The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-12-20
Por ,hs Hyansviiis Journal.
A. II. SANDERS. E,Q.,

Por ii. Evansville Journal.
A. II. SANDERS, E.Q.,
Dear Sir: notice in your paper Of last
Saturday, a long article, embracing q wood
cut got up with no litile trouble, and having
for its avowed object the Improvement Of the
harbor and landing Of the city Uf Evansville.
This article, by its alIusion to possibility
existing III the minds Of Citizens Of Evans
vile twenty years ago. that the Ohio might
make cutoff and leave Evansville inland,
though it could have no effect on our own
people who are well enough acquainted with
the character Of the Ohio in general. and his
bend in part ocular, to have no fears whstever
on The subject, yet may have tendency ~
do us an injury with those who havoc OF :
er Information on the snbject than that con-
tanned in the ar ticle Of your Correspondent.
la TIE first place, in reference to the sand.
bar. il 10 not true that any portion Of our
wharf has been rendered useless by tn bar
A small portion Of the upper end Of the
wharf has been rendered difficult to approach
by steamboats, in q low stage Of water, but
the greater portion Of it is approachablc al
the lowest water BY any boat which can ia.
viyaie the river at the same stage. AND
whilst it 10 true that the bar increases in size
from year to year. it is equally true that nc
fears are entertained that the lower half o.
our original wharf or any Of its downward
extensions will ever be interfered with By
that bar, or that any part of the business por
ton Of the town will evetbe affected by the
the above obstruction (, navigation.
As to your correspondence wood.cut, tina
10 neither more nor less tn IN an absurd CARR
cature, for the unanswerable proof Of whirl
I refer you and y ur readers to Colton's map
OF Indiana, old or new, and indeed to an,
State or vanderbursh Qa.) County map ex.
tant. 1hrse macs based ON actual topograph
ical surveys, are correct, as CO. roborate BY
the actu kuo Wedge and observation .
hundreds Of our citizens WIN have traversed
this same neck E. various purposes.
These mnps and this observation prov
that tram tn. river above io tn river belos
across this bend, at the point where st cx
IRENE Ugh freshets the water runs most rap
idly acru.s, and where Nv abash" fears a cut
of, he distance is at least Jour miles, instea
3 VI ab,u, hal Il mile as your correspondent
wWo..cut would Indicate.
So much for the wo0d-cut.
As to the "thous .nds OF acres" that he a
lsges have been washed into the river abo,
wv asboms," tina, is just as true az his woot
cut. Abrasion goes OF in every bend of tn
r river, and not more at w sshoms than in a.
~ ot her bends The Ohio river sh IT'S i,
!, channel, but never it's bed. believe in tb
!, memory of man it has never mad" cu,.of
1t requires the rapid current and alluvi'
banks OF the Mississippi to make a cutoff
With the Ohio, the thing is merely an impo
!. sibiii,y and there 10 just the same pr babil
e ty of a cutoff across the low neck opposi
Evansville as there is across the high nee
: opposite Leavenworth, neither more nor les
The "natives" and the proprietofs undo
stand this thing, and You will go to them
? buy their fine tobacco aud corn farms Owe
a which the cutoff of your correspondents
s run, you will find that you will have to pa
e about twenty times as much per ac'e Il
}. those lands than you would have had to pa
o twenty years ago.
i To sum up, the whole article Of your Co
: respondent is So paIpably foolish. uncalle
= for and absurd to those acquainted with tn
case, that to all such il 10 difficult to scov,
his motive for writing it. Respectfully.
, VANDERBURGH