The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-12
The ROckpOrt and Northern Bail.
road.

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Judge DeBruler aud DIR. Sabin,
have struck breakers. The Cincin-
natl Railroad Record publishes a long
article ~condemning their project an
toto, and urging the Cincinnati capital
lists to give it a wide berth. The
Record assigns the following reasons
for considering the road a bad invest
ment for Cincinnati business men:
LIST. For all the reasons set forth in
our last weeks Record, and which are
in the main, If not wholly, confirmed
by later investigations.
I'd. Because the line from Rock
port on the Ohio River to any practi-
cal point Of intersection on the Ohio
& Mississippi Railroad, will be at
least sixty-tve miles in length, instead
Of sixty miles, as reported, and will
therefore cost more than is now esti-
mated.
Sd. Because the terminus of the
line south of the Ohio River is at
Greensboro, nine miles beI010 the river
terminus Of the northern part at
Rockport, and consequently compels
nine miles Of ferriage, or an extended
road down the river bank, and a rail
road bridge across the Ohio, that will
cost at least ne and a half millions Of
dollars more.
4th. Because an experienced engi-
neer who has been over the country
through which this road is to run,
assures us that the cost of grading
will be much higher than that given
by President DeBruler, and that it
will cost about $200, 600 to bridge
White River; thus requiring addi-
tional outlays of probably $780, 900 or
5000, 600 more, to ave that which is
0 asked from our citizens.
9th. Because The local subscription
IS conditioned to be paid only aohen the
road IS completed and running; thus,
imposing the whole burden Of con-
struction, and all the risks and losses,
upon those who become stockholders
and undertake the work.
The sixth reason assigned by the
Record is, that Cincinnati can get a
cheaper southern outlet by building
a road from the proposed New Albany
and Louisville Road, to Cannelton,
from some point in Crawford County,
a distance of not more than thirty
miles.
The Record overlooks the fact that,
In this latter arrangement, Cincin-
natl would still be at the mercy of
Louisville, which will control the
New Albany & st. Louis Road. This
is the very difficulty Cincinnati men
are endeavoring to G Would
it not be wiser for Cincinnati
to join us in constructing a Railroad
from Seymour or Mitchell, and thus
connect with the Evansville, Hender-
son & Nashville Road? This will give
Cincinnati an outlet south to Nash
vile aud to all points in the south
west, and at the same time enamel
pate her from the Louisville infu-
ence over the Kentucky roads. The
road from Mitchell or Seymour would
cross the New Albany & st. Louis
Road, and thus enable Cincinnati to
reach Southern Illinois, or what
would be better. the same country
would be accessible to them over our
Carmi Road.
The cost of the road from Mitchell
or Seymour to this city, with the as
sistance that could be obtained from
Evansville and on the line of the
road, would be very small compared
with the immense sum contemplated
for a road through Kentucky. In
deed, the road herewith suggested
would open to Cincinnati enterprise,
a scope Of country in West Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Mississippi, as well as
Arkansas, whose trade her contem-
plated southern road will never as
sist in the least in obtaining.
The persistency with which the
Cincinnati papers ignore the exist
euce of the Evansville. Henderson
& Nashville Road cannot result from
ignorance. The course pursued by
them with regard to the road is very
short-sighted, as it will ultimately
Drove one of the hest North and