The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-05-12
The Paducah and Evansville KAN
Road.
-Tha padncah Times has the following

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The Paducah Times has the following
reflections upon the construction OF this
Road and the prospects OF Paducah:
Paducah has now adopted the incipient
measures to make herself city, and to
take rank among those that from their
enterprise and energy are attracting the
attention ofcapitalists and manufacturers.
The completion Of her railroad to the
junction with the Mobile & Ohio road
may now be regarded as fixed fact
From the report Of Judge Campbell, the
President of our road, published in to.
days paper. it will be seen that the road
will be hurried on to completion; that
the iron, &c, is bought. Hence We may
no longer doubt the consumlnation. But
when it is done, are we to stop at that?
and be content with this as its terminus?
II we do our fondest anticipations will
be doomed to disappointment. We
must furnish inducements to bring travel
to this point-and then we must furnish
facilities for sending them away. We
must continue our railroad until it con-
meets with some of the roads going to
East. The question then arises, in what
direction, and how shall we continue it.
We do not propose at this time to dis
cuss the question at length. but will do
so at some future time. We, at present,
only propose to make the suggestion.
that the active business mind may reflect
on the subject, and mature something for
future benefit.
The most feasible and best possible
route for the continuation Of our road is
hence to Henderson. We will not stop
now to point out the advantages Of this
route to any other---suffice it to say, they
are so many and SO manifest, that 1t
would require little argument to prove
it. G-1. f.El
The distance from Paducah to Hen
derson is about 75 miles. the entire dis
tance being level country, presenting
few obstacles to the building Of road.
About 40 miles Of this distance is under
laid by continuous coal bed, IRON to
80 feet in depth in different strates, yet
all above water level, all accessible, and
all near the surface. Ii may be urged
that our means are limited, not more
than adequate to the completion Of the
road we have undertaken. To this we
reply that when competed, our COM
munity, even upon the admission that it
should not increase in population
which cannot be presumed-wlll he
more able to build 1OO miles Of road, than
we are now to build %, from the apprecia-
ton Of property, increase OF trade, and
the conviction that will then fasten upon
our people, that we must have an eastern
extension.
But there is an other mode we would
suggest, which has, We believe been re-
sorted to by other companies. Obtain
to the contemplated road
from land owners on the line Of the road
payable in land. The company could
borrow as much money as they wanted
on the faith Of those lands, and as the
road reaches the lands they would com
mand handsome prices, the proceeds Of
which would pay the sums borrowed.
With plan Of this kind strenuously ad-
vocated by few energetic-go head
men-their efforts would be crowned
with success. and an eastern connection
secured. This connection IS bound to
be made, sooner or later, and the sooner
the better. We pen this merely as an
innuendo, with the design in future, OF
taking the subject up more in detail,
meantime we hope our people will think
Of its feasibility and practicability. "a