Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-10
Cairo's River and Railr DAD
Communications.

To-day present mepor diagram, show
ing the position which Cairo occupies on the
Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and clearly indi-
eating its position as a Railroad centre, pres
ent and prospective. Of course we do not wish
to represent all the Roads on the diagram as
completed but believe we venture nothing in
asserting that within two years they will be
built, thus forming network of Railroads
around Cairo.
Cairo is practically the head Of navigation
When the Mississippi is at its lowest stages,
boats of the heaviest tonnage and greatest
draught, can always reach this city. So, too,
in the winter season. Jack Frost has never
beer able to construct bridge across the river
at this point, sufficient to impede navigation to
| and from the lower river.
1t is a well established fact, conceded by all
steamboatmen, that no section Of the Missis-
sppi is so difficult to navigate in low water, or
in the winter season, as that stretching be-
tween this city and St. Louis, thus peremptor-
lily demanding the speedy construction of the
Cairo and St Louis railroad. Nor is this all.
The railroad companies east of ST.. Louis are so
DESTROYS that such road be built that if Cairo
and the people on the line of the proposed road
do not construct it they WILL But the people
of this city and those living in the country
through which the Cairo and St. Louis Rail-
road is proposed to run, are not only DESTROYS
that it should be built, but have evidenced
their determination that it shall be built and
their ability to build it. 1t is now being, or
has been, surveyed, and but little remains to
be done ere the work viii be commenced.
The 'Cairo and Vincennes Railroad is an
other enterprise which is now being agtated
and which will soon be realized. The ''Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad CO.. want an outlet,
to enable them to communicate more readily
WITH the lower Mississippi. A branch from
their road, running from Vincennes to this city,
will supply the want. The distance will be
short, the country through which it will run is
quite even and inviting, and the expense at
tending its construction but very light COM
pared to the advantages which would accrue
to the Railroad Company named, the people
living on the proposed route and our citizens
so that we feel assured that its construction,
within short period, is fixed fact.
The ''Mobile and Ohio Railroad is now in
running order from Mobile to Columbus The
terms ofthe Charter authorizing it's construction
requires that its Northern terminus shall be at
point opposite Cairo. and the provisions of
the Charter will be complied with at an early
| day. AT present we have semi-daily packet
running to Columbus in connection with that
Road, and Cairo now is, practically the North
ern terminus of the Mobile and Ohio Rail-
road" Before the war effected the equil-
brum of Commerce and divided the people of
the South from us, Cairo was the mart to which
the planters and monied men of the section of
| country through which the NJ. & O. R. R. run
, and those to whom the Road was tributary,
came to supply their necessities and exchange
heir staples for produce or money through cur
business or commission men for goods by those
of Alabama and the States lying between. On
Friday last we noticed one of our liquor mer
chants filling large order for Mobile firm.
| and other have informed us that they too have
shipped goods yia the NJ & O. R. R. to Mobile
and other points. AT present Cairo is but
forty-eight hours distant from Mobile In a
few days, when the road is better ballasted,
the time will be reduced to thirty or thirty six
hours. Argument is no: needed to demonstrate
the fact that Cairo is the natural feeder TO this
Road and presents to the planters along its
line, and the commercial men of the cities
towns, and villages through which it runs
overshadowing inducements to establish it as
their entrepot.
The New Orleans, Jackson & Great North
ern R. r. commencing at New Orleans, taps
the M. & 0. r. R. at Jackson, Tennessee thus
making tie latter named Road a medium
through which all the staples and wealth of the
richest section of the South can be conveyed
North.
by reference to the diagram which we pre-
sent to-day, it win be readily seen that no
freight o: passengers can come from the South
either by the Railroad or by River and reach |
the N'rth without passing through Cairo which
anos as gateway between the Northeast and
Southwest