The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-06-01

for the through freight from
the Ohio to the East. The plan
which the people at Mount Vernon
propose. if carried out, will give them
a great advantage over Evansville, In
their competition for through ireIghts.
That plan wi@l furnish facilities for /
passing freight between the steam
boats and railroad cars that have their
equal only IL the elevator system at |
Chicago, and will be as far ahead of |
the mule SYSTEM IN use at Evansville, |
as the ferriaee at Mount Vernon |
would be ahead Of the ten mile ferri- |
age between Evansville and Hender-
son. We are Informed that the peo-
pie of Henderson already realize fhe
fact that Mount Vernon Is destined TO
become Commanding point In COM
mereial intercourse between the
north and south. and that i'm
mediate measures will be adopt
ed TO build road from Hender
son to a point opposite to Mount
] Vernon. On looking over the map OF
\ the country, it is difficult to resist the
i conclusion that railroad and CONNER
cial necessity will secure the binding
! of bridge over the Ohio River at
Mount Vernon at no distant day, and
the extension of the GRANVILLE and
! Mount Vernon Road to jacksonville,
on the Henderson and Nashville
! Road. 1t is a recognized fact that the
/ immense web OF railroads north and
south of the Ohio River are controlled
By certain mammoth railroad interests
possessing great through lines, and
all other roads are subsidiary to them.
The first object of these interests after
secu ring their through lines, is to get
as many tributaries or feeders as pos
sible The GRANVILLE and Nation
Road is a natural tributary to two of
these great trunk railroads. the Hi
nois Central and the Burnsides
Road, and It's construction is not
doubtful because it is sure to have
the fostering care Of both these great
through roads. We are told that
Gen. West In his speech at Olney,
said that they In Mississippi were
greatly embarrassed by the fact that
the Illinois Central had the exclusive
control OF all the roads leading to
Cairo on the South. This fact places
that huge monopoly In direct antago-
nism with every project calculated to
break the letters that now bind the
commerce of the South to that power
which cxerts such immense control IN
the commerce OF the South and West,
and is fatal to the proposed road from
Danville via Olney to the Ohio river,
as this latter would become railroad.
{ It's rivalry would, however, be limited
to the local trade beyond that point
where it crossed the Vincennes and
Cairo road, for it IS north of that point
in the anOmalus condition of a road
r without the sympathy Of any other
= road of any commercial Importa nee.
The GRANVILLE and Mattoon Road
is at once not only a feeder to two
e great trunk roads, but by its extern
: sion to Mt Vernon and Madisonville
on the Henderson and Nashville
Road, now completed from Nashville
to jacksonville, which is distant from
e GRANVILLE not exceeding seventy five
: miles, it would become link in the
/ chain of roads that will soon unite
che great system Of railroads north
and south Of the Ohio River. 1T will
: not only unite these systems, but it is
scarcely possible to obtain a more
{ direct line from Chicago to Nashville
the centres of the two systems
whether by the GRANVILLE and Mat.
tOon. or the Vincennes and Danyille
Road.
We think there was a bit of irony
in the declaration of General West,
when he said, il the people north oil
, the Ohio would build the road via
Olneyto Danviile, the people South
wou' d then travel over il to Chicago,
to start to San Francisco. There is
= no doubt by that time they will have
t ample leisure to travel over two sides
! Of an equilateral triangle to accom-
piish the distance of the other side.
$ 1t viii then be the very thing to go
by Robin Hoods barn to reach the
2 gold mines of California Vincennes
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