Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-03-09
Railway Matters.

The Erie & Niagara Railway, Of Cana
da, and the Atlantic Il Great Western
Railway in the United Statss.-The Mag
ara Falls, the Buffalo & Lake Huron, the
Lake Shore, the Erie and the New York
Central Railways, already center in But
falo. The opening of the Western Kali
way Of Canada TO run portion OF its busl-
ness into and from this city over that
road, which, it is understood, will be
completed and in operation during the
coming summer. The great through
lines of Railway centering in this city,
meeting the waters of the great lakes, on
the bosom of which are borne the surplus
products of an almost inexhaustable fer
tility, has been to our city q source of
great prosperity. A railway connection
with the coal fields of Pennsylvania has
been made by lines connecting with the
Lake Shore Road.
The Atlantic i Great Western Railway
sweeps through the populous and fertile
regions north of the Ohio river and west
of Pennsylvania into the heart of the
great Northwest, and has branch lines to
Cleveland and Cincinnati. Its broad
gusge meets that of the Erie Railway of
corresponding width, at Salamanca, about
$50 miles from Toledo. Branch roads
will radiate to the coal fields of the
Tunangewant valley in Pennsylvania and
to the ''Oil Regions" Fifty miles Of
broad guage railway will connect Sala-
manca (which is only about twenty miles
this side the coal felds) with Buffalo.
THE Atlantic L Great Western" has
sprung into life with unexampled rapid
ity. A line Including its branches) of
about tve hundred miles has been con-
structed within three years, and is to-day
doing a first class business, carrying a
vast traffic past US to and from the sea-
board.
Now is the golden opportunity for Buff
falO. By obtaining an extension of the
Atlantic & Great Western Railway into
Buffalo, the coal fields, only seventy
miles distant, will be reached, thereby
obtaining for the growth and develop
ment of our manufacturing interests, and
for the domestic use of our already large
population, an abundant supply of cheap
coal.
There are no coal fields in Canada West.
a bridge over the Niagara will make the
connecting link between the Atlantic 4
Great Western, and the Erie & Niagara,
the Buffalo & Lake Huron, and the Great
Western Railways of Canada West
which will open the coal fields of Penn
sylvania to all Western Canada, supplying
our Canadian neighbors, through this
city with cheap coal.
We must foster by our good wishes the
Great Western and the Erie and Niagara
of Canada that the international Bridge
may be obtained. and we must foster the
Rg-rfrra Tf.af La A t1nrff, g Graaf Wet
eTn may obtain an outlet at the town of
Niagara on Lake Ontario over the Erie Il
Niagara, from which to supply Upper
Canada with coal, thereby offering an adj
ditional inducement TO the enterprising
and sagacious men who move the destinies
of the Atlantic & Great Western. to give
US their coal supply at an early day.
Men who have been constructing and
equipping a Railroad at the rate of two
hundred miles per annum will, without
much effort, construct the sixty miles
wanted to give US cheap coal for next
winter, if we meet them fairly.
1t may have occurred to our readers
that the Erie & Niagara Railway from
Fort Erie to the town of Niagara, holds
an interesting position in this great COM
of carrying advantages for our
city. Although only thirty-two miles in
length, it connects the two lakes, and
having Buffalo and Toronto with the aid
of tIenty-seVen miles of water travel on
Lake Ontario) for its fermini, with the
Falls between. we cannot help looking
with marked favor upon it, as Railway
that viii have very great business for
its cost, and as originating much for the
benefit of this city.-Bszf. Colo. Adu.