The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-02-26
The Interest of NewOrleans in Western
Railroads.
RAILROAD FROM LOUISVILLE TO MEMPHIS.

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| We understand that memorial is about to be
presented to the Mayor and Aldermen Of the city
Of Louisville, and that several copies are in this
city for signatures-one of which may be seen al
the Office of DeBow's Review The subject is
certainly one Of high interest to our citizens and
property holders
The memorial shows that the city OF Louisville
situated as it is at ruling point on the stream Of
Southern trade, has been created and fostered by
it's relations with the navigation OF the Ohio and
the trade Of New. Orleans.
That the railroads of the Atlantic seaboard, when
brought in direct competition with the navigation
| of the Ohio, will under existing circumstances,
draw trade up stream from Louisville, dePriving
that city of all her river receipts and reducing her
business to that Of mere locality.
That as the absorbing influence of Cincinnati
lies in her Railroad connection with NewYork,
this influence can be resisted by Louisville in no
other way than that Of establishing counter-nflu
ence in Railroad connection with her own sea
port--the city Of NewOrleans.
That Of the tsceaty disasters chargeable during
| 1850 to the nferority Of navigation between New
Orleans and Pittsburg, tico only have occurred
aborc Louisville, and t,oo only belo,c Memphis ,
while 6ettveen, Louisville and Memphis those
disasters have amounted to sixteen.
That in addition 10 the loss Of $3.50, 900 on the
sixteen disasters caused by snags, shoals, ice or the
like, canal toll of even 100000 would show
direct tax on the navigation between Louisville
and Memphis, Of some iS35O,O0O That tie inter
rMption to intercourse between Louisville and
New Orleans, owing to droughts at one season of
the year and frosts at another, may, when consid.
,radi IN nhu ia, II,
direction Of trade, be set down as an indirect tax
on the navigation between Louisville and Mem
phis, to the amount of some $500, 600 That, in
short, summing up loss on all the items, toll, time,
steam risk, navigation risk, irregularty, nerrup.
ton, the trade Of Louisville with New Orleans is
seen to be burdened with tag of at least one
million Of dollars gear eaargea6e to the mari.
cation bets0sen Louisville and MempAts
That inasmuch as Of all the disasters that have
occurred during the past year in consequence of
defective navigation on Western waters only two
are chargeable to navigation between NewOrleans
and Memphis and that inasmuch as the Misss.
sippi is at all times perfectly free from ice as high
az Memphis, that river may be pronounced safe
open, and regular means Of communication between
New Orleans and Memphis, And further: that
the Mississippi River between NewOrleans and
Memphis, furnishes line Of transport cheaper for
all the purposes Of trade than that of Railroad
between those points by from fifty to seventy per
cent.
That in order to maintain her alth-givng re-
latons with the great natural emporium Of the
South West; in order to maintain her hold on the
trade oil her own immediate district, and the trans
shipment and exchange Of the products of the
upper Ohio, all these foregoing facts define the
true policy OF Louisville, to be the construction of
Railroad from the Falls OF the Ohio, the limit be-
tween the safe and the unsafe navigation of that
river, and the city of Memphis, the limit between
the safe and the unsafe navigation Of the Missis-
sippi river.
That Memphis and Louisville Railroad lead
ing necessarily to the construction Of superior boats
and the establishment Of more systematic and
economical water carriage above Louisville and
below Memphis, will represent louisville under
the most favorable circumstances in the markets of
the upper Ohio; and in addition to that advantage
place her at amy season OF the year within regu
lar two and half days trip of NewOrleans That
this Road. bridging the difficulties, and the
delays, and the dangers, and the disasters of the
navigation, will make Louisville the store.house
of the trade that under the attraction of the Road
shall continue to flow Westerly from the valley of
the upper Ohio; and Of the additional trade that
her control of this powerful agent must necessarily
ulaoe at her dianosal