The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-06-09
RAILROAD TO FORT WAYNE.

RAILROAD TO FORT WAYNE.
The columns of the GAZETTE have
contained articles setting forth the i'm
portance of direct railway communica
ton with Fort Wayne, Indiana. That
place is the center OF vast and most
productive country, the trade of which
would naturally tend to this city; but it
has gone in other directions, simply be
cause there is no direct road to Cincin-
natl. There was still another reason
for urging the construction OF a direct
road to Fort Wayne. There connec
ton can be made with the Grand Rapids
Road, which has received its iron, and
will he completed in one year, and with
the road to Saginaw, wll be completed
in two years. 1t is supposed one half
the lumber now used in this city comes
from Michigan. We need not stop, there
fore, to point out the great Importance to
Cincinnati of direct railroad to and
through the great lumber regions Of that
State.
While, therefore, a direct road to
Fort Wayne would secure to us the
trade of an important portion of In
diana, it would also bring US into com
munication with the vast lum Der regions
of Michigan. Yet plainly valuable as
this would be, Cincinnati has been slow
to contribute aid to that enterprise. We
have given paper encouragement and
passed the strongest kind OF resolutions,
but it requires money to build railroads,
una uhcn II cuuc 10 tnc money We put
our hands in our pockets aud-kept
them there. Consequently the Rich
mond and Fort Wayne Road, which is
the completing link in the line we SO
much need, has been dragging. Indeed,
we understood awhile ago that it was
dead. We are glad to learn, however,
that new life has been breathe ed into it,
and that it is fairly on its feet again, and
that it has better legs than it had before.
On Friday evening last meeting was
held at Fort Wayne, at which were pres
ent Mr.. Cass, President of the Pittsburg.
Fort Wayne d Chicago Railroad, Mr..
LHommedieu, of the c., II. Il d. Rail-
road, Mr.. Edgarton, of the Grand
Rapids Railroad, and the President and
Directors OF the Richmond d Fort
Wayne Company. The result was an
agreement by which the Cincinnati,
Hamilton, & Dayton, with the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne d Chicago Company join,
pro rata. in guaranteeing the interest on
$ ,0OU, 900 bonds, to be used in purchas
ing the iron. chairs, and spikes. These
companies also agree to furnish the roll
ing stock in the proportion of 14S TO 20 |
miles. The Cincinnati, Hamilton aud |
Dayton and Eaton d Richmond Com
panies, are to run the road on joint pro |
rata account with the Pittsburg, Fort |
Wayne Il Chicago.
1t now only remains for the Cincncin /
natl: Richmond d. Fort Wayne Company /
to increase its capital stock, SO al to Sc
cure additional means sufficient to make |
the road from Richmond to Fort Wayne
ready for the iron. A great deal of this |
work has already been done, and if Gin |
cinnati will do its share, which will not |
be large, the road may be opened in |
twelve months from the 4th OF July
next. /
This new route will give direct line
TO Chicago only eight miles longer than I
the shortest of the present routes; hut
LLis is of little consequence compared
with other advantages to which we have
1t will open up new markets !
for our merchants and manufacturers.
and when we get our Southern connec
lions, which are bound to come, hard as
t now seems to do anything except talk,
We will have great chain of roads from
.he far South to the extreme North on
almost direct line. Thus Cincinnati /
will realize advantages, vast and supe-
-ior, which na.ure has so lavishly placed
within her reach, and nothing further
viii be required to give her perpetual
supremacy as the great city of the Val 4
ey-Cin. Gazette, June 1.
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