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The New Orleans Daily Democrat
New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana
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Revived canal project to link Cincinnati to Chesapeake and Ohio via Newport and Ohio River's south shore, led by capitalist Alfred Calther; echoes Washington's century-old foresight on water routes to Ohio.
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[N. Y. Tribune.]
The scheme of a river line connecting
Cincinnati with the Chesapeake and Ohio, via
Newport and the south shore of the Ohio
river, has been revived under new charters as
the Newport and Maysville and Maysville
and Big Sandy. As the president, Alfred
Calther, one of the leading spirits of the
Canal Express Company, is not a man of
straw, but one of the most energetic and
influential capitalists of the West, there is
now a strong probability that the Chesapeake
and Ohio will end somewhere else than
against a stone wall, and that Cincinnati will
have direct communication with tide-water,
by the shortest line yet attained. It is now
100 years or more since Washington had the
sagacity to predict the Erie Canal, and to
urge his fellow-Virginians to make a chain of
water improvements across the mountains to
the navigable waters of the Ohio.
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Cincinnati, Newport, Maysville, Ohio River, Chesapeake And Ohio
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Revival of a canal scheme connecting Cincinnati with the Chesapeake and Ohio via Newport and the south shore of the Ohio river, under new charters as the Newport and Maysville and Maysville and Big Sandy, led by president Alfred Calther of the Canal Express Company, promising direct tide-water communication; references Washington's 100-year-old prediction of the Erie Canal and urging water improvements across mountains to Ohio waters.