Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-09

Is apparent when ii Il remembered
that Boone is about the whole Black
Diamond thing. He could just as
easily take a contract from himself
to sink a shaft through the center OF
the earth.
The Courier-Journal article says il
Is proposed" to begin building on
the section from Greenfield, Ind,
south 3Sl miles to Knoxville, Tenn.
The ODD miles from Knoxville tn An
derson, =. C., can be got ready for
construction in few months, as al
ready 500 900 has been spent in max
ing the surveys. The line, l25 miles,
from Nincennes, Ind, Ia Jefferson
willie has been located. Also l65
miles from Cynthiana, Ky, to CO.
lumbus, q.
Now, here is where TIE OUTLOOK
charged the Black Diamond with
zig-zagging. Take the map of Ken.
lucky. The line crosses the Ohio ut
Dover, Ky, thence to Cynthiana,
thence To Sharpsburg, thence three
miles west of Mt. Sterling, and so
on. Isn't that making saw-teeth of
the route at IA ridiculous rate?
Col. Boone's biography is given
briefly thus: lie comes of the same
stock as Daniel Boone, but is not a
iira.t HaSaanian. I!a vU.s horn IN,
Dayton, Ohio, Nov. 18th, 1915. He
went into the Union army as a pri-
vate and reached the position of
superintendent Of transportation at
Nashville, Tenn, in 1868. He settled
i'm Tennessee after the war. In 1867
Governor "Parson" Brownlow. of
Tennessee. raised an army to sup
press state disorders. Reconstrr ction
era.l Boone Joined il, and finally
became a Colonel. Afterwards the
Legislature made him Paymaster
General, Quartermaster General and
Adiutant General. SO he was a
pretty thrifty "carpet-bagger.' In
1870 he went to Washington as Gov
ernment clerk and in three years was
chief Of the pay division i'm the office
of the Auditor of the Treasury in the
Postofiice Department, disbursing
S3o,OO0,OO0 per year. Then he became
a mail contractor, controlling as
many as l,l0o contracts at a time. In
1883 he built a railroad down Musk
ingum (OD valley when they said he
couldn't. He built belt line around
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, when they said he
couldn't. He is now listening to hear
that the English syndicate has put
up the money and the time has come
to make the dirt fly on the Black
Diamond.
But while this Napoleon of railroad
projection is nursing such sublime
fancies as the Black Diamond he
stops his ponderous mental machin-
cry long enough to engage in such
work as the Portsmouth CO., Blade
thus comments upon:-
"Col. Boone writes ;. " Gid
den an impassioned 49, 8..r zeal
letter in which he shows at
he has misinterpre' -.r ...e's
kindly reference '. as railroad
schemes, and TO tn township meet
ing method of raising funds.
"Let 'em go on. According to Col.
Boone's own eiega lIi, -abulated fig
ures, the great Blac mond system
needs but a mattel 10000. 900 to
build. Now, 1t is lain as the
multiplication tabl a: if 1000. 900
farmers give $40 e; r' ne necessary
capital is furnishet he twinkling
OF an eye. True, are not quite
400, 900 farmers in nited States.
and some of them IRE raising
prunes in Califor' celery in
Michigan or spruI 4 Maine
might not feel inc. put up
their ante, but then oti CHIT go
a twenty or a fifty on til lex Dia-
mond for place.
"And by the way $500 as Sir
Thomas Tancred?
Colonel Boone write lie Mayor
of Portsmouth that he l. ID intended
building the Pittsburg branch of the
great Black Diamond up the river
from Cincinnati to Portsmouth, but
he threatens to leave that city off his
route il the Blades penny-a-liners
don't leave him alone. See?"
Can you conceive of the real Ma
poleon stopping the Grand Army, on
Its march to Russia, at the outskirts
Of a German town while he wrote to
the Mayor that he would march the
army around the town SO the people
couldn't see it il some editor didn't
stop expressing the belief that the
French wouldn't have a picnic in
Russia?
Can you grasp the idea of Ma
poleon's only Marshal Ney lingering
around at the same time i'm some
German village teaching little
trigger-tailed monkey to make GRIM
aces and chatter childish black
guardism at some other editor who
had expressed doubts about the sue
cess of the campaign?
Take a mental survey if you can
oi the most gigantic railroad scheme
ever conceived in the mind of man
and reconcile it with this item,
which is going the rounds:-
Colonel Albert f. Boone's attor-
ney at West Union attached 500 in
notes belonging to DIR. Eyer Walters,
OF Pennsylvania, a former druggist
at West Union, to collect a $50 sub
scription to the promotion fund of the
Black Diamond railroad, which Wal
tiers refused to pay"
Col. Mulberry Sellers In his widest
dreams never entertained any enter
prise that has the countless mil
lions in it" that Boone's Black Dia-
mond has.
But take late map of the United
States and trace the main lines and
branches of the Black Diamond, and
you will see that every important
point already has from one to several
railroads that are not yet severely
taxed to do the business Of the Sec
tions through which they run. The
promoters, however, are not i'm the
important cities soliciting subscrip-