The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-11-09

daily line of coaches would be es
tablished and kept up between this
place and Winchester, Adams county,
20 miles south. Indeed, we learn that
Mr.. Hanly, the proprietor of the
cambridge line, is anxious and will
ing to establish line to Winchester,
provided the afternoon train is restor-
ed, and assurance given that it will be
permanent.
And here we would direct your spe-
cial attention to the importance of
drawing to your road the trade and
traUel Of This southern region, lying be-
tween Hillsboro and the Ohio River.
The people of all that region have no
railroad communication a1uh Cincinnati, |
nearer than this point. Their principal |
channel Of travel to the city has here.
tofore been by steamers on the river,
and in order to furnish reliable con-
ncctions with the steamers plying |
daily between Portsmouth, Maysville |
Cincinnati, daily lines of hacks are
run from Georgetown and perhaps
from other points to the river. We
are confident that a considerable por-
. ton of the travel which now takes
that direction might be draaon to this
point and hrOaon upon your road, if the
proposed daily line of hacks from here
to Winchester We're established, and
your afternoon train replaced, so that
passengers could rely upon close con.
nections here with the cars for Cincin-
natl, and with the hacks on their re-
turn.
/ Another important suggestion for
your company to consider in this con-
nection is, that if the arrangements
above proposed were carried out, and
made permanent and reliable, the
people of that region would be so we'll
accommodated in regard to railroad
communication with Cincinnati, that
= the various projects for constructing a
= new and direct line of railroad to con-
meet them with that city, would be
!, abandoned as useless and unnecessary.
To this important point, then, we
=, would again most earnestly call your
. serious and careful attention. By sin,
q ply furnishing the people Of this regiOne
o so conveniently accessible to your road
+ the facilities they require for rapid and
-. reliable communication Nth Cincinnati,
. you can undoubtedly Secure large shar
9 of their trade and travel, phich ,oould
otherwise be dra'on to,oards the rirer and
q entirely lost to your road
O In order to effect this great object
a if we are correctly informed, the only
~ change necessary in the present run
- ming arrangements Of yourroad, would
be to place a special train, consisting
o ofan engine, baggage car and passen
o {, ger car, on the road between here anC
y, Blanchester, to make one trip daily
a each way, leaving Blanchester on thu
20 arrival Of the morning Mail Train from
i, Cincinnati, and returning so as to con
49, meet with the afternoon Through EX
;, press Train for Cincinnati,
u AS proof that the afternoon traiI
q has paid during the portion of tn
curront year that it was run, we viii
- only refer you to the following figures
~ The gross receipts for passengers a
- this point for the year 1864 wer
% y, S15,141, while for the nine months c
~ ~ the present year up to October Is
. they were S14,151, being nearly q
large as for the whole of last yeal
- This handsome increase of your pas
~ senger business may fairly, we thinl
JIG be attributed to the afternoon trail
VI and it would doubtless have been sti
larger, had the Daily Hack Line
,S' Bainbridge been running during ii
ho whole time the train was continued.
0o' We trust the foregoing facts and a
nv guments, which for the sake of brev
: ty have been thus impertectly prescn
- . ed without entering into all the detail
tOi of the subject, will receive your car
me II ful consideration, and that they ms
~ have sufficient weight to induce yoI
'H adoption of the policy recommends
' which we sincerely believe to be t
oo- true one for the best interests of yo
"s company as well as for those we ha
y, 20 the honor to represent.
'n1 Submitting the whole matter
'"u your candid judgment, and awaitil
'en SCI your early action thereon, we are
III Very respectfully
'ers Your ob't serv'ts,
am JOHN A, SMITH,
AT WIN. O. COLLINS,
nINNJTA DDInDIN