Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-18
cairo's River and Railr DAD
Communications.

To-day we present map or diagram, show
ing the position which Cairo occupies on the
Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and clearly ind-
eating its position as 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 a network OF Railroads
around Cairo. - = - y - = :
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 a bridge across the river
at this point, sufficient to impede navigation to
and from the lower river.
1t is well established fact, conceded by all
steambeatmen, that no section of the Missis-
sippi is so difficult to navigate in low water. or
in the winter season, as that stretching be-
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. 81 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 will be commenced. &,
The t.Cairo and Vincennes Railroadn is an.
other enterprise which is now being agitated
and which will soon be realized. The. ".Ohio,
and Mississippi Railroad Coz want an outlet,
to enable them to communicate more readily
with the lower Mississippi A branch from
heir road, running from Eincennes to this city,
will supply the want The distance will be
shert,fh country through which it will run is
Quite esem 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,
withinra short period, IS = fixed fact, EtFI q
Tho "Mobie and Ohio Railroad is nowin
running order from Mobile TO Columbus. The
terms ofthc Charter authorizing its construction
REQUIRES that its Northern terminus shall be at
point opposite Cairo, and the provisions of
the Charter will be csmplied with at an early
day At present VIC 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 equili
Drum of Commerce aud divided the people o
the South from us, Cairo was the mart to which
the planters and monied men of the section o
country through which the NJ & o. r. r. rul
and those to whom the Road was tributary
came to supply their necessities and exchang
their staples for produce or money through OH
business or commission men for goods by thos
of Alabama and the States lying between. o.
Friday last We noticed one OF our liquor mer
chants filling large order for q Mobile firm
and other have informed us that they too hav
shipped goods via the N. & o. R. R. to Mobl
and other points. AT present Cairo is bu
forty-eight hours distant from Mobile. In
few days, when the road is better ballasted
the time viii be reduced to thirty or thirty-si
hours. Argument is not needed TO demonstrat
tho fact that Cairo is the natural feeder TO thi
Road and presents to the planters along il
line, and the commercial men of the cities
towns, and villages through which it run
overshadowing inducements to establish it .
their entrepot. ..e~t., sfsE-Er..fe
The New Orleans, Jackson & Great NORTH
ern r. r." commencing at New Orleans, tai
the M. 4 O. II. r. at jackson, Tennessee, thu
making t. Q latter named Road a mediu
through which all the staples and wealth OF I'll
richest section. of the South can be conveye
North. - - ~
By reference to the diagram which we pr
sent to-day, it win be readily seen that !
freight or passengers can come from the Sou
either by the Railroad or by River and reat
the North WITHOUT passing through Cairo whis
stands asa gateway between the Northeast al
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