Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-10-17
Bring ON Your ItaiIroad.

mk EDlIOks-n w z are anAlouslY Watcu-
ing all the steps taken TO extend the Ev
ansville aud Charlottesville Railroad. ard
every indication made in that direction
tends TO strengthen our hands and invig-
crate our hopes. We took an early and
active interest in that road, attended the
first meetings and many subsequent ones
for the purpose Of adding our mite of in
huence to its encouragement. We also
travelled two or hree times tn Evansville
to attend meetings Of The Board, several
years since, to show our deep interest in
The enterprise. We have likewise paid
considerable at :hi. place to def,ay the ex
Pense of surveying the route from Craw-
fordsville 10 Terre Haute. We took an
active part TO get up stock for said road
IN its first mOvings. and succeeded 10
raising between thirty aud forty thousand
dollars in stock. We should have done
more, but just at this time. " hen We ihu't
we we're about To get this road. in comes
President Hopkins. with corps of Engi-
neers. levelihg the forest before them. fell
ing the sturdy oak aud the tell poplar and
thus opening their way if they were
truly in earnest and all natures obstruc-
tions must give way before them. and they
offered US an air line road from Cleveland
to st. Louis provided would take hold
them to a considerable extent. aud hav.
got no road yet We have entirely given
up all hopes of the Cleveland and St. Lou
is Road. We have hoped and waited and
watched for a continuation in this direc-
tion of the E. & G. Road, until hope long
deferred has made the heart sick. But iste-
ly We have been much revived at the pros.
pect Of the road being made to Rockville.
That il will get to Rockville in a few
months is now, we think, about as certain
as any human event yet in the future
We rejoice with our neighbors in Rockville
at the prospect Of its speedy completion to
that place. for if any town needs a raise it
is Rockville. We hope it will do it all
the good she has long expected from it,
But in justice to the citizens of Rockville
and Parke county, | must say that many
Of them have done a generous part to Sc
cure the road. nd Gen. G. h. Steele has
neither spared time talents influence nor
money to encourage the enterprise. But
now comes the tug Of war. So soon as the
road gets to Rockville we want TO have a
lever ready to hook in the iron horses
nose and draw him this way. Some say
that he is fond Of snuffing the Wabash fog
and that his head Is a little inclined to
turn out Of his natural course Ito the great
injury Of the road aud the cities on the
lower part of the road) and keep up along
the Wabash d Erie canal.
There are many reasons why this road
should keep the route which it was first
designed to take. II would in this route
run through or by the coal mines in Parke
county, a sdperior quality Of coal, al d.
bundsEce Of which is now wagoned to
this place, and to Russelville, Crawfords-
vile and other towns along and adjacent
to the route; and then it would run for
several miles along the valley of the Lit
t'c Raccoon creek-a more productive val
ley s not perhaps in the Union; and then
it would reach Wsveland, which may be
safety said, to its size, not TO be surpassed
for business, by any town in this State,
and her Collegiate school already num-
bering one hundred pupils, and what
would it be had we the rallrosd to drop
them here and take them away. Tn, a
bundant surplus OF corn aud wheat aud
flour and rye aud oats and cattle and hogs
and horses and mules which want an out
let south, would tell if We had railroad
The city Of Terre Haute would feel it. It's
packing houses of course would pack ma
ny Of our hogs; many time we would
make it convenient TO do much trading
there had We the facility Of railroad con-
veyance. Neither should Evansville be
/ left out of mind. She would receive a
! good share of the benefit. Our groceries
/ ought not to pass our State along the Ohio
/ river into sister State before we get hold
of them. Our grocery trade should settle
at Evansville. The extension of this road
would much tend to turn our grocery
trade TO that point. At Charlottesville it
would intersect the L., n. A. d Chicago
r. r. There has been much money spent
and a great deal of labor done between
Crawfor dsville and Frankfort. II any sci
Of citizens deserve a railroad think 1t Is
the citizeas Of Frankfort. They persevere
from the beginning to the end and traverse
sea and land to accomplish the matter
They have been down by delegations tC
see what we are dong and to hear what il
the prospect. II there can be anything
done for them it must be done.
This road need not turn out Of its char
tered route to connect with the valley road
If that connection is desired it can b'
made at Lafayette by making the road t.
Craw fordsvIlle and then taking the Louis
vile, N. A. d Chicago Road to Lsfayett
and we are informed by MsjoFJ C. ElstoD
budb lug Cdlo VI AnC iOaN iuh w"
aud freight at Charlottesville. BY making
the connection at Attica from Rockvill
there will have to be some SO or 40 mile
OF road made, when the connection may b
made at Lafayette by making % or 3
miles Of road, an item worth notice an,
then your road will be in its proper cours
and will tap as productive a country a
GIN be found in any State; and count
unaecommodated at this time by any raj
road. aud by the by it will be in this di
rection for long trunk of road pointin
towards the Lakes and will eventuall
make very direct eastern road.
' But one great object now is to get III
road to this place How are We to do it
it is but IA miles from Rockville here.
the time is come to move we are read
whenever the word is given. The farme
around us begin to feel the necessity Of
railroad TO carry off their surplus projuc