The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-01-16
NUMBER lE
prora the Toledo piaae9
Railway Connections.

Iu addition to railways to bring In
agricultural productions and carry
from tho city articles Of manufacture
and merchandise, Toledo needs di.
rect connection With Eastern lines
leading to Philadelphia aad Balii-.
more, aud to New York by the At
lautie & Great Western and Erie Rsil.
roads. Not less do the great roads,
the Pennsylvania Central, the Balu-
more and Ohio, aud the Eric of New
York, need direct connection with
the railways oentering 10 Toledo aud
furnishing freights for Eastern mark
cts. Only by having a direct Con.
nection with our freight and passen.
ger depots and traius, eau they avail
Of the advantages OF participating ia
the large business ceuturiug here
This connection may DO made with
out great outlay of expense by these
great through Inns. The country
through which the line TO sorm tho
needed link of connections would
pass, has means aud motive enough
to furnish most OF the cash. Tho
best route to form the desired con.
noction could only be determined by
scientific survey, approximately,
il may be made satisfactory by a
thorough reeoguisaneo. Tho map Of
Ohio indicates. as the shortest and
most feasible lines, from Toledo by
way of Tillin TO Gallon or to Mans.
Geld. Either route would connect
with both the Pittsburgh, Fl Wayne
aud Chic 'go, aud the Atlantic & CT.
Western Railroads, That, 10 Gallon
will be shorter, au advantage moro
than balanced perhaps, by the much
greater Importance of Mansfield as
coutor, both of tho grsnt Eas.eru
lines meeting in chat important rail
road city. The counties through
which the proposed road would pass
are Lucas, Wood, Saudusky, Seneca
Crawford aud Hichland. The popu-
lation of these counties in 1860 was
l50,Sl9. Al present they contain
over two hundred thousand
To those who know the country
which the proposed railway would
traverse, it would DO superauous to
say that it is Que Of the richest and
best improved sections Of Ohio, aud
quite competent to build the road
with its own means. But it would
be expected, by its projectors, that
the great lines which, by its means,
would be furnished an access TO tho
great gathering point of freights,
Toledo, with its command Of large
portion of tho commerce Of the mil.
lion people inhahitiug the peninsula
of Michigan, would furnish the iron
aud rolling stock for working tho
road. The distance from Toledo to
Gallon. in right lipc, would be 40
miles, and S5 miles between Toledo
end Mansfield, both to pass through
Tilhn.
cannot doubt, If active and inila-
entail men Of Toledo, Tiliin aud
Mansfield will unite in an application
to the Presidents of the Penusylvania
Central, tho Pittsburgh, TT. Wayne
& Chicago, the Erie, Of n Y, tho
Atlantic q Great Western aud the
Baltimore q Ohio Railroads, asking
efficient co operation in inauyurating
aud constructing this important link,
to connect our city with their great
thoroughiares, that il will result in
success at no distant day.
The Blade, which has taken so
many good railway projects in hand,
will be expected to give this its best
efforts. Either in the direction above
suggested, or on some other line, the
connection will be made.
Yours, j W. ScoTT.