Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-05-07
The Cleveland and Mahoping Rail Roat

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4 Road from this place to Cleveland, is al
event, which will very shortly taxi
. place, in all probability during the mex
: month. Then, those who have lived il
: Warren in the anxious expectation of it
! completion, can at last have the piivi
. lege of being rode out of it on a rail;
: luxury only 10 be fully appreciated by
{ those who have had to travel during tht
past winter from here to Ravenna, ol
Salem, for FIVE hours in an open sleigh
S While thus tasting by anticipation it:
f expected comforts, we view also the vas
trade and wealth hat must be brought
into this valley, as well as the minera
resources, it will be the means of de,
, velpoing; of which we really know little
as yet. W. much doubt if any road
heretofore built, had at its opening, &
more cheering prospect than this will
: have when it reaches The coal region O
this valley. Although we cannot com
pare it 10 the Reading Rail Road in
amount of its probable tonnage, we dc
not doubt its being as good a paying
road when completed, as any Road in
the State OF Ohio. Its facilities at
Cleveland for shipping will be better and
more c~ommodious than those ofany other
road which enters that city, and its ca.
pacity equal to any. The Coal Mines
now in operation along its line have
scarcely been tested, although some Of
them shipped by Canal last year over
two hundred tons a day. Mr.. Tod has
a Rail Road already in operation, ex-
tending from his mines across the Ma
honing River TO the P. and O., Canal /;
a distance of nearly two miles, and is
now bridging the Canal, and erecting
shutes on a side track which he is build.
ing to the c. & NJ. r. K. These shutes
have the capacity 10 load three hundred
tons of Coal per day. Two other
branches are built 10 connect with Mr..
Tod's road /; one by Mr.. Morris. of Gil
rard, and the other by Rice, Chamber
lain & Co, so that Mr.. Tod's road will
be the first tributary TO the c. &. NJ. R.
R., as he intends to be ready TO ship
$50 to 800 tons of Coal each day on the
opening of the road.
The second tributary which is already
commenced, will open a still larger
field. The Mineral Ridge Rail Road
Co., (who only a few months since OBJ,
tanned their charter have secured the
right Of way from the c. d NJ. r. R.,
Depot at Niles, to Austintown /; and
have located their line so that nearly
every Coal man in Weathersfeld can
have a Rail Road at his door, and means
Of shipment to Cleveland by the G. &
NJ. R. R. & NJ. r. R. R., with no ascend
ing grade on the NJ. R. R. R., over 80
feet per mile, nor over &c feet ascending
on the C.. & NJ. R. R. The Mineral
Ridge Road is to be built of the same
guage as the G. & NJ, and is contem-
plated to be completed in twelve months,
Mr.. Chamberlain, the President of the
Co., is already negotiating for the iron,
the ties are nearly all delivered for the
first two miles, and the grading com
menced and in successful operation, so
that in about two months they will be
ready to run their Coal TO the Canal,
and there by bridging the Mahoning
River, and laying about a half mile of
track they will connect with the C. & NJ.
road. This tributary will, like Mr.. Tod's
road, be emphatically a coal road /; and
when completed will no doubt carry at
least six hundred tons per day TO the C.
d NJ, and should all the mines on It's
line be at work, at least double that
amount.
In addition to the above, we are told
that the Asbtabula & New Lisbon Rail
Road is let from Garfield TO Niles, which
when completed will open a coal field
sill further south, and being of the same
guage as the C. d NJ. R. R., it will be
another tributary to the G. & NJ, till it
is completed 10 Ashtabula ; when it is
but fair to presume that the half of her
tonnage south of Niles will go to Cieve-
land on this road. If these calculations
are correct, should it not be a source Of
graduation to stockholders that the
prospect is encouraging; and a We
not look forward with confidential hopes
of the road doing all that its energetic
President, and its best friends ever ex-
pected it would.
We have only alluded to coal in the
above. In some of the coal mines they
are now e%xcavating, besides coal, a ton
of black band iron ore, for each ton of
coal, and of a quality of nearly Sky per
cent. There is also any quantity of the
best limestone below Lowell, and as the
line extends to New Castle, these pro-
auctions will be constantly and steadily
increasing. We think Warren has a
bright future, thanks to its own energy,
and that of the President and Directors
Of the G.. d NJ. r. R. Co.
Oregon and Washington Territories.
The following are extracts from an ex.
ira, issued from the Oregonian Office, on
the morning of the 28th of March
On Tuesday night, 25th inst the In
dams, supposed to number 800, attacked
tho Cascades anil at our latest dafes had |