Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-06-11

| Hudill- LIE railway taInit5s on tiie same
ground in 1852 were but $4,000. The
grain received at Chicago in a year now
amounts to 100000 bushels. With
such facilities for collecting and shipping
it, with u back country the cultivation OF
which is only commenced, what will the
amount be ten years hence? Such garden
of fertility was never before so opened to a
hungry world. But the attractions hither-
to have been only for laborers, contractors,
men who had their fortunes to make by
creating civilization. That civilization is
now created, and stands out with unri-
vailed appliances. Chicago now attracts
wealth and talent of all sorts as well as
strength and productive skill. and hence
its progress for the next half generation
must be more marvellous than that of the
last
/ This is enough for the termini, which al
ways determine the financial destiny of a
road, having power to make it traverse a
desert proitably. But in this case the in
tervening territory is hardly to be exceeded
for its mineral and agricultural wealth. In
Guiding the counties in which the termini
are located, it passes through the following
twenty-four
In Pennsylyonia-Allegheny. Beaver, and
3 Lawrence.
In Ohio-Columbiana, Mahoning Stark,
: Wayne, Richland, Ashland Holmes,
Crawford, Wyandot. Allen, Harding,
and Van Vert.
IL Miiana-Allen, Whitley, kosciusko,
Stark, Marshall, La Porte, Porter. and
Lake.
IL M;nois-Cook.
All these counties have vastly increased
in wealth and population since 1850, when
to an area of ii ,942 square miles they had
population OF 54S, ,245, or 45.9 to the
square mile. The value of farms returned
for these counties in the census of 1850,
was S92,5l5,749 The whea. produced
was returned as 4,754. 93S bushels, rye and
oats 4 ,93l ,604 bushels, Indian corn S,2IO,-
252 bushels, and the wool as =, 749, S3S lbs.
The production of these counties show a
soil of high value. Taking the twelve
counties in Ohio, we find that the census of
1850, while they contained but 1872 per
cent. of the population OF the State, and
hal but l4.59 per cent. Of the improved
land, they produced 1864 per cent. of the
wheat grown in the State. These same II
counties in 1850 still contained l ,095, ,0T5
acres of unimproved land, and most of it
heavily timbered a similar statement we
have no doubt might be made Of the coun-
ties in Indiana. From the Reports Of the
State Auditors, it appears that the valua-
ton for taxation of al these counties ex-
cept Cook, Illinois. in 1856, was Si43,-
005,974. Setting down Cook county at
S35, 600. 600, we have an aggregate valua-
ton of S17S, 200, 600, which is $50, ,000,-
900 more than tn, whole taxable value of
Indiana in 1850. The road passes through
fifteen county seats, many of them import
ant centres of trade and manufactures
At the mouth of the Big Beaver, it passes
through cluster of manufa curing villa
ges, second edition of Pittsburgh, with a
population OF $4,000. Fort Wayne, a
most remarkable railway centre on its route,
has population of 10000. 1t passes
Mansfield with population of 800, Mas
sillon 5000, Canton 1000, Wooster 1,
500, Salem $500, Crestline 1000. But
/ it does not require the eve of statistician
to see that every acre within twenty miles
of such road will be valuable and dura-
bic customer. So that, apart from the
immense commercial relations of It's rap
idly developing termini, this line of road
has local traffic which would of itself JUS
tily its completion.
When the small hiatus from Allentown
to Clinton, Pa, now under contract, is
filled, there will be an uabroken road from
New York to Chicago via Pittsburgh and
Fort Wayne, of $50 miles, having the ad-
vantage of the New York Central route by
76 miles, and the New York and Erie by
" miles. That such road is good sccu-
rity for the sum it now seeks is beyond the
despondency of the most invetcrate ursa
major to gainsay. With any ordinary prl-
dence it must pay good income on its cost
as set forth in the present Exhibit" till
the country Itself goes TO ruin and its life
blood ceases to circulate. We add from
the above document statement of the
lines of railway intersected or met by the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago road.
Lateral CoNxEcI1oNs.-A reference to
the map, in connection with the following
remarks, will illustrate the position of the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
road, as to lateral connection in Ohio, In
diana, and Illinois, and its commanding
place in the Western railroad system. 1t
is emphaticaly grand trunk line
Between Pittsburgh and Chicago the road
has the following connections:
g At Rochester, 25 miles from Pitts
burgh, the Cleaveland and Pittsburgh Rail-
road. A temporary arrangement exists for
the transaction Of the business. of this road
over the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne and Chi
cago road, and the mutual interest Of the
two roads viii probably lead to permanent
contract for the same object
2. dt Dalington, 3S miles from Pitts
burgi,, the Cleveland, Newcastle and Pitts
burgh roa |, formerly called the Darlington
aud Newcastle road. This road is in pro-
gress, aud will be constructed. 1t is a
short line of 13 miles, to connect the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago road with
the Cleveland and Mahoning road at New
castle, forming a very direct route to
Cleveland, and of great value in its posi-
ton, for large local freights in coal and