Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-12-18

a distance of SO miles and an elevation of 2S7.7
feet above Lake Erie; thence by descending
grades, ranging between 40 and 65 feet per
mile, relieved by lighter grades and occasional
level stretches TO Ashtabula IIarbor distant
about 6l.93 miles from Youngstown, and an
elevation Of grade of about 63 feet above
Lake Erie
AsHTABULA DIVISION.
AS to the condition of the division, have
already said that found its embankments and
cuts in excellent condition There are about
30 miles of this road in the rich and populous
townships of Bloomfield, Orwell, Rome,
Morgan, and Austinburg, that with their
present gradients, and outside of bridging,
would not require an expenditure Of over $3.50
per mile TO fit them ready for the ties. found
however, in four different places gradients
which, from the reading of the engineers re-
port of 1857, / had no right to expect. Tie
assurance then given was that there should be
no ascending grades going north exceeding 33
feet per mile. AS soon as this discrepancy was
made known to the President of the road, he
with commendable promptness and due appre-
citation of the engineering advantages thereof
ordered all gradients going either north or
south, between Bloomfield and Munson Hill,
at the head of the Lake Erie heavier gradients,
to be reduced to 3S feet per mle and
you will see by the profile and estimates here
with submitted that provision has been made
for their reduction to that ratio.
At the harbor find topography as favor
able as could be desired, in bluff banks on
either shore, near the entrance of the harbor
for the accommodation of tracks running on
the top of elevated shutes for coal-ampe
room for two railroad depots and private
docks-bends in the course of the stream
through which short cut of 100 feet in width
would furnish ample room for the turning or
winding of the largest vessels. also found
the United States Government engineer ex-
pending an ample appropriation for dredging
the channel to 13 feet deep, below the Ordinary
average stage of water in Lake Erie A Uni
ted States Typographical Engineers Map, with
harbor improvements, topography and sound
ings, all accurately delineated thereon, is here
with submitted and for the present accuracy
thereof | can fully vouch, having had charge,
as Government Inspector, for the last two
years, of the work done at this as well as of
the other harbors west of it to Sandusky lex
cepting Cleveland)
DESCRIPTION OF THE LINE FROM DEPOT OF
LAWRENCE BRANCH, BY WAY OF BRIER HILL
AND sQUAw CREEK.
Commencing about six or eight hundred
feet south of the end of track; thence coming
across the c. and NJ. r. II. at grade (in front of
Mr.. Hines house, and over Crab Creek and
Federal street, at an elevation of about IA feet
above said street; thence along on the north
side of Brown, Bonnell & Co.'S side track, with
a right of way of about 20 feet in width meas
ured from outside of the north rail of said side
track to the crossing of the Pennsylvania and
Ohio canal, on to lands belonging to estate of
Judge Rayen, to the first and lower crossing
OF the Mahoning River thence crossing said
river, and curving to the right through brick
yard near large brick brewery on south side
OF river, into tangent nearly at right angles
with Mill street, which is crossed near foot of
slope near corner of cemetery thence in front
OF public school-house and on to lands of estate
of Moses Johnston curving to right through
same to second and upper crossing of Mahon-
ing River and the canal, into land and garden
OF John Manning, at an elevation of about Is
feet above canal thence with an average cut of
about Is feet through hill top, between river
and Eagle Furnace bank, then passing between
the furnace stack and canal at said furnace,
and along the PERCEPTIONS face of bank above
the birm side of canal for about 300 feet, and
then into treste about 45 feet high for
about 600 feet in length, and thence along and
parallel with the O. and NJ. r. r., at about 30
feet from the west boundary line thereof, pass
ing the Brier Hill furnaces to the switch of the
Church Hill Railroad at its junction with the
u and Nj. X. r.; thence by the courses, dis
tances and gradients of said road for 204 miles
TO Junction with lower end of the Liberty and
vienna kailroad; thence by courses distances
ana gradients OF sad road TO intersection with
Youngstown and Ashtabua Railroad, by the
Grab Creek line, fdr distance of $50 miles,
making total distance from Lawrence depot to
said last-named Junction of $50 miles, being
an increase of LAB miles over the distance fl ON
depot to said junction by the Crab Creek line.
Total cost, $lOs,63s so.
have also given you map and estimate of
4 line from point about 24 miles below Law
renee depot, over and on the west side of the
Mahoning River, and by way ofthe Pine Bluffs,
above the lower common road bridge, over said
river to the junction of the Church Hill Rail |
road with the @. and NJ. r. r., said line con-
Meeting from below with the above described
line at or near the above mentioned brick
brewery, the whole length of line by this route
being 1l.63 miles from said lower junction to
The l.. and V, crossing, and being lib miles
longer than from the L. and crossing to said
lower junction by the Crab Geek route To-