. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . practicabilityof its construction, we reproduce the naap ofthe city, fully illustrating the plan. The construction of this avenne would notcost the city over $750,000—with doubletrack, ready for the passage of trains, whilethe cost of depot grounds aod superstruc-tures can be calculated by those who shouldbear the cost—the Railroads. If this were completed, in connection withthe contemplated railroad bridge across theOhio river, the transit throvgh Cincinnaticould be made as cheaply as to pass aroundthe city ove
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . practicabilityof its construction, we reproduce the naap ofthe city, fully illustrating the plan. The construction of this avenne would notcost the city over $750,000—with doubletrack, ready for the passage of trains, whilethe cost of depot grounds aod superstruc-tures can be calculated by those who shouldbear the cost—the Railroads. If this were completed, in connection withthe contemplated railroad bridge across theOhio river, the transit throvgh Cincinnaticould be made as cheaply as to pass aroundthe city over the bypaths by which the busi-ness is now done—it would insure the comple-tion, and make available for general railroadpurposes the now dormant Tunnel entranceto the city, and would eenter a railroad inter-est and power in the welfare of Cincinnatithat she has never heretofore possessed, byconstituting her railroad sections in trunklines, and give an impetus to her growth thatwould astonish those who are not familiar withtracing the legitimate results of cause and effec. THE RAILROAD RECORD. 119 Railroads to the Pacific. Interest and Duty of Government to Aid intheir Construction, How and How Much ? If the American Republic is a unit, andcertainly the bloody arguments of the pastfew years are sufficient to demonstrate theviews of the American People on that subject—if the right of eminent domain, for whichsuch sacrifices have been made, is to be maintained from Maine to the Gulf of California,and from Florida to Pugets Sound—if thePeople of the now first nation of theEarth, who have become each, under thespreading wings of the American Eagle, andglorious banner of the American Republic areto remain one—the closer and more intimatetheir relations of kin, of common sympathies,of general intercourse, and of interest, the bet-ter. There is no other nation whose greatantipodes of population are so far apart, sepa-rated as it were by an ocean of inaccessibleterritory, t
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