Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-09
THURSDAY, FEB. 9, 1899.
The Expansion" Railroad.

With the audacity Of genius, Path
finder" Boone overawes his critics
by expanding his Sublime & Ridicu-
lous system of railroads until he,
Tut and company can say
"No pent-up continent contracts our
powers:
The whole boundless universe is
ours"
Here Is the latest, condensed from
a Sunday Courier-Journals write-up.
Primarily the project, SO 1t is al
legged, had its conception from the
fact that Chicago had no important
railroad directly to the seaboard.
THAT is very important II true.
Chicago must have such a road.
Boone projects it. New York antic-
ipates the harm she will receive and
is hostile. Boone can get no capital
there. He needs fifty millions. Here
tofore it has been only $4,000 900. ]
An English syndicate is interested.
1t sends Sir Thomas Tancred, who
with Boone surveys ,240 miles Of the
route from Vincennes, Ind, to Port
Royal, S. c. Tancred goes back with
q most favorable report. 1t will
earn Is per cent!l
Boone finds the hardest thing he
has to overcome in England is to ex-
plain why the road was not built
years ago. Hest SO, jest SOL
Nov mark this, will you'll! The
Black Diamond system is to consist
81 a main line, double-track, from
Fargo, North Dakota, tGreat Cesar's
ghost he's going to Yuba Dam before
he stopsil to Port Royal, South Car
olina, passing through IOver perhaps,
hitting only the high places.l Min
nesota, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky,
Tennessee and South Carolina. This
line is 1900 miles long. A branch
go miles long runs north through
Indiana, hitting Hammond on Lake
Michigan, with Chicago connected
by the Belt Line. Another would"
MARX the wouldll run up through
Ohio to Fairport Harbor, on Lake
Erie. 70 Columbus! Columbus! he
would have made We a terminus, but
ye would not, or he forgot about it,
or he had some fish to fry on Lake
Erie, or suthin' or 'nuther, dunno
whatIl
Then from some'r's or rutherl
branches are to reach Pittsburgh,
Wheeling, Columbus, Cincinnati, In
d,anapolis, Peoria, Louisville and
Chicago. The lines already more
or less" Yes, yes-mOre or less. ]
definitely fixed will require over
5000 miles Of road. THE standard
estimate is 5000 per mile for single
track roads. Thirty-three thousand
times over three thousand is in the
neighborhood Of a whole passed. of
money-say, up'ards Of a right smart,
anyhow.l
The road reaches Duluth in its
wanderings, and furnishes the most
practical route, and the shortest one,
from the great Northwest to the best
harbor on the South Atlantic, there
by securing the cream of the traffic
with the whole West Indies, Central
and South America, and gets the full
advantages Of the Nicaraguan Canal.
1T draws upon the three largest coal
fields of the world-the Southeastern
Ohio, the Southwestern Indiana and
the Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky
$500 square miles in all. 1t taps
marble and slate quarries in Tennes-
see, largest in the world, hundreds
OF miles of iron ores, manganese
beds, copper, zinc and lead mines,
mountains Of kaolin. glass rock, two
thirds of the standing hardwood
timber in the United States, and the
fii.cst tanbark district in the world.
That's what makes New York aud
IT,. whole egete East deatlIly sick.