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Cincinnati and Rail Roads*To thx Editor of thk Columbian :Gent.—The following communication from the Cairo “Times” of April 4 th, 1855, contains matters of sufficient interest to citizens of Cincinnati to in* dace me to request you to publish it:The Cairo and Fulton Rail Road, to be constructed, runs from the West bank of the Mississippi, opposite Cairo, in Illinois, and the mouth of the Ohio, through Little Rock to Fulton, in Arkansas, on the East bank of Red River, opposite the terminus of the Galveston and the Red River Rail Road, which is designed to connect with the Pacific Rail Road. For the construction of this Road, Congress has granted one million acres of land. The estimated cost of the Road is in ronnd numbers, seven million, five hundred thoos-and dollars.The snrvey, as I am informed by a friend in whom I have every confidence, and who is famiiiiar with the country, is as fine laud as can be found in Ar-kanaaw. This being the fact, there is every prospect, without the most injudicious or villainous man-agement, that the road will be speedily bnilt. There is an effort being made by contractors and interested parties, to induce those entrusted with the management, to issue bonds ad libitum to rb money, which would have the effect to depreciate them in market, to treble the cost of the road, to leave it unfinished—a curse to the conn try and State, and to the stockholders. But this course the present Boaid of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad will resist, and, it I is to be hoped, successfully.Having thus introduced the sutyact, let os see what can be, or has been done on this side the Mississippi, to derive benefit from this road.We will soon have the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad to its junction with or crossing of the Illinois Central; bat there is to this the objection that when » freight or passengers aft embarked on the Illinois Central Railroad, there muat be a change of cars for r both freight and passengers, to come to this city; and it would not seem that we coaid offer inducements enough to prevail upon either shippers or travelers to dispose them to go to the trouble or expense of , doing so.There is a Railroad projected frcm Evansville, ‘ Ind., to the Capital of the btate, called the Evans-[ ville Iodianopolis Straight Line, which will, when , built, cross the Ohio and Mississippi near its South-' ernmost bend, not far from Mitchell, where tbs New Albany and Salem Railroad crosses the O. A M. R. J R By these two Roads, the O. A M. and the Evans-, ville and Iodianopolis, we have almoat a straight line to Evansville, and a Railroad extended in the ’ sami direct ion from Evansville to Cairo would make I nearly a straight line from oar eity to Cairo. With r the annexed communication I have taken as much „ of your valuable apace as you can spare, bat shall be happy to recur to the subject again. h. o. h.
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Cincinnati Daily Columbian
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, May 08, 1855
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Daniel J.
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