The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-21
rFron me New Albany Commefcial.l
SOUTHERN INDIANA RAILROAD.
Terre Haute and BloOmfeld-New
Albany and st. Louis Air Line
Railway and the False Enterprises

The Yerre Haute papers are IN
despair at the dull prospects for
building the Terre Haute and Bloom
field Railroad. The journal init
mates that after that city bad sub
scribed 100000 to the enterprise
" the prospect for the early compile
ton Of the road appears to be very
uncertain" The prospect for the
early commencement would be better
Language, for, If we understand the
case, shovel has not been put upon
the road, and If we believe the Jour
nal, no organization of a company
has been effected up to this time.
When the enterprise was first
preached. the people up that way
made believe they were going to do
great things. They were going down
into Greene County with three cart
loads of dirt and few I rails to build
the road before breakfast. and take
all the trade and traffic. Now itseems
the whole thing is a grand fzzle, and
it is even intimated that somebody IN
Terre Haute is selling out the parties
most interested.
When the New Albany and st.
Louis Air.L Line Railway was first
projected, the Evansville papers
bounced New Albany for her impu-
dence, and poked fun at the enter
prise. They said the road would not
be built, and paragraph after para
graph was written In the hope of
throwing cold water on the project.
As the prospects grew brighter for
its construction, Evansville elongated
her paragraphs and grew uneasy.
Some one suggested a counter irri-
tant in the shape of a. railroad.
and, like q drowning man catch
ing at straws, the Carmi Road vas
agitated Then came the revival Of
the Straight Line swindle, as kind
Of side show. all gotten up for the
purpose Of crIppliDg the New Albany
enterprise. Then came Cincinnati to
the rescue, and in the back Office of q
| commission house IN that city, the
DeBruler road was Matched, on paper.
This road was, or Is, to run from
Mitchell or any other point on the
Ohio and Mississippi Road, so as to
enable it to take il as many counties
as possible, and terminate at Camel
ton and Rockport. 1t is a tail to the
| Ohio and Mississippi Railroad kite,
and it was urged that Cincinnati
would ruin Louisville and New AL
bany by building it, including a
bridge at Greensboro, by passing over
the Ohio and tapping the rich tobacco
regions of Kentucky. We have not
heard of any very lively subscriptions
to this road from Cincinnati, or any,
where else, for that matter.
Now comes the great North and
! L
Pierce's road, which is to run from
Chicago to no place" on the Ohio
River. passing through Pike, Dubois,
and Warrick Counties in extreme
Southern Indiana, and go down into
the ground at NeWburg. Evansville
being left out IN the cold in this little
enterprise, the papers couldn' see ex-
actly what good prospect there was
for building q road to NeWburg, but
they have winked at the Doctors hal
Inclination in hopes it would counter
act the subscriptions to the New AL
bany and st. Louis Air Line Rail-
| way.
But with all the sham enterprises
to encounter. as we'll as the sham ar
guments of the movers of the above
roads to combat, the officers of the
Air Line Railway have been working
quietly and steadily until they have
gained the confidence of the people
They have fully demonstrated that
this road will surely be built, and
what is their assurance? They say to
the people that not yard of earth
shall be removed until sufficient stock
has been secured to insure its build
ing beyond peradventure. By this
assurance the people most interested
are induced to subscribe to the stock,
as they we'll know if the road is not
commenced, their money will not be
wasted, and if it is commenced they
can depend upon its going through,
and believe the benefits they will de-
rive from its construction will doubly
repay them for the outlay.
While we would not do anything to
ipjure the prospects of any of the con
templated roads, we feel it a duty to
warn the people of Southern Indiana,
especially those of Pike and Dubois
Counties, not to be led away by these
North and South Roads, to division
of their subscriptions. These roads
have no basis to go upon, and cannot
attract the attention and money of
capitalists. On the other hand. the
New Albany and ST. Louis Air Line
Railway starts from some place and
ends at the greatest depot of supplies
| in the Mississippi Valley. 1t runs
East and West, and the history Of the
country affords ample proof that such
roads are the best Investments. We
have about ST 100000 subscribed to
this road, and it is safe tc say the
other 500, 600, necessary to secure the
amount the company require before
commencing work, will be taken be.
fore February. We urge upon the
people of Southern Indiana to work
earnestly, ana the road will be put
under contract early next spring.