Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-12-20
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0cE RAnAolD oScE MoRR.-It will be
remembered that Highland county agreed
toprocure $3.50, 600 of new stock, and also
that Of this amount $l5S, $50 had been OBJ
tanned prior to the last meeting of the Board.
The Board granted sixty days further time.
Since the meeting Of the Board, $6S, $50
mose had been reported obtained, and all
the books had not been returned. This
leaves only S28. 800 to be made up. The
people Of Highland are determined that this
amount shall be subscribed forthwith, and
call for County Railroad meeting, signed
BY lla citizens. is published in the HILLSIDE
rough papers Of Dec. 9Th We presume
the full amount has been obtained ere this.
10 much for Highland.
by Communication In the Standard, we
learn that the entire amount Of stock, old
and new, ssbsesited in jackson county, 10
e2x0, 900. What amount is new stock, we
cannot say. They propose to raise $50, 900
more, which win be over the quota assigned
to that county.
Pike county is unable to DO much.
Should there be any failure, therefore, the
responsibility will rest upon Aeigs and Vim
ton. We know not what has been accom-
plished in this region, having conversed with
no ooe on the subject; but this much we
know; should the road be bfndoned be-
cause the citizens Of this county refuse to
subscribe their quota Of stock, they will
have cause to regret it ever afterward.
The Cincinnati Daily Sun says, in regard
70 the efforts now in progress: H
"THS PRoPLx.S RAItRoAD,-The Cincin-
ngi, Hiilshorough and Parkersburg line Of
Railway is being built, as is well known, by
voluntary contributions from the people
II would have been much further advanced,
but for the repeated and untiring efforts Of
the Marietta Company to break it down.
But even when the public has from time
to time almost despaired of the success oi
that great enterprise, the people along the
line have rallied to its rescue, and showed
an invincble determination to have the road
Such courage and constancy wins our ad.
niration, and our appreciation Of that
fne as coal road, and great through line
to Baltimore and all the Atlantic cities
prompts US also to wish success to the gal
liant people who seem so determined to beal
il on to ita DESTINY.
We bid them God speed in this noble en-.
terprise, and we believe if the Marietta Co
will cease ite most unjusfable persecution
this road will carry coal from the jackson
coal beds by mex. December.
That it is the coal road for Cincinnati
destined to furnish our manufacturers Goa
superior TO any other, is incontestible. We
have looked with suspicion upon all thes,
contracts Of consolidation. Now that the
people have shown determination to builc
this great road, we can no longer hesitate
we are on their side"
From communication in the last mum
Der Of the jackson Standard, we extract tn,
following paragraphs:
"By reference to the map Of Ohio, ant
commencing at the mouth of Raccoon il
-Gallia county, and passing up that strean
TO its source; thence by an irregular line tt
point in Jackson county, four miles soutl
Of Hanllen; thence by an irregular line t,
"A point twelve miles northwest of jackson
G. H.; thence parallel with the Scioto river
and ten or twelve miles east of it, to tn
Ohio, the observer will have included gen
orally, the Coal and Iron region of this par
of the State. That there are other local
ties in which are found one or the other @
these minerals, and sometimes both, we wei
know. But this tract constitutes what
generally spoken of as the jackson Goa
.Fields,' the Mineral Region, DC. In thi
region, are already in full blast, about thirt
large Furnaces, and several cupola furnaces
Aand there is an abundance of every kind Q
material for double as many more, (say 8
in this county alone, with, of course, al
the elements for subordinate branches Q
the iron business, rolling mills, founderies
tool manufactures, machine shops, &C."
After naming the furnaces in operation
aad in process OF erection, the writer adds
"These furnaces make on an average
nine tons Of pig metal per twenty-four hour.
and run nine months in the year. Thi
gives US result Of between 70 and rs, 90
tons of iron, annually produced in this dis
trict, WORTH at the present price of $50 pc
ton. S3,750, 900, or 270 tons to be transpo
ted daily. In very short time this viii b
largely increased"
After speaking Of the thousands Of tor
Of Coal which would annually be transpo
ted thence, added to the ordinary subjec
Of railroad transportation, the writer ask
with what reason or proprioty it is propose
10 sbar1on this road, which passes directl
throuy yh this coal and iron region, in fave
of another which does not touch it, esseI
tislly. bat passes miles to the north and we
Of it, aud adds:
Every furnace. either now being ope
as4d or building, lies south Of the H. &
r. n. line-indeed our road should ha,
been still further south, il feasible rou
conld have been obtained. A more nortl
ern route in sheer waste Of money.
I. is no argument, that money is not
Be obtained 10 build both, and therefore til
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