A Lecture on Cincinnati and Her Rail-Roads: Delivered Before the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, January 22, 1850 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Lecture on Cincinnati and Her Rail-Roads: Delivered Before the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, January 22, 1850
Rail-road passes, to and from the city of Cincinnati. One is along the bank of the river, toward the East, which has been already occupied. Another is the valley of Mill Creek, toward the North. And the third is along the bank Of the Ohio, toward the West.
Some have supposed that engineers could find a natural grade, suitable for a rail-road, toward the West, or North west, between the valley of Mill Creek and the river route. But they could not have reflected upon the fact, that the general level of the country, between the city and the Great Miami, is four hundred feet above the level of the city, while the valley of the Great Miami, between Hamil ton and the Ohio, is not twenty feet higher than the city and the distance between the Mill Creek Valley, and that of the Miami, is too short to allow Of any desirable grade for a rail-road, ascending to that general level of the country, and descending again to that of the Miami.
In the year 1849, was granted the present charter of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton rail-road Company, which is now taking possession of the valley of Mill Creek; the second, of the three natural avenues to and from our city. Like its predecessor, its course lies toward the north.
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