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eIjgStf^Ieetliigs :ire beingt held in porticos of the State directly interested hi keeping the Canal in operation. At a meeting held Ihdiaha])olii? Ia?t week, all the speakers regarded it of the highest importance to the country • tributary to the Cana! and to the State generally that it should be kept open. To show the value of the Canal as a means of transit for the produce of the country, it was stated that the difference of transporting corn from Terre Jlautc to Xew Fork was about 30 cents, per bushel in favor of the canal. -On the600,000 bushels shipped from that county alone, 4he difference would a-mount to about $150,000 if the canal was abandoned, and It was compelled to roly upon the present Yailroad facilities. It was also estimated that about one million of dol-ars of property would be destroyed and made valueless by the stoppage of the canal The speakers claimed that it was the duty of the State to prevent the abandonment ofitlt;SicoY5h3rlt;vfiacavht)\\\\dthe work for the reason that the result of j h such action would bo to laraelv decrease the 1 5htaxable* of the State—that it would render the State liable to a large amount for damages on water-power leases, which* it had granted — that it would advance railroad transportation throughout the State, if this competition and check upon that monopoly was removed, Ac.®ST*Ei.lwin Gart roll, one of the appraisers of Vigo county, In a note published in the Terre Haute papers, says:I am one of the appraisers for Vigo county, and feel myself bound, under my oath, to assess, the real estate in the north part of said county, from 13 to 20 per cent less than I otherwise would, were it hot for the statement of the Trustees, made to our present Legislature, that they can no longer keep upthe Wabash and Erie Canal.Vt:I1fi*i:alt;]iI}cY
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Boonville Warrick Democrat
Boonville, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 08, 1859
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