The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-11-10
For Tie OAio Star.
Franklin and warren ERall Road.

For Tie OhI0 Star.
Franklin and warren Rail Road.
That R Road with wide or six feet gulge
is to be Immediately constructed under the charter
Of the Franklin atll Warren Rpil r ,ad company,
extending easterIy from the village of Franklin, in
Portage County, through Ravenua, Newton Fall,
and Warren, to the west iue of Pennsylvania,
some where in knsman III Trumbu'l County, and |
extending from Franklin westward through Tall
nadge, Aaron, AshIn l. and 30 Gal ion or Crestiine
on the line of the Cleveland and CulunAus TO 3D. is
a m liter already settled and determined upon.
The company have liberal charter under the old
Constitution. Tne ground is uneommouIy favor
able for the location, and sufficient information has
been already received to show that the people
along the proposed line have not only The means
hut the disposition, 10 grade and brids dse the whole
line Of the Road by stocks subscribed within the
5tGte. Fill up the stock subscriptions then, that
the work may be simultaneously commenced with
the work in Pennsy ylvara.
Tbs Road is intended TO connect at its east end
with the branches OF the Erie aud Pittsburgh Rail
Road, (by which branches the wide guage is 10 be
obtained aud continued through Pennsy yIvauil,
and through these with the New York and Erie
Rail Road near Oiean. Thus extending continu-
Gus wide guage line of R,iI Road iom New Y orl
city through the States Of New York Penusylya-
nia, and Ohio, to GALLON and connecting at this
latter point with other great lines of R,it Road
already completed, in state of fOrwar1ness to-
ward completion, cen!eling at this common point,
aud radaiing towards the three great centers of
the business of the West Cincinnati, ST. Louis
and Chicago. Among hese may be mentioned the
Indiana and Be!iontane road with its extension 10
ST. Louis; the OHIO aad Indiana road 10 Fort
Vague with its e1tersion to Chicago; and the
southern lines reaching Columbus, Dayton, Spf ing
field, and Cincinnati, all OF which mu-t necessarily
and naturally act feeders to This great TIN ough
line to New York. Bat to these may with
proPriety adj the road extending south fiorn Akron,
ultimately to reach 4 inesv4; the Norwilk and
Toledo road, that must na:u. ally make Il ounce
ton With this great line # road, by extension
either from Norwalk CT Grafton through Medina
10 Akron, thus forming another chunnel tn ough
which the great West is TO pour portion Of her
travel and business to this great lhrougffarc ::
| aud last though not least the Mtholing and War
road that is TO place tho city of Cleveland by
the shortest line in connection with the main Inc
Thus it will be perceived that this great project
gathers in by its outspread arms, not only the tide
of travel and trade to and from the first great cer-
ter5 OF business Of the great West, but also FROM
many OF its secondary but still very important cen
tiers.
havo Indicated that this Franklin and Warren
Rail Rond forms link that great line of con.
t!nuous road that is to reach from New York TO ST.
Louis. But is it to staP there l may not be
deemed visionary when | say that very few
years will witness an extension CT this trunk to
California and Oregon, an1 that this WI! be the
the great national highway TINT sha! pass the tide
of travel and commerce from ocean 10 ocean, and
even bear tho commerce of Asia from tlc Pacific
TO the Atlantic seubOard to be shipped 10 Europe.
1t is wonder that project like this should have
aroused the West and the East TO mutual con-
Sderation Of its advantages, and determination at
once TO prt secute the work 10 completion. New
ork has deep Interest in this work, and capital
| lists wei! understand win this interest is. The
New York ana Erie Rail Road company liHye u
still deeper interest in this work, and It's talented
aid judcious Board are well aware Of that, and
are now taking prompt anj efficient measures to
reap its benefits. 1t wall cost money but it will be
money we'll invested. They have alreaty spent
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AMI sixty miles OF road, they well afford to
spend few millions more to give them tic COM
mand Of the travel aud trade Of The West--a busi-
ness that will continue 10 grow in vo ume, as the
vast western territories fill up with uctise po
ducins population, beyond, yes far beyond the
reach of any rational present conjecture.
WHO can doubt that the stock il the Ohio link
OF thiS great road, must be largely paying stock,
and that it will bs absorbed and taken up us soon as
its advantages are clearly AID fully understood.
The way business of this portion Of tho road pass
ing as it does through all the important business
Courties in this part Of the State, aud comprising
side Of it ior lis whulo length population of no.e
than three hundred and thirty to the mile, passing
through one Of the richest asricutura portions OF
the country, and embracing directly or in tue i'm
mediate vicinity of The line the most important
waller powers in the no.thern part Of the State,
cannot fail alone to pay handsome dividend upon
us stocks 1t is hardly necessary, perhaps 10 say
that Tho line Of this road passes over nearly the
ground Indicated BY Col. Clinton in his report in
1927, as tho route Of great national highway,
and that the experimental line run by Mr.. Robin
son, the engineer of Tho Franklin and Warren
kjll Road is run through the County OF Portage
upon almost precisely the same line trHvorsed by
him aud his party
mention these facts ns of local interest, because
a project originating in Hudson aud lakng to itsei
the namo of the Clinton line has made some noise
in this secton of the country. Tho principal OBJ
jections to that lino these that it is not ho
line indicated by Col. Clinton, nor that which
would bo selected by any other disinteresed indi-
vidual, WHO should attempt to truce upon the map