The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-18
Communicate.
Communicated.
Evansville, Henderson g. Nashville
X. r.. Line-Its Necessity and its
Advantages TO Evansville.

A Advantages 10 Evansville.
With its track to the rT.es az Hen
derson, with good boats run ming in
close connection with its trains to the
Evansville wharf, with freight and
passenger Offices in Evansville, re-
ceiving and billing freight, and ticket
ing passengers and checking baggage
over the line from Evansville, as re-
qufred by the terms of our subscrip-
ton, Evansville will have all the ad-
vantages of trade and traffic with the
South, as if the rails were laid to the
river Bank immedltsl y opposite tke'
city. 1t willcostno meres fefs either
TpassengersTor freightunder thatagree-
ment, from Evansville to Nashville, or
any other point y South, than
if the rails terminated seleseE to the
eitys Whatever burden or adisad-
vantage there will be by reason of the
road stopping at Henderson for the
time being, will be sustained by the
road itself, not by the city of Evans
vile. Evansville will not ship any
the less merchandise, or manutae--
lures, or produce South, by this ar
rangement In fact, Evansville would
not be .perceptibly better off with
ferriage of half mile than a ferri-
age of ten or IL miles, provided only
the ferriage is we'll kept up, and the
transfer convenient. Evansville, In
either case will be the end of the line,
as Cairo is the end of the line of the
Mobile s. Ohio Railroad, although the
cars stop at Columbus, 20 miles from
Cairo, aud the ferriage is twenty miles
long.
where the rails stop for the present,
is an absolute necessity TO Evansville.
Without this railroad, every city on
the Ohio, from Cairo to Cincinnati,
has the advantage of US in railroad
communication and facilities of trade
with the interior cities of the South.
With this railroad Evansville will
have the advantage over every other
city in facilities for trade over the
railroads of the South. Viewed from
the Ohio River, Nashville is the key
to the railroad system of the South.
Evansville, by this new rail-
road. will be 80 miles nearer Nash
vile than Louisville now is, and
40 miles nearer than Cincin-
natl is, and so miles nearer than
Cairo can! be brought by any railroad
now bnilding or contemplated. By
the Memphis & Ohio Railroad now
running which the e. II. & N. r. RI
crosses at the Tennessee State line,
Evansville will be nearer to Memphis
by railroad than Louisville is
by s sixty nine miles. e.saEvansvilles
will have the same advantage
as to distance to all the cities and
commercial points on the railroads
south of Nashville, on down. to. THE
Gulf : Nashville and the State of
Tehhessee fully appreciate, thisacon-
nection with Evansville, and the
Wabash Valley, and the, Northern.
systemA of railroads behind US, and
they have already invested million
and half of dollars on this railroad
line. The attention of Nashville
and of Tennesseeis Directed this way \
Their sympathies are with US, as is
demonstrated by the trade. Evansville !
has received from Tennessee the past
Sc ason. 1t is a fact that the South
prefers to deal with the West, and as
tar West as possible. Evansville will
be preferred TO Cincinnati, in all cases
where she can supply the Southern
market. The great corn region is in
the rear of Evansville. and Evansville
only needs this one Southern railroad
outlet In addition to the steamboat
abilities to become the chief market
own for all Western products CON
,umed in the South. and the great
central depot and market place for !
he exchange of both Northern and I
Southern products. = lJArssssiS