The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-05-18

OfMe Directors of the Evansville, Indiana
polls d Cleveland Straight Line Railroad
COMPANY.

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Company.
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LOCAL BUSINESS.
As the local freights of Western Roads
must. constitute SO large portion of their
earnings for years, we have prepared and
appended tables, showing the great Agricul-
tural capabilities of the Counties in the
White River Valley. and the immense
amount of ordinary local freights that must
be thrown upon our cars, so soon as the road.
shall be in operation, while no estimate can
be made of the local business of the road,
when the Valley shall be brought into fair
state of cultivation, and its great mineral
resources developed. II is proper to remark
here that, all other things being equal, the
road that has the heaviest local freight bust.
ness, occupying the trains with full power,
constantly through the whole year, must
have decided advantages over roads that can
only find local freights small portion of the
time in carrying off our annual crops. This
idea is strongly illustrated by the Reading
Coal Railroad, that cost $l80,000 per mile,
and yet, in consequence of its heavy daily
freights through the year, it pays seven per
cent. on its enormous cost Of construction
and equipage. Besides our road will receive
a very large amount of local freights from ad.
Joining Counties, not named in the tables,
and when we reflect that not one.tenth acre
of the lands in the Valley has as yet been
brought into proper cultivation, it would
seem to be unnecessary to specify any other
sources Of local freights, to place cur road
upon the high grounds 10 that respect claim
ed for 1t. But Justice to our position requires
that we should, in this connection, refer to
extra ffeights, not common to many other
Western roads, which must in themselves
give constant employment throughout the
whole year to heavy trains.
MARBLE, AND FINE BUILDING ROCK.
The Marble Quarry, at Gosport, now be-.
ing worked by steam power by Messrs Watts,
Biddle, Penrose, and Love, is of the first
quality, and inexhaustble in quantity. This
quarry must supply the cities Of Indiana polls
and Evansville, and the entire country to
the Lakes, on the north, ss well as the river
! cities to the south, over our road, sffording
important local freights through the year,.
DR.. Ryland +. Brown, in his late Geological
Report to the State Agricultural Society,
says of this Stone, "near Gosport a variety
of this stone is now being worked, which
receives high polish, and presents fine
variegated appearance, eteng indeed an ex-
cellent and beautiful MARBLE" For range
work, columns, pillars. liutels. caps, stills
, floors, mantels, and cemetery purposes. il is
all that could be desired. The rock at the
quarry rises bare some forty feet above the
base, and lies some fifty feet embedded be.
low in horizontal strata, that are split by
, wedges into the required thickness for the
saw, with great facility, coming from the
quarry soft, but hardening equal to granite,
by the atmosphere.
COAL DEPOSITS.
The deposits Of coal on the line of our
road may challenge comparison with any
other fields in the West. The quality OF the
> coal with the thickness of the strata, and the
great facility and light cost with which the
Goals can be taken out and carried forward,
must give them decided advantages over any
other interior beds in the State. David Dale
Owen, late State Geologist, having made a
special examination of these Goals, in his
report says, "the Goals of this field may be
E designated as Of the first bituminous charac-
ter, like those of Derbyshire, Wigan, and
Lancashire, in England and Lanarkshre, in
Scotland. Though the amount Of carbon is
l X
for completeness Of combustion, for rapidly
Of ignition, freedom from waste, and for pur.
: poses of rapid evaporation, they hold the
, first rank among both foreign and domestic
Goals. They are well adapted 10 the pro.
! duction of Illuminating gas, and some of the
' beds afford coal that for heating power and
freedom from impurity surpasses the Spin,
and Came! Goals of Scotland" Mr.. Law.
renee, distinguished geologist. fully concurs
'. with Mr.. Owen. He says, SIT is of excellent
}, quality, resembles in appearance and burns
9 like Camel COAL" DR.. Ryland T. Brown
examined this coal while this Report was
being prepared, and he sustains Mr.. Owen
and MIR. Lawrence in the high character
J. they have given to it. He places it az
!. quite equal to the best OF the Hawsville and
Cannelton Goals. The great Importance oil
these Goals to Central and Northern Indiana,
as well as to our road, makes il proper to
state that we find the extensive Patoka beds
Q on the line in strata from eight to twelve
II feet thick of pure coal of easy access. The
i demand for such coal at cheap rates must
equal very large supply, as Central, North.
ern and Eastern Indiana are entirely desti
o tute of the article. At the charges of the
Reading railroad, we can convey these Goals
. from the beds so that they can be afforded te
j. the consumers at Indianapolis at ten cents
It at Evansville at eight cents per bushel, ant
in proportion at intermediate and more
distant points.
% IRON ORE.
}: The beds Of iron ore in Greene county, or
Richland creek, row being manufactured b,
Messrs Downing and Company ut their new
works, and proved to be Of excellent quality
must add largely to our extra freights. o
'e this ore MIR. Owen says, "there are two ex
tensive beds of iron ore on Richland creek
in Greene county, Analysing thirty seven pc
le cent OF pure metallic iron." The ore at thes
and other beds in our line is inexhaustib lie