Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-11-18
The Indiana. Alabama and Texas Rn'i-

R0d5.
The Evansville Courier publishes
the following letter from the Cor
don Syndicate in reply TO the recent
petition of a large number of the
business men and corporations of
that city. Mr.. E. G. Gordon, Sec
rotary of the Syndicate, says
Your published letter OF the 9TH
inst, has. been read with interest
and appreciation.
Since public attention has been
called to the resources of the coun-
try through which the Indiana, AL
ALBANIA d Texas railroad will be con-
structed, general surprise is excited
thata section so rich in minerals,
timber and soil should remain with
out railroad facilities. Add to these
resources other prospects OF the road
for the carriage of the products of
agriculture and mines, and of man
ufactured and merchantile goods,
and il appears that what the road
may do will be limited only by its
capacity. have not made so broad
an assertion without thought and
Information, and submit the follow
ing facts to demonstrate its truth:
1t is the shortest route between
Chicago and the Gulf Of Mexico.
1t traverses the iron and coal re-
giOns of Alabama, Tennessee and
Kentucky. The coal and iron fields
of Alabama have attracted the at
tention of business men throughout
the country the government holds
its lands here at go per acre; with
In ten years a city has grown from
nothing to IL, 600 Inhabitants in this
section, near which one concern, the
Pratt mines, was sold lately for
more than 100000. The road
will connect these inexhaustable
supplies of coking coal, (Which are
found side by side with iron ore,)
with the iron region of Tennessee.
/ endorse the prediction, already
madeby conservative business men.
that in few years this will be the
center of the iron producing region
of America. ~
Cared for, there is everything to
indicate, with the construction of
the road, the development OF man.
ufacturers. A high and healthy
country, either stream or incalcula-
BILE water power, especially the Mus
Gle shoals of the Tennessee river. and
crude iron, wood, cotton, tobacco,
marble, rock and clay,t gI-s
1t passes through untouched for
ests OF valuable timber. mr.
e 1t will be the route from Evans.
vile elevators, south and south
west, for the grain of the west. Ii
will carry in return cotton from
Alabama and tobacco from Tennes-
see and Kentucky. aiR .-g5.s--
At the southern terminus, Mo-
bile, there is a harbor which on ac-
count of recent Government inn
provements, affords IL feet at low
and 20 fest at high tide. This har-
Dor will be made deep enough for
vessels of greatest tonnage, and
will be q splendid cOaling place for
steamships. But in Alabama we
make connection east and west,
particularly by the Georgia Pacific
to Atlanta, and to New Orleans
via the Chicago, New Orleans & st.
Louis, which the Georgia Pacific
crosses in Mississippi and also to
New Orleans and the southwest by
the Alabama Great Southern, of the
Erlanger system, which we intersect
at TUSCALOOSA. Northwardly, we
cross the M. & c., the G. u st. L.,
the l.. & N, to Memphis, and the
Chesapeake Il Ohio affOrding anoth-
or way to jackson, Memphis and
the southwest, and to that part OF
Kentucky and Tennessee to which
the people of Evansville have SO
long desired direct route. At
Evansville, northern terminus and
chief city of the road Wefhave all
the connections desired in roads
well managed and equipped, except
perhaps another line northeast be-
tween the e &c Il H., and the l., E
q st. L., and with our road con-
structed we have the prospect of
business from city of 1nanufaeto-
ries and trade, which may rival
and compete with any other on the
Ohio river. "---
You have for a long time. wanted
another outlet to the south, and
looking at the names subscribed to
your letter--men of character,
wealth, influence and enterprise
am deeply impressed with the
earnestness of the people of Evans
Vile i'm this matter, and cOngratu-
late them through you on such a
demonstration of interest. am
glad to give you the assurance that
If the people of Kentucky and
Evansville respond to the PROPOSE
ton for local aid made last winter
by the Hon. w. B. Wood, of Ala
bama, vice president of the compa-
ny, in his canvass through Kentuc-
ky, that the road will be construct
ed as speedily as the magnitude OF
the work will permit,
Very respectfully, s
- L O. Con DON