The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-07-11

he edge of Tampico. or so very near, !
hat that village would practically |
have the road running through il,
crossing the Museatatuck at or near
the mouth of Delaney's Greek; fol-
lowing up the valley of the creek to
with comparatively short distance
of Salem. This gives q route to Salem,
the county seat of Washington Coun-
ty, that is practicable, and presents
no difficulties in its construction
which would require any great amount
of engineering skill TO surmount.
By this route up Delaney's creek
the knobs of Washington County are
avoided, or rather a notch through
them is made use of By which all
heavy grades are escaped. From ga
lem to Paoli. county seat of Orange
County, the route lies over hne sec
tion Of farming country free from any
difficulties IN construction; passing
thYough JASPER, the county seat of
Dubois County, the route lies close to
the celebrated mineral springs of
West Baden and French Lick. which
are only waiting for railroad commu
pication to open them up to the
world, and render them famous for
their medicinal qualities; from JAS
per the route passes southwest of
Boonville, the county seat of Warrick
County, and thence in a southwesterly
direction to Evansville.
The people of Boonville arc partic-
larly interested in railroad matters
Warrick county havingju Just voted tax
of one hundred thousand dollars to
aid a road from Newburg on the Ohio
river, to Boonville; in fact the people
Of that town are shut out from all
railroad connections and are bound
to get out in some way. The leadip 9
men st once interested themselves in
this route seeing at once that it is the
the route which they need. The
route as above sketehed. passes
through the county seats of Washing
ton, Orange, Dubois and Warrick,
the four counties which lie between
this city and Evansville, the south
western termination Of the road. II
passes through the counties the long
est way, and through sections entirely
/ destitute of railroad communications
On its line are situated many thriving
| and euterprising villages which wal
! only for the location and equipment
/ of the road to rapidly increase in bus
mess and population.
The people along the whole Of this
line are wide awake to the import
auce Of this route. At every point o
any size, committees were appointed
who accompanied the gentlemen from
this place and pointed out the mos
feasible locations, and took great in
terest in showing the different routes
through the several sections which
| the road could take, leaving the gen.
| tlemen to discover the most practiea.
bic one, keeping in view the great
general object of the road. MOI
were the people living on the direc
line passed over by Messrs Pattisou
and Blish, the only ones interested In
securing the road; committees wert
sent from the communities several
miles from the direcG route, request
/ ing the gentlemen to pass their way
and view the country, urging that
they must have a Northeast and
Southwest road running through the
counties and that all would work
heartily in support of the route which
would be finally adopted.
AS an indication of the earnestuesi
of the people along this route, in every
county between here aud Evansville
committees were appointed to raise
subscription of thirty dollars a mil;
to pay the expenses of a preliminarl
survey, and while there were tTt
routes through portions of a county.
the people along each line propose tC
pay for survey of each, that there
may be no difficulty in securing the
| best; prominent and responsible men
4 in each county stand pledged to pay
their county's portion of the expens,
of such survey, whether a dollar i
raised by subscription or not. If THU
doesn't indicate earnestness and
desire for railroad connections, wha
will.
Messrs. Blish and Pattison are boil
practical railroad men; the forme
having followed, as a profession, CIV
engineering for number of years
being professionally connected wit
the construction of railways in tina
capacity. After a careful examina
ton of the route, and a ten days sur
vey of engineering difficulties to b
encountered between here and Evans
vile, it is his opinion that the road i
not only feasible, but also that it ca
be constructed as cheaply as the Jei
fersonville & Indianapolis RoaC
which was the road built with th
least expense of any in the State.
The grades he says are ali ligh
none being heavier than those of til
JEFF Road, and the insurmountabl
barrier in the Washington Count
knobs, which has heretofore bee
supposed to exist, is discovered upo
examination by gentlemen qualife
by experience and professional trair
ing to pronounce an opinion, to pre-
sent no obstacle whatever, and tha
the first twelve miles south of th
MuscatatDck, and between that streal
! aud Salem are the easiest to build c
any portion of the road. A hast
examination was made on the retur
of more northern route, throug
Washington County by Mr.. Pattisol
passing through Saltillo or Campbell.
J burg, and passing through Valloni
E aud BrownstoWn to Seymour.
this route we will sp4ak at some fl
ture time.
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