Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-05-21
Atlantic e. Great Western Railroad.

One Of the most important enterprises,
to the prosperity of this city, ever project
ed is now in a fair way to be carried rap
idly forward to a successful completion
The difficulties, originating partly with
the Trent affair, to the pushing forward
of the Atlantica and Great Western Railway
have been removed, and the contractors
are prepared to build it as rapidly as Ia
Dor can be accumulated for that
Arrangements have been made to put at
once six thousand men at work upon the
track, and the Chief Engineer. Mr.. I. W.
Aennard, Of London, has purchased dur
ing the past two weeks all the equipage
needed for working the road, including
thirty locomotives. The road at present
Is completed and in operation from Sala-
manca, the junction with the Erie Road,
10 miles from Dunkirk 10 Cory on the
Erie and Sunbury Road. Ittheir reaches
the oil regions, and the freight on oil alone,
brought twenty-five miles to the depot in
wagons, is now IS, 700 per week. When
the branch is completed from Cory to
ritusville, the depot of the oil region, this
amount it is believed, will be increased
to $4,000 per week.
The road viii reach Meadville by the LIST
of July. and Akron, Ohio, by the LIST of
October, making two hundred miles from
the Erie junction. For the line to Ak
ron, the none and materials have been
provided. Beyond this, the road viii be
extended to Dayton, Ohio, and from Day
ton to Cincinnati an arrangement has
been made with the Dayton and Cincin-
natl Read to lay n third rail.
At Cincinnati the Great Western con-
meets with the Ohio and Mississippi Road,
which is of six feet gauge. Thus, when
the whole line IS finished, which will prob
ably be in two years, New York will pos
sess a new six feet gauge connected by
rail direct with St. Louis, by which the
products of the West. loaded at st. Louis,
can be transported without breaking bulk
to the Long Dock at Hoboken, and dis
charged into vessels for shipment to Eu-
rope.
At Warren or Ravenna a connection
ton will be made with Cleveland, which
will tap the Western traffic at that point,
and ali alorg the line laternal feeders are
already built. which will swell the bust
ness Of the Atlantic and Great Western
The principal parties in this enterprise
are TIE great Banker Salamanca, of Ma
drid, the Duke de Rianzares, husband Of
the Queen Dowdger of Spain; MeSsrs.
Hayward. Kennards & Co, of London,
James MclIenry of Liverpool, Sir Morton
Peto. VI. p. and Ed. Belts of London,
and Messrs. Hallett & Co. of New York.
The Chief Engineer of the work is 7. W.
Kennard, Esq, of London.
The Company are very fortunate in
their American connection. MesSrS. sam
uel Hallett & Co, are 4 vigorous and en-
terprising firm. and WELD great money IA
%cilities. Mr.. I~Iallett has been connected
with this project from its inception. and
a large portion of the success it has met
with is due TO his personal excrtions. To
the Erie Road, this new feeder, stretching
its arms across half n continent to seize
the traffic of the West and throw it into
the lap of New York, will prove of meal
value. When the line Is compile
ted to St. Louis. we shall not be surprised
TO see the Erie Road earning ten or twelve
millions of dollars per annum.-N. I.
Tribune.
The speedy extension OF the above NAM
ed line of railroad through this section, is
longer, in our opinion, involved in the
least doubt. The foregoing statements
of the Tribune are, doubtless, in the main.
correct, they being corroborated from other
of information, all speaking in the
same positive, sanguine tone.
The location of the road, in this locality,
5 a matter of very material Importance
o the town of Warren. Now that it is
a feet that the road is to be built,
md that Immediately, it must be equally
to our citizens, that the time for
action on Their part has arrived, if they
secure the location of the road to
his point. 1t is unnecessary for US to en-
on the Importance of such an extern
i've and frst-class railway, which is prob
IDLY destined to reach in its future lines
If extensions and direct connections, from
he Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, and be
he great market pathway not only of the
took and grain productions of the plains !
md valleys of the West. but also for the !
,reat bulk of that oriental commerce
which will seek the warehouses of Ameri- {
merchants, and perchance European,
BY this then most direct and shortest {
QUITE to China and the East Indies. That |
he Atlantic and G.. W. Railroad will form (.
great link in this grand chain of railway, I
5 highly probable. Indeed, taking this !
Broad Gauge Line throughout, it will l
tand unequalled in the world in magnif- l
cence of proportions and vastness of ca
{
Its importance, we believe, is apparent
o all, and hence no lengthy argument is
ieeded to convince any one that prompt ,
nd early action is required from Warren,
0 guard its future interests, which must
e affected, in no trifing degree either
lvorably or adversely by the location of .
le line. If the road should be built two :
r three miles north of the town, it "
i'll be unfortunate for the prosperity of :
lr place. If located through or adja-
INT to the town, it cannot but be of de |
ded business advantage TO our people, "
nd have a stimulating influence on the :
rowth and progress of the village. :
In view of our facilities for giving the |
general publicity, we would sug- :,
EST the propriety of a meeting being =,
llled, some time during this week, to !.
and adopt some plan, looking to !,
lie interests of this special locality, as u
in the location of this road. a
ur Gunboats Repulsed on their way .
to Richmond. =