, via Pipe creek summit (including lateral canal to
Muncietown) to Wabash town, 124 miles 51 chains; total cost,
$2,103,153.61; per mile, $15,873.83. Length, via Pipe creek summit
(including lateral canal to Muncietown) to Peru, 185 miles 63 chains;
total cost, $2,008,726.26; per mile, $14,793.12. Total length, from
Indianopolis via Muncietown to the Wabash and Erie canal at Peru, 131
miles 41 chains; total cost, $2,058,929.41; per mile, $14.549 71.
Central canal, south of Indianopolis. Total length, from Indianopolis to
Evansville, 188 miles; total cost, $2,642,285.92; per mile, $14,054.71.
Route down the valley of Main Pigeon. Length, 194 miles; total cost,
$2,400,957.70; per mile, $12,376.02.
Terre Haute and Eel river canal, which forms a connexion between the
Wabash and Erie canal and White river or Central canal. Total length,
40-1/2 miles; total cost, $629,631 65; which, including a feeder, is
$13,540.46 per mile.
Wabash and Erie canal, eastern division, [east of Fort Wayne], Upper
line: Length, 19 miles 30 chains; total cost, $154,113.13; per mile,
$7,952.17.--Lower line: Total length, 20 miles 76-1/2 chains; total
cost, $254,817.52; per mile, $11,159.04.
The following are the works provided for in the Bill, and the sums
appropriated for them:
1st. The White Water Canal, including a
lateral canal or rail-road, to connect said
canal with the Central or White river
canal, $1,400,000
2d. Central or White river Canal, 3,500,000
3d. Extension of the Wabash and
Erie Canal, 1,300,000
4th. Madison and La Fayette Rail-road, 1,300,000
5th. A M'Adamized turnpike road
from New Albany to Vincennes, 1,150,000
6th. Turnpike or rail-road from
New Albany to Crawfordsville, 1,300,000
7th. Removing obstructions in the
Wabash, 50,000
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$10,000,000
8th. The Bill gives the credit of the
State to the Lawrenceburgh and Indianopolis
Rail-road Company, for the sum of $500,000.
_Manufactures._--Besides the household manufacture of cotton and
flannels, common to the western people, at Vincennes, and probably other
towns, machinery is employed in several establishments. It will be seen
from the sketch of each county, already given, that
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