Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-02-03
Vienna, SC.

VIENNA, Jan. %, 1859.
EDITOR CHRONICLE:-I am glad tc
see in your late issues several commu.
nications on the importance of Rail,
road connections with the newly dis
covered coal fields in Vienna. Per-
NIT me to make a few suggestions to
your fellow tOwnsman interested in
the prospect. First, let us suppose
/ Warren, Vienna and Sharon, TO be
on a direct line, then make the start
ing place at the Williams sawmill in
Rowland on the line lately run, and
strike direct for the center of Vienna
or say 80 rods south of the center,
thence eastwardly keeping within a
half-mile of the proposed direct line,
passing through the largest body of
the coal yet found in Vienna, leaving
Andrews and Tyler coal, about half a
mile north, and the Stewart and Nc
CHURCH coal about three-fOurths of a
mile south of the proposed road.
This is decidedly the best ground to
build a road on, and as direct to the
great body of coal as any road can be
made, and / am not able to see the OBJ
ject in making the road direct to the
Stewart coal, unless it is to connect
Youngstown with Warren by a cir
cuitous route. Now let me ask you
what is the difference to Andrews &
Co, whether they take the coal from
Tyler, half a mile south to the main
road, and the coal from Stewart three
fourths of a mile north, (Orvice versa
half a mile north and three-fourths
of a mile south to the main roads
Now weallege that the largest amount
of coal is on the north side of the
main line, and the center line will
best accommodate that firm.
Then what is the difference to the
other company having the largest
body of coal and the road directly at
hand or half a mile south on the line
that has lately been run. Now let us
look at the interest of Warren, and
suppose that so far as coal interest is
concerned the two proposed lines are
equal, and say we start at Vienna di-
rect for Sharon, and about half a mile
east of Paynes corners We cross the
Sharon and Warren road and take a
within half a mile of the direct
line around the BrOokfield hill and
cross the north and south center road
about sixty rods north of the center
of BroOkfeld, then follow the wind
of the hill sOuthwardly into the
of Big Yankee creek, and
strike the Sharon, Hubbard anu
Youngstown road about two miles
west of Sharon, making a road from
Warren to Sharon on almost a straight
line and not more than eighteen miles
Of rail, and passing within one mile
Of the Arms coal opening, and the
Chew & Hutchins coal bank, and one
and a half miles of the Clark bank
and Drake banks, all in BroOkfield
township. Now my Warren neigh
bors let me ask you to look at Sharon
with a population nearly if not quite
rs large as your own, their rolling
mill, furnace, machine shops and two
more furnaces to be built the coming
season and a rolling mill the year after,
and enquire within yourselves wheth-
they are not worth eighteen miles
Of iron rail to yOn. Then please think
Of four large coal works in Brookfeld,
and the prospect of four more in vi
emma in a year or two, and see if your
interest would not be more advanced
by making n road direct to Sharon,
than it would be by 4 circuitOus route
20 Youngstown, and you may if you
please think of the effect of another
proposition and see what effect it
would have on your interests if car
RED out, that is the contemplated rail
road from Youngstown through Vien-
IA to Baconsburg. So far as Vienna
IS concerned l think il matters but
little which way the road is made.
If you can sleep out your days and
not look a head for future interests,
you must be a happy people. And now
conclusion let me ask you to take
warming by the dotilgs of a Ounce,
md see if your interest and future
prosperity does not demand that you
should wake up and lay all jokings
about wooden railroads and cheese
boxes aside, go to work and make your
mark in time so the future may real
re your enterprise. Hoping to hear
/ good sound decision in the case I
-emain most respectfully yours,
DOTY.