Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-03-09
For the Indiana State Sentinel
Indianapolis and Betfont:sine Rail
Rn1A.

My former numbers directed rather To the To-
cal than the general character of this road and to the
private interest of individuals rather tIan to the gen.
eral benefits expected result the public from the
construction of the work.
Tue object of these brief articles is rather to state
facts for the examination of others. than to ampify
those facts by detailed anticipated results; and as in
dlcaed In my last number. the object OF this article
state some facts calculated place this road up
still higher grounds than it has occupied in my pre-
vious numbers and in doing this, shall not dispar
age other works in contemplaton-for citizen of
indianapolis could wish To all the railroads spD-
ken of running through this place, constructed
my business is to present to the public candId and
briefly the character of this work, and It's claims
our support, and not 10 compare 1t with others.
This is called the indianapolis and Belfontaine
Railroad, and such, 1t may seem TO the casual
reader to be mere local work, but the moment the
eve traces the road aud its connections east west
north and SOUTH it will be seen how far the title of
Of the charter falls short Of expressing the character
of the work. Instead of being mere local work, il
is link in the line of one of the most extended and
proftN Bile railroads in the United States. connecting
the Atlantic cities through the northern lakes aud
railroads with st. Louis, and the great southwest.
Look at the map and you will that this road
connecting with the lake, and the great eastern rail-
road at Sandusky, OHIO, will form part of the line
of direct communication between New York and Bos-
ton the east and st. Louis at the west, through
northern Ohio, central Indiana and Illinois, while it
will connect with Cincinnati and Madison on the
Ohio.
This is not a imaginary line-it is that
has met the sanction of practical men, who have been
willing test the correctness of their views by sub
scrbng largely for the stock in other links of this
great chain of communication, large portion of
which is already completed and in full and successful
operation; indeed it may be said, that the whole line
from Boston and New York, to Belfontaine, Ohio,
(ony about 100 miles from indianapolis is already
completed, and company has been chartered by The
Legislature of Ohio, TO construct the road from Bel
fontaine the Indiana State line, TO meet link in
the chain and as learn there is doubt but that
part of the work will be completed before we can con-
struct our section, and it will then only require the
completion of our end from Indianapolis, 50 miles,
to finish the whole line TO Boston and New York,
when it must become the great thorOughfare for the
transportation of produce to the best markets in
the United States. from which are now excluded
while the pressing migration from the east of their
enterprsing citizens will longer be forced into the
country bordering the lakes, but will have thrown
open to item central Indiana, with all it's advantages
of climate and productiveness, and we may yet see
our country improved and our villages rising into
populous Cities those the lakes accessible to
this pressing enterprising population. S.