The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-11-27


ESPECIALLY if the proposed improve
merits are calculated to confer a lasting
or permanent benefit. The building Of
a new house, the grading of new
street, the laying of new sidewalk,
are all llimprovementslof theirkind; but
if the new house remains upoeeupied,
the new street is not required, or the
new walk subjected to ulGlitsFian uses,
they are no practicable benefit to com
RWllty, bas 5di 81 yI7ss a eH
.so + on the contrary, an improvement
is proposed, which promises to attract
business to given locality, and by
furnishing employment to numbersv of
mechanics stirs the pulses Of trade,
furnishes occupants for new houses,
uses for the new streets and walks, it
becomes a valuable Improvement thro'
which there is a permanent and stable
benefit conferred upon the community; /;
and in its success every citizen should
feel an interest that would prompt him
to cooperation. Fremont needs some
such enterprises to quicken her pros
Perity, increase her growth and build
up her business ENTHUSIASTICALLY pros
porous, it is true, but susceptible of
vast extension.
Manufactures are the sources of pros
perity, and never fail to add population,
increase business and enhance the val
ue'Of all property in the community
where established. But there are GER
tain conditions indispensably necessary
to secure their location. A man would
be regarded as little less than mad
man, who would undertake to establish
manufactory upon a barren plain,
without means of ingress or egress, far
removed from fuel and from the sup
plies necessary to the prosecution of
his enterprise. Yet this condition
might be improved by artificial means,
so that fuel should be laid at his door
cheaply, and his manufactured wares
carried off to market; and the more
artificial avenues he could open up, the
more his condition would be improved
and his chances Of success increased.
How is it here! Nature has done
something for Fremont, and art has not
been idle. The means of access are
good, the means Of egress are sufficient
especially in summer, when vessels Of
largest dimensions can be loaded at our
doors But where are our manufactor-
les : those busy msrts where articles of
utility are fashioned and prepared for
market where the anvils ring out a
merry roundelay, and the forge's blast
speaks of busy hands, and growing
wealth. Where the great workshop,
with its hundreds of hands, turning
out thousands of reapers and mowers,
and threashing machines and enginesi
There must be something hacking
Some of those indispensable requisites
of success must be lacking. What is
II? Cheap fuel.
No city of its size is better situated
so as to reach the various markets than
Fremont Upon one of the most d.
rect and reliable roads east and west
With the same facilities for shipment
by water in summer that Toledo, San
dusky or Cleveland possesses; with an
avenue opening to the southwest that
may and should be extended, at least to
Union City, thus giving her access to
the entire south and southwest, she
certainly occupies an envisble position.
But what lacks she yet9 Cheap fuel;
the desideratum in all manufacturing
enterprises, which, combined with IA
ciHties for shipment commands sue
ceas-but neither of these avenues
bring it. How then shall we get i'll
By new railroad.
"oh yes,D some viii say, "but rOken
that new east and west road, which
proposes to reach the coal fields and
the mineral beds of southeastern Ohio,
is built, it viii certainly come to Ere
mont; there is too much capital here
to permit it to go elsewhere .7as
But what is that capital doing to Sc
cure itY The route most likely to be
adopted, SO says report, is surveyed
several miles south of Fremont; sg-
3 gravstingly near, but not near enough,
and might be diverted still further off
What is that capital doingl Is it on
paper as a pledge of stock Is it ex-
erting its influence to determine the
locationl The ability to dois not what
determines these matters. 1t is not
fiction, it is fact, that carries with it
power, and the fact in, this instance
would be the amount pledged. How
much does Fremont represent of the
aggregate s50O,0OO necessary to pro
mote the building Of the roads Speak.
ing upon the subject the Toledo Bad.
SAYS: ''The assurance has been author
itatively and repeatedly given, thai
nothing Is wanted to the early construc,
ton Of the proposed Road, but sub
scrption on its line Of $5Oo,Ooo. o.
this amount, it is not probable that To
ledo will be called on for over three
fths,-a sum less than one per cent
Of the property value Of the city. How
contemptable does such an amount sp
pear, in view of the vast advantages SC
certain to be gained by It! No man,
looking candidly at the case, can doub
that the proposed road would at onc'
add ten per cent to the Nalpe Of th'
wealth of the city, while its ultimate
benefits must be still greater. Thi
everybody comedies" :"