'ed to Cincinnati, except that she is not in
nonsavcholllnc STATE has no canal like TIE Miami
Canal, aud is not perhaps the greatest pork n,arke,
in the world. No;w,ths andino these exceptions,
think, il W. how that Louisville, from her .co-
graphical post ;, i, destined To become the great
focus of railroad improvement l-,wrrn the Allie
phanv moln,ain & the Mississippi river, shall
make out u clear case in favor of her commercial
supremacy. Even this, however, will no, prove
that she is destined To be the mos l,npuouS west
era ci,v--ior population deepen Is in Great degree,
upon manuisc urcs. in which Louisville may no,
c,crl, hut il will prove, h'vond all ca,il, that
she is to be the great heart Of western commerce.
The New Orleans and Nah,,illr Rnl-R Road
will terminate in Louis, lille, and the latter city
will he connected with the civ of Mobile hy the
raj road in contemplation from Mobile To Ten
ncS>cc, which road will he united with the New
Orleans and Nashville Railroad
The railroad ictwceu Lexington, kcntuckv, and
Louisville, will be extended from Lexington TO
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railroad in Virginia, and this latter road will
be- connected with the Baltimore and Ohio rail.
road.
Las Is: Louisville will be connected with
Lake Erie " railroad toile Maumcc Canal !;
with Michigan hv the same road extended into that
Tcrr,h ~ ; and with Illinois by branch of the
road carried into that State
That the New Orleans and Nashville Railroad
will he continued to some point IN the Ohio
river, seems almost s,l-c, idcn'. Without thi,
II can never divert any material portion of the
travel and transportation of tlc Ohio, and ITS
stockholders must sustain an incalcuablr loss
but, il continued to the Ohio river, it must attract
great part of the river travel, and, during "A
large portion of the year. much OF its transportation.
At what place then, will it terminate Certain
lya Louis, HE. J. virw nf its objects, il must
tcrln ate at great commercial point. and AS there
is no such point t,h " Louisville, and none above
which coudir reached without great additional
expense, wh' h has any advantages over Lou-
isvr the point of tcrminarion, repeat
that it must terminate At Louisville. This point
proved, is easy TO make our other propositions.
With the New Orleans aud Louisville Rail
Road and the Lexington and Ohio Railroad.
railroad of POO miles in length LAYING over fine.
rich, and not uneven country. would reach the
James river and kanawha Railroad. 4 railroad
90 miles long would unite ia" latter road, with
the Staunfon and Winchester Railroad and the
Railroad now nearly Completed from Wiiehcstcrto
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
We come TO our last proposition that
railroads will connect Louisville with Illinois,
Indiana and Michigan. Can any one suppose. that
these states " III not avail themselves Of the tacl-
tiles to I've furnished by the New Orlcaas Railroad
that they will not connect themselves, by other
Railroads. with that important outlet of trade !;
certain that ,hey will
Bu, indep nden of the conclusive argument fur
nishCd BY the trrn,insti"n of the New Orleans
Railroad at Louisville. il would NOT be difficult 10
show the erea, probability that railroad will lie
constructed from some point in Michigan 10 Lou.
lsville. wh"h, by intorsectine The hlaMnee Canal.
will open commune alton with Lake Eric, and
which, With its brspcpes sl penetrate the Stase Of
Illinois