The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-07-28
For the Athens Messenger.
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,tract the attention of the reader.
An absence Of more than two years
rom your neighboring county-seat, Nc
Arthur, enabled her enterprising citizens
o present TO the eye quite number oil
substantial improvements-among the
most prominent of which might be named
heir new jail. jailor residence, &C.
Railroad improvements in the immediate
,icinity of the place seem TO have given
general impetus to business there, as they
lave at other points throughout Ohio
The Portsmouth and Newark line OF road
passes through the eastern portion oil the
corporation, and workmen are engaged
on Sections both north and south-as
thew are also on that portion OF the MARI
eta and Cincinnati road passing through
the county. The former improvement IN
tersects the latter at or near Charleston,
and both continue on the same grade to
the plantation of Judge MURDOCH some
three miles from the county.seat. Along
these improvements. business oi all klnds
is assuming new phase, giving prestige
of unusual and permanent prosperity 10
the agricultural and manufacturing inter
ests Of the "Huckleberry Knob" region
[ had also, at Macarthur, a pleasant inter
view with the Messrs. Bort, OF the ne
publican, who have been so efficient in
furRering the development OF the resour-
ces. and so watchful over the best inter-
ests OF the community, generally. They
deserve unlimited encouragement and
success in their calling for their unlirlpg
exertions in these and other>Partculars.
Another item worth mentionlong IN
this connection, is the fact that wealthy
and enterprising company in Cincinnati
through their efficient agent, DAVID
CHRIsrY, Esq, have recently made PuF,
chase oil some OF the finest grazing and
mineral lands in Vinton county, and are
still negotiating for farther investments
in value amounting to near or over Sloo'-
OO0--from which they will, doubtless, in
time. realize, handsome fortunes. They
expect TO find, in Cincinnati, by means Of
the Marietta and Cincinnati road, an
available market for the products Of their
farms and their mines. And this, let me
here remark. is but the beginning Of the
end" the future OF the "Huckleberry
Knob" region will manifest TO the world
Between Macarthur and Jackson is to
be seen some of the finest grazing lands
that lie between the Scioto and Musklng
um rivers, and most of them are under 6
fine state of cultivation. cannot omit tc
mention the plantations OF II. S. BUNDY
ESQ, SHEPARD PAYNE and Judge MUIR
DOCK, although others equally Promlnen
: are deserving of notice.
At Jackson the same general evidence
of Improvement and progress meets The
eve at every turn. The citizens of thi'
place have already secured a connection
with two railroad improvements, and arr
now fixing their greedy eyes upon tn,
third--the Gallipolis road--but for which
they will find competitors in their neigh
bors at Charleston. Three or four year
since, the citizens Of this county subscri
, bed 800, 900 TO the capital stock OF a rail
road company-which was looked upol
by many as foolish in the extreme-anc
, yet it has proved to them to be wis
stroke Of policy. They secured the road
5 and the road, though yet unfinished, ha
: brought into the county and upon the du
plicate an amount Of property more tha
2 sufficient to raise the necessary tax to pa
, the annual interest upon that sum-to sa
nothing of the thousand benefits the peo
, pie are deriving from it in as many dill
/: ferent ways.
The cars are now running on the Ports
, mouth and Newark road TO point with
: in four or five miles of Jackson. and 10
cal business is already being transacte
, on the completed portion that augurs
: brilliant success for the enterprise whe
once finished and used as through rout
: from the Ohio river to the Lakes. In
f. few weeks at larthest the "iron.horse
will make his way into Jackson, where
hearty greeting awaits him and where hi
: benefits are duly appreciated and under
: stood. Among other items oil freigt
awaiting shipment at the depot, | notice
s over two bundled tons of pig.metal, tn
: manufacture of the Buckeye Furnace, lc
Gated a few miles distant The Port'
G mouth road north of Jackson, in The d
4 rection of Charleston and Macarthur,
: also being rapidly graded--whIe tn
work on the Ililsborough improvemeI
in the direction OF Cincinnati gives no lie.
c OF the appearance oil energy and pursevt
2 rance. The town itself is rapidly e'
j. tending her borders, and new building
: are springing up on all sides. There, 1
s in your own town, dwellings and shoE
It for business are scarce. rents high, an
c building materials insufficient ior the d.
mand. Prominent among the improv
n ments TO be seen. must not omit TO mel
! ton their fine new steam FIGURING mi
!. large four story Hotel. a capacio'
II Ware House. tall of brick, depot bull
ings, &c. Their new Hotel is one OF Il
finest in this region of the State, and
l. not excelled by any public house in {
o lher of the cities oil Portsmouth, Chill
is colhe, Lancaster or Marietta, III
e "lsham House, under the manageme
% of SMITH 81 Sons. is q credit and an c
le nament 10 the town-an improvene
l. your own village should pattern aher, al
IS one that would pay yell just al this tin
l. Messrs. LAIRD 81 MATHEWS, of I
le Standard, were "called on" Of course.
They still think the "Stute Of Jackson
ir has futm Of some importance, and a
is doing service in its development. Wou
H. that more Of our public journals wei