The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-05-01
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We have read attentively the Circular tc
which the following article refers, and to oul
mind, the great question as to the success o.
this great enterprise, for and against which SC
much has been said and written for the las,
fifteen years. can longer be q matter Of doubt
The founding Of city at a point which is the
lock Of upwards of 10000 miles Of inland naYi.
cation, and the terminus Of some 1000 miles
Eof railroad in the State Of Illinois asozse. over
the Illinois Central and its Communications
with other Roads, may well create rivalry and
Opposition from towns located above the juno
ton Of the rivers centering at Cairo.
Cairo being at the head ofthe uninterrupted
lnavigation the whole year, is andeniabl y. the
natural seaport of the West; and New Orleans
is as much, identified with the suocess of, the
Undertaking as is the State of Illinois and her
| sister States. 'Phe same spirit which gave
birth to the enterpi Use and sustained it through
Its darkest days and vicissitudss, brought into
existence the Illinois Central Railroad, which
being indispensable to the life OF Cairo, has
been made at a cost Of S20OO0oo0. Now.
when the rivers above Cairo are closed by ice
and unnavigable by low water, this Road, with
its connection to every town of importance on
the West, becomes the great highway for the
exports and imports of the whole West, to and
from the seaboard via Cairo .r rr
fFrou the American Railway Timts1
On the first page of to days paper we have
printed recent circular of the Trustees OF
Cairo, and we cannot do better service to
such of our readers as have desire to invest
their surplus funds where they will rapidly
and certainly increase than by calling their
attention to the facts presented in that docu-
ment. The rapid increase of Western cities
in population, business and wealth, is so we'll
known that no intelligent man needs to be
told Of the examples furnished by Chicago, st.
Louis and other we'll known towns and cities.
It's Dot out OF place to say that as rapid as
has been that increase we believe the future
of Cairo will be equally if not more rapid. Its
lposition is one of remarkable strength. It is
situated at the confluence of two streams, the
Mississippi and the Ohio rivers, the two most
important avenues Of commerce on the Cont
nent. It IS at the head of never falling nasi.
CATION for vessels of large size. :,s.- 80.
1t is unobstructed by ice in the winter, or
| by shoals or sand bars in the summer. the Mis-
sissippi being always open froia Cairo to New
Orleans. 1t is the Southern terminus of the
whole railway system of the State of Illinois,
Central road having its Southern terminus, its
immense grain depots, its workshops, and 9TH
er extended establishments there. 1t is the
natufaidepot Of the produce designed for ship
ment South, of the States lying North Of the
Ohio, and again it seems to be the inevitable
point of distribution for trade coming up the
/ Mississippi river. In all these matters nature
as well as art has aided to place Cairo in the
most enyiable position with regard to her fu-
ture commercial greatness. Its position, as
the commercial centre of the State between
the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes, and
the States situated on either side of the Mis-
sissippi, its uuobstructed navigation through
the entire year; its great railway connections
embracing the whols North and East, to say
nothing of the rapidly growing West, its rail-
way connection southwark, and now extend ng
i to Mobile Savannah, Charleston, and every
important point on the Atlantic coast. all in
hsurc it 8 success and progress in oil the ele-
ments of commercial greatness second to 10
other city in this or any other country. TIE
circular referred to gives the history of this en-
! terprise from its inception to the present time.
The earlier troubles sprung from partial inun-
ldations in consequence of the rising of tho
waters in the rivers. These are now over
come, and a successful barrier is now placed
against the periodical floods ofthe Mississippi,
strong, safe, and enduring as art, science, and
liberal. expenditure can make it. The city is
not only protected now from inundat ons by
the ordinary levees and embankments but in
addition an embankment is now in construction
which, when finished, will furnish magnih-
cent street eighty feet wide at the top, and five
feet higher than the waters were ever known
to rise. This new embarkment will encompass
the entire city, and hot only afford complete
protection against foods, but at the same time
.. afford such system of drainage as will make
!. lit the cleanest and most healty city in the
! West. Let our readers take any well con-
Istructed map of the United States, and with
this before them, read the well attested facts
presented by the circular to which we have re-
ferred, and draw their own inference of the
probable future of Cairo.