The Evansville daily journal., 1857-04-03
For the Journal.
Evansville Commercial and Aanufaeturin!
f.r Resources.
LY W. ". BYF0Rp.

ssierabIe to railroads for many species Offreight,
: and supplies a link in artificial commercial ad- !
Nvantages of rare profit to the country and
towns, through which it passes, and the cities
at its termini 1t is barely necessary to
mention the length, course and two termini,
of this great improvement, for the intelligent
reader to understand the importance Of it at
present, and the effect it must have, in direct.
ing the future course Of trade. / may re-
mark in passing that coal beds, iron mines
and oak forests, were cut through and laid
open in its construction, for future use, sulli-
cient to repeat on a grander scale, the manu- 4
featuring enterprises Of Old England, and en- (.
rich the inhabitants along its line 70 an incal /
culable extent. The different railroads finish
ed, in course Of construction, and under cen
temptation, which will certainly be made,
will afford US immense increase CT trade, by |
connecting us with still larger number of
fertile producing localities, and points o. CON-
mercial importance. Our railroads that are
finished, and being constructed, are the T.. & |
G. r. r., leading from here to Terre Haute,
and being extended the whole length Of Wa
bash Valley. The E., 1. &c @. S. L., from
here through indianapolis, by a straight line
to Cleveland, afford us railroad connection
with all the great and small Northern lines,
illogical and agricultural districts. The Ii. &
n. Road, in course of rapid construction, will
give us access to The cotton, tobacco and sugar
regions Of the South, and place US on the
most direct line from Northeast TO the South
western portions Of the Union. A mere
glance at the map Of the United States, will
show that the route from New York, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore and other Northern cities
to New Orleans Charleston, Augusta and all
the important Southern cities via Evansville
along the F., l. & G.. S. l.. r. Il. and Hender-
son and Nashville Railroad, the Chattanooga
and other Southern roads, will be the shortest
by several hundred miles, that is now in ex-
istence or contemplation. The road through
this place and Henderson, will be the main
trunk to which North and South, others will
concentrate the travel and trade of thousands
OF miles in length, radiating in almost every
direction. Several other roads of great COM
mercial importance are contemplated with
every reasonable probability Of speedy con-
struction, viz: one by the most direct route to
Paducah, the Northern terminus, at present
Of important Southern roads, among which is
the New Orleans and Paducah Railroad. An
other to the upper Ohio by New Albany. A
third and to US very important one, running
into Illinois at GRANVILLE; and n fourth seeking
d.
Owensville or Princeton in Gibson county
ALI these additional artificial avenues of
communication with contiguous business dis
tricts, and the towns at which they terminate
will place us on footing not surpassed bv
any city in the West in this respect. 1t will
be seen by this short summary of the advan-
tages Of her position geographically, and the
Internal Improvements concentrating upon
her, that Evansville, possesses more CONNER
cial facilities than any other city below Pitts
burg and above the mouth of the Ohio river
Although our commercial position thus far
proven, and will prove in future, of SO much
service to US, our geological formation secures
greater comparative excellence as place for
factories of almost every sort. No place in
this great union combines more industrial IA
.'cilities, than ours, and very few indeed have
a tithe Of our advantages in tbs respect
With every facility as above shown, for ship
ping to and from Us, all the natural and artii-
.cial products of the Northern, Southern,
Eastern and Western portions of the United
States, we possess oil the elements for man.
ufacturing on the grandest scale. The geo
logical basin in which We are situated, and o..
which we occupy probably the most advan-
tageous site, contains all the mineraogical
deposits, necessary to manufacturing cheaply
s8uu ITOm Ca piOtdStouS AZ tuiS DIdcS
and vicinity, it is found that there are under
lying US no less than six remarkable beds of
coal, all of which, judging from the sample
brought up, are Of first rate quality, some at
least, equal to the Pittsburg fuel. 1t is su-
perfuous to add, to any person acquainted
with sucn matters that they are inexhaustibls.
They would supply the workshops of the
world for ages, so great is their extent. will
submit statement of about their depth, and
thickness so far as ascertained. The first
three beds, of which one is thirty eight to
forty inches, another FIVE feet, and the other
I. about four feet and half thick, are less than
four hundred feet below tie surface.
The fourth stratum, is about four hundred
and fifty feet deep, and 3 feet six inches thick
The fifth is about FIVE hundred and eighty
feet below the surface, and Eve feet six inches
thick. The sixth vein is about nine hundred
feet deep, is seven feet in thickness and is Of
excellent Quail. y. All these coal beds nigh,
if our wsnts required be worked at the same
time. They are all easily and readily access.
ible, as the deepest is not ct al extraordinary
depthA Apr mining coal. One stratum of these
serief has been opened by our enterprising
fellow citizen Mr.. Kersterman, which Yields
rich return to the company for the capita
invested. While other cities along the river
have been suffering for fuel, many Of their in
habitants being unable to procure this neces
sary at all, and others paying enormous price
fOr indifferent wood, our people have had th