The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-06-25

great hal hoad t1or0ughtare by which
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are
connected, and the time is not distant
when a WeFld's commerce is to pass over
it. Vest of Sandusky city, there is
now only one road until Toledo is reach
ed.
In the freighting season this one
road cannot do the business without
damaging delays. Another road will
soon be imperative for this reason. To
ledo Is very much aside from direct
line. A road on an air line from Bry-
an, Williams county, through Napol-
con, Henry county, and Bowling Green,
Wood County to Fremont, Clyde or a
point further east, would save distance
of 20 to 80, miles, compared with the
present line by way of Toledo.
The expense of constructing and op-
eratiag 20 or 80 miles Of road is not a
small item to be saved. To build an
other road in. the vicinity of another
already existing, would of course be at
the sacrifice Of all the way business of
one road.
These considerations require that the
road which must be built soon shall not
go TO Toledo, Bryan, Napoleon, and
Bowling Green are the county towns of
their respective counties, and would do
all they are able to do to secure such
a road. FREMONT Sandusky city or
CLYDE, and other points further east,
would do we'll q take this matter into
earnest consideration and effect some
appropriate organization. Canvass the
controlling powers in the great eastern
roads for their cooperation in building
road on the line indicated,
The country through which the road
would pass, is unequalled in the facili-
ties for cheap construction, and would
furnish an amount of way business
equal to the support of the road.
The people of the towns mentioned
ought to adopt some measures of con-
cert in their action in the premises =
What shall we do? Let us hear from
our neighbors of Williams, Wood, San
dusky and Erie, &c.-Heary County
Signal
We are decidedly in favor of rail
roads, and especially when they short
en- the actual distance to be travelled,
and bring with them increased facili-
ties for the transaction of business
We look upon the enterprise which the
Signal proposes as likely to do this in
an eminent degree. Its completion
would be TO Fremont as valuable, on
the west, as the completion of the L.
E. al. r. R, to Lima would be on
the southwest, afording facilities for
shipment and shortening distance of
travel, very materially. The compile
,ioc of these roads would give US facil-
tiles to do business, but little inferior to
Toledo, and superior TO many other cit
les ahead of us in the manufacturing
business, and in the wholesale trade.
THE distance to Cincinnati now, via Of
Toledo and Dayton & Michigan road is
full ,22O miles; by the L. E. d L. R
L. completed to Lima, the distance
would not exceed IsS miles, and while
,aore direct would be shorter than by
The way Of Clyde. This saving of dis
tance, TO reach Che Southwest would
be Of incaIcuiable benefit to our manu-
factories, now in their infancy, and
would enable them to supply a terri
1ory from which they are now cut off.
At Bae lead Of navigation on the San
dusky river. our merchants could, if
they we're disposed to branch out in the
wholesale trade, receive their stock dur
ing the summer, at rates that would en-
able them to compete successfully with
she wholesale trade of Cleveland or
Toledo. They can do this now, if they
will, 80 far as they can reach the cOun-
try, but the completion of the road to
Lima, would wonderfully increase their
area ofstrade.
Aroad from Fremont to Bryan, short
line as it would be-about 20 miles
would shorten the distance full 20
miles, between Fremont and Chicago,
and give Fremont as favorable q posi-
4ion, commercially, as is enjoyed BY
her neighbor Toledo. It only requires
energy. snap and enterprise to realize
tnis, and make Fremont what her posi-
,ion on the map should have made heI
l,ng ago, a. Successful business rival
Cf Toledo. Perhaps TOledOans see this
and with an eye to gripping her future,
propose to give her the gO-bye in build.
log the Toledo & Crestline road, Wher
n more direct and scarcely Longer
route, would give her the same connec
iions, and the same coal beds TO draw
from, by taking Fremont on tre route
and debouching at Mansfield. If they
expect 70 reach the Strsitsville coal re
zion, they must pass Mansfield on tn
way, and do : via Of the 6. N. 4
N.R E., and, without building on
mile farther, if as far, as they woul'
lave to do by striking Cresthne, the,
.ouId strike Spring Mills OF said road
five miles nofsh of Mansfield, and a
the same time be eight miles further o.
the way, or nearer, ip other words, tn
coal beds of either Stark county o
Perry, which ever they seek to reach
Toledo proposes to tax sa1duskY eOun
~ (more properly WoOdville alone,
$40, 600 aud the right of way, to il
sure this road, and run Just far enoug
Southwest of US to menace our trade
aud cut in two the country now trib'
4ary 10. us We propose to getas muc
back as possible, by carrying the WI
into Afdcs,H and by cutting 10 TIVE q