Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-15
Evnnsvlllo aad jackson Railroad

vanced age.
Evansville aRd jackson Railroad.
That a direct railroad from Evans
vile, Indiana, to this city will ulti-
mately be built we do not entertain
a doubt, for the reason that there is
a great necessity for such a road,
and that the two growing cities are
vitality interested in its construc-
ton; besides, the rich sections
through which it will pass are be-
coming fully alive to its impor-
lance.
The cities most deeply interested
in this road are Evansville, Cincin-
natl, indianapolis, Chicago and
Cleveland, in the North, and Jack
son, Memphis, Mobile and New
Orleans, in the South. Those indi-
rectly interested are New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore
and in fact all the great Northern
and Eastern markets, and all the
Southern cities in the valley of the
Mississippi, as well as the South
West.
The counties most directly inter-
ested on the line of the proposed
road, in Kentucky, are those whose
inexhaustible coal and iron fields
are now attracting the attention of
capitalists and which only require
railroads to develope untold wealth.
The road will also pass through the
finest belt of tobacco land in the
United States, except Virginia. In
Tennessee it will pass through the
richest portions of Weakley, Henry,
Carroll and Madison counties to
jackson, over light grades, where
the local traffic would pay The rum
ing expenses of the road.
Such road is now almost Il ncces-
sity to Evansville, because it will
give her, at Jackson, direct connec-
ton over two great trunk limos
of railway, with the entire South
ern and Southwestern systems of
roads; and places her upon one of
the great highways of commerce.
between the North and South, and
the Southwest and Northeast. BY
il, Indianapolis viii have The near
asR os,1 .haanacg ontlaf 20 H. Go,,,b
and the Southwest for her manu-
featured goods; Cincinnati, Chicago
and Cleveland, another competing
line for Southern and South-wes-
tern shipments; Boston, Philadel +
phia and other Eastern cities-an adj
ditional Southwestern connection
which will be worth millions, on the
completion OF the Southern Pacific
road. Indeed no enterprise yet sug-
gested is go full of material promise.
We are as sanguine about the build
ing of this Evansville and jackson
road as we were about the building
of the Mobile and Ohio road. We
remember the doubling Thomases
of that period, but they had no more
influence upon us than those who
ridiculed Noah in the building of
his Ark. We don't claim TO have
built the Mobile road, but we do
claim to have first agitated the en-
terprise in Tennessee, and worked
zeHlously for its construction. We
now intend to agitGte, and dgitete
this next great enterprise until the
road is built. We cam: build it,
but with the powerful lever of the
Press we can move capitalists to
the work; and this we propose to
do from time to time.
This road will run most of the
way through counties now almost
isolated from railroads; and yet
counties with great resources of
wealth, if pro lerly developed. A
survey viii show that the distance
from Evansville TO jackson is only
49, miles. a charter has been pro-
cured from the Kentucky legisla-
ture, but with an ungenerous a.
mendment, just before the legisla-
ture adjourned, making Henderson,
KY, the Northern terminus. This
hitch in the way of the friends of
the road will no doubt soon be re-
moved, for no public man can long
stand up against the great wave of
free commerce. When the restric-
ticn we refer 10 is removed we shall
urge the immediate survey of the
road. Il is our candid opinion that
if the survey is made, land dona-
tions enough, aloH. the line, could
be obtained To pay for the grading
Of tho entire 70 adj There is scarce
" a iandholder on the hne who
would not donate from fifty TO one
hundred acres of his land, condition
ed that the road was built, and make
a sensible trade at that. Let the
company then make these lands the
basis upon which TO issue their first
bonds, say at 20years tin E; and also
lease these lands out for a number
of years have them improved and
in a high state of cultivation. and
our judgment is, that at the MATURE
~ of the bonds the lands weuld be