The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-08-04
morning., Aug. A, 1888.

rest in this Road is growing rapidly. It's Ii
now the most valuable and important road t
that can be made in Ohio. 1t will be with 4
out a rival or competitor. Investments in n
it's stock will be good from the beginning. il
1t will traverse through q central and val 7
ley route, the richest mineral region IN the a
West, which is ready and waiting Tor deyel-
opment. Railroads in every section Of the t
country are each yenr becoming more
profitable. This gratifying factfurnishes a t
reason why such roads should be construct
ed wherever the population and resources
Of a country are sufficient to warrant it.
They furnish the cheapest, safest and most
expeditions means Of intercommunicatlon'
The sections Of country through which they
pass are always substantially and largely
benefited by such thoroughfares. The far
mers living near them are bro ught nearer
the marts of commerce, and receive much
higher prices for their produce, while they
are able to secure their dry-goods, groceries,
hardware, and all other necessaries OF lie
at much less cost,as facilities OF this charac-
ter invariably cheaper transportation thus
enabling our merchants and grocers to com
pate with eastern establishments. The
country through which they pass is render
ed more prosperous by the extension OF Du-
siness they cause; population increases and
property rises invalue. It's thus maue Tue
interest of all. classes in community that
railroads should be constructed, and those
communities. which disregard the teachings
of experience and refuse to be benefited by
such roads, must expect to lag far behinu
others which are more spirited and enter
prising.
What has fairfield been doing and what
does she mean TO do to secure the dement's
of Railroad Communication! Does she m
tend to remain unaffected by the rapidly
increasing prosperity Of other counties a.
round us! Will she not also endeavor to
share some of the common prosperity, or VIII
she continue to present to the astonishment
of all strangers who visit her the sad spec
tacle of a.region blessed by nature with ad-
vantages of the first order, but cursed by a
population unwilling to turn those advan-
tages to the best account! A glance at the
man will disclose the fact that a railway
down the Valley, would pass through a
rance of the best mineral counties in the
State, and it is the duty as well as the inter
est of the citizens along this route to AFFORD
every kind Of encouragement to the proJec'
Of constructing the proposed railroad.
1t is obvious to all who have taken pains
to examine the subject, that railroads are
rapidly substituting in a great degree the
old channels Of commerce., aud those sec
tons that have been 80 wise as to secur'
the advantages of such roads have been rlch
w compensated therefor. Any section o
country that lags, behind the spirit Of tn
age, that stubbornly refuses to keep pac
With the progress of Improvements, that dc
.~clares an un~wiilingness to enter into a sPlI
tied competition with other sections for tn
trade and travel of the country, cannot eS
pect to be prosperous. 1t matters not no.
great the natural advantages may be, the
alone will not suffice to build it up. Hereto
fore natural advantages were the highe'
advantages, but even these will not hence
forth prove a match for the advantages ell
ioyed by those sections hat have been wis
enough to avail themselves OF those artil
cial channels Of discovered al
successfully applied of late years. Ka''w'
commune atoms are, as all experience prove
eminently profitable to communities. 1t
the decree Of the age that communiti
which lack the enterprise to construct the
must present contrasts tos the busy comm
mites which enjoy the benefits which flo
from them. If the Hooking Valley do
not wish to remain insulated, if she do
not mean to be left far behind in.the gre
work of improvementby every other secti'
ofthe West, she must, like them, have ra
way Communications. and the sooner s
rouses herself from the stupor that has
long blinded her own highest interests, {
better it will be for her own prosperity.
This roads not confined to a narrow col
pass, but is attracting the attention OF sor
OF the leading men of. several adioini
States. We cannot better close this ar
Gle than by quoting a couple of favorat
notices which we have athand. In speu
ing of some of the most important railro
connections now in contemplation, the l
gansport (Indiana) Pharos says:
at is with pleasure we learn that the N
,rion and Mississinewa Valley Railroad Co
Dpainy have consolidated with the Logansp
and Marion road, and formed permant
running arrangements with the Columb
8 piqua and Indiana, Logansport and Chica
and Logansport and Pacific Railroads. I
road is to be met at the city of Column
Ohio, by aroad in the same interest Q
Bearing in the direction o the city of Ba
more, to be constructed from the Ohio rt
at the mouth of the Hooking, to that cit!
A gentleman Of this city, who takes gr
interest in the road, has just received a
ter from a gentleman of Columbus, of lie
ing influence, from which we are permit
to make the following extract:
"Iread the proceedings Of your Railr
meeting with great pleasure, and am graf
ed to see Mr.. EWING giving the en-
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