Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-18
From TIE Louisville Journal, Nay 0. .
|1uE HAsuvIlLD AND CINCINNATI
RAILROAD PROJECT.

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We see from the papers of Nashville that
our friends In that city, are anxious for a
more direct rail communication with Cincin-
natl, and propose TO build new road paral-
lei with the Louisville and Nashville. Our
Nashville friends can hardly bs aware that
before another year expires they will have
the most direct railroad connection which
can be established between the two points,
without having to invest dollar In the en-
terprise they now propose.
The Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington
Railroad Company Is now actively engaged
in preparing for the construction Of the
branch road from Lagrange to Cincinnati.
The distance from Louisville IN Cincinnati
by this route is one hundred and FIVE miles,
and from Cincinnati to Nashville two hum
dred and ninety miles. : The distance will be
run with passenger trains, without changing
cars, In fourteen hours, or perhaps In less
time, and freight will go through from Gin
cinnati to Nashville without breaking bulk.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad, in
connection with the boats plying between
here and Cincinnati, carries at present, not
only all the freight that merchants want to
ship, and all passengers who want to 90 to
Nashville, but is able to carry ten times more
than II now does, and this without any fur
tber investment ON the part of the citizens of
Nashville.
Do our Nashville and Cincinnati friends
know that the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road, with Its extension 10 Cincinnati now in
progress Of construction, is the shortest and
most direct route that can be built between
Nashville and Cincinnati?
Draw straight line between these two
points on the map, and you will find that the
Louisville and Nashville railroad occupies
that line as far as Mnnfordsville, one hun
dred and twelve miles from Nashville. At
Bardstown Junction, one hundred and fifty
three miles from Nashville, the Louisville
and Nashville railroad has only diverged
from 1t twelve miles; at Louisville twenty
nine miles; while Paris, station on the
Kentucky Central Railroad, by which route
it is now proposed to reach Nashville from
Cincinnati in a more direct way, is fly
/ miles to the east of a straight line between
Cincinnati and Nashville. Have our Nash
vile friends we repeat, considered this Do
they wish to invest some six million dollars
to attain more circuitous railroad connec-
ton with Cincinnati than they now have, or
rather will have in the course of year.
without any expenditure of money on their
part? However, II the Nashville and Gin
cinnat people have surplus funds to invest,
we advise them as II is not yet too late, to
take stock in or bonds of the Louisville and
Cincinnati Branch railroad. It will be a
profitable investment. There are only
eighty miles Of road to build Cincinnati
will then be connected with Nashville, Mem
phis, New Orleans, and, after the completion
Of the Decatur and Montgomery road, with
Montgomery and Pensacola on the shortest
possible routes-much shorter routes, indeed,
than BY way of the proposed Southern road
70 Chattanooga, or by route to Nashville
via Danvile.
The distance between Cincinnati and De.
catur by way of the proposed Southern road,
which taps the Tennessee and Georgia road
at Philadelphia is 500 miles. From Cincin-
matt TO Decatur, by way of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, there are 4l2 miles.
Cincinnati Is therefore 70 miles nearer to all
points south of Decatur, say Montgomery
Mobile, and Pen sacola, by way of the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad, than by way of
this proposed Southern road
The difference is still greater in favor of
the Louisville route if Memphis and New
Orleans are to be reached from Cincinnati.
The distance from Cincinnati to Memphis
by way Of the Southern Road to Philadel-
phia and Chattanooga, and over the Mem
phs and Charleston road, is 6ss miles, and,
by way Of Louisville and GAINESVILLE, 49,
miles; the difference in favor of the Louis
vile route being LOG miles. H
The distance from Cincinnati to New Or
leans by the Southern road is l,O2l miles
and by the Louisville apd GAINESVILLE 755
miles, the difference in favor of the Louis
vile route being 266 miles.
Thus it is seen, that, as far as Cincinnati
is concerned, in reaching all points south
west OF Cincinnati, the existing railroad con-
nections, after the completion of the Louis
vile and Cincinnati Branch road, will be all
that they can desire. They cannot be i'm