The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-22
Communicated.

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Why the Evansville. Henderson T.
Nashville Railroad should Be Com.
pleted before Any Otaer Evans
vile Railroad-And Why II Will Be
OF More Advantage 10 the Working
Men Of Evansville than Any other
Road. SEE
/. 1t is an extension of the one rail-
road we now possess and makes it a
through line in place of merely local
road, as it is now. q 4 E4T9c ~gFEI
2. It would equally make through
line of the straight line railroad as
soon as built, or of any other railroad
built on this side Of the river. or in
any other than south direction.
3. Because the straight line, orany
other railroad built on this
side of the river, or in any other
than southerly course be-
fore the E. H. q NJ r. r. should be
built, would be only local road, and
Evansville cannot sustain even one
local railroad, much less two.
4th. The Z. H. & n. once built, we
shall soon be strong enough to build
another road, and to sustain it when
built.
4th. Nashville is the nearest city
and railroad centre to Evansville,
nearer than Indianapolis, by the
stright line.
9th. Nashville. Davidson and Rob-
ertson counties. Tenn, and the State
of Tennessee, have already invested
a million and a half OF dollars, and
are readyto invest half million more
in this road to Evansville, and they
have completed it one third of the
way. spending no less than three hum
dred aud fifteen thousand dollars in
the bridges alone, and are running
trains on it daily for that distance to
the Kentucky State line-say forty
seven miles-close to one-third of the
whole distance.
9th. The citizens of Kentucky
have already invested more than a
million of dollars in this road, and
have lately subscribed about three
quarters of million more towards its
completion.
18th. 1t is the straightest and most
favorable unoccupied and uncompleted |
railroad line in the Southwest, and |
gives the most sure prospect of pay
ing stock, OF any other unfinished |
line, being middle link between
Northern and Southern systems, with
a fine country and inexhaustible coel |
deposits on the line.
9Th. The completion of this road
will ultimately raise the $500, 900 of
E. & G.. Railroad stock held by City
and County, now of nominal value, to
par, aud stop taxation on that account.
9th. This Road will give Evansville
an outlet and a thoroughfare better
than she has ever possessed for her
and manufactures, will
place her nearer all the interior of the
South than any other Northern or
Western city, and give her an advan-
age over them all. This road COM
,leted will at once. stimulate every
branch of Evansville industry, and
enrich every manufacturer and work
ng man who has either commodities
,r labor to part with.
Unlike the Southern rivers which
mr. steamboats, run up and find no
layigable brunches, but DO soon find
he end of navigation, this road goes
n and on, even branching to the
ight and left, till her rails only stop
d the Gulf of Mexico and the South !
Atlantic coast, at every city OF the {
ca and Gulf. We will bring every
ity of the South, from Charleston (
,und to New Orleans, within two
avs railroad run of Evansville, and
Evansville manufactures will be soon a
old in all the South, for the South u
luch prefers to deal with the West,
, dealing with the Northern Sta J.
'hese things will come to pass
II the same whether the end of the Z
all of this road stop at the river at
henderson or at the river just across i,
rom Evansville. which latter stop :
ing we should all prefer, but we can
'ell trust toxthe demands of COM :
lerce and the interests of the railroad =
ompany and the public to bring the
bad to Evansville in due time. The
urthen will not be on this city, but t,
n the railroads, and all questions of !
ing or short ferriage may safely be y
# to them. Evansville will at once y
e the end of the line as between her il
nd Nashville, but in the middle of
.eat railroad line and thorough b
re between the Northern and South p
n systems Of railroads. Twill add lit G
impossible for Evansville either to a.
lstain the one railroad she now has u
!. to build any other one, till this
:. ii. & Y. r. r. is completed; and
it'll its aid she can sustain her old
ad and build other new ones. Thus OF
llV, and in 10 other way, can Evans az
lie sustain her present growing in DC
rests,oand her large and growing pa
orking population dependent on +,
EN-. She must go forward and fight ~
ont On this line, or, ike Indiana
lis. she will experieDcea coilapse- -