Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-08-29
The Railroad.


that we have been told that the right
in the subscribers of the $4,000 0OO
of stock now sought to be raised,
to interest or dividends, of s
per cent on this stock, depends upon
the fact whether it is subscribed to
make the road from Covlngton to
Loup Creek. If this is SO, 1t would
be well for the counties along the
Kanawha to reconsider their condi-
tional subscription, for if the money
must be spent on this end of the line,
then the subscription will become
stock and entitled to receive no divi-
dends in advance. This right to
dividends is to the counties an i'm
fportant one, as in our opinion it will
relieve them of all payment of inter
est after the road goes into opera
ton, because in our opinion from the
very first the road will be able to pay
this s per cent on this preferred stock,
and that will relieve the counties
from all taxation on account of in
terest.
The fear about the termination of
the road is grouBafess, necessity set
ties the immediate extension Of the
line to the mouth of Kanawha. To
go to Big Sandy is simply absurd, as
when there the road is one hundred
and fifty miles from Cincinnati and
without any railroad connection with
that great center of freight and
travel. The Virginia road must at
once have railroad connection with
Cincinnati and the great West. To
insure Chicago freight on this line,
the freight must come direct by rail
without being moved between
Chicago and tide water. This con-
nection can only be had by route
down the Kanawha and out to Ham
den. Seventy miles of new road will
connect the line at Scary with the
M. & c. road at Hamden, and then
with Cincinnati, and all its roads
West and North. The line can be
made from Scary to Hamden, as
cheap as it can be made from Scary
to Big Sandy. Such was the delib
crate opinion of Mr. Shaw, formerly
enS%eer on the Covington and Ohio
Railroad. 1t would be the extreme
of folly to make road to Big Sandy
where, to use a military term, it
wogld end in the "air,'' when for:the
same sum it can be connected with a
road running into Cincinnati, and by
line shorter than any line can be
mS sby the Big Sandy route. , The
niqlNh ofithe Kanawha is as near
&2hein1ati as the mouth of Big San
&3&fach one about $50 miles from
f9tpnati. In the one case, once at
ssthe mouth of the Kanawha, a railroad
communication is already open to
Cincinnati, in the other case, one
hundred and fifty miles Of railroad is
to be made, and that over most ex-
pensive route.
All the freight that can be obtain
ed by going to Big Sandy, will come
to the road at the mouth of the Ka-
nawha, as it will come by water;
while the Kanawha termination would
secure, in addition to a water COM
municafion Nith Cincinnati, rail
Tda9 Qanacti@ with the same point.
a. q Taesxon of engineering and
business, there can be no hesitation
where the immediate Termination
must be, The Big Sandy branch is
in. the future. depending upon contin-
gencles yet to arise.
i. Nv e1hink the friends,of the Kama
WI axsagesd have ID fears about
the Termination of the road; itmust
come doa0n tie Ranawha. It is the
shortest and cheapest line, and secures
at once what the new road will need,
travel and freight ats all seasons of
the year; and these advantages can
be had by no..other conhection or
line. A confz4aous line from the
mouth of the Kahawha to Cincinnati /
will be opened and ready for travel
and freight, as soon as the Virginia
road can reach that point Let the
friends of the road in Mason and
Fatnsln, go in Cor that subscEiption
uncohditionally, so as to secure the
immediate organization of the Chesa-
peak and Ohio'RaiIroad CompanY
EF 1t is stated that Major 8 1qe
raj HOWARD is to be the next Fresf-
Dental victim" He is tao Tadicall
to auit Mr. TouEcoN,o Concarvativa