Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-08-05
Railroad Items.


Council TO subscribe $4,000 to the Mays
vile and Big Sandy Railroad. Thomas 3.
Stevenson, Esq, stated thai the subscription
by the City Council Of the sum proposed,
added 10 wha. has already been subscribed
and what may be Immediately secured n,
Portsmouth and along the line of the road
will be adequate TO the organization Of the
Company; and The Company once organ
lied, reliable assurances from responsible
sources have already been given that East
ern capitalists will embark enough addition
al means in tie enterprise 10 justify putting
The line under contract this summer.
The Cleveland, Painsvlle and Ashtabua
Railroad is now opened beyond Ash,abua,
and soon will be to Conneaut. The bridge
at Ashlabula is completed, and The work on
the bridges beyond is progressing WE'LL
Seven-eighlhs Of the grading from Conneau.
10 Erie is dono, and the last link between
Cleveland and New York will be finished
and the cars running through by tho frs. 10
the middle Of November nexl. ..
The Plaindealer says the Cleveland, Co.
lumbus and Cincinnati Railroad is doing an
astonishing big business. Every day il runs
train after train Of passengers, making The
great tide Of travel North and Soulh, and
The freight is large and fast increasing. The
Company have just declared another dv.
dend Of seven per cent. for eight months,
ending July 3ls, payable August 18Th, in
cash.
One of The finest Railroads in The world
is that between Lafayette and Michigan city,
lndiana-sixty miles Of which is wilhou. a
variaIion-perlecIly Straight and the whole
eighty miles is not eighty feet longer than
an air line.
The Columbus CO., journal says i'm
niense numbers Of passengers are now GO.
ing over the Cleveland Road On Tues.
day, nine passenger cars were loaded The
next day eight cars were filled. This is get.
Ting TO be the great road Of the West for
travel.
We learn from the Baltimore Sun that The
subscriptions, in that city, TO the Central
Ohio Railroad, 10 connect with the Bali.
more and Ohio Railroad al Wheeling, are
going on finely. One public-spiriled cili-
zen, who is familiar with the country
through which The road is 10 run, has sub.
scribed $4,000,
The contractors on the Sleubenville and
Indiana Railroad, between Coshoclon and
Newark, have many Of them commenced
their work. Several Contractors for The
grading on the twenIy.six miles east from
GAINESVILLE, have also ommenced.-Zanes
ville aurora.
The Jacksonville Spirit Of Progress Of
the 18th ult, says: "Our road is progressing
rapidly. Passengers can now leave the
depot AT Jacksonville at 7 o'clock A. NJ. :.
and arrive at Indianapolis at 5 O'Clock P. M.
same day. This is now The quickest and
cheapest route 10 or from the Capital. Bu.
siness increasing rapidly; an astonishing
amount is done in the way of freighls.
The receipts of the Ohio and Pennsylva.
MIA Railroad, for June, were: For passen.
gers, $l6,5l9,09; freight, IS, 1856, ,91; total,
$2l,715,99. The total receipts received
since the opening Of the road last August
amounted to $131,845,81 Number OF pas
sengers carried since the opening Of the
road, 143 1873. The road was formally
opened 10 Wooster in July.
The Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland
Railroad is approaching completion. The
contractors have now four. fllhs of tho entire
line prepared to receive they iron. Th,
track is now being laid down from Toledo
east, and on The first Of August the will com
mence laying iron from Cleveland wesl-
II is contemplated having The road opened Il
the public by The first OF November next
which will make continuous railroad from
New York 10 Chicago.
II James Barbour, The late President Of The
~ Lexington ana Danville Railroad Company
is now al The East, for The purpose of ne
gotialing sale of The bonds of The counties
OF Fayette rnd Bourbon, issued by the pH
'boriIy of the people Of those counties, Il
aid in the construction Of that great work.
The whole road will be ready for lelling Il
contractors by The 18th ofihe present month
The Erie Railroad Company has made
loan n London OF SO, 10000 on the bond
ofthe Company, having fifteen years TO run
and bearipg 8 per cent. interest, which. will
The principal, is payable in London. Will
ia double track will be laid on imporIan
paris Of the road; for which five thousand
ions Of English rail iron have already beer
bought by the agent who contracted for the