The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-06-15
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Progress of the strait Lips Kailrosd.
The unprecedented progress that has cha
racterized every movement of the friends OF
this road from the commencement, still con-
tinues with undated vigor. The novelty OF
Creat enterprises not uhfrequently begets an
enthusiasm, which, when it wears of, and
the real merits are brough plainly to view' a
stsgna,ion and perhaps general reaction
follows.
Not so. we are happy in saying. with the
"Strsit Line Railroad" The novelty OF tins
enterprise has only served to attract the at
tention of the public to an examination OF its
Importance, the result: of which has been
full conviction that the scheme was not an
over.wrought picture of speculative fancy,
but one which promised equally as much, to
say least, as the best paying roads now in
operation. We have already written CO.
iumns upon the subject, with view of lend
ing orr feeble ali to the cause, in placing it
in its true light before the public. One OBJ
ject has been hitherto, in common with other
advocates of the measure, TO establish the
fact that it would be a paying road. That
end appears TO have b 'en attained; no one
ventures the impeachment of his intelligence
by expressing contrary opinion, and the i'm
mediate friends of the road justly nt-rtain
the most sanguine expectations of its sue
cess. The orly questions now worth discuss
ing are: How much will it pay as money in
vestment! And what other advantages are
10 flow from it, direct or remote. certain or
prospectiye! The section of the State
through hich the road will run, is one of al.
mos, unparalleled fertility and richness, both
IN agricultural and m neral resources; popu.
lous, wealthy and naturally productive, amp
needs only to have those resources develop
ed to be placed on Hattering equality with
any other portion of the State, now enjoy
ing the advantages OF improved modes of
communication. The great and fertile
w hlte River valley, and the country ada
cent thereto, has al present no reliable natur-
al channel of communication with any com.
mercial point and none of an artificial cnurac-
ter; hence it is strikingly obvious and the
conclusion irresistible, that the intermediate
counties from Evansville to Indianapolis will
experience by far the greatest advance in
property of any to be affected by the road, by
being placed in direct connection with the
largest and most desirable markets for their
mineral and agricultural productions.
for hp,
even between these tw 20 cities, are certainly
N hattrring as those of many of our best
paying roads, whose stocksrange at or above
par; yet the local SUPPORTS regarded by the
Directors as but 1.-THE in comparison with
the amount Of through business and travel,
which the road will naturally attract, as the
greatest and most feasible thoroughfare be-
tween the Northeast and South
The important southern connections from
Evansville, now in actual progress, and 9th.
ers in contemplation, With reasoneb bic pros
poets of forming a union with our road, al
no very distant day, gives the "Strait Line
Road" at once consequence, which defes
all successful rivalry. No line of road car
be conceived, much less constructed, tina
wi compare in it's advantages to the section:
Of country it traverses, and to the com.
panies building it. with comparative strai;
line road from Cleveland, on Lake Erie, t
Memphis. on the Mississippi. connecting also
with the Henderson and Nashville road
Yet such an arrangement is not only practic
able. but it is more than probable that such
line will be in operation in less than iv,
years. Active measures are already on foo
for making preliminary examination Of TIL
route from Henderson to Memphis, with tn,
did and appreciation of several enterprisiuI
enstern capitalists.
With local advantages at least equal t
any road of its length. combining more i'm
portant connections thin almost any othe
road; intersecting and terminating at point
OF great commercial wealth and business
there cap no longer exist doubt in an intel
fgent mind, that the "Strait Line" with il
contemplated connections will be the bes
paying road in the United States. We ar
Informed BY good authority that the books @
the Evansville, Indianapolis and CIevelan
Railroad, will be positively closed at the expir
alton of sixty DAYS from the time of thei
opening. All persons desiring to take stoc
should avail themse Ives of the earliest or
portunity, as capitalists have their eyes on
and will soon put it out Of their reach.
KEsrucKY FREEMAsox. is the tit