Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-02-27
The Atlantic and Great Western Rail
Road.

Road.
From an article upon Rail Roads pub
lished in the ". Y. Tribune, we extract
the following in reference to the above
named road, which is perhaps better
known in this vicinity as the Franklin
and Warren Rail Road.
There is one unfinished Road, or rath-
er a series of roads, to which we have
hitherto called attention as of eminent
consequence to our city. 1t is that which
leaves The Erie Road at Little Valley,
near the Allegheny River, and proceeds
due west 1.-THE Erie Road here bending
north to reach Lake Erie II Dunkirk)
through jamestown. IN. " Meadville,
Pa Warren, (Ohio,) Ravenna, Akron,
&C., to Cresline and Gallon, there con-
Meeting with the great routes which per-
neate Indiana and Southern Ohio. The
Ohio portion ofthis road, we understand,
is o being vigorously prosecuted, and
it is therefore time to speak of the sec.
tions intervening between that and II
own noble thoroughfare. Were this line
completed, on a uniform guage of six
feet, if no further than to Dayton, Ohio,
il would inevitably become the great
cattle Road of the country. 1t pene-
trates or approaches the best stock
growing districts of the Union, and the
advantage of a wide track for cattle
transportation need not be insisted on
And the great stream of passengers flom
the Ohio and from st. Louis would have
no motive for running north across the
ridge which separaes The Ohio from the
Great Lakes if a shorter road, Of easier
grades and fewer changes of cars, solic-
tied their patronage. There is scarcely
a foot of waste or sterile soil on this
route from Little Valley to Dayton, or if
you please, to Kansas I; and those who
might seek the seaboard by way ofPhila-
delphia could choose between the Pitts
burgh and Sunbury routes, both crossed
by that we have indicated.
As yet, this route is attempted in
pieces the New York, the P~ennsylva-
MIA, and the Ohio sections being essayed
by different companies-the Ohio. we
believe, by more than one. The divis-
ion vitaly weakens the enterprise and i'm
pairs its chances of success. The project
is one of decided general interest /; and
we wish some of the intelligent and spir-
tied capitalists of our city would con-
slider and respond to its claims as a whole
on the sympathy, the energy and the
executive ability of the Commcial Empo-
rum.
The Ohio Farmer has the following,
in reference to the present situation of
the finances Of this road, which we
doubt not will be read with interest.
This Company, we learn, have effect
ed a loan, in Philadelphia, to complete
their Read. Commencing on the State
line, in the northeast part Of Ohio, where
it connects with the Venango," and
"Sunbury & Erie Roads," to Philadel
phia and New York, it takes a south
western course to Dayton, in a south
western part of the State, where it on
necls with the dayton, Hamilton, & Gin
cinnati Road" TO Indianapolis and St.
Louis.
At Warren, in Trumbull county, it
crosses +" the Cleveland d Mahoning
Road" at Ravenna, "the Pittsburgh 4
Cleveland Road" at Akron, "'the Cleve-
land, GAINESVILLE d Cincinnati Road" at
Medina, 'fthe Tuscarawas d Grafton
Road" at Cresline, ''the. Cleveland Co.
lumbus d Cincinnati Road, "the Penn
sylvania d Ohio Road" and "the Ohio
& Indiana Road" at Marion, it crosses
'tbe Bellfontaine L Indiana Road" and
at Urbana, it crosses ''the Mad River
Road" thus crossing, and connecting
with nearly every Rail Road inthe State.
The Company is free from debt. and
their bonds and stock have never before
been in market. Their bonds were taken
rs 100, being higher than almost any
Rail Roads in the State. All the bonds
they would put in market, were taken by
one house. A good sale, and a good in
vestment. The grading, completed, is
equal to IS miles, all of which, with the
rightof way, has been done and paid for.
by localsubscriptions, leaving nearly two
millions of une1ampled local subscrip-
tons, and the Company free from debt.
The tardy progress of the work, it
having progressed no faster than the Di.
rectors had means, has discouraged
many of the stockholders, and friends of
the Road /; but the price of the stock
now, as indicated by the sale of its
bonds, must satisfy all. that it has been
managed with great prudence and judg-
ment.
Know Nothing Convention. =
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23.-7 P. NJ.