The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-28


gE- The Trustees of the Canal, in the
Report to the Legislature, publish the fol-
lowing resolution as having been adopted
by a joint committee of the Bondholders, at
a meeting held in New York on the 23d of
November last: k
Resolped, That the Canal South of Terre
Haute (by reason of railroad competition)
having failed since its completion, to COM
mand sufficient business to pay even a small
portion of the expenses necessary to keep it
in repair, and having proved tax on the
Trust Fund to the amount of nearly $780,
900, for those repairs, it is deemed by this
committee unwise to have the same worked
at q sacrifice so ruinous to the holders OF
Canal certificates, as well as to the holders
of certificates representing the Advance for
the completion of the Canal TO Evansville,
we express the wish of those we represent,
in this formal manner, that the Board OF
Trustees proceed with the least possible de-
lay to stopthe working of the Canal south OF
Terre Haute, dismissing, at the earliest OPP
portunity, all the officials engaged on that
division, taking care to preserve the Canal
from all unnecessary damage, and having
in view, till that portion of the Canal shall
be finally closed, the convenience of those
using the same as a channel of transporta-
ton. -o-.=.
1t il the desire of the people on the line
of the lower section of the Canal, that this
order may be speedily executed; they are
ready to accept the discarded work, and to
assume the risk of being taxed for its re-
pairs. 1t is well known that all of the
$4,000 drawn from the Treasury of the
Canal for repair on this division, ought
properly to have been charged to construc-
ton account The expenditures were made
to supply the defects in the original struc-
ture. ~
One of the speakers at the meeting on
Tuesday evening, said it was notorious while
the Canal was constructing, that the con-
tractors on some of the sections in the
woods, employed their hands during the
nights to roll in logs end brush into places
TO be filed by embankments and then cover
them over with their grade, which was
measured and passed by the engineers with
out detection. In one instance contractor
covered up row of shanties, and embraced
them in his embankment without detection,
and thus sold them to the Canal Company
as "good, substantial fill" at the rate OF
Is cents per cubic yard. During the build
ing of the Canal the subordinate engineer:
and oyerseers, following the example of theil
superiors spent their days and weeks at thu
pleasant villages and towns, and gave no at
ton to the mode of construction, nor saw
the work till they were called upon II
measure it and pay for it.
1t is the decay of these buried shantie
and forest trees, which the heavy embank
ments concealed, that has caused many G
the frequent breaks and heavy expenditure
for repairs The failure of the canal ha
been an inevitable result of its careless con
struction and its negligent management
Time has consolidated its banks, remedle
the faults of its builders, and the growth {
the country has been such that under ecc
nomicai and judicious management, it wi
be self-supporting, if not profitable, worl