The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1854-01-12
even this, will exhaust her STRENGTH. and

We come now to consider the Bait
more interests, at once the most impol
tant and most difficult to treat.
The original line projected by Balti
more towards Cincinnati, from Parkers
burgh, pursued the valley of the Bi
Hockhocking, and made Athens a poin
Subsequently the Hillsborough line
promising more southern route, an
shorter distance, received encouragement
but the recent projection of railway d
rect from Columbus to Parkersburg
through. Athens, has double the importanc
of that point, and judging from the stron
ground taken by the Baltimore press, i
favor of this new enterprise, added to tn
other facts involved. it seems quite clea
that the interests of Baltimore will be th
best subserved by promoting the construc
ton Of a line from Parkersburgh to A hens
on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad
because such line to Athens:
/. AvaiIs Of Walkers Crossing, tn
best point for bridging the Ohio river.
2 Connects with the line to Cincinnati
without any material loss of distanc
through.
3. Connects with the railway to Col
umbus, upon the shortest and best lint
to Parkersburgh.
That Railway route westward from
Parkersburgh, (using the whole length o
the Northwestern Virginia Railroad
can be traced by the valley of the Big
Hockhocking, so as to command al once
the best bridge-crossing of the Ohio, riv.
er, and the most favorable railroad line tc
Columbus and Cincinnati, both, by ma
king Athens pint, is striking fact,
which cannotescape the attention of the
sagacious men who lead the railroad en-
terprises of Baltimore, however they
may think it advisable to coquet with This
question at the present time.
That this line should be the very one
originally selected by r. H, Latrobe,
Esq, the engineer of Baltimore, many
years back, before the railway system OF
Ohio had begun to develop itself, is an
other of the many proofs Of the profes-
sional sagacity of that eminent man.
After yainly endeavorng to draw an
other line over south Ohio, We are com
PEELED, by the soundest views of business,
and the strictest regard to the interests
of Baltimore, to fall back upon Latrobe S
line.
| cannot therefore, believe that the
Baltimore interests the end, can be found
adverse to the Union proposed, provided
Latrobe's line to Athens be adopted as a
part of the plain, coUering, as ID does by
a Strategetic direction, the important
points Of Columbus and Cincinnati both.
Entirely familiar with the railway plans
of Southern Ohio, | cannot perceive how
any OF the interests worthy of considera-
ton can be prejudiced by the union pro-
posed, if the Baltimore connection is left
open to negotiation with the Northwest
tern Virginia Railroad Company; and
even Pomeroy can be accommodated by
an extension of the branch to Athens, Of
lChiCh she is now The part, and to this
branch the combined corporation ought
to lend liberal aid.
The opposed union of the railway lines
in question, comes mainly, if not entirely,
from the activity of single family Of
great energy and respectability, who
have allowed their feelings TO become too
much enlisted. and some of whose mem
bers may cherish too strong a craving for
the honors and emoluments which follow
the control of railroads.
But Ra,irOadS are the wOrkS Of com
Of people, and ought never to be
subjected to the control of any one family
Of men, however wise and virtuous.
In conclusion, gentlemen, allow me to
express my decided conviction, that the
union Of the Railways under considera-
ion, will secure and project all the great
concerned, thu il wiH connect
'wo otherwne unprgGiabie, and probabiy
'mpraciiabie enterprises into one aabie |
mt paying tine, and that the Directors
Of the Hillsborough Company, ought,
without hesitation, to act upon the writ
en instructions signed by their stockhol-
lers, on the 90 of October last, with the
certainty before them, that the union of
hese hostile line, by suitable contract,
annot fail to be beneficial to all concern
d.
1t is precisely such an union ofthe ad-
erse lines by proper contract, which
as made the Southern Michigan and
'oHhern Indiana, and the Toledo and
Iorwalk and Junction Railroads respec-
vcIy two of the most profitable enter.
rises in the country as they stand COM
ined, but which, without that combina.
on, could hardly have sustained them.
lives.
This is history teaching by example,
I'd should not the union contemplated !
,re be consummated upon equitable
rms, it is not only probable, but almost ;
rtain, THAT BOTH THESE LINES MAY FAIL I
result which cannot be desir bic to any !
terest involved in the railroad controyer-
IS of South Ohio, which have now too
ng prevailed, and ought to be brought 7
an honorable termination without fur, !
er delay, 0
I'M, Gentleman, very respectfully yours. 5
ELW00D MORRIS, Il
Civil Engineer, Il i
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