The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-03-07
ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAIL

ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAIL
.RoAD.-Our readers swill doubles be pleased
to learn that tie prospects of the speedy COM
pletion of the Atlantis and Great Western Rail-
road is now of the most gratifying character.
Active operations have been commenced at
Columbus, Warren county, Pa, near the cross
ing of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, and a
large number of men are now busilv engaged
in grading the road, both eastward and west
ward. Mr.. BENJAMIN J.. WELLS, of our vii
lage started on Tuesday morning for that place,
the supervision of the work having been COM
mitted to his care. Mr.. DooLlTTLE, the con-
tractor, has purchased tools necessary for the
labor to be performed, and is now engaged, in
this vicinity, in buying horses, mules, etc
Work will be resumed in this section in a short
time, probably in six or eight weeks. We I'M
derstand that the route through New York has
not yet been definitely settled, owing to some
differences with the jamestown Company; but
it is probable that an arrangement with that
company will soon be effected. 1t is the inten-
ton of the officers of the road to prosecute the
work as vigorously as possible, so as to put the
line in a running condition to Ravenna at an
early day.-RaUenna Sentinel.
ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAIL
RoAp.-At Cleveland last week we met Mr..
Henry Doolittle, the contractor upon the Broad
Gauge railroad. He informs as that he has
already a considerable force at work upon the
line in Pennsylvania; laborers arrive by every
train, and are being organized rapidly into
gangs, for advantageous employment. Where
there are deep cuttings or heavy embankments,
men can be employed to advantage at this sea-
son of the year; but lighter earth work can be
better doue in mild spring, summer or fall
weather.
He is constructing shanties and barns at the
points where needed; carts, wheelbarrows, &C.,
have been shipped thither in large number
DIR. w. S. Streeter superintends the employ
ment of hands and directs their location. Mr..
Doolittle's business Office, at present, is at Co.
Warren county,, Pa, about eighteen
miles this side the State line of N. Y, and at
the intersection of the Sunbury and Erie road
with the A. and G. W. line.
Mr. Kennard, the engineer, has been for
weeks engaged upon the eastern part OF
the line, but went to New York last week upon
business connected with the road. He will re-
turn by the first of March, and give his atten-
ton to the requisite engineering and locations.
There seems no reason to doubt that the
work is TO be vigorously prosecuted this season,
and that the means for its completion are pro-
vided for, beyond further contingency.
Since the foregoing was in type, we have
seen a letter from a genCiemdn conheSteu VIII
the work, to Mr.. G.. D. Bates of this village.
writer says:
"CoLUMBUs, Warren Co., Pa, Feb. Is, go.
W are now opening our work here, on the
A. and G. w. r. r. in Pa, and shall have a
pretty large force at work next week. Messrs.
Kennard and Doolittle are here, and the order
is put on all the force .you can east of the
Sudbury and Erie road, and soon you may ex-
tend your work west of that point."-AkrOa
Beacon.