The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-04-21
From the Mt. Vernon Democrat
Evansville, Mt. Vernon and st. Louis
Railroad

The Evansville JOURNAL noticed
few days ago a meeting of citizens in
favor of this railroad, with a branch
to Paducah. AS the proposed road
would pass through our city and
thereby connect us with the East and
West, giving to US q common interest
with Evansville, it is certainly our in
terest to examine into the subject to
that it will benefit Evansville so it will
proportionately benefit our CITY,.
Let us therefore examine its loca-
ton, distances and connections. s.. .4
From Evansville to Mount Vernon,
a distance Of eighteen miles, and con-
Meeting here with the Mount Vernon,
GRANVILLE q Mattoon Railroad, now
under contract, with the expectation
of having the whole line completed
within two years; thence Is miles
to Carmi, IN White County, Illinois,
crossing the Wabash at probably the
little chain, where a rock foundation
can be had for the piers of the bridge,
and connecting at Carmi with the
/ Vincennes & Cairo Road, with its
probable branch to Metropolis, oppo-
site Paducah, on which road is now a
large force of men, and it is being
urged to an early completion; thence
through Hamilton county forty-fve
miles to Mount Vernon, county seat
of efferson County, from which place
road is under contract to st. Louis,
| distance of seventy. five miles; so by
the building of eighty one miles of
road through a comparatively level
country, and therefore a cheap line,
Evansville opens up new route to
St. Louis only one hundred and sixty
miles.
The advantages of this route are
| that the whole distance is through a
high agricultural and mining region.
heretofore without any facilities for
shipping the produce, yet with a soil
so fertile aud climate so agreeable
that it has attracted large and .os-
porous population, equally in numbers
| to many of the countries more favor
ed with railroad facilities, a commu,
nifty of large resources stretching forth
their arms with the cry of aid US in
building a road" and we will repav
you with our trade.
With the connection at this place.
with our road leading direct to Chica-
go, and retaining the trade of I'D
wards and Wabash, with fair chance
for that of Richland, Jasper, Cum
berland and Coles.
The connection at Carmi will ena-
BILE merchants and others from the
South and West to visit Evansville
and look through her warehouses and
manufactures without loss of time.
Without this road all Southern Hi
nois could get to Cincinnati In less
time and with as little expense as TO
Evansville, without the vexation and
delay of waiting for trains on compe-
ting routes.
1t behooves the people of Evan :
Vile to look we'll to their hard learned
laurels and their trade - with the
Indianat oils, Vincennes g. Cairo Road
on their northwest; with the Mt.
Vernon, GRANVILLE & Nation Road
on their west, tapping the river forty
miles below them, and with as short
line to Indianapolis; with the Eliz-
abethtown and Paducah Road only
forty miles south, aud the proposed
New Albany, Mt. Carmel Il st. Louis
Road twenty five miles on the north.
Do YOU say that merchants will come
here anyhow? Ask your old dealers
If the trade of the Wabash and White
Rivers was not the nucleus on which
their wealth was founded; and where
is the bulk of that trade now, and
where will the balance be a year
hence? What has become of the
merchants of Pike, Dubois, Daviess,
Green, and Knox Counties of our
State, and Of Wabash, Edwards,