The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-06-20
From the Marion Mirror.
THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN
RAIL ROAD.


From the Western Reserve Chronicle, War
rem, Ohio, May l6, 1860: IL
"This road is in rapid progress of construo-
ton on the eastern division, and there is every
reason to believe that the whole line will be
rapidly pushed to completion" !" -
The West Greenville Times, says: as zse
"Upwards of forty-6ve miles, we are inform
ed by Mr.. Bittenbanner, are. now under pro-
cess of construction and 1t is exPeesod that
ffty-four miles, extending to the Sunbury and
Erie Road, will be completed between the lst
and the 10Th of July, and the balance just so
soon as means and men can do it.
The N. Z. tribune; says: that N. 7. and
Erie r. r. stock is looking up in Wall street.
The purchases are presumed to be based up
on the advantages to be derived from the.
building of the Atlantic and Great Western
broad guage road, to connect the Erie with the
Mississippi River. There are now sixteen
hundred men at work on this new road, and
the company appears to have abundant means
for its expenditures. a3-z
The N. Y. Times, says: - - s-s.,7 -
The Atlantic and Great Western road is
making satisfactory progress, and has as fair
future as any road now building. The num-
Der of men at present under pay is sixteen
hundred, and track laying will commence in
few days at Little Valley, N. Y, where con-
nection has already been made with the New
York and Erie road.
Iron and supplies are daily passing over the
Erie road for the new Company, which seems
to have control of all the cash it needs, and
pays cash for everything. -.
The New York Erpress says:
ssWe have recent information in regard to
the project of the Atlantic and Great Western
broad-guage line from the extreme western di-
vision of the Erie road in the direction of Gin
cinnati, which favers the opinion that the
European interests which were brought into it
last year, on the imposing representations of
Mr.. Samuel Hallet, of this State, and Gen. G..
l.. Ward, of Pennsylvania, through our Minis
ters in London and Paris, have earnestly re-
solved on its prosecution. A banking house
at Madrid, M. Salamanca, is now making large
advances, and the English Engineer, Mr..
! Kinnard, who first came out last season, is
now here to superintend the work. The ulti-
| mate result, in case the programme is fully
carried out, is to be 6road-guage connecting
from Neao York to st. Louis, by the use of a
| third rail over several of the Ohio roads into
Cincinnati; and thence by the Ohio and Miss
issippi Gin which there is a large English in
terest now almost unprotectiye) to ST. Louis.
| The same parties, we have reason to believe,
! are heavy buyers of New York and Erie
Shares, at present and recent figures, with a
view to favorable influence in a management
| so intimately connected with their own views
| on the West. The first link in the projected
work strikes out from the Erie line at Great
Valley through Chatauque county, and was
partly built six seven years ago under a
corporation styled the Erie and New York
City Company This work is now transferred
by purchase under an act of our Legislature to
the Atlantic and Great Western Company.
From the Cincinnati Commercial of Satur-
day, May 16, 1860. rst.g5 ~ 6...s -a
The Atlantic and Great Western Road ex-
| pects to sopen the first division of 40 miles,
from Little Valley to jamestown, on the 4th
of July.
Judge Pruden of this city, is now at Little
Valley, New York, in charge of the extensive
business of his brother-in-law, Mr.. Henry
Doolttle, contractor for building the Atlantic
and Great Western (Cincinnati Extension of
4 the New York and ErlAa road.
From the New York Evening Post:
The most active stock on the list is the New
| York and Erie, which few months ago was
considered valueless-so much so that no cap
italist would acknowledge that he owned any
of it. The advance undoubtedly proceeds from
the certainty which exists as to the speedy
completion of the Atlantic and Great Western,
broad-guag extension of the Erie, which
gives it continuous st. Louis connection.
The N. Y. Herald says:
The building of the Great Western road,
which will ultimately place New York in con-
nection with Cincinnati, by an unbroken line
with guage Of six feet, over the Erie, Great
1 Western and its connections, is attracting con-
siderable attention to this stock. Forty miles
of the Great Western road, from Little Valley
to jamestown, will, it is said, be opened in
July, and the work will be thenccforward
pushed rapidly to completion. When it is
built, the Erie will, be independent of the Lake
lShore, Buffalo and State line and its Other
Western connections, though it viii retain
them as feeders, as well as the new line. A
single glance at the map shows the Importance
of the new road to the Erie company.
We give above few extracts from our ex-
changes showing that the Atlantic and Great
Western Rail Road still lives.