Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-07-15
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Ine road operated Is IN length about
sixty-fve miles, extending from a point
near Youngstown to Cleveland. At lis
present eastern terminus, it has no con-
nexion with any other road; while al
Cleveland, its track at present terminates
about three-fourths of a mile from the
landing in the harbor, where freights are
exchanged with lake craft, and, also,
some distance from the tracks of other
roads with which it is to connect and
thereafter interchange through traffic
The road, therefore. being thus isolated,
necessarily derives its revenue from the
local of the region traversed
and opened by lis line. That these local
resources-always the best that a carry.
ing company can desire or possess,
abound in kind and measure TO give a
most gratifying and satisfactory evidence
and foretaste Of promising actual aud still
more promising prospective results, the
earnings, gross and net, in the proper
tons given in the foregoing statements,
amply attest.
In truth, so very large did the proper
ton of net TO gross earnings seem to US,
that it was not until explanation was
heard, that our confidence was bestowed.
The chief and conclusive point in the ex-
PLANTATION, in brief, is in the fact that, for
carrying coal over the road-which has
very favorable grades in the direction of
the trade-the company receive two and
a half cents per ton per mile, tie COM
pany furnishing only The cars and motive
power for the trains; the coal operators
pass the cars o7er the lateral roads TO
and from the mines and the sidings, and
also unload the cars at Cleveland.
The points on the road where the coal
tonnage is received, are Niles, Girard
and Briar Hill, distant respectively, from
Cleveland, SO, 60 and Ga miles. At and
between Niles and Youngstown, there
are four or more furnaces, ores are OBJ,
tanned in part from beds in the vicinity,
and in part from the Lake Superior re-
gion, whence they are brought tu Cleve-
land by lake, and thence to the stacks
by Iail, making back freight for the coal
cars; these furnaces and mills, with the
operations connected with their success
full working, of course contribute bust
ness TO the road and swell its earnings;
and in and around Il coal and iron region
that is penetrated and opened by a rail
road leading direct through cultivated
lands, dotted with villages and larger
towns, to a populous and prosperous shi
ping port, population rapidly increases
and trade rapidly augmeuts, for the rea-
son that there exist local to
employ numbers, and local wants to be
supplied from other communities that seek
interchange Of surplus staples. For com
munities that so Interchange traffic, the
Cleveland and Mahoning road is the
carrier; hence, with the increase Of traf-
&c will be realized increase OF earnings.
And combining our view of its prospects,
to its local u and receipts at way
stations, the railway is full Of encourage
ment and promise to its owners.
Moreover, to its wayside Advantages,
will, when connected at Cleveland
with reads leading westward, and at New
Castle with eastern outlets, becoming an
important division in a through route to
and hey ond Cleveland, from cities at
tide wafer and elsewhere.
Altogether, then, The Cleveland and
Mahoning road combines an array of at
fractions, miscellaneous on the surface
and mineral underground, seldom united
a single road; but when known to ex-
list they are always a source of proud
satisfaction alike to the originators Of a
road, its builders and its owners.