Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-30
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CINNATIs

| A meeting was held on the 9th in CT
cinnati at the chamber of the Board
Trade in the interest of the Rockport a
Northern Central Indiana Railroad. T
meeting was held in pursuance of joi
resolution of the Chamber of CONNER
and the Board of Trade, for the purpo
of hearing the friends of the road spe,
in its favor, and considering such mea
ues as might be deemed best
secure success. About one hundr,
strangers interested in the road we
present, principally from Roc
port and Greensboro. The contemplate
road, it will be remembered, is intendt
to connect Loogootee, on the Ohio an
Mississippi Railroad, with the Ohio Riv,
at Rockport, which is directly opposit'
Cincinnati would be by this means 81
cured with large portion of Souther
Indiana hitherto untouched by any raj
road. Greensboro and the Green Rive
Valley, and a through route to Nashville
would be obtained only thirty miles longc
than that by the way of Louisville
Speeches were made by Mr. Kirby, Mr.
r. M. Bishop and others of Cincinnati
and by Judge De Brueler, President, an
DIR. Sabin, Secretary of the Rockpor
Railroad. MIR. Gano, of Cincinnati, of
fcred the following, which were unani
mously adopted:
"Whereas, II is desirable that the city
of Cincinnati shall extend her lines o.
transportation South, and
''Whereas, The Rockport and North.
ern Central Railway presents us fair and
tangible proposition to secure valuable
Southern connection by comparatively
small outlay:
Resolved, That the President and
Vice Presidents of this meeting appoint q
committee of nine to canvass among the
business men of Cincinnati generally 70
secure stock"
The following extract is from letter of
Mr.. James Weir, President of the Owens
boro' and Russelville Railroad, which was
read at this meeting:
SIN addition this road will run through
the richest lands of Indiana and Kentucky,
teeming with agricultural and mineral
wealth only waiting to pour its treasures
into the lap of the large cities on its north
ern connections.
''Owensboro, on the Ohio river, is a
city of some six thousand inhabitants,
and the county of Daviess, in which it is
is the largest tobacco growing
county in Kentucky. The exports of to
bacco alone from the city of OwensbOro'
were in 1865, $500 hogsheads; in 1866,
8, 800; in 1867, 5000; in 1868, 1920, in
1869, 5000; and the entire amount of to-
bacco raised in the counties of Daviess,
Mecklenburg and Logan,
through which our road runs, will reach
at least 90, 900 hogsheads.
"We have also in the vicinity of
Greensboro eight dIstilIeries making over
55, 900 gallons of whisky monthly.
sour road also runs the entire route
through the finest timber in the State of
and also through the finest
coal beds, and Mecklenburg county is
said by good biologists to contain more
iron than any other place in the United
States, with the exception of the iron
of Missouri.
logan county is the largest wheat
raising county in Kentucky, and also pro-
duces large amount of tobacco. All the
counties westward raise large numbers of
hogs, cattle and other stock.
GAS to our road, it will certainly be
built through to the city of Nashville. 1t
is only between seventy-five and eighty
miles to the State line, and the road runs
through very level country with no
stone of consequence, and all the grades
are very light, and the cost of cOnstruc-
ton is very far under the usual estimates.
'We have twenty-five miles graded, all
the dcpOts, engine houses and way stations
built for this part of the road, the iron,
rail and construction train purchased, and
this part of the road will be ready for use
by the end of August.
81 will let the building of the bridge
over Green River on my return home, and
commence work south of that river as
soon as we have full reports from the en-
gineer, who is at the present time engaged
in making a survey TO the Tennessee
river.
'If the road is made through from the
Ohio and Mississippi to RockpOrt, you
may rest assured of Southern cOnnec-
ton. | honestly believe that this come :
ton made by Cincinnati with Nashville
will give your city more trade than your
proposed road to Chattanooga, although l
see no reason why you shall not have
both of them, as they in no way conflict,
and each opens a large and new field of
trade to Cincinnati.
''The city of Nashville is also greatly
in our road, as making a new
and important Northern connection, and
l am assured will give us very consider
able assistance.
''We are not now advertising assist
ance, and think we will be able TO get
with our road. With little de-
lay, perhaps, in Mecklenburg county,
which we can at any time overcome if we
feel disposed to hurry the road to make
connections by selling mortgage bonds,
for we will only need a few hundred
on a road which will have ex-
pended some $l2, 900, 900 or $l4, 900, 900.
''This we do not wish to do until the
last extremity!
"Thope the city of Cincinnati may assist
our Rockport neighbOrs so as to build
their road, as l am certain it viii pay
them back fOurfold; and when we get
through road to Nashville the stock will
he q rnnl having stock .