The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-14
e. III. e. N. RAILROAD.
Letter from General Boyle.

The following letter from General
BOYLE. President of the Evansville,
Henderson & Nashville Railroad, to
GRANT GREEN, Esq, Of Hender-
son. appearedin the Henderson Re
porter of last week. Mr.. GREEN, in
his letter to the Reporter. in enclos-
ing Gen. BoYLE's letter, urges upon
the people of Henderson, who have
the money, to invest in their City
Bonds at once as safe and paying
investment, aside from the general
interest they have in the completion
of the Road; and says, eve must do
everything in our power to aid him,
or the work may net be completed
before other schemes and enterprises
are carried out in such a way as to
lessen the value Of our road. as Gen
BOYLE states in his letter."
GENERAL BOYLE's LETTER.
HENDERSON, KY, Oct. A, 1867.
GRANT GREEN, Eso.-Dear Sir
If the people of Henderson County
and City will take the bonds issued to
the Railroad, the Road can be built
to Slaughtersville or Prathersville be-
fore the close of this year. The road
bed is in condition to receive the SUI
perstructure for twenty miles. We
have laid down and have ready to put
down, in all, seven miles of iron. We
have locomotive and cars forming
an excellent construction train. IF
you can sell the bonds and purchase
the iron, l will have it laid and run
the ears to ShughtersTille. ~ ~
1t is of the greatest importance to
Henderson and Evansville that the
road be built to jacksonville without
delay. The people of Christian
County bought all of the bonds of
their County, and | have purchased
the iron to lay the track from the
State line to Hopkinsville. I believe
the road can obe completed to Hop
kinsVille and that place brought into
Railroad connection with Nashville
and LOUISVILLE before the LIST day of
January next.
The road will be constructed to the
Coal Mines, North of Hopk insville,
and to Madisonville, or its vicinity,
SlVl0g 0dllTOdQ cO0nccJlOQ directly
with Louisville and Nashville. This
will necessarily divert the trade and
business of Hopkins, Trigg, Caldwell,
Christian and other counties to Louis
vile and Nashville. Once in that
channel, the trade will remain there.
Are Henderson and Evansville pre-
pared to abandon competition for the
trade and business of the entire .coun-
try South of them? =,
I need not say to you that 1t Is the
interest and duty of the Railroad
Company to direct its energies aud
use its means to reach the coal mines
from the south. It's evidently GER
tain that the road will be built into
Hopkinsville from the south before |
il IS built to Madisonville from the |
north, unless the people of Hender-
son and Evansville will give their aid
at once. The failure of your people
20 take the bonds, as the people of
Christian did, and the refusal of Ev-
ansville to give any aid except on con-
ditions that render their subscription
valueless to the enterprise, will result
in the roads being built very slowly
from the north. G"Eb ga
If Evansville will render a fair aud
prompt aid to the road, it can be built
and she will have an outlet for her
trade and commerce. q IF Evansville |
will relieve her subscription of the
conditions that render it useless to