The Evansville daily journal., 1853-02-26

the northern Indiana, affording the best route
to Chicago, Detroit, and Toledo, for all
southern Kentucky, and Tennessee, connect
ing gatindianapolis at with the Richmond and
Terfe Haute and central railroad of Indiana.
1t connects also with the Lafayette, Peru,
and Fort Wayne railroad; and lastly by q
direct communication with the Bellfontaine
railroad, of which it is a continuation, it opens
a direct communication with either Sandus-
ky or Cleveland, as the traveller may select.
1t connects States which in Europe would
be Empires, and to form come ction be-
tween which millions would be expended in
the construction, while we expend thousands,
and which will be the value of this work to
the farmers owning real estate along i'll
1t will increase its value frs fold; for one dol
lar of stock subscribed, they will get five in
the increased value OF their property. Mr..
Stephenson, president of the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad, of which this is con-
tinuation, speaking Of the Increased value of
the land along the line Of said road, by
the continuation of the railroad, says, the in
creased value of ten miles of land along said
road ten on each side, since the road was
built,s 81, 80 pr acre, equal to 800 900, of each
Htto VI iuiH oou uiuuC uiOHS tHC AuCs AuC
lard along the line of Mis road for agricultur-
al purposes far excels any along the line of
the Chattanooga.
The strait line railroad will always have the
advantage with the travelling public. The
old adage, 'that time is money!" never was
better verified, than in railroad communica-
tions. Between any two given points, you
may have a dozen railroads, and the
| q xxtill faE fha sho, =
est railroad. Companies who have made cir
cuitous routes in their early railroad expert
ments, have learnt this lesson to their COST
Hence through all the Eastern States, where
railroads have been made connecting impor-
tant points, neU ones at enormous expense
are now making to shorten few miles in
distance. There are nov between New York
two land routes by railroad, to say nothing
of others, partly by steamboats,, and partly by
railroad. There is frstsNew York, New
Haven, Hartford, Worcester and Boston rail
road secondly, the New York, New Haven,
New London, Palmer and Boston railroads.
yei the book are opened for the subscription
Of stock in aistraigttsr road probably to cost
five millions of dollars.
For some forty miles betweea Troy, and
Boston, they are tunnelting the Hoosc noun
tain, an arm of the Green mountains, at an
estimated expense of S7O0O,OOO for the new
road.
The Erie railroad terminating at Dunkrk
costing S24,oOOOOO and theAlbany and Buff
falo carrying passengers from New York
through to the Lake in about seventeen hours,
and built at enormous expense, were suppos
ed to be pretty direct routes from the Sea
Board to the Lakes. But the age is progress
/ iuo 10 H.,
now opened for new railroad from New
York City, running through a portion OF
Pennsylvania, and terminating at Erie i'm the
same State, saving as is said sixty miles.
i From Utica to Syracuse. the distance by
the presentr railroad is fifty four miles. The
whole stock is taken in ne,c one shortening
the distance eight miles at cost of 5 000,-
900. Such is the energy, such are the nice
calculations of our Yankee friends, who know
as well as any people on earth, what proiec
will nau.-~..-i .iaaiiti ---AI-------
4 from from experience, when those railroads, run
ming to every town within ten miles of them
liz they will take fifty thousand dollars OF
stock and it costs one hundred and fifty
thousand to make them, must ultimately be
abandoned, or straitened, ought we not to
make the only productive road, the strait line
I0ae, of It's immense benefits when made,
who can doubt!
Il Appendix.
The census of 1851 shows the whole
amount of tobacco raised in the State, was
l,O5s,9SO pounds. OF the quantity the coun-
ties through which the proposed strait line
railroad will run, was 3f7 $50 pounds, being
one third of all the tobacco raised i'm Indiana.
Flar, 559,5O8 pounds of flax, according to
the census was raised in Indiana. OF this
amount, the nine counties through which the
railroad will run, raised l5S,72O pounds,
nearly one etaird of the whole product OF the
i State.
In Horses, Cattle, and Sheep, the census
shows we have ON an average il those nine
counties, ten per cent more in the number
of Horses, six per cent in Cattle, and nine
per cent in Sheep, than the other eighty
two of the ninety one counties composing the
State. w. c.
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