The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1849-11-15
Prospects OF contLnued gro1vtIl.

InlS season, Lne Increase Oh UuSlntSS anu tilc
of the continued growth of the city;
and said that to-day we would give reasons !
why this growth would continue and increase.
Sufficient evidence might be conveyed in a !
of the facts, that Evansville Is the
KEY of the great, rich and rapidly filling up
Wabash-the mart for that valley-and the
of the principal part of its wealth or
products and that the country back OF the
city is fast increasing in population, wealth
and importance. But there are other CON
siderations of qualimportance, because they
are such as will open to this city distant mar
kets, new trades, and other rich portions of
the State, as well as provide avenues for the
products and trade of rich sections of Illinois,
Ohio and Michigan, and unite Us directly
with the commerce of Lake Erie. Upon
sAee great internal improvements, and the
siytfat of our own citizens united to that ex-
hihtTed by citizens along the different routes
Of these Improvements to carry them forward,
and upon the facts first stated, we confidently
found a steady and rapid increase in the
growth of Evansville and its future great
ness.
lThe Wabash and Erie Canal connects
Evansville with Lake Erie, and is now fast
Fastening 10 its completion. 1t is completed
to Terre Haute, and nearly finished to Point
Commerce. From Evansville, eighteen or
twenty miles of the canal are completed. The
remainder is under contract, we believe, and
the work going on rapidly, and with almost a
surety of entire completion within two years.
The influence this canal is to have on the
prosperity of Evansville is unmistakable. 1t
will open a new and great trade which must
continue to increase year by year. But we
shall hereafter alIude in a separate article to
from this great canal. That the canal itself
will prove profitable, may be inferred from
the fact, that the tolls to the 1st November,
last year, on the finished part amounted to
$146, 148 90, being an increase over the
amount of the previous year of $40, l66 10
the expenditure for ordinary repairs. supe.in-
tendence, sc, amounting to $34 883 Ct.
The Evansville and Illinois Railroad, has
been surveyed so far as It's direction is known
and strong efforts are now being made to ge
the proper amount of stock taken. 1t wa:
Originally intended to run this Railroad via
Princeton and Mt Carmel to connect will
the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad near Of
ney. Ill. But we believe this idea has beer
abandoned. The citizens oil Mt Carmc
have not come up to the mark, and IIlinoi
seems bent on placing every obstacle in tn,
way of cutting up her broad prairics by rail
roads. So that the road will run to Prince
ton, and thence PROBABLY to Terro Haute o
indianapolis. 1t is in the hands of energet.
men, who will carry the work forward with
out thought of failure. " henever a Rail
road is made across Illinois, as it must be err,
the passage OF many years, the Evansville
Railroad can be extended to tap it, thus cor,
meeting this city by Railroad with the Mis-
sissppi.
The City Council of Evansville have guar
anteed to complete a Plank Road to New
Harmony, Ind, twenty-five miles, if lllnoi
and ST. Louis will complete the distance from
New Harmony to st. Louis. Hon Rober
Dale Owen is now in ST. Louis for the pur
pose of addressing the citizens on the subject
and he is sanguine Of success. This roa,
would for the first few years be more beueti
cial to Evansville than a railroad. becaus,
it would at once be accessible to all. and nee,
no Introduction but its own merits. Ever,
farmer in its neighborhood would use it, an,
with a choice between it and the common
road, there would be economy as well as con
venience in using the Plank Road. Abov,
all other improvements a Plank Road shout,
receive encouragement from the country.
Thus much for the improvements centre
} ing here. But in abiding to those matter
+ upon which is founded the future prosperit,
Of Evansville, there is one more imporlan
than all inasmuch as it has been the yer,
ground work Of these enterprises, and thu
propelIing power to the rapid improvement o
the city. We alllde TO that Of which WI
have before spoken-tHe public spirit OF on
citzens-tliat determination apparent anon.
them to build mp Evansvi!Ie. They hav
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