Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-19
EVANSVILLE AND HENDERSON

The President Of the Evansville, Hen
dersOn and Nashville road is now in
Evansville regarding the interests Of the
road BY private letter from him, we
learn that the citizens Of Evansville are
manilesting great zeal and activity in the
enterprise, and that he entertains no
doubt the conditional subscription of
that city will be made actual and imme-
diately available. From published
communication to the authorities of that
city, by Gen Boyle, we make the follow
ing extract
Now. in behalf of the Evansville, Hen
| derson and Nashville Railroad Company,
| respectfully petition the Mayor and Com
mon Council of Evansville to modify the
above mentioned conditions to their sub
scriplion, 20 as to enable the city to give
her aid noic to the building of the road, and
render her subscription valuable and eff
cient TO the company, or that they submit
| the question TO the vote of the citizens of
| Evansville, "a TO whether the subscription
Of $500, 900 shall be on condition that $780,
| 900 in cash and $4,000 in bonds of the
city, bearing seven per cent. interest, shall
| now be issued to the Evansville, Henderson
and Nashville Railroad Company, to be
/ used only in purchasing iron, chairs and
| spokes for building the road from the end
of the present track, south of Henderson,
to Madisonville and to the coal mines south
of that place the other conditions in the
petition, in favor of which the people be-
fore voted, by large majority, to remain
in fall force until complied with.
if your city will make the change in her
subscription proposed and cash part of her
bonds, and issue $4,000 in bonds, which
means the company has on hand in cash,
and the use of the Hopkins county bonds
| to build the road within that county, feel
| the fullest confidence we can build the road
| to jacksonville and two miles beyond, into
the coal mines, before the end of the year
Without the efficient and prompt aid of
Evansville this cannot be accomplished.
believe the company can, with the
means localized and appropriated to the
construction of the south end of the road,
build from Hopkinsville north, ten to twenty
miles TO the coal mines, which, if we build
forty miles on this end to jacksonville, will
leave Il gap of thirteen to twenty-three
miles to be completed next year.
The success and speedy completion of
the road depends on the city of Evans
vile. If she wishes the change in her
subscription now proposed, and furnishes
the money and bonds to be used to pur-
chase iron, chairs and spikes, the success
ful completion of the road is guaranteed.
OF its importance and value to Evansville,
| need not speak. You and your fellow
citizens are fully informed on the subject.
With its connections, the road will consti-
tute the shortest and straightesL line from
the Lakes to the Gulf-irom Chicago to
Pensacola-scarcely deviating twenty
miles from line of longitude between these
two points, North and South, connecting
with New Orleans and all the cities of the
Gulf and South Atlantic seaboard. 1t will
open up 10 Evansville the commerce and
trade of the best portions Of Kentucky and
Tennessee, and with Alabama. 1t seems
to me there is no enterprise whatever in
which Evansville can have greater in
terest, or on which her prosperity and
growth more depend.
/ respectfully request your Honor and
the honorable Common Council of Evans
Vile to take such action as will enable
your city to modify or make anew the
subscription of $780, 900 to the Evansville,
Henderson and Nashville Railroad Com
pany, and enable the company to use its
aggregate means with greater success and
certainty in building the road to compile
ton.