The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-04-27

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at par in London. The interest coupons at
tachod to the bonds are payable half-yearly,
at the Consolidated Bank, at the fixed rate OF
As. the dollar, equal to 9 per cent. upon the
present price of issue.
The following extract from the Butfalo
Commercial Advertiser gives some lntorma
ton relative to proposed extensions OF the
railway in the direction Of Canada, and the
advantages which must result to the Great
Western of Canada, the Grand Trunk and
other colonial lines, from being brought into
direct communication with the vast coal
fields of Pennsylvania. A line which Will
| give direct access with New York, must prove
of immense advantage alike to the Great
Western of Canada and the Atlantic and
Great Western Railway, over which SO large a
proportion of Canadian produce will be car
lied.
The Niagara Falls, the Buffalo and Lake
Huron, the Lake Shore, the Erie and New
York Central Railways, already centre IN But
falo. The opening of the Erie and Niagara
Railway will! enable the Great Western Rail
way of Cana6a to run a portion CT It's Dusl-
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 center
ing in this city, meeting the waters OF the
great lakes, on which are borne the surplus
nrndncts of IN fertility
has been to cur city a source Of great pros
perity. A railway connection with the coal
fields of Pennsylvania has been made by lines
connecting with the Lake Shore Road. The
Atlantic and Great Western Railway sweeps
through the p~opulous 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 gauge meets that of the Erie Rail
way of corresponding width at Salamanca,
about fifty miles from Buffalo. Branch roads
will radiate to the coal fields of the Tunange-
want Valley in Pennsylvania and to the coil
Regions" Fifty miles Of broad gauge rail
way will connect Salamanca (Which is only
about twonty miles this side the coal ields)
with Buffalo. The Atlantic and Great West
ern has sprung into life with unexamrled ra-
pidity. A vine (inciuding its branches) of
about 500 miles has been constructed within
three years, and is to-day doing a frst-class
business, carrying a vast traffic past us to and
from these abroad.
Now is the golden opportunity for Buffalo.
By obtaining an extension Of the Atlantic
and Great Westean Railway into Buffalo, the
coal-felds, only seventy miles distant, will be
reached, thereby obtaining for the growth and
Development of our manufacturing interests,
aud for the domestic use of our already large
population, an abundant supply OF cheap ccal.
There are no coal-felds in Canada West. A
bridge over the Niagara viii make the con-
Meeting link between the Atlantic and Great
Western, and the Erie and Niagara, the 3uffa-
10 and the Great Western Railways of Canada
West which will open the coal-ields of PENN
to all Western Canada, supplying our
Canadian .neighbors, through this city, with
cheap coal. We muss 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 bridge, that the Atlantic and Great West
ern may obtain an outlet at the town of Mag |
ara, on Lake Ontario, over the Erie and Nj
agara, from which to supply Upper Canada
with coal, thereby Offering an additional in
ducement to the enterprising and sagacious
men who move the d%esIinies of the Atlantic
and Great Western to give US their coal sup
ply at an early day. Men who have been
constructing and equipping a railroad at the
rate OF 2OO miles per annum, will, without
much effCrt, construct the sixty miles wanted
to give us cheap coal for next winter, if we
meet them fairly. 1t may have occurred to
cur readers that the Erie and Niagara Railway,
from Fort Erie to the town of Niagara, holds
an interesting position in this great combina-
ton of carrying advantages for our city. AL.
though only thirty-two miles in length, it con-
meets the two lax g, and having Buffalo and
with the aid OF twenty seven miles
Of water travel on Lake Ontario) for its ter
mini, With the falls between, We cannot hell
with marked favor upon it, as a rail
way that viii have 4 very great business for
its cost, and as originating much for the bene-
fts of this city"
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