The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-19

ON The. Ohio. observation-disclosures
nearer than Cincinnati, theH only
Western city which our merchants
and manufacturers find it hard to
undefseil, byE170 miles, Aud when
the new railroad, now under con-
tract, between Louisville and Cincin-
natl is finished, Evansville will still
be nearer to Nashville, the door
| and key to the Southern system of
railroads than Cincinnati, will be by
40 to $50 miles. We shall be 200
miles nearer to, Nashville than St.
Louis will be, by rail, and 275 miles
nearer, by rail than ST. Louis is by wa
ter, and Evansville viii be on the
! shortest route between St, Louis and
Nashville. This advanta e in dis
lance to Nashville is OF the greatest
Importance to us, not merely because
it is the State. capital of Tennessee,
and a growing city of $4,000 or 10000
inhabitants, but because all these
western cities, with their merchandise,
manufactures and produce, must go
through Nashville, as the great West
ern gate of the South, and. of all the
Southern system of railroads. This
Evansville, Henderson and Nashville
Railroad gives us a still greater. adj
vantage in distance. in going to Mem
phis. Evansville is brought about 90
miles nearer. 10y this road. to Mem
phis, than Louisville is; more than
200 miles nearer by rail than
Cinci matt is; and 60 miles
nearer by rail than St. Louis is.
EWithoutthe b., Hand u. r. r. we
Fare obliged to go very round about
way to Nashville. Our best route by
t1rail is round by Vincennes, Seymour
land Lopisville1340 miles-agaipst
f152 by the E., Fl! and N. r. r. The
present railroad route, either by Sey-
Eneour or Mitchell, is so disjointed and
long that we never attempt to ship
freight by 1T except by express, and,
of course, we cannot compete with
Lo uisville by that route, and TO travel
By that route amounts to "a hours
an in the, cars and three changescof
ears Our only watersroute to NashS
Vile is just about the same length
with the present all rail route-335 to
340 miles-and for many months in
the year is not navigable, leaving us the
choice of the all rail route-340 miles,
or the river route to Louisville and
the railroad to Nashville all, $50
miles. By either off. these routes,
Nashville, Tennessee. is more than
half as far from, Evansville cas- Mo-
bile will be when the +. III. & N. r. r.
is completed, and two-thirds as much
time is now required to go from Ev-
ansville to Nashville as will then be
required tor gow from Evansville 70
Mobile lor VPensacofa. ffie1 distance
from Evansville to Mobile when this
railroad is finished will be all rail but
628 miles, via Nashville and Decatur,
and 638 miles via the Tennessee State
Line, Humboldt, and Mobile 4 Ohio
Railroad. By the f. H.. Il N. II. r.
our city will be 80 miles nearer than
Louisville and $50 miles nearer than
Cincinpati to Atlanta, Augusta,
Montgomery, Savannah, and Charles
ton. The distance from Evansville,
then, by rail to Atlanta, will be
442 miles; to Augusta, GLIB miles;
to Montgomery, Alabama, GIT
miles; to Savannah. Georgia,
735 miles. Evansville will have
still greater advantage over Lou
isville and Cincinnati in distance
to New Orleans, being by railroad.
from Evansville to New Orleans,
when this road to Nashville shall be
opened, 692 miles go miles nearer
than Louisville;sand 1870 miles, nearer
than Cincinnati. nlnqoq gisss aai,i1
| am confde at that as yet the me-
-eessities and great '3a'd yantages of this
railroad to Evansville rave not been
duly calculated or appreciated by any
of us. 1t runs in the direction from
which most of our trade comes. 1t
will connect. without break of gauge,
with every railroad betweeflth the Ohio
River and the Atlantic and Gulf
coast. 1t will at once make Evans
vile great centre of trade and ex-
change in the products of both North
and South. 1t would be impossible
for two railroads in any other edirec4
ton to do Evansville as much good as
this one road will, simply, because
tl;ey could not, in any other direction
make as numerous and important
railroad connections, in securing the
concentration of as. much, trade to
our city. and because the road by the
great increase, Of travel toad through
Evansville, viii astimulate and en-
large our already large steamboat
trade without injuring single line Of
boats which we now have.