The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-31
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oHA couple of weeks. ago | started
from our goodly city to $ swing round
the circle of portion of the Great
west, and have veireached this pointiin,
my my travels. Il Thinking 1 may have
seen and Heard Some thitgs that viii
BE OF gone interest TO your readers. I
9pprbeeed to ajiot down Some rough notes
Which are placed at your service Da.
I Game via -Terre Haute, Indianaro-
lis Richmohd, Indiana, and Chicago,
Ifiih6is, oyer the Evansville & Graw-l
I forrdsvilIe,, Columbus & indianapolis
Central Chicago & Great Eastei4h,
and Chicago & iy1 NortlE esffegp,
Railroads. Distances !m from Ev-
ansville to 'Tetre HauteYa.ab9
miles, thence to Indianag2Ii,.. -, -
miles, thence to Richmond g. niles.
thence to Chicago, 224 miles. ,tbs,ee
to Omaha, 500 miles-rtntal 9l,hii Ks,
The fare from Chicago to OmGa1a is
$22, and the distance is run in twenty
five hours between those two points.
Close connections are made here
twicena day with trains ON the Union
Pacific Railroad (Platte route) The
express passenger train leaves at 6P.
~, Except Sundays. and reaches
yulesburg, Nebraska, BIT miles west,
at Its pm. next day. The Union
Pacific, R.R.. is progressing. rapidly.
and is expected t., reach Cheyenne
pronounced Shyan), a new "eityn ia
Wyoming Territory Chat is to be),
near'the base of the Black Hills, the,
ADVANCE guard of thei Rocky Noun
tains, in about, six weeks. This
new city will be nearly six hun
Kdred miles from the Missouri River at
this point, and wilio be- the point of
intersection of the Denyer branch of
this road, and will be a grand distri-
buting depot for the, monntain region,
and Headquarters Of the mou ntain
division of the railroade LAS soon as
the railroad reaches it there will be
grand, rush Of fortune seekers and
others. The rush of travellers over
this great route is immense, and the
crowd is Heterogeneous in appearance,
and is made up in part of shreWd rail-
road men, knowing spectators. sharp
traders, fast young men, cute Eastern
men, rough Westerners, self reliant
women, grim visaged and hard handed
Ii ca,,rh and roo a1x,
so soon on AZ How oT forcibIe when ION one sees sees
the tide of travel ebb and flow. seems
Bishop Berkely's prophetic express
Westward the Star of empire takes its
way"
Here, at this gateway of the great
West, a person begins to realize the
vast extent of this occidental world.
A few years ago. Kansas and Nebras-
ka, and even Iowa, Minnesota and
Missouri, were called in general
terms the West. But these people
claim. very justly, that they are in the
about the West, away off beyond the
Rocky Mountains, as if they lived in
the old settled East ti.5D ~
L 0dV0 Icdu ccVcTdl rUcWcpdpCTs,
published ih Colorado, Montana and
Dakota Territories, and find that the
theme uppermost in the public mind
away out there is, how to PEN
citrate still deeper into the
Wilderness, The Dakotians are
organizing an expedition to go to the
Black Hills, in the western portion, of
that Territory, where ii is anticipated
|. that rich treasures of the precious
| metals, as wen as. of timber, coal,
gypsum, &C., will be found. All that
country is settling up rapidly, and
before many years Wilt be 8 possessed
and occupied" BY the conquering and
all pervadingi Anglo -Saxons. 'sLol
the poor Indian. Will have to- stand
| aside for the pale face, and must soon
become extinct before the march of
| civilization. i-soei1 31i
I shall mention some Of my obser-
| vations taken en- route. The Chicago
and Great Eastern Railroad is very
slow, and has recently been a danger
Gus one to travel on. but is now some
what improved. The road has been
straitened in circumstances for the
want of funds, which accounts for its
being so out of order.
There had been serious drought
in Central and Eastern Indiana, from
the effects of which the growing corn
was suffering badly. The day I went
to Chicago there was a rain, but |
| fear the corn in that region, as we'll
as in Central Missouri, Illinois and
Ohio will come far short of a full