Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1870-03-26
Great Conl Tranlc Over the Chicago,
Danville and vinccpncs Railroad.

Railroad City of the West, and not ofthe |
West alone, but ofthe world. Her growth |
without parallel in this or any other !
country, is due entirely to her railroads. |
From hamlet of seventy souls in 1880 she
has risen to a great city of 30O, 900 people
in 1870. From a business of q single store,
which was all she could claim forty years
ago, she has grown to be the fourth city OF
the Union in trado--hCr wholesale trade in
1869 amounting to not less than S415-G52,-
600. Her trade i'm lumber and grain cx-
ceeds that of any other city, while the
value of her live stock maaket in 1869 was
S65, 800 900.
Only in her manufactures docs Chicago
continue to be inconsiderab!e city--S)S,.
0000 being all she realized from that
source in 1869. just one thing prevents
her from standing in advance Of Pi!tsburS,
Cincinnati and st. Louis, and. that is the
lack ofan aban dant supply of coai OF the
best quality at q moderate cost But tor
this She might be to-day the manuiactur-
ing and distributing ccntre OF iron, nlachiu-
cry, rolling stocks for railroads, and
thousand minor articles for the entire
West.
Fortunately, this great and imperative
want now and hcnccforth to be supplied by
the opening of her vast new railroad, the
Chicago, Danville and Nicennes. This
/ road opens UP II broad section OF country
that abOunds with the best coal in Illinois
The Grape Creek mines, which are mex
haustible and chcapiy worked, yield coal
from which the best pig iron is made, with
out coking and all the NcrmiiliOn county
coal is excellent for domestic purposes
1 Over this road, too, the coal Of the Brazil
| Mines, Park county, Ind, III Hlimtablc
/ quantities, is brought within few hours
! haul of Ch:cagO-thc distance being 80
miles less than by any other route. Though
/ this coal has been known but four or five
wears, tie iron made from it is nearly as
/ valuable rs charcoal iron; and more than
$1,000, 900 have already been invested in
/ furnaces and rolling mills chat will get
/ their supply from these Brazil mines. The
/ coal is conceded to be the best of making
iron hitherto discovered ia America.
With these great advantages at her COM
mand. Chicago will be free to 20 ahead
! With better facilities for distributing manu-
Elcturcrs' supplies than any other city in
the world with a greater suporabundancc
of food than any other city in the
world surrounded by States which at no
distant day will Lave a population possess
Ing greater wealth than any agricultural
district Of equal extent in the world 4; and
now with n supply Of cheap fuel for manu-
g.,
Chicago will not be long in assuming that
position for which uatUrc seems to have de-
signed her as the chief central manuiac-
turing city of this continent.
Win this new road be Il success Will
its bonds, which are now being marketed
to complete the road and equipment, be a
good and profitable investment
Railroads have made Chicago and she
in turn has made handsome profit for all
the railroads radiatiug from her as 4 cen
ter.
Let the facts of half dozen older
Illinois roads tell their plain but simply
story. The old Gulena Railroad obtains
its business from twenty square mios OF
territory to each mile Of road.
The Dixon Air-Linc from 2c squ,rs miles
The Chicago, Bur. x Quincy from . SOU arc mile.
The Chic"ss H. l. and Pacific from % square miles
The Illinois Cent? Chic. Br) fruih u square milo
These are well known TO be among the
best paving roads in the country, but
neither of th, m hsa ,.,H,,t .sti .,s "a ono
ciaiity. The Chicago Danvillc and Vim
rive territory as any other roatdh "l,Hh HI
State, and 1t draws its business from m
area much larger than either of thogc Older
roads.
The editor Of the Cica5o Tribune, who
Is entirely familiar with the character and
capacity of the coUutry it travcrsps, soraks.
IN Etle number OF his journal Dee. 27l OF
thlS new road, and lis Importance to Chi
cago, in the following explicit terms -
Before this time next ycar-pcrhaps
before next harvtst-a new railroad will In
in operation from Chicago to Danyille,
which will give This city continuous air
line rlir ad to Evansville, on the Ohio
river, which is 81 miles nearer to Chicago
than Cairo is by the l!ljuuis Central.
starting tat Chicago this new road rms
in souihcrly direction near the Indiana
line through an Old and wealth agricultural
portion Of the State. For much of lis
course the road pursurs the old Hubbard
/ Trail" which was long since skirted with
a line OF thriving towns and villages. More
than one third of its route is directly over
vast fields of the best coal in Illinois. and
where it crosses into Indiana it passes
through extensive deposits of iron ore. II
also brings within Il few hours ride of
+ Chicago the celebrated Brazil coal fields of
/ Indiana, which furnish the best coal for
West.
"Ne can see ~ reason for supposing
otherwise than that this read, " hen con-
p!ctud To Danyilic, and connected with the
Irfre Hautc and Evansville Road making.
n fact ole continues limo from Chicago To
Evansville, of 2SJ miles in length, will pour
a trade into this city little less lhan that
carried by the Illinois Central. II passes
through equally rs good country, and
very little ut tie products of he lower 23U
miles Of country it trlycrsoa and controls
have ever reached this market. Tho coal
anl iron business OF the road must be
heavy from The start, aud large trade in
grain, cotton, hogs and lruit, VIII scrl, the
Chicago market. to.bc ,XcGauycd for lum-
hcr merchandise, groceries, building ma
tcrialS, salt ,ish, furniture, ~. Our bus!-
mess men have been as,erp Il the comm.
advantages of this great and valuable
artery ol trade running pl0ue the boundary
lipe between i,liuois and Indiana, from
lake Michigan 10 the Ohio river. Ii is
time they had awakened up, and were
making their preparations to transact their
now business, which, in a few months, will
be pouring into their hgHda."
II this new road besins with "A buSiucs,
e1ual 10 that uf the older and lest rnads in
Illinois, il would be shurt-sigh,gd aud up-
qncsiipnably bad economy tor the Company
10 bulll auy olher than irst-cilss rail-