Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-12

" 1tNl ANVaa NuN nf"9
Incorporation Of II into your Road
AT your last annual meeting i was estimated
that about one half Of the grading had been
done from the Harbor Of Ashtabula to the cen
ter Of Bristol, and that deficiency existed (in
as much as your lands are at present uuavaila-
blel in this portion Of the Road to complete the
existing contract Since that time, subscriptions
to the capital Stock of the company have been
made on this portion Of the line to the amount
Of $50, 600, which when collected with the other
means of the company and expended upon the
Road will, according to the estimates, prepare
this portion of The Road-bed for the Iron Rail,
leaving surplus in land to be appropriated to
other purposes. AT the suggestion and earnest
solicitation Of the Stockholders generally, the
plan was adopted Of eypendiug the e'ns raised
upon each portion Of the Road in grading such
portion, and in as much as there exists dcd-
cheney Of means for that purpose between the
center Of Bristol aud the town Of Warren no
work hes been done on this part OF the Road.
This. however, is as easy Of construction as any
other 10 miles of the Road and it is confidently
expected that the people of Warren, when it
becomes a fixed fact" that the Road is TO be
built North Of them, that they will aid in the
construction Of that part Of it, From the town
of Warren, via Niles to the intersection Of your
road with the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne e Chi
cago Rail Road 2l miles, Tor thereabouts) there
is also quite large deficiency of means to grade
and prepare the road-bed for the superstructure.
1t may be proper here to remark, that apon at
least 10 miles Of this distance, an amount and
variety Of minerals are to be found, which even
in these times Of stringency in the monitary af-
fairs of the country are attracting the attention
TER, ESQ., has been erected upon this part OF
the road capable of producing Is to 20 tons
daily. Two establishments for the manufacture
ing or distng oil from the Camel Coal Of Can
field (the best in the U. s., saving only the
breckenridge are now about to 90 into ope-
ration, whose product will exceed 1000 gallons
per day. A Forge is in the course Of construc-
ton at Washingtonve, for the making OF
blooms from the Lake Superior Iron ore mixed
with the ores Of that locality. Other parties
are purchasing coal mines, and as confidence is
restored and the business interests OF the eoun-
try revive, other coal mines will be worked, aud
other establishments for the manufacturing Of
Iron will be put into operation. These varied
interests will OF themselves create necessity for
the completion Of this part Of your road, Ope-
rations upon that portion of your road between
New Lisbon and the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne &
Chicago Rail Road, have been conducted the
past season by Director SPRINGER, TO great al
vantage to the company. OF that 9 miles, at
least have been graded, including many deep
cuts and quite large amount of rock excava-
tion. It is estimated that at least $4,000 will
be required to finish grading and preparing tn S
portion of the roadbed for the iron.
1t is to be hoped that the citizens of New
Lisbon and vicinity, so deeply interested in the
completion Of this part Of the road will not al
low the work to be suspended for the want Of
timely aid to keep the work in progress; for no
town upon the road, and no section of country
are TO derive a greater benefit from the build.
ing Of your road, than New Lisbon and the val
ley of the middle fork of the Little Beaver" !"
The early completion of this miles, will at
once place the town of n. Lisbon in connection
with the cities Of Pittsburgh at the head of
navigation on the Ohio River, and Cleveland on
Lake Erie. And on no portion of the road is
there greater amount or variety of minerals
than arc found along this valley. In no former
report have the advantages Of location been q
matter of comment Such are the intimate re-
lations Of our internal trade that 90 Rail Road,
Canal or other improvement can be wisely pro-
jected without consulting the physical charac-
teristics Of the country.
1t was favorite plan of Cen WAsuIyGroY,
before the Revolution, when but a youth, TO
connect the "tide waters" of the Chesapeak Bay
by Canal with the head waters of the Ohio
River across the territory of Virginia, then the
richest and most populous of the colonies; but
subsequent explorations satisfied him that the
only feasible route for such work lay farther
north, and it was for the state Of New York.
through the instrumeutality Of a Clinton and his
co-faborers in after yea ), - -37iize th accom-
plisbment of the stnpendOls project of connect
ing the "tide waters" by NAL with the great
interior chain OF Northern Lakes. Soon after
the settlement Of the Atlantic coast, now known
as the Atlantic Slope it was ascertained that
a range of mountains lay along the coast, ex-
tending from North to South and that the only
depression in that range was through the cen
trail territory Of the state of New York.
The realization of this project is the building
of the Erie Canal has given to the city of New
York that pre-eminence, commercially, which
she could otherwise have never enjoyed while
that state generally, and the whole country bor-
dering the great chain of lakes and the northern
portion Of the valley Of the Mississippi have
shared largely in its benefit The enlargement
OF the Erie Canal and its navigatian by steam,
will inaugurate new era in the trade of the
country Freights from Buffalo 10 Albany will
be reduced to 80 per ton as maximum rate
including tolls. To this may be added the lake
and river freight; from ports on Lake Eric So
per ton, and SO per ton from upper lake ports :;