Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-03-28

,btaining subscriptions. But there is no
/
No, indeed; no comparison at all. And
it is singular that my friend forgot to cite
in point from the Report Of Prof.
Twining who was Engineer on the Indian
apolis Road.
aThe Madison and Indianapolis Rail
Road" says the Professor, (which psne=
trates purely agricultural region Of Indiapa
for eighty six miles from the Ohio, inland,
and without any special advantages from
mines or manufactures, derived, In its first
year of through operation, an income of one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and in
its second year, well nigh, if not quite, two
hundred and fifty thousand. At something
approaching the same rate of increase it
may be expected to continue. 1t has divi-
ded to its stockholders fifteen per cent. and
the stock is now at one hundred and thirty
three per cent. in market. That road
transacts for an adult male population of
two hundred to a mile of its entire length;
while the Cleveland and Pittsburgh road
after dividing the territory with other i'm.
provements that may compete with it, will
transact for three hundred, very closely, to
each mile of similar population at least
as vigorous and industrious. On such con-
siderations is based the position that the
local business alone will make yours pay
ing stock" There is clearly no comparison,
as my friend says. The dividends on the
stock of the P. & C. Road must be much
greater than on that of the Indianapolis
Road. May not take occasion here, in
my friends name to ask you not to give
your vote to aid in the construction of
Road that is like to benefit yourselves?
ssThis Road crosses two canals, both of
which find their way to the same points
which it is designed to connect.
And inasmuch as these canals are frozen
all winter, my friend thinks they will do
all the business that the County requires
the increase of roads, and facilities of reach
ing market, having no tendency to enhance
the value of marketable products, nor to
multiply their quantity. He thinks it of
great utility that you should lose half the
price of your products in the expenses of
transportation, and should be deprived of a
market for half the year. Are you not
of the same opinion?
esThe Pa. & Ohio Rail Road which
passes through Salem, Canton, Mansfield,
&C., and takes the trade of the Upper Lakes,
and crosses this Rail Road near BIT. Vernon,
o. would secure almost the entire northern
transportatio ton of the road"
My friends reasons for this belief are
probably these. Where one steamboat or
schooner from the Upper Lakes unloads at
Sandusky, ten will discharge their cargoes
at Cleveland; Sandusky being great city,
not inferior to Liverpool, and Cleveland be-
ing a small village about the size of Frank
lin-near-the-Bridge. Now as the greater
part of ship freight going to Pittsburgh will
be unladen at Cleveland, he infers that il
will pass down the Sandusky and Mans
field Road; and on the other hand, the iror
and other commodities of Western Pennsyl
vania will seek the great city of Sankusky
it being the natural centre OF trade for tn
Middle and Eastern Reserve.
/ (When my friend said that the C. & P
Rail Road crossed the Pa. & Ohio Raj
Road at Mt. Vernon, he was in doubt wheth
er he ought not to have said that the cross
: ing was at San Francisco in California. l
he has made any mistake, he begs of yol
| to excuse it, as he does not recollect of eve
having examined the route on map, and il
not certain that the Road traverses Portag
County; but is quite sure that it does no
, pass through Franklin-near-the-B
In his remarks upon the Zone man power
= my friend does not wish you to think tha
: he has any serious objection to the use of
: when put under his own control, or when
S emanates from Franklin-near-tie-Bri dge.-
b He imagines that in such circumstances, tn
: cone man power'' would always be of tn
. greatest utility to the County of Portage
: And in what he said of the scow-pasture,
0 he wishes it distinctly understood that
majority of the citizens of Ravenna desire,
: that the Road should pass through his oar,
cow-pasture; and that it did not so pass
Y was the first thing that opened his eyes +
r the evils of the "one man power"
t AS to the sly meeting held at Atwater
: he does not recollect at what time it wa
4 held, and on the whole doubts whether ther
was any sly meeting.
S Seeing the County engage in concerr
: that is like to yield profitable dividends
4 awakens in my friends mind most anxious
f solicitude. If you are wise, Voters o
Portage, you will sympathize with i.
E friend in his anxiety, and you will keep
V careful eye on all railroads that happer
e to traverse the wrong cow-pasture. Yo,
f will also pay particular attention to his re
0 marks on compelling citizens of the Count
S to become stockholders against their vii
e and wishes" This would be speciall
grievous to those Of you who vote the sub
/ scription; and for those who do not, hop
t painful must be the reflection, that in thi
e democratic county the minority are unable
to rule the majority! Add to this, the goad
ing thought, that the credit of the County
: may be so used as to return into the common
: treasury ten per cent. on the stock taken
and do not we'll see, how those of yol
who do not vote the subscription, can es
cape total arrangement of mind!
, ave call this downright robberv"-say
my friend, although robbery in any Other
shape would be preferable
What my friend meant by this remark
was not at first sight Ineligible to me, but
imagine have hit it at last. Suppose
that in the village of Franklin a bridge was
to be thrown over the Cuyahoga, at either
of two points near where the Ravenna and
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