The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-11
RAILROAD HRETING AT NASHVILLE
r General BOyl les Speech.

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The telegraph has already advised
rs of the meeting of the citizens OF
Nashville to take action upon General.
Boyie's request to ask the County
Commissioners to fosan5the Evansville,
HendersoIn& Nashville Railroad Conn
,pany one-half Of the stock of the
Louisvile& Nashville Roadahe by
that city. Gen. Boyle addressed the
meeting at considerable length on the
advantages and condition of the Edge
field, Henderson Il Evansville Rail-
road. He said:
There was an impression that the
Evansville, Henderson 4 Nashville
Road was a Kentucky Institution,
and devoted to the interests Of that
State. Never was there a greater
mistake. The road was to all intents
and purposes a Tennessee road, en-
phatically the road of Nashville.
Here the trade must centre; its value
as a road depended almost entirely on
the intercourse Of Nashville with the
rich country thus opened. To show
the necessity and importance of en-
~couraging the enterprise In question,
he reminded his audience of the
efforts now being made by Louisville
to control the trade of some of the
most beautiful sections Of the State.
This movement could only be checked
by encouraging and developing our
own system Of railroads.
The aid he now asked from the
people of Davidson County was not a
subscription raised by direct. taxation
of the people. By this stock the road
could be completed to the heart of
the inexhaustible coal fields which
are north of Hopkinsville, but a short
distance from our market, and which
would add immensely to the trade of
Nashville. The stock referred to
amounted to over 1922, 600, and it was
half Of this for which he now asked.
The CountyCourt had it appears, trans
ferred the dividends arising from the
stock of the Board of Directors of
the Louisville Il Nashville Railroad,
10 trust-a plan which was suggested
and accomplished from mere hostility
TO the road now in process Of con-
struction. 1t would be a serious COM
petitor with the Louisville .apd Nash
vile Road, and these e gentlemen
knew it. 81 aavsQ Z
Even leaving the coal out of view,
the richness of the country between
the State line and Hopkinsville indi-
Gated plainly that the road would be
self sustaining. more profitable in
| fact than the Louisville 4 Nash
| vile, or any other line of ~communica-
ton in this section of the country.
The construction and equipment of
the Evansville, Henderson x Nash
4ville Railroad would cost only $780,
600 per mile, while the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad had cost aover
$4O.00Oper miae. az eChad mo doubt
in the world that the stock of the
| former road would be far more valua-
bic when the. consolidation was eff
fected on an equality basis, to the
State and the stockholders of the
two roads. What was now asked was
merely a loan of the stock owned by
the country in the Louisville * Nash.
vile Railroad, from which the return
hwould be infinitely more profitable tC
the county than the way In which il
was now invested. IF the. subscrip.
ton was made he could reach the
mines this year, but if the aid
was not extended, the aenterprist
would have to be indefinitely post,
!, poned. He regretted that our citi
zens and business men had not shown
the interest in this enterprise which
its importance demanded. Little OF
no individual stock had been taken
in the county. r..
General Boyle then read the peti
ton to the County Commissioners
asking the loan to be made, signed b.
a large number of the most prominen
citizens; ~whereupon the meeting
voted that it was the sense of tn,
people that the prayer of the petition
be granted.
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