The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-09-19
tFrom the N. Y. Evening Post, Sept. /.
Rail Road policy Of Ohio.

1t cannot escape the notice Of every In
telligent observer, that Ohio railroad secu-
rites are suffering in tho money market,
from the fact that their railroads are laid
out with most perplexing irresularity,
crossing and recrossing each other.
The capitalist, as be listens to one Ohio
railroad officer. WHO plies him for loan, is
astonished 10 find that If that one tale be
true, that of the other railroad man must be
false and he infers that all Ohio projects
are mere neighborhood operations; that
they ate gos up helter-skelter and that they
have no permanent merit. He finds his
Little Miami thr, atened by three or four
routes--The Dayton aud Hamilton, by the
Dayton Short line, and go on in the list
He begins to fear that eventually all Cleve-
land roads, with all their present fair look
ing revenues are ephcmeral, soon 10 be su-
perseded by The routes running south Of
Them, towards Pennsylvania and the East
Ohio railroad men have helped to foster
this distrust. They have al lof them argu-
ed their own schemes to themselves upon
50 high and so broad a policy as to make
themselves believe, and almost US New
Workers, that their line is to be the great
line.
Now we admit that the railroads west Of
Ohio has heretoiors presented itself to Us IN
an aspect forbidding . thorough examlna-
ton. We thonghi il impossible to unrave
it. .8
Ar intelligent friend who understands
the subject thoroughly, and for whose judg'
paent we have great respect has given us
zome views upoa this oubject which are
worthy Of the consideration of capitalists. -
In our conversation with him our attention
was Jiree ID to the fact that the railroad
labyrp,hs Of Ohio may be insured without
lear of being lost, and that SO far from ohi'
railroads being an undlgested and shiftles
mass, they rest generally upon policy
which must in very few years develop 1t
self as correct. We found that many OF thu
finished roads were detached linka to yer.
extensive connections, and that they wer
necessary to each other with but little rival
ry. What rivalry might exist, was likely
to be healthful rather than otherwise. ii
satisfied us that Ohio has neithr too many
railroads now, nor too many projected; anc
that they will ultimately all be built, and
in fact nearly all, ifnot all be proftab le
We will, in d few words explain the rea
sons which operated on our mind, and we
think the reader viii adopt them as hi
pwa
Look at the map Of Ohio. There is tn
Lake on the north, and the Ohio river o
3sthe south. We would ask, how is Indiana
Illinois and western travel and business tt
gps east except through Ohio? Coald one
line or even two carry all this business?-
Again, how are Kentuckeg and TENNESSEE
to get north except through Ohio2 Th
space between the lakes and the Ohio
there narrower than anywhere else. Fror
one hundred to little over two hundred
miles suffices there, while in Indiana an,
Illinois three to four hundred are required
OAio's wise men early perceived all th'
great advantages Ohio has asa state for in
ierpal improvements and lhe seeds Of tn
GIintonian idea, Of constructing great high
ways for and with a view 70 draw upo
them the trade and commerce Of other state
have taken root there
Ohio listened 70 Gov. Blown, to Harri
son and to Kelley, and constructed her ca
nails, the leading idea being 70 connect tn
Ohio river with the lakes. New Yorl
made one canal from Buffalo to Albany =
Ohio made two upon one idea--one fror
Portsmouth, to Cleveland. anotlerfrom Gin
c,pnaii To Toledo. Thai was the north an
spash shpsliey.
All al pnce men began 'os see that ther
was an Indiaaa behind Ohio, and an IIr
ois behind her---a Pennsylvania eastwarl
aad dial Philadelphia and Baltimore wei
important points in 4 railroad view. ~
east and west pallcy nov sieaed upon Il
public Oiad. and The north and south me
were looked ppon IS old fogiea. Undt
thispeIisy sh olevyland md Toledo. "
ohio c,nsral. thi ZrBeSville. thc Hillsboi
ouab. sbs Broad gauge and other proieci
aFoss-.-aeaIn. III tl,s readerwill see hayiD
sassgkI schemes sprifgns from one ides
Ailthssr reaies booked uPcneach other q
rigals, and IN Che leg stature there was n