The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-06-10
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rGraygille, Ellinois4s bra sgioo41 fn'F
Ia j.sticdF to tie people of Gray
vile, as we'll as the citizens of our
own plaee,e44beg space in your paper
TO -explAipA tie. views Of those who I
have been most active in erganfzlng
sour new Illinois railroad company.
We aim. to ba1ld road to st. Louis
through CaTmi, apd salso ytO build
road to, Padaeab, but do not expect
to complete heRadpeah branch until |
we, have reached Carmi. HHAaAW |
1t Is not our intention to pass |
through GarmI with the .bTa6ch to |
Paducah. Tie plan at present is to |
.-bHild-thez Foad-fFSB-AsF |
CarmB TghereEa cor acc uonD is made |
-with-the road being built from st. |
Louis to Carmi, and which will be
completed to MtTV ernon, ILL.,, this
summer. When we have reached
Carmi, we will have a good road tod
Cairo. aud as good q road 10 CRAY
ellie as any bJdy else has. We viii i
hays z rsert. Of trgRk llpfR rnnFni Hlg
stdireetiyOV west from Evansville
into, aud through, the heart
Of Southern Illinois. To this
trunk line branches can, be built from
Mt. Vernon, New Harmony and
Grayville. 1t will be SO much
OF a. road ted9adueAh Or any point in
fsliiinols to which road might be de-
sirable For the plan now is to build
a branch from the Illinois end of the.
bridge across the Wabash, through
New Haven and Equality to Col
..conda, thence to Raducahg Ia th1s
way # Is hoped that We will be able to
make one road to the Wabash and
one bridge across the Wabash answer
the threefold purpose of a road to st.
Louis, Cairo and Paducah. The OBJ
lection to the, GRANVILLE ronte IS that
road from here would not be
used for any such trebleA purpose
1t would be, when completed
nothing but a short road to
GRANVILLE without any through con
neoti6n with any. prominent place.
Such road would be wholly depend
tent upon local traffic for its support,
for there could be no such thug as.
through business, IN the sense In
which that, term. Is usually lused.eA3
As to building road to st. Louis,
through GRANVILLE, it is utterly use
less to talk Of it. = When we
reach Grayville we are, OF course,
going to Albion also, "a and then
there are only eptysfYe. miles, or
even less than that, from the Ohio 4
Mississippi Road. 1t is then, nearly
or about one hundred aud ten or
twenty miles %. St.. I4ouiss No sa-
gacIOnS peEson- would eEer-pEopOse- o
build aroaaiHJmA fhon to st. Louis,
when ohfytWenty or Twenty i've miles
away from the .. Il NJ. Road at the
starting point, and constantly com
verging until they meet at st. Louis,
& lThe C bonds z 'ofGAspchgga road,
with It's Eastern terminus at
Evansville could not he sold at any
price .nhs road we have already
from here to Vincennes, and thence
to St. Louis, is oufy fifteen to twenty
minutes longer in time to st. Louis
than the proposal GRANVILLE road
would be. Ii built to GRANVILLE, il
will not be Cairo road Mer4
chants from the lower end OF
the Yipeepaes, and Cairo road will
come up To iCarmi, aud thence here !;
but they will not 60 to Gray
Vile and then come back here any.
more than they would from Vim
cennes. Again, a road to GRANVILLE
could never be used as a road to Pa
ducah, the road of the greatest value
to Us; for ii we had a road to Padu-
cab we would have better road to
the South than the Nashville road
ever viii be, and it would be IN
der the control of Evansville, and
would terminate lat Evansville.
By a road to IPaducaht we will
continue our CONNECTION with the
trade and business of Western Ken
-tucky aud HenHessee,l (which will 9th
erWise be taken from US by the Louis
vile and Padueah road. At Padu-
-
the most favorable terminus of the
southern system Of railroads, and have
a. better route to New aOI leans and
Mobile than any yet proposed. Mr..
Beatty lntImatese1 the anmpractica<
bill y OF our route to Paducah.
In answer, iew-thIRgs are unpracGc-
able 10 these times, and we propose to
survey the line and to abandon it only
when shown to be impossible We
are encouraged to hope for success by
tue knoFtledgs I'VE hage.of Che eoun-
try about New Haven and Equality.
AT or near Equality, creek rises and
runs through the hills of Southern
Illinois TO the Ohio, near Golconda.
We preRoses tosieAew this TO Col
cOOda, aud from thence If unavOid-
able to follow the Ohio to Paducah
We have organized for the purpose
Of building a railroad through Posey
CoRnLy, -aeross- -Akabash,-theAee
by one branch through Equality to
Paducah.. and By. another, branch
trough, gaFnlil to Sc. Iaais. SsIf any
man or company want to build a road
to GRANVILLE, let him begin and do it..
Our intention at present Is TO build
road to Carmi, where we intersect
the Flncennes and Cairo road, and
alter this to develop the other plans
above suggested as fully and as rap.
idly as possible. a. q W' q N j.
Although these plans may " create
derisive smiles on the face of every
intelligent railroad man in GRAY
vile, yet we have resolved to try.
This is not written 10 the spirit of
controversy, but only TO Intimate to
those feeling the proper interest what
is being attempted.
And if our people will study their
maps in the light of these suggestions
we think a further communication
will be unnecessary.
THAI king you for any space you
may permit me to occupy in 7our pa
per, / remain,
Very respectfully, &C.. sp9 a1A
R0BT. a. HILL.
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